Cool Hand Luke [Soundtrack]

cool hand luke [soundtrack]

On this CD:

Cool Hand Luke, film score
Composed by Lalo Schifrin

Cool Hand Luke, film score Symphonic Sketches of Cool Hand Luke
Composed by Lalo Schifrin

Cool Hand Luke, film score Down Here on the Ground
Composed by Lalo Schifrin

Editorial Reviews
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With an iconic, Academy Award^®-nominated lead performance by Paul Newman as the free spirit who refuses to be broken by cruel Southern justice, director Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke has rightly taken its place as a modern American classic. One of the key elements to the film's deft balance of drama and humor is also its most unlikely: the Oscar^®-nominated score of Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin. As he's done throughout a career that's moved gracefully between jazz recordings, classical podiums, and scoring stages, Schifrin's music fuses seemingly disparate genres--bluegrass, symphonic, rhythmic jazz--into a soundtrack that evokes them all yet becomes distinctly more than the sum of its parts. Given that gratifying sensibility, it's a soundtrack full of surprising twists and turns, crackling with energy. Such is its dynamic nature that one reedited cut ("Tar Sequence") has taken on a second life as the ubiquitous "Eyewitness News" theme music at local TV stations across America. --Jerry McCulley

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Cool Hand Luke [Soundtrack]

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Cool Hand Luke
Plastic Jesus
Flawed
My Favorite Hymn
Cool Hand Lalo

Cool Hand Luke

Manufacturer: Aleph Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005B55H
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

Main Title
Tar Sequence
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
The Chase
Lucille
Egg Eating Contest
Eye-Ballin Glasses
Arletta Blues
Criss-Crossing The Fence
Plastic Jesus
Got My Mind Back
Ballad Of Cool Hand Luke
First Morning
Bean Time
Road Gang
Radio In Barracks
Dog Boy
End Title
Symphonic Sketches Of Cool Hand Luke
Down Here On The Ground (Symphonic Version)

Amazon.com

With an iconic, Academy Award ^®-nominated lead performance by Paul Newman as the free spirit who refuses to be broken by cruel Southern justice, director Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke has rightly taken its place as a modern American classic. One of the key elements to the film's deft balance of drama and humor is also its most unlikely: the Oscar ^®-nominated score of Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin. As he's done throughout a career that's moved gracefully between jazz recordings, classical podiums, and scoring stages, Schifrin's music fuses seemingly disparate genres--bluegrass, symphonic, rhythmic jazz--into a soundtrack that evokes them all yet becomes distinctly more than the sum of its parts. Given that gratifying sensibility, it's a soundtrack full of surprising twists and turns, crackling with energy. Such is its dynamic nature that one reedited cut ("Tar Sequence") has taken on a second life as the ubiquitous "Eyewitness News" theme music at local TV stations across America. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Cool Hand Luke.......2006-08-18

I waited years for this to come out after enjoying the theme while watching the movie. Great stuff!

Plastic Jesus.......2006-01-14

Paul Newman's original version of Plastic Jesus is not on this CD. This CD is re-recorded instrumental versions of the songs from the film. Thoroughly disappointing.

Flawed.......2005-05-14

This is a very nice re-recording of the original score, but lacks the heart of the original in a few ways. First, the songs from the film are re-recorded and rather lifeless compared to the film soundtrack. Secondly, the "Tar Sequence" track has been given a strange piece of introductory music rather than just starting naturally and loudly, as in the film.

Still a good listen, but these changes are not for the best. Probably still the preferable version of the Cool Hand Luke CD.

My Favorite Hymn.......2003-05-13

Paul Newman's rendition of "Plastic Jesus" is worth the price of the CD.

Cool Hand Lalo.......2002-11-04

Never having heard the music from Cool Hand Luke, I decided to pick up a copy of this soundtrack anyway because I like Lalo Schifrin. I'm glad I got this soundtrack because it is really good. It actually was nominated for an oscar back in 1967. The main theme is a catchy guitar rhythm and also a song titled "Down Here On the Ground" in which guitar, banjo, and sometimes harmonica are used. "Tar Sequence" has actually been used as a theme for a news program. The piano sequences sound like something Jerry Goldsmith would write and actually has used before. The other action cues are "The Chase" and "Criss-Crossing the Fence". There are some jazz tracks present in "Egg Eating Contest" and "Ballad of Cool Hand Luke". The last 2 tracks are symphonic versions of the main theme and the song "Down Here on the Ground". Most of the tracks have a bluegrass feel to them and sound like they belong on a bluegrass compilation album. The time on the soundtrack runs a little under 60 minutes, which is plenty of music. Get this score if you can find it. It was re-released on Schifrin's record company Aleph last year and you may end up finding it if you look hard. It is worth it though.

Average customer rating:

Memories of Luke Linger On...
An all-time classic
Not what I was expecting...
Not what I was looking for.
Great music from a great film

Cool Hand Luke
Lalo Schifrin , and Lalo Schifrin
Manufacturer: Mvp Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006XS7
Release Date: 1999-12-07

Tracks:

Main Title
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Tar Sequence
Lucille
Egg Eating Contest
Plastic Jesus
Bean Time
Ballad of Cool Hand Luke
Arletta Blues
First Morning
Chase
Road Gang
End Title

Album Description

Japanese edition of 1967 soundtrack for the classic Paul Newman film composed and conducted by Lalo Shifrin. MCA Records.

Album Details

The Original Soundtrack Music (Only) Composed and Conducted by Lalo Schifrin of the Classic Film Starring Paul Newman.

Customer Reviews:

Memories of Luke Linger On..........2001-01-17

The pieces on this CD are beautifully orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin, the most moving for me being Luke's theme itself, the first and last tracks. For those that want to hear the live banjo music and singing by Paul Newman and some of the other inmates, this is not for you. This music was obviously made in a recording studio. Still, there is a lot of music on this CD that evokes a lot of memories of Luke, and if you're a dyed-in-the-wool "Cool Hand Luke" fan, as I am, I would think you would want to own this. It is an import, so the price is high, but worth it.

An all-time classic.......2000-02-20

This is one of the finest film scores ever. I am amazed at the reviewers who are disappointed in not finding the "songs"; what is on this disc is one of Lalo Schifrin's most creative scores, and is FAR from "elevator music". The main title theme is beautiful and memorable (and later became "Down Here On the Ground," recorded by Wes Montgomery and others) and the incidental music adds immeasurably to the emotional impact of the film. I love this entire score, and truly wish it were available domestically at a better price (although I am grateful to amazon.com for making the import available). Incidentally, in his review on this page, Burt Culver is incorrect of his "correction" in the liner notes; Paul Newman does indeed say the famous "What we've got here..." line; it is, in fact, his last line, as he makes fun of the Strother Martin character.

Not what I was expecting..........1999-05-06

Yes, the music is from the movie Cool Hand Luke. But, no, it is not the sound track from Cool Hand Luke. This is the "elevator music" version of the sound track. You'll find no lyrics here -- and the lyrics were what I was after.

Not what I was looking for........1999-05-04

If you are looking for the actual songs from the film, this isn't it. This is the actual music, which makes a big difference for this film.

I wanted to hear Paul Newman singing "plastic jesus", but this is a recording studio orchestra covering the song.

If you want the song the road crew sings to Luke while he re-digs the Boss's hole the 3rd time, it isn't on here either.

Also, if you are looking for quotes from the film like "what we have here..." it isn't on this disk.

The music on the disk is good and certainly brings back the film, but again - it wasn't what I was looking for in the soundtrack.

For your reference, here is the text off of the back of the cd (pressed in Japan with a pretty cool cover):

"'What we have here is a failure to communicate' says Paul Newman [wrong!], in the character of LUKE, when his confrontations with The Establishment reach the inevitable impasse. But what we have here in these grooves, is a triumph of communication - the kind of communication which results when a story as compelling as 'Cool Hand Luke' is matched with the music of a sensitive composer. Lalo Schifrin has given paramount value to communication in his life and career: verbally, he is fluent in four languages and handy in a few others; musically, he represents an incredible versatility - sort of a musical Renaissance Man. His range of activity is prodigious, beginning, in his native Argentina, as a classical wunderkind of the piano, and developing into an impressive jazz pianist with Dizzy Gillespie. As a composer, some of his lessons were learned while arranging for Dizzy and for Count Basie, complementing the solid academic background acquired as a student of the Paris Conservatory. THese lessons were resoundingly applied in such varied television successes as 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' and 'Mission: Impossible;' in the sixteen motion picture scores of which two still to be released are 'The Fox' and 'The President's Analyst;' in the NARAS Award-winning 'Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts;' in 'The Ritual of Sound,' conducted in Carnegie Hall by Gunther Schuller; in ballet, opera, and concerti. Nowhere are the results of his training and talent more evident than in his uniquely appropriate use of the instruments and the rythmic and harmonic patterns of rural America in the score of 'Cool Hand Luke.' The folk blues sound of the banjo and harmonica are cannily juxtaposed with staccato burts of violence as in 'Tar Sequence' and 'The Chase,' and with the sensuous siren-song of 'Lucille.' Add the humor of 'Egg-Eating Contest' to the righteousness of 'Just a Closer Walk' and 'Arletta Blues,' and you'll have the picture of Lalo Schifrin, Musical Renaissance Man, unforgettably in mind."

Great music from a great film.......1999-03-26

This really is a great soundtrack. The music is good even if you havent seen the movie, and Great if you have seen the movie. It is a must for anyone who loves Cool Hand Luke.