Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind:
A line worker...Richard Dreyfuss, has an encounter with UFO's and is drawn to an Isolated area in the wilderness where an event of magnitude will occur! Yes its the 1977 classic! Directed by Steven Speilburg and of course the Music is of course done by John Williams.  You may realize when reading this that John Williams is my favorite composer of Soundtrack scores. He has done so many soundtracks its hard to name them all. I really love the sweeping score throughout this soundtrack. The eerieness that John Williams captures through the various tracks in the score.  There wasn't a movie like this and there continues to be none like it even up to today.  John Williams set a standard back in 1977 that has continued. and when he dies he will be greatly missed. I really love this score.

You can get the score on Amazon...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Soundtrack Mp3 or CD

You can also get it on ITunes...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Soundtrack

Now a sample for you all...

Here is another clip for you...

Hope you like it all! Anyway that is all for this week. I have given you alot to take in and there are many ways now you can too enjoy the soundtrack.

Next Week STAR WARS!!! See ya then!

Candleshoe (1977)

Candleshoe:
 A childhood favorite of mine. We watched this movie several times. Jodie Foster in one of her first roles as a young teenager who finds out that she is the great granddaughter to a wealthy old woman, Helen Hayes. She has a gardner and butler David Niven. Now in amongst this whole movie there is a treasure hunting plot that an evil villian played by Leo McKern tries to coerce Jodie Foster into getting the treasure for him. She starts to do as she is told then has a change of heart.  In the end he is foiled. You may also remember Leo from movies in which he played characters like Blackbeard the Pirate in Blackbeard's Ghost, another Disney Movie. Anyway there is hillarity, mystery, fun, and laughter in this delightful movie Directed by Norman Tokar who directed The Apple Dumpling Gang; No Deposit, No Return; and The Cat from Outer Space. I really loved this soundtrack back in the day. The score was by Ron Goodwin. 

You can find the soundtrack on Amazon now, its even reasonable.

There is one compilation album somewhere you can get the theme to Candleshoe on it. Here is a picture of it...

I know it isn't the whole soundtrack but the themes are great! Also When I think of Candleshoe I think of the Classic theme "Greensleeves". I tried to link the Candleshoe theme here from You Tube but couldn't get the link to work. You will probably need to search for it if you really want to hear the music.  It is really fantastic!

I guess this will have to do. 

Next Week...Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Be Here for It!

The Black Samurai (1977)

The Black Samurai

This is an old Blaxpoitation movie from the 70's. The music was not anything to speak of. Think of Japanese and Funk mixed together.  The Plot?
Here you go for the plot: Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. Defense Reserve Agency Guardian of Nations is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officer ask him to save a Chinese girl named Toki who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador.  The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and voodoo ritual murders.  The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action against bad men, bad girls, and bad animals.

Want a clip to see? Here is what I found of this strange 70's movie!

So this is just one video from the film. I couldn't find any score for this film only this one clip. Sorry everybody. Jim Kelly was a awesome martial artist of the 70's.
That's all this week for my review.

Next Week: Candleshoe!

The Black Pearl (1977)

The Black Pearl:
  The premise of this movie is about a man who is a pearl dealer and makes his son a partner. They go on a quest for the Pearl of Heaven. In amongst tales there is a Giant Manta who claims to reside in a lagoon where the Pearl is kept. The father dies, the son encounters the Manta then returns the pearl to a museum. This is probably one of those movie that I would not of seen but if it would have had a bigger budget it could have been cool. Giant Manta, come on! The soundtrack is very eerie and has a lot of chorus of indian singing in it. Very smooth and somber for a soundtrack. There are a lot of guitars in this and it just is kind of soothing to listen to. Wouldn't recommend the movie, but the soundtrack isn't bad.

Here is a sample of the music from ITunes that you can buy.

Music from the Black Pearl by Jed Smith

Next Week: The Black Samurai. See ya then!

AIRPORT ' 77

Greetings one and all who love old soundtracks and new ones.  This is my weekly soundtrack review blog of old movies to the Now. I was born in 1977 and I figured it would be fun to start something weekly with things I love. Soundtracks. Everyone has heard them and sometimes no one appreciates them.  This Week is Airport ' 77. The Film was directed by Jerry Jameson. The film had a basic disaster feel to it and the music was not that impressive. The movie starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Grant of Note. Anyway the plot was that Art thieves hijacked a 747 hit fog then the plane crashed into the ocean which trapped the passengers under 100 feet of water. So my goal is to give you a sense of the music without violating copyrights. With the score all you can really find is one theme from the movie. Yes, its that old. ITunes only has one song and its hard to get any songs of that era.

Here is the Link to the Amazon Page where you can buy a song of this film...
http://www.amazon.com/Airport-Please-Fasten-Your-Seatbelts/dp/B004HGOFEA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393790931&sr=8-1&keywords=airport+77+soundtrack

This is a sequel to three different films about airplanes falling out of the skies to the ocean. So that is all for this week. Here is the link to ITunes for the song.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/airport-77-theme-from-the-film/id254510708?i=254510843&uo=4

Just know that it is there. Look under Airport '77 and you'll find the theme. So have a fantastic week and next week I will bring you a music from The Black Pearl. See ya next week.