Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording] [Soundtrack]

Lalo Schifrin (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Lalo Schifrin
• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Aleph Records
• ASIN: B00005B55H
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,280 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Tar Sequence

3. Just A Closer Walk With Thee

4. The Chase

5. Lucille

6. Egg Eating Contest

7. Eye-Ballin Glasses

8. Arletta Blues

9. Criss-Crossing The Fence

10. Plastic Jesus

11. Got My Mind Back

12. Ballad Of Cool Hand Luke

13. First Morning

14. Bean Time

15. Road Gang

16. Radio In Barracks

17. Dog Boy

18. End Title

19. Symphonic Sketches Of Cool Hand Luke

20. Down Here On The Ground (Symphonic Version)

Editorial Reviews

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

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Hand Lalo, November 3, 2002

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Brandon Cutro (Tyler, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording] (Audio CD)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's just... okay., January 7, 2009

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Gina Chase "YippieHippie" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording] (Audio CD)

I love the score for this film, but I am a bit disappointed. I guess it was stupid of me to assume the version of Plastic Jesus on here was going to be the one by Paul Newman. I also would have liked it more if some of Harry Dean Stanton's playing was on here as well. I would not have gotten it if I knew that ahead of time.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, May 13, 2005

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The Critic (Claremont, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cool Hand Luke [Original Soundtrack Recording] (Audio CD)

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.