Title: Essential Hollywood Artist: Various Artists Label: Sony Masterworks Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 828767708621 Genre: Soundtrack Release Date: 2006-05-23 Number of Discs: 1
Sony's stellar 2-CD retrospective of the big screen's most indelible themes does a beautiful job pairing the absolute essentials with under-anthologized gems. Check it out: The James Bond Theme; Moon River; High Noon; the Pink Panther Theme; Main Title from Star Wars; Prelude & Lara's Theme; Laura; Psycho: Prelude/The Murder/Finale; Lawrence of Arabia; Theme from Jaws; Flying Theme from E.T.; the Godfather Part II: End Title; Main Title from Gone with the Wind, and more!
Tracks: 1.1 Main Title from Star Wars- John Williams 1.2 Main Title: Dixie, Mammy, Tara, Rhett (From "Gone with the Wind")- Charles Gerhardt 1.3 Prelude ; "Lara's Theme" 1.4 Laura (From "Laura")- David Raksin 1.5 Psycho; Prelude- Esa-Pekka Salonen 1.6 Psycho; the Murder- Esa-Pekka Salonen 1.7 Psycho; Finale- Esa-Pekka Salonen 1.8 Lawrence of Arabia 1.9 Main Titles and Calvera's Visit (From "The Magnificient Seven")- Elmer Bernstein 1.10 Flying Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial- John Williams 1.11 The Adventures of Robin Hood- Robin Hood and His Merry Men- John Williams 1.12 Theme from Jaws- John Williams 1.13 Vertigo: SC D'amour- Esa-Pekka Salonen 2.1 The Godfather Part II: End Title 2.2 20th Century-Fox Fanfare with the Cinemascope Extension and Street Scene- Charles Gerhardt 2.3 Casablanca- Charles Gerhardt 2.4 The James Bond Theme from Dr. No- John Barry 2.5 Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (Titles) from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2.6 The Dialogue from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"- John Williams 2.7 King Kong- Charles Gerhardt 2.8 High Noon- Dimitri Tiomkin 2.9 Sunset Boulevard - Suite; Main Title\ Norma Desmond\ the Studio Stroll\ the Comeback: Norma As Salome- Charles Gerhardt 2.10 The Pink Panther Theme (From the Pink Panther)- Henry Mancini 2.11 Parade 0F the Charioteers (From 'Ben-Hur')- Arthur Fiedler 2.12 Moon River (From Breakfast at Tiffany's)- Henry Mancini 2.13 Rosebud and Finale (From "Citizen Kane")- Charles Gerhardt 2.14 Kings Row; Main Title (From "Kings Row")- Charles Gerhardt
