The Longest Day: Music From The Classic War Films (Soundtrack Anthology) [Soundtrack]

Various Artists - Soundtracks (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 26, 1994)
• Original Release Date: July 25, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Silva America
• ASIN: B000004BPO
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,954 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Longest Day: March

2. 633 Squadron

3. The Guns of Navarone: The Legend of Navarone

4. The Dambusters

5. Battle of Britain: Aces High-Luffwaffe March

6. MacArthur/Patton: The General Suite

7. The Night of the Generals

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai: Colonel Bogey

9. Where Eagles Dare

10. Das Boot (The Boat)

11. The Great Escape

12. Battle of Midway: March

13. Battle of the Bulge (Prelude)

14. Force 10 from Navarone

15. In Harm's Way: The Rock/First Victory

16. Sink the Bismarck!

17. The Bridge at Remagen

18. A Bridge Too Far: Overture

19. 1941: March

20. Is Paris Burning?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the originals but not too bad a substitute, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Longest Day: Music From The Classic War Films (Soundtrack Anthology) (Audio CD)

I knew in '94 when I bought this CD that these were not the original recordings. Yet the themes of the vast majority of the films featured on this CD are from soundtracks that were or are out of print. As a huge war movie and movie soundtrack fan I was looking for a reasonable fascimile of some of my favorite film scores. This CD provided the next best thing to those unavailable soundtracks.

In the last few years movie soundtracks have become big business with every year seeing the re-release of some of the old classics. The original soundtrack recordings for A Bridge Too Far, Midway, The Great Escape, and others have recently been released on CD. If you have been looking for that opening theme to a favorite war film then you might be able to at last get the original soundtrack on CD; but if that soundtrack is still out of print, "The Longest Day: Music from Classic War films" is not a bad alternative.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great selection but poor quality of recording., April 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Longest Day: Music From The Classic War Films (Soundtrack Anthology) (Audio CD)

The selection of music is great but the sound quality is very poor. I don't know anything about recording or even if this orchestra is doind a bad job in itself, but some of these pieces I have on other recordings and they're so much better. All of these recordings lack power, verve, oomph, or whatever you want to call that feeling you're supposed to get when you hear really great martial music. I keep raising the volume hoping that that will do the trick but it doesn't. It quite simply is a poor recording and I do not recommend this volume. Get the pieces on other recordings (soundtracks to Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far, Patton, etc. are all much better).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent compilation, May 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Longest Day: Music From The Classic War Films (Soundtrack Anthology) (Audio CD)

While not the original soundtracks from the films, this is a good collection of orchestral music. I usually play it in the background while working.

A few songs are a mixture of various music from a single film. For example, the track for A Bridge Too Far includes not only the movie's main theme, but also the music from the scene where the paratroops load into the airplanes and fly towards their drop zones is included.

The only disappointment I had was the lack of lyrics from The Longest Day and the fact that the score from Das Boot has an underlying "techo-pop" sound to it. Other than that, I found it to be a pleasant listening experience.