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A Fistful Of Dollars: An Original Soundtrack Recording

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A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS was the first Spaghetti Western to establish that genre in the United States. Staring Clint Eastwood, directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone this initial film was crude but effective establishing from the start the essential components of what defined the look and sound of a Spaghetti Western. Probably the one key element found in almost every Spaghetti Western was the distinctive music. Ennio Morricone was probably the most prolific and successful composer setting the benchmark for all others to follow in the genre. Essential to this CD is the strong main title (Track 1: "Titoli from A Fistful of Dollars"). Most of the successful Spaghetti Westerns centered the score on the main title (THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, ADIOS SABATA, MY NAME IS NOBODY, etc). A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS soundtrack has one of the best main titles. A whistler enunciates the tune while the music builds into galloping intensity. This is truly innovative and distinctive scoring. The quality of this 1964 RCA recording is just incredible. It sounds as crisp and clear as when I first heard this on vinyl when I was very young. My other favorites on this CD are Track 2: "Almost Dead" and Track 3: "Square Dance" true examples of the European vision on the myth of the American Western. I was glad to see that the Suite from A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS was retained for the CD. I love Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western scores. Since this was the first I ever owned, it holds a special place in my collection.

Now here we have a film score in a mythical porportion. Enno Morricone has opened a gate to a romantic realm and used the trumpet as an effective story teller.It is not by a mere chance that dacades after the release of this sound trac we still love to hear these tunes and still experience the same hair rising effect by the haunting sound of the trumpeter playing the main tune. The command and knowledge of music and deep love for the instrument was made it possible that the composer could beautifully conway the story to us.Enno Morricon has surely started a culture and cult that is beyond our realm.

The cult of the Man With No Name is still growing and this CD is what started it all. Ennio Morricone, the gifted composer-arranger responsible for the original theme and background music, delivers more than a fistful of sounds. As the linear notes on the CD says, the music matches the excitement... note for note...shot for shot.

I have had a few different versions of this, and find the sonic quality of this version to be the vest I have heard. This has several cuts I have not heard previously. If you are interested in either the movie or the composer, you will be pleased with this.

Now here we have a film score in a mythical porportion. Enno Morricone has opened a gate to a romantic realm and used the trumpet as an effective story teller.It is not by a mere chance that dacades after the release of this sound trac we still love to hear these tunes and still experience the same hair rising effect by the haunting sound of the trumpeter playing the main tune. The command and knowledge of music and deep love for the instrument was made it possible that the composer could beautifully conway the story to us.Enno Morricon has surely started a culture and cult that is beyond our realm.

More totally sweet Ennio Morricone music!! Dude, Morricone is like the coolest dude ever, and this soundtrack is additional eveidence of that. I love all of his work for the man with no name trilogy(A Fistfull of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly). His songs just go so well with the movies, and there also just good music by themselves. I highly recommend this soundtrack!!

If you collect film scores, this one is a must! I don't always like Morricone, though he is one of the most important film composers of the modern era, as I sometimes find his work to be too ambient. But this one is cool, fun, and inventive -- like the star-making film it accompanied -- a milestone in cinema. Unusual instrumentation and rousing, often sophisticated melodies make this a real winner.

The suite at the end of this CD is worth it alone. The Ventures guitar riff, the brass, the drums. Classic spaghetti western soundtrack...Alex Sydorenko, 2001, Chicago.

I thought, no, I expected that this CD would be just the copy of original soundtrack. But it is not. The sound of this CD is revival. Although the sound is not the original, I admitted the play was so effective that it is very similar to the original sound.