Rest in peace, Angelo and Julee.
Rest in peace, Angelo and Julee.
Hi, everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m sharing this song of the day is memory of our own Gary Loggins, who loved this song and wrote about the song and the subsequent film here!
Well, here we are. All things must come to an end and today, our month-long tribute to Morricone comes to a close with one final piece of music from the greatest composer of our age. I want to close things out with a piece from Morricone’s score for 1988’s Cinema Paradiso.
Here, from Cinema Paradiso, is the final theme:
Goodnight, Morricone.
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After decades of soundtracks that established him as one of the greatest of our modern composers, Ennio Morricone would win his first (and, sad to say, only) competitive Oscar in 2016. (Morricone had previously been awarded an honorary Oscar for his overall body of work.) He won that Oscar for his score for Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film, 2015’s The Hateful Eight.
As we are now winding down our tribute to Morricone, it only seems appropriate to share a piece of the soundtrack. From the Hateful Eight, here is Neve:
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Today’s song of the day comes to use Ennio Morricone’s score for the 1972 giallo, Who Saw Her Die? This may not be one Morricone’s best-known soundtracks but it’s still one of his best. The movie’s pretty good as well.
From Who Saw Her Die:
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Today’s song of the day comes from Ennio Morricone’s score for the 2000 Italian film, Malena!
Here, from a performance in Chile, is Morricone’s Malena:
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Today’s song of the day comes from Ennio Morricone’s score for Sergio Leone’s 1971 film, Duck, You Sucker! Also known as A Fistful of Dynamite, this is probably Leone’s most underrated film and Morricone’s excellent score seems to be a bit underrated as well.
Though it may have been dismissed when originally released, many critics have recently discovered that the film actually holds up surprisingly well. So does Morricone’s score.
From Duck, You Sucker!:
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Continuing our tribute to Ennio Morricone, today’s song of the day is the main theme from 1965’s For A Few Dollars More. If Sergio Leone’s version of the old west was as a mythological landscape, Morricone’s music was always the perfect soundtrack.
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Our tribute to Ennio Morricone will be coming to a close at the end of this week. We’ve shared a lot of unforgettable music from Morricone and hopefully, we’ve encouraged you to track down a few of the films that he scored. Obviously, there’s no way that we could do a tribute to Morricone without including the main theme from Sergio Leone’s first Spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars.
Though it may not be as well known as Morricone’s scores for The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West, it’s just as epic. The real old west may not have featured Morricone’s music playing in the background but it definitely should have.
Here is the main theme from A Fistful of Dollars!
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Well, we’re starting in on the final week of our tribute to Ennio Morricone so today, I want to share one of his most important compositions.
The 1970 film, Investigation Of A Citizen About Suspicion, was a dark satire about police corruption and murder in Italy. It was not only critically acclaimed but it also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (That award is now known as Best International Film.) The success of this film showed that Morricone was more than just a composer of epic Western themes and it also introduced his music to a whole new group of filmgoers.
Here is Morricone’s Main Theme From Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion:
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