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1. Beat Girl
(John Barry)

John Barry’s first complete film score is now available on CD, matched up with a non-film related album of pop music Barry arranged and recorded in 1961, called Stringbeat. The Stringbeat material (which ...

2. Born free
(John Barry)

One of cinema’s most instantly recognisable songs forms the skeleton of John Barry’s 1966 double Oscar winning effort. What John Barry proved, no doubt to the chagrin of Jerry Goldsmith and the Hollywood ...

3. Born Free
(John Barry)

FSM’s release is the original soundtrack (Matt Monroe included) released in 1966 which itself was in fact a re-recording Barry himself made as he was unhappy with some of the tracks used in the film’s ...

4. Raise the Titanic
(John Barry)

... cheaper to lower the Atlantic”. One aspect where praise has been almost universal is for John Barry’s score - released at last. Perhaps the almost legendary nature of the RAISE THE TITANIC score stems ...

5. Body Heat
(John Barry)

... BODY HEAT is about sensuality. And for John Barry, the assignment was a departure as well. The jazzy, bluesy style of this score had been missing from the majority of his scores over the past decade. ...

6. The Golden Seal
(John Barry)

... between John Barry and Dana Kaproff. The credits for the scoring read: “Main Themes by John Barry; Music Scored by Dana Kaproff”, which suggests that after Barry came up with the main thematic material, ...

7. Until September
(John Barry)

John Barry’s score for this attractive and often witty romance is, of course, poetical, lyrical and emotional. It combines with the romantic aura that the filmmakers ...

8. Out of Africa
(John Barry)

... and romantic score whose majestic themes and colorful orchestral moods make it a champion of romantic film scores for all time. But it is not as if John Barry’s own authorative recording is rare or ...

9. Out of Africa
(John Barry)

Twenty years after BORN FREE, John Barry returns to Africa with his music for this film based on the experiences of Isak Dinesen. Like the case of BORN FREE, I wouldn’t be surprised if OUT OF AFRICA cops ...

10. The Living Daylights
(John Barry)

John Barry’s film score approach is, I’m sure, a great deal more complex than it appears, but at a highly rudimentary level it isn’t difficult to dissect. He often refers to Gershwin’s style of melody ...

11. Dances With Wolves
(John Barry)

Following a lengthy absence due to illness and then a false start with STELLA, John Barry makes a welcome return with this well-chosen project. The film, a lyrical and painterly western, deals with the ...

12. Enigma
(John Barry)

John Barry’s score for the anticipated world war two thriller is far more appreciable than the ill-received MERCURY RISING. But then this film is a quality British drama, not a Bruce Willis lowbrower. ...

13. The Specialist
(John Barry)

... so, it is also one of those films in which all the elements are just right to give a composer a chance to show off his musical abilities, and in this case John Barry completely delivers. “James Bond ...

14. Deadfall
(John Barry)

Despite the presence of Michael Caine in the lead and Bryan Forbes at the helm, DEADFALL died at the box office. John Barry’s music however has been rescued and restored by FSM who present the complete ...

15. Somewhere in Time
(John Barry)

... John Debney and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to the lavish cover painting by Matthew Joseph Peak. Honest sentimentality, so wrongly and maliciously maligned by cynics, receives a warm embrace. ...

16. The Lion in Winter
(John Barry)

John Barry’s Oscar winning score (beating Jerry Goldsmith’s PLANET OF THE APES) is famous and needs little introduction. A study of the internal feuds of a medieval King, the music is both majestic and ...

17. The Last Valley
(John Barry)

The Michael Caine epic, THE LAST VALLEY, set in 17th century Germany during the Thirty Years’ war offered John Barry a chance to stretch his wings and fully express his craft. The title refers to the utopia ...

18. Robin and Marian
(John Barry)

One drawback that ROBIN AND MARIAN suffers from is an over-familiarity of thematic material and motifs; that archetypal romantic Barry style has become so ad nauseam in his present work that the original ...

19. Boom!
(John Barry)

... and the previously mentioned ‘Mary Queen of Scots.’ The only weak spot here is the Don Black / Johnny Dankworth composition ‘Hideaway’ sung by Georgie Fame. Thankfully it appears as the last track so Barry’s ...

20. Christopher Frayling - Sergio Leone: Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death
(Reviews/Books)

... did so by one of two means – either the James Bond music of John Barry or the Italian Western music of Ennio Morricone reached through our rock and pop musical upbringings and opened the doors to a bold ...