Original Motion Picture Soundtracks
Label: Lone Star
Cat.#: LS-1983
Country: United States
Format: 12” 33rpm LP Vinyl
Release Date: 1983
UPN: None
Notes:
Limited private label pressing, also contains the score from How The West Was Won.
Track Listing:
Side A) The Undefeated
Music Composed and Conducted by Hugo Montenegro
Side B) How The West Was One
Music Composed and Conducted by Alfred Newman
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Film Score Monthly
Cat.#: FSMCD Vol. 3 No. 6
Country: United States
Format: CD
Release Date: September 2000
UPN: None
Notes:
Silver Age Classics series.
Limited edition of 3000 copies.
Also contains music from: Hombre
In the late 1960s, America's most popular and enduring genre went nova. This was, to say the least, a final burst of freaky creativity—good and bad—from a fading genre, bringing revisionism, surrealism, dinosaurs, and even Elvis Presley to the "cowboy" movie. The western was undergoing radical change and experimentation, and we present two never-before-available scores from that period: Both were produced by 20th Century-Fox with top-line casts: John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The Undefeated; Paul Newman and a sturdy ensemble in Hombre.
The Undefeated is a sprawling escapist western involving Civil War factions, Mexican politics, bandits, mustangs and brawls—typical Duke fare, but with updated scope and ambitions. The score, by Hugo Montenegro, is a long, showy score steeped in tradition yet with a pop gleam in its eye; it features reams of deceptively simple yet memorable thematic material. Its terrific main theme could easily be at home in a modern-day NFL broadcast.
In contrast, Hombre is a sober portrait of human interaction and prejudice, re-teaming Newman with a filmmaker of great deliberate craft, director Martin Ritt. David Rose, who scored pop song hits with "The Stripper" and "Holiday for Strings" wrote a short, sparse score that we have collected into longer suite-form tracks; the music presents a meaningful and melodic echo of the story's quiet deliberations.
Together, these scores add up to over an hour of music in stereo. Along with a bonus "mystery track", this CD stands as a tribute to two distinguished, prolific but underrepresented musicians—and a snapshot of their memorable contributions to the western's last days.
Track Listing:
Tracks 1-17 from The Undefeated
1. The Undefeated (04:00)
2. Southern Charm (01:57)
3. Burning the Plantation (02:13)
4. Meet Blue Boy (03:17)
5. Foggy River (02:40)
6. River Crossing (03:45)
7. Let's Go! (03:02)
8. Happy Hour (Hoedown) (04:39)
9. Do You Mind? (01:07)
10. All But Jamison (01:31)
11. Bandits (02:51)
12. The Horses (01:17)
13. Suppertime (02:04)
14. New Campsite (01:02)
15. Incident in Mexico (09:38)
16. Mission Accomplished (01:38)
17. End Title (01:07)
Tracks 18-23 from Hombre
18. Hombre (04:22)
19. Stagecoach (03:13)
20. Bandits (04:01)
21. John Russell (04:01)
22. Single (03:17)
23. Hombre Trailer (03:30)
24. Mystery track
Total Duration: 01:10:12
(John Wayne Der Held)
Artist: Arnold Marquis
Label: Polydor
Cat.#: 2042 159
Country: Germany
Format: 7” 45rpm Vinyl
Release Date: 1979
UPN: None
Notes:
Original Release Title: Die Unbesiegten
Track Listing:
1. John Wayne (The Hero) (03:56)
(Dale Royale & Billy Joe Burnette) Vocal: Arnold Marquis
2. Der Held (Instrumental) (03:55)
(Dale Royale & Billy Joe Burnette) Performer: Vernon Long mit Orchester
Total Duration: 00:07:51