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Lawrence of Arabia
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If we're talking about a single movie, then it's gotta be The Shawshank Redemption. If I were allowed to choose a franchise, however, then the Lord of the Rings trilogy would beat it.

Perhaps not the entire soundtrack, but the theme song to "The Magnificent Seven" has to rank up there.

If we're going to get all amorphous here, I've got to mention Richard Rogers and the NBC orchestra's contribution to the Victory at Sea documentary.

Also TV series are OK?

-- Tour of Duty
"Paint It, Black" by Stones is in really synch opening movie. I think that's the one of the Greatest TV OP. Many 60's R&R and R&B tracks are nicely used. Especially, The Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!"(used background of Sgt. Zeke's farewell scene to Dr. Seymour) and "The Ballad of Easy Rider" (Johnson ends his tour of duty and VC sniper stops shooting him) are still quite impressive to me.
Sadly, DVD set has dropped all original rock tunes caused by copyright concerned...

for me Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean and Gladiator

"Kelly's Heroes"
"Battle of Britain"

Gladiator theme in combination with the first battle scene. Can watch this over and over. [:D]

Ok so since the question wasn't specifically directed towards war movies, for it's the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack especially the 3rd movie...by a huge mile...I love the music ( I love the movies too [:)] ). Besides that Gladiator...I'm a huge Hans Zimmer fan.

One of my all-time favorites is the main theme from "The Natural". As for historical/war films, it's hard to beat the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia".

Forrest Gump and Good Morning Vietnam.

The theme from "Shaka Zulu" - "We Are Growing"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMQnYRTUikk

Just showed the whole mini-series to my Social Studies classes as a special unit during our testing week (entertaining, but educational). The whole school is running around humming this song... can't get it out of your head.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou -the best ever-check it out. There are so may great tunes-if you like real American music that is. I have a couple tunes from that movies on my desktop.

http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/obrotherwhereartthou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8&NR=1



These other two were favorites for a long time.

Lawrence of Arabia

Exodus

+1 Warspite: Adagio for strings - Samuel Barber (Platoon)

Definitely outdated, but great music the The Magnificent Seven. And I agree with jjax nothing matches those good old westerns for musical scores [:)]

I like The Pacific soundtrack alot more than the miniseries.

Track 15. The Landing on Peleliu is very good with the Strings and Japanese Drums contending against each other to a climax.

So, what's a movie soundtrack? [&:]

Is it a single song, even if repeated, or a larger body of work that's played out over the showing?

In the soundtrack genre there are three types of recordings:

1.Musical film soundtracks which concentrate primarily on the songs
(Examples: Grease, Singin' in the Rain)
2.Film scores which showcase the background music from non-musicals
(Examples: Star Wars, Exodus)
3.Albums of pop songs heard in whole or part in the background of non-musicals
(Examples: Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally)
The first musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By. The album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film are included in this album. In order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. This was before tape existed, so the record producer needed to copy segments from the playback discs used on set, the copy and re-copy them from one disc to another adding transitions and cross-fades until the final master was created. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original and the sound quality suffered for it. The playback recordings were purposely recorded very "dry" (without reverberation); otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy.

MGM Records called these "original cast albums" in the style of Decca's Broadway show cast albums. They also coined the phrase "recorded directly from the soundtrack." Over the years the term "soundtrack" began to be commonly applied to any recording from a film, whether taken from the actual film soundtrack or re-recorded in studio. The phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct to call a "soundtrack" a "cast recording" (since it represents the film cast) it is never correct to call a "cast recording" a "soundtrack." Among their most notable soundtrack albums were those of the films Good News, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun, Singin' in the Rain, Show Boat, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Gigi.

Film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Alex North’s score for the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire was released on a 10-inch LP by Capitol Records and sold so well that the label later re-released it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of Max Steiner's film music on the reverse.

Steiner’s score for Gone with the Wind has been recorded many times, but when the film was reissued in 1967, MGM Records finally released an album of the famous score recorded directly from the soundtrack. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially "enhanced for stereo". In recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound.

One of the biggest-selling film scores of all time was John Williams's music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs and some have become extremely rare collectors’ items.

In a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the film's musical score. The ground-breaking film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was issued by Warner Bros Records as a 2-LP set containing virtually all the dialogue from the film. RCA Victor also issued a 2-LP set what was virtually all the dialogue from the film soundtrack of A Man for All Seasons.

ORIGINAL: BASB

Definitely outdated, but great music the The Magnificent Seven. And I agree with jjax nothing matches those good old westerns for musical scores [:)]

I have it on my ring tone. [&o]

Here's a catchy little tune