KVR Audio

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:31 pm

Some nostalgia channel was showing a 1958 film noir, Murder By Contract, which I'd seen many years ago. Watching some of it I was reminded of how much the guitar played a key role in the music throughout.

So, let's hear from the KVR film fans as to your favorite uses of the guitar in film themes, incidental music etc. Extra credit if you can name the guitarist who performed on the soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnc-aN5nRRQ

According to the Wikipedia page for Perry Botkin, Sr he was a Jazz guitarist and composer and was credited along with his son for composing the soundtrack. It could be presumed that he was also the guitarist, although it doesn't so state.

The Noodlist · Post by **The Noodlist** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:09 am

https://youtu.be/ZylbA374VRw
https://youtu.be/sNKJ-sGpMuU
https://youtu.be/izNxtsC1b4k

Forgotten · Post by **Forgotten** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:58 am

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly definitely needs to be on this list.

I’m going to add one that’s from the guitar family (broadly speaking) that is not guitar, but is played on a zither originally, and later covered on guitar by quite a few artists.

The original from The Third Man is the best version though.

https://youtu.be/2oEsWi88Qv0

revvy · Post by **revvy** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:40 am

The first rule of the Pixies is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_aBmrYChfQ

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:24 pm

Well, it didn't take long for the late great Alessandro Alessandroni to show up in the thread.

Wikipedia wrote:Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella.

And he was a pretty good whistler, too...

Mikelo · Post by **Mikelo** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:04 am

Surely Flash Gordon by Queen should be in this movie list!

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:25 am

Highlander - Queen

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:38 pm

28 days later has a few guitar laden tracks

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:01 pm

For those who like myself might not like the term 'classical guitar' that much, there are always places to the south of the U.S. where usually it's just referred to as the guitar, and sometimes even as the national instrument...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtUEpopu6A

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:19 pm

Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:31 pm

Neil Young's soundtrack for Dead Man.

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:05 pm

D.H. Miltz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:19 pm Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack.

The Criterion edition that came out a few years back I think includes a French television documentary among the extras on the Cooder/Wenders collaboration that might be worth checking out.

Not too many other slide guitar works come to mind but one from somewhat way back was in the rather eclectic soundtrack that a young Luis Bacalov did for Pasolini's 1964 film The Gospel According to St. Matthew (for which I think Bacalov received an Oscar nomination) that included Blind Willie Johnson's Dark Was the Night, Cold Was The Ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:19 pm

Monty Norman's Em C/E Em6 C/E of course.
Vic Flick the guitarist.
rsp

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:45 pm

rp314 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:05 pm
D.H. Miltz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:19 pm Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack.
The Criterion edition that came out a few years back I think includes a French television documentary among the extras on the Cooder/Wenders collaboration that might be worth checking out.

Looks like the Criterion Channel has that. Another nudge toward finally subscribing (especially since I can't get a library copy of the disc at the moment).

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Tue May 19, 2020 9:58 pm

zvenx wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:19 pm Monty Norman's Em C/E Em6 C/E of course.
Vic Flick the guitarist.
rsp

That led to quite a bit of guitar use in that genre not only in films but also in certain television shows that some of us might have once watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZ2PQ0DFoM

Composed by Lalo Schifrin and probably played by some member of the Wrecking Crew.

Favorite soundtracks /movie themes that feature the guitar