Ennio Morricone was the man behind some of the best known themes for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone is considered the most prolific composer of major movie themes ever, now responsible for more than 100 movie scores today. Incredible library of work considering the melding of all these pieces!
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Fantastic work! He was, all 3. These were the first realistic Westerns, unshaven, dirty and unforgiving.
Truly! It’s not that I know stuff, as much as it is that I find stuff out… the truly important stuff is found when we look under the hood “of things”. 🙂
These are always great for evoking childhood memories. Great, yet simple sound tracks filling the house with sound and music, men’s music. How many boys dawned a new cap gun, holster, candy cigarettes and a freshly creased brim?
Alessandro Alessandroni, another Italian, laid down the whistle tracks to many goosebumps peppering young lads arms leaving them wanting to be Clint Eastwood, not a star athlete. May the memories always be my pot of gold
~Jeff~
What’s really crazy is that we invented the Wild West, it was America not Europe creating the mistique of the Wild West, then an Italian comes along who does it better (genius) than any Westerner ever could. Crazy!
I think Ennio Morricone was behind all three of the Clint Eastwood films – “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, “A Fistful of Dollars”, and the last one, “For a Few Dollars More”… all great work!
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