Rio Grande: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Victor Young | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 1993)
• Original Release Date: November 15, 1950
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000014SW
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,452 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Return From Patrol

3. Soldiers Fight

4. I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen - Ken Curtis/The Sons Of The Pioneers

5. Dispossessed

6. Cattle Call - The Sons Of The Pioneers

7. Aha, San Antone - Ben Johnson/Harry Carey, Jr./Claude Jarman, Jr.

8. Reunion

9. Indian Raid/Escape

10. Erie Canal - The Sons Of The Pioneers

11. Laundresses' Row

12. Yellow Stripes - The Sons Of The Pioneers

13. My Gal Is Purple - The Sons Of The Pioneers

14. Down By The Glen Side - Ken Curtis/The Sons Of The Pioneers

15. Footsore Cavalry - The Sons Of The Pioneers

16. Meeting At the Rio Grande

17. Confedeate Dollars And Yankee Gold

18. Departure For Fort Bliss (The Girl I Left Behind)

19. Tyree Meets The Wagon Train/Indian Attack

20. Call Your Volunteers

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The Sons of the Pioneers appeared in dozens of movies, and provided music for still more films than that, but those were all low-budget B-westerns. John Ford's Rio Grande was the only big-budget film in which they not only provided music but appeared on camera. Victor Young wrote the main body of the score, an alternately sentimental and rousing body of music, built around richly tonal themes and dark sonorities, reminiscent of Max Steiner's work, and that music does its job of underscoring the broader action of the film very well, marred only where Young almost pushes the sentimental side a little too hard, or roots his music depicting the Indians in some obvious Hollywood movie score cliches. The distinguishing feature here, however, is the mix of traditional songs ("I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," "Down by the Glen Side," "Erie Canal," etc.), numbers by Tex Owens ("Cattle Call"), Dale Evans ("Aha, San Antone"), and originals by Stan Jones, all of it sung by the Pioneers. This is some of the better work of the period for the group, if only because, as onscreen music, much of it is devoid of the over-produced, over-orchestrated sound that marred many of the group's post-war recordings for RCA Victor -- it's just them, with maybe a guitar accompaniment. The quality of their singing on the Stan Jones material, and the quality of Jones' songwriting ("Yellow Stripes," "My Gal Is Purple," "Footsore Cavalry," etc.) makes one especially sorry that the Pioneers never did an album of Stan Jones songs. The quality of the reissue is excellent, the tracks sounding far cleaner and crisper than their nearly 50-year-old origins would lead one to expect. The notes, by actor Harry Carey Jr., are very thorough -- he can take credit for getting Stan Jones involved in the production -- though they spend more time talking about onscreen action than the music itself. -All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Western Movie Music, January 13, 2007

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B. Binkerd (Spanish Fork, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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I introduced my wife to western movies in general, and John Wayne movies in particular after we were married. We've got quite a few on DVD, and she's been asking for the soundtracks for several years. When I found this CD, I bought it and hoped that it would be a fairly decent reproduction. In a word, it's excellent! The CD contains all of the music that we would want from this movie, and the quality is superb. Although I've been buying DVDs of these movies, I wasn't aware that anyone would actually produce a soundtrack for something this old. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys this movie and music genre.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic music for great western films., September 9, 2002

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Joseph A. Basinger (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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If you a fan of John Wayne and John Ford, this is a must CD.

Great music for the western classics. Rio Grande was part of the "trilogy westerns" that included Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

Also, this was a film that had to be completed in order for John Ford to obtain backing for "The Quiet Man".

First film with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, who proved to be the greatest female star for Wayne.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rio Grande: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, May 20, 2008

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Stevie J. Keller "LITTLEJOE" (Lafollette, Tn USA) - See all my reviews
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This Movie was great and the Sound track is wonderful and I 'am glad I purchased it. the Service and the Shipping were Great also Thanks Amazon
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