The Baxter [Soundtrack]

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IFC Films presents The Baxter, a quirky, contemporary homage to the classic romantic screwball comedies of the 1940's. The Baxter features quirky pop rock, jazz and '80s throwback music written by the film's composers, Theordore Shapiro and Craig Wedren, as well as songs from a wide array of artists including Rufus Wainwright, Amy Miles, Rats With Wings, Peter Sallet and others. The soundtrack also includes a selection of unforgettable dialogue from the film, woven between the music.

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The Baxter Original Soundtrack Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Baxter Stella - Season One The Things We Do Wet Hot American Summer The Royal Tenenbaums (Collector's Edition) ASIN: B000AAF21C Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

1. Baxter Theme - Theodore Shapiro
2. Just A Body - King Of France
3. When Your Man Is Wild - Craig Wedren
4. Don't Melt - Rats With Wings
5. Put - Amy Miles
6. Don't Run Me Over Baby - Peter Salett
7. Coke Vs. Pot And Beer - Rats With Wings
8. My Whisper - Peter Salett
9. On - Various Artists
10. Od Blue - Craig Wedren
11. Hero - El May
12. Elliot And Cecil - Theodore Shapiro
13. Hopeful - Theodore Shapiro

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Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast) Manufacturer: Decca Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition) ASIN: B000BSM28Y Release Date: 2005-11-14

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Prolugue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
3. The Naming Of Cats
4. The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
5. The Old Gumbie Cat
6. The Rum Tum Tugger
7. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
8. Bustopher Jones
9. Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
10. Old Deuteronomy
11. The Jellicle Ball
12. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
13. Memory

Tracks:

1. The Moments Of Happiness
2. Gus: The Theatre Cat
3. 'Growltiger's Last Stand' Including 'The Ballad Of Billy McCaw'
4. Skimbleshanks
5. Macavity
6. Mr. Mistoffelees
7. Memory
8. Journey To The Heaviside Layer
9. The Ad-dressing of Cats

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Music from Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: El Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Herrmann | Herrmann, Bernard | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Waxman | Waxman, Franz | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lost Weekend / Night of the Hunter (OST) Jane Eyre The Conformist (Extended Edition) ASIN: B000G04U6O Release Date: 2006-07-24

Tracks:

1. Rebecca/Prelude
2. Spellbound/Spellbound-Main Theme
3. Spellbound/Dream
4. Spellbound/Ski Run
5. Notorious/Suite - Francis Poulenc
6. Notorious/Dance Suite
7. Rope/Mouvements Perpetuels (Perpetual Movement)
8. Stranges on a Train/Prologue/Duet for Four Feet
9. I Confess/Original Theme from I Confess
10. Dial M for Murder/Original Theme from Dial M for Murder
11. Rear Window/Juke Box Number 6
12. To Catch a Thief/Original Theme from to Catch a Thief
13. Trouble with Harry/Original Theme the Trouble with Harry
14. Trouble with Harry (Inspired by the Film)

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Edgar Allan Poe Suite: Horror Express Baxter , and Cacavas Manufacturer: Citadel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003JVI Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Edgar Allen Poe Suite: The Pit and the Pendulum - Les Baxter
2. Edgar Allen Poe Suite: The Sphinx - Les Baxter
3. Edgar Allen Poe Suite: The Cask of Amontillado - Les Baxter
4. Edgar Allen Poe Suite: The Tell-Tale Heat - Les Baxter
5. Cry of the Banshee - Les Baxter
6. Horror Express: Main Title - John Cacavas
7. Horror Express: Icy Search - John Cacavas
8. Horror Express: Ballet-Russian - John Cacavas
9. Horror Express: The Journey Begins - John Cacavas
10. Horror Express: Pujaro's Theme - John Cacavas
11. Horror Express: Deadly Pursuit - John Cacavas
12. Horror Express: Train - John Cacavas
13. Horror Express: Fugue - John Cacavas
14. Horror Express: End Title - John Cacavas

Average customer rating: Another Side of Les Baxter Black Sunday -- Brilliant Horror Score To Italian Classic

Black Sunday (1960 Film) & Baron Blood (1972 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks Les Baxter Manufacturer: Citadel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Lounge | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Instrumental Pop & Lounge | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003JVL Release Date: 1997-12-16

Tracks:

1. Black Sunday: Orchestral Suite
2. Baron Blood: Orchestral Suite

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Another Side of Les Baxter.......2001-03-22

Background music in movies has offered composers a certain freedom, and horror movie scores especially invite uncomforting harmonies. In places, this soundtrack resembles Edgard Varese compositions like Deserts and Ameriques. Lounge music lovers' teeth will be set on edge, a good thing.

In a separate CD, Citadel Records has also issued Baxter's soundtrack suite for "Cry of the Banshee," along with a suite of his music for Roger Corman's Poe flicks, plus something else by another composer I forget. Very hip stuff.

Black Sunday -- Brilliant Horror Score To Italian Classic.......2000-01-17

When American-International imported this film into the United States back in 1961, they knew they had a classic, but they also realized the film had one major flaw -- a dreary score by Roberto Nicolosi (one of Italy's worst film composers) that seriously hampered the effectiveness of this otherwise flawless shocker.

AIP president James H. Nicholson, a man of taste and intellegence, sought out the gifted "Godfather of Exotica" Les Baxter to prepare a suitably lush and scary score more in tune with Bava's haunting and visionary work of art.

Baxter was a vastly underrated talent. His work in the pop music field was phenomenally successful (his recording of THE POOR PEOPLE OF PARIS, a song he personally hated, was the single most popular record sold in the 1950s), yet he would never receive the big A-movie assignments that much less gifted pop talents would receive, because Baxter relished the comparative freedom that scoring B-films allowed. Yet within the area of low budget films, Les Baxter would produce a superb body of work including Roger Corman's Poe films THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and THE RAVEN; William Witney's MASTER OF THE WORLD (one of THE great film scores), Alexander MacKendrick's A BOY TEN FEET TALL/SAMMY GOING SOUTH, William Castle's MACABRE, Nicholas Ray's HOT BLOOD and Ingmar Bergman's MONIKA. Even among Baxter's many anonymous films can be found scores of great beauty.

Here on this recording can be found Baxter's outstanding score to BLACK SUNDAY, a masterwork of macabre musical atmosphere. Even Bava purist Tim Lucas, the gifted editor of the great film journal VIDEO WATCHDOG, approves of Baxter's score, and knowing Tim's opinions about reworked films, that is the ultimate compliment.

Rounding off the album is Baxter's very fun score to the lesser (but still inspired) Bava film BARON BLOOD.

Happy nightmares.

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