tracks

CD 1 "The Film Score"
Airborne
Second Warning
Rough Trip
The Flight Of The Phoenix Main Title
Desolate Desert
Guilty
Windy
Senza Fine
Heart Breaker
Funny Man
Brave Sergeant
Cobb’s Fight
Harris Leaves
Cobb’s Demise
Bird Bait
Towns Is Back
Towns’ Anger
Harris Is Back
Harris Is Found
Deceased Spouse
Gabriele’s Death
Water Pincher
Let’s Get Back To Work
The Shove
Caravan
Naughty Boy
Sick Camel
Dog Tags
Stupid
Bossman
Model Planes
The Difference
The Exhaust
The Prop
The Big Pull
Rest Stop
The Ground Run
Going Up
Ole Swimmin’ Hole (Original Version)
CD 2
The Flight Of The Phoenix Main Title (Alternate)
Desolate Desert
Senza Fine (Alternate Vocal)
Harris Leaves (Alternate)
Harris Is Back (Alternate)
Ole Swimmin’ Hole (Revised Version)
Ole Swimmin’ Hole (Film Version)
Tasso’s Bouzouki 1
Tasso’s Bouzouki 2
1:39

notes

Expanded, fully-restored 2-CD release of exciting desert adventure soundtrack! Robert Aldrich directs, 20th Century Fox presents, Lukas Heller scripts, Joseph Biroc photographs. All-star cast features James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Hardy Kruger, Ian Bannen (Academy Award nominee), Dan Duryea. Stewart pilots his Arabco twin-engine cargo plan towards Benghazi, flying over the Sahara desert. His passengers are oil workers, members of the British army, physicians and engineers. Characters are introduced, the plane travels, a sandstorm emerges forcing the engines to fail. Stewart attempts to rise above the threat but disaster is imminent. The plane nose dives and - wham! - composer DeVol hits hard with his “Main Title”, some ten minutes into the film! The lengthy pre-credit sequence is a director Aldrich trademark. For DeVol, it affords him a stunning series of freeze-frame images with which to synchronize his taut, percussive music, playing as part thematic main title, part riveting action cue. Musical dynamite! DeVol’s primary melodic idea is a sweeping theme tinged with desert color, rising upwards then winding about. Other melodies also make an impression, including a dignified line for Stewart’s pilot, tortured as he is for crashing his aircraft. There is also haunting use of a song, “Senza Fine” by Italian singer-songwriter Gino Paoli, (“Without End”), repurposed by DeVol for several dramatic sequences as well as heard in the composer’s arrangement for American singer Connie Francis with new lyrics by Alec Wilder. Not merely source music, it factors into one character’s tragic storyline. The crash survivors, tired, wounded and in despair, summon the strength to rebuild the broken aircraft and fly to safety holding onto the remaining wing with one propeller. Several powerful cues play for the tension and struggle to work this miracle of courage and stamina. Spotlights definitely go to the climactic sequences where DeVol creates music of mounting power and strength, beginning with the massive pulling of the "Phoenix" into takeoff position, bringing the engine up to speed, mounting the wing itself and ultimately scoring the thrilling lift-off. It’s simultaneously gripping and exhilarating music! Ace mastering engineer Chris Malone builds the entire lengthy score in sequence, creating beautifully restored full stereo tracks from the original 35mm session recordings courtesy 20th Century Studios. A wealth of previously unreleased cues appear, including alternates and all of the source music. Highlighting the unused material is a powerhouse “Main Title” alternate that eschews the primary melody in favor of the propulsive syncopated percussion rhythms and staccato brass fanfares. Two unused finales appear as well as the film version. Informative notes from Frank DeWald plus dramatic packaging design from Kay Marshall that incorporates the original artwork campaign are further assets. A dynamic presentation of a powerful score from 1965, a fabulous era when the “Golden Age” mastery of Steiner, Kaper, Waxman, Newman and Herrmann were merging with the newer visions of Goldsmith, Schifrin, Barry, Williams and Morricone. Frank DeVol composes, conducts. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain!

credits

Accordion – - Carl Fortina
Art Direction [CD] – - Kay Marshall
Artwork – - Jack Thurston
Bass – - Kenneth Winstead , - Meyer (Mike) Rubin *
Bassoon – - Don Christlieb , - Jack Marsh
Bouzouki – - John Stamatis *
Cello – - Armand Kaproff , - Edgar Lustgarten (2) , - Gloria Strassner , - Joseph Coppin , - Joseph Ditullio , - Raphael "Ray" Kramer *
Clarinet – - Abe Most , - Hugo Raimondi , - Jerome B. Nuzzi *, - Russell Cheever *, - William A. Ulyate *
Composed By – - Jack Pleis (tracks: 2-10 to 2-20)Composed By, Conductor – - Frank De Vol
Consultant [Design] – - Joe Sikoryak
Consultant [Engineering] – - Joe Tarantino
Coordinator [Editorial] – - Frank K. DeWald
Copyist – - Alexander Gerens , - Ernest Rosecrans , - Howard W. Drew , - Jerrold E. Immel *, - Louis M. Behm *, - Wally Heglin
Executive-Producer [For Intrada] – - Douglass Fake , - Roger Feigelson
Flute – - Abe Most , - Luella Howard
French Horn – - Fred Fox (2) , - Harry Schmidt (3) , - John W. "Jack" Cave *, - Richard E. Perissi *, - Vincent N. DeRosa *
Guitar – - Alton R. "Al" Hendrickson *, - Robert F. Bain *, - Laurindo Almeida
Harp – - Anne Stockton (Mason) *
Liner Notes – - Frank K. DeWald
Management [Soundtrack Executive For 20th Century Studios] – - Tom Cavanaugh
Music Librarian – - Fred Combattente
Oboe – - Gordon Pope , - Gordon Schoneberg , - Norman Benno
Orchestrated By – - Albert Woodbury *, - Gilbert C. Grau *, - Jack K. Pleis *, - Jerrold E. Immel *
Percussion – - Frank "Hico" Guerrero *, - Harold L. "Hal" Rees *, - Milton Holland *, - Ralph Collier , - Richard Cornell
Piano – - Artie Kane , - Geri Galian , - Raymond Turner *, - Urban Thielmann
Producer [For 20th Century Studio] – - Mike Matessino *
Production Manager – - Regina Fake
Restoration, Assemblage, Mastered By – - Chris Malone
Trombone – - Richard "Dick" Nash *, - James Priddy Sr. *, - John Bambridge Sr. *, - Kenneth Shroyer *, - Phillip A. Teele *, - Ray Klein
Trumpet – - Robert Fowler *, - Carroll "Cappy" Lewis *, - John Clyman , - Leonard Mach *, - Oliver Mitchell *
Viola – - Alex Neiman *, - Allan Harshman , - Alvin Dinkin , - Cecil Figelski , - Myer Bello , - Sven Reher
Violin – - Adolph Ditullio , - Anatol Kaminsky , - Bonnie J. Douglas (Shure) *, - Dan Lube , - Erno Neufeld , - George Berres , - Irma W. Neumann *, - Israel Baker , - James Getzoff , - Joachim Chassman , - Joseph Stepansky , - Kurt Dieterle , - Lou Raderman , - Marshall Sosson , - Marvin Limonick , - Nathan Kaproff , - Paul Lowenkron , - Paul C. Shure *, - Robert "Bob" Sushel *, - Victor Arno
Vocals [Arab Singer] – - Stanley Ralph Ross

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