John Barry - Hammett - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [CD]

SILVA SCREEN

£11.50

Cat. no: SILCD1662
Format: CD
Barcode: 738572166229
Release Date: 28 Jul 2023
Genre: Soundtrack

Wim Wender's 1982 flm (executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola) Hammett starred Frederic Forrest as the titular American crime writer who becomes mixed up in a fctional mystery, similar to his own stories

It is often assumed that composer John Barry's association with Francis Ford Coppola had been cemented through his work on two entirely different 1980s flms: The Cotton Club (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), but in truth, their relationship began earlier, when Barry was hired to score Hammett.

Barry had great fondness for his Hammett score telling Ford Thaxton in 2001, "I loved doing Hammett. That was a terrifc movie. If the director's got it correctly onto the screen and that intimacy is present, it's just great to be able to write that simply and orchestrate that sparsely."

This release is newly remastered and edited with additional and alternate cues and includes extensive sleeve notes from Geoff Leonard and Pete Walker, authors of John Barry Plays 007: The Music And Art Of James Bond.

Tracks: Hammett Main Titles / Hammett's Dream / Ryan is Missing / Chinatown Incident / Moonlight Over Spring River / Cookie's Speakeasy / Shoeshine Blues / Shadow Man / The Library / Hammett Meets Salt / Suicide is Fascinating / I'm Calling It In / Look For Me at Fong's / Potted Palms / The Opium Den / Escape from Fong's / Hide and Seek / The Numbers Ticket Clue / A Belly Full of Daylight / Dixieland / You Can't Forget Her Ever / Don't Be A Chump, Let Her Go / A Cool Million / Waterfront Rendezvous / The Wrap Up / Hammett End Credits / Gumshoe Piano / Do You Like Bad Girls / Last Call / Hammett End Credits (Alternate)