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  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • Original Release Date: 1972
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: RCA
  • ASIN: B000002W71
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,450 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Once upon a Time in the West (Morricone)
2. As a Judgement
3. Farewell to Cheyenne
4. The Trasgression
5. The First Tavern
6. Man With the Harmonica
7. A Dimly Lit Room
8. Bad Orchestra
9. The Man
10. Jill's America
11. Death Rattle
12. Finale

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One of the most lyrical Western movie scores from one of the all-time greatest movie Westerns. Unlike the slightly more cartoonish music (in the Raymond Scott sense) for Sergio Leone's earlier "Man with No Name" Westerns starring Clint Eastwood (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly), Once upon a Time in the West is epic in scope and elegiac in tone. Composer Ennio Morricone uses a haunting, wordless female vocal on the main theme (and in the equally beautiful soundtrack for Leone's companion gangster epic, Once upon a Time in America, many years later) that sends chills down your spine and may even bring tears to your eyes. --Jim Emerson
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, November 2, 2000
I was driving through the Utah desert years ago and popped this CD in. I chose to play it because, well... I couldn't find my Donny and Marie tapes. No. I played it because it was the perfect soundtrack to a solo drive through every western I've ever seen or heard. Morricone is, of course, one of the great composers. From "The Mission" to "Cinema Paradiso", his music haunts and stays with you long after the credits roll.

"Once Upon a Time in the West" was a brilliant movie. From the insanely haunting title track to the soft beauty of "A Dimly Lit Room", this soundtrack will touch you. Listen to "Death Rattle" and you'll imagine yourself standing in the middle of the desert with the hot sun beating down on you - waiting for something bad to happen. Your mind will play tricks on you. Is that... is that a mirage off in the distance or.. are they coming for you? Can you feel it all around you - the smell of death?

One of the best soundtracks. Period.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Western Film Score--Italian Style, May 22, 2005
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In popular terms, when one thinks of composer Ennio Morricone, the first thing that they're likely to think of is "spaghetti westerns"--namely the scores he composed for director Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy of the 1960s. Morricone's output, of course, is much bigger than that now. But one of the best scores he ever did for any film, western or otherwise, was the one he composed for Leone's 1969 western epic ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. And like the film itself, Morricone's music has gained a foothold as one of the very best film scores ever composed for a western.

Amazingly, Morricone composed the film score by reading the screenplay by Leone and Sergio Donati, and doing this before a single frame of film was exposed by Leone himself. This meant that Leone could choreograph the main characters' movements in the film. Thus, you get certain sound elements weaving throughout the score--a lush, haunting score (with a wordless female voice) for Claudia Cardinale's frontier widow character; a stinging electric guitar for the ruthless railroad killer portrayed by Henry Fonda; a jaunty banjo for Cheyenne, the outlaw portrayed by Jason Robards; and an ominous, tuneless harmonica for Charles Bronson's character.

One element that is strangely never mentioned when it comes to Morricone's scores for either this film or the "Dollars" trilogy is how attracted he is to minor keys. The themes attached to the Bronson, Robards, and Fonda characters are all in the key of A Minor (the famous "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" is in D Minor). It is this penchant that Morricone has for the minor keys in his composing that gives his western scores the ominous and deadly charge they have.

One previous reviewer compared the Leone/Morricone collaboration to those of Hitchcock/Herrmann and Spielberg/Williams. I think this is an extremely apt comparison, and it goes a long way in explaining the success of the films, the filmmakers, and the composers who help them. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is a sterling example of the Leone/Morricone collaboration, and is well worth finding.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST OF MORRICONE, August 18, 1999
I've reviewed over eighty Morricone scores in my brief life thus far and this is the score to which I most frequently return. The wordless vocal sung by Morricone regular Edda del Orso defies description. I've listened to this score while lamenting my singularity in the Tucson desert, and heard it performed live by the Gran Caffe Orchestra in the Piazza San Marco in Venice under a full moon in October, and few experiences in life compare to the intensity and beauty of the latter. Sometimes I find Morricone morose and repetitive, but ONCE stands out from the bunch, alongside the unpublished LA VOGLIA MATTA (1962) and CHI MAI. There are many treatments of the main theme that invite repeated listening, but it is the final track that will send chills down your spine and make you believe in the heart, if not heaven.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eerie and unforgettable
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent music to one of the best westerns ever made
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5.0 out of 5 stars As Much the Movie as the Movie is
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5.0 out of 5 stars Once Upon a Time in the West Soundtrack
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2.0 out of 5 stars Only one tune
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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Western Soundtrack for the Greatest Western film
I first saw "Once Upon a time in the West" as a graduate student in West Germany, where it was named "Spiel Mir das Lied vom Tod"--"Play me the song of death". Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding
This is one of the most underrated soundtracks of all time. A haunting, ethereal work of genius, just like the movie from which it's taken. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars This CD Got Its Hooks Into Me!
Once Upon A Time In The West was the first Western movie that I ever really liked. It beat out the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. The music haunts me. Read more
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