The music for Stewart’s 1957 film, The Spirit of St. Louis, was composed by Franz Waxman, who also conducted the Warner Brothers Orchestra. The Soundtrack album was issued by RCA Victor (LPM-1472). The tracks on the album were: Prelude Building the Spirit New York to Cape Cod Nova Scotia St. John Asleep Ireland Plymouth Landing…
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Broken Arrow – Soundtrack
The music for Broken Arrow, the 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget, was written by Hugo Friedhofer, orchestrated by William Powell and conducted by Alfred Newman. No soundtrack album was issued at the time and the official release had to wait until 1999, when a CD was finally issued (Brigham Young…
Anatomy of a Murder – Soundtrack Part 2 – Spin Offs and Re-Issues
Peggy Lee was given the Main Title track and asked to write lyrics for it. The result was a song titled I’m Gonna Go Fishin’. Two versions of this were issued in 1960. One was an instrumental by Gerry Mulligan (Verve 10216), while the other was a vocal by Peggy Lee (Capitol 4449). While Mulligan’s…
Bell, Book and Candle – Soundtrack
Bell, Book and Candle was a 1958 film starring Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs. The soundtrack music was written and conducted by George Dunning. The music has been released several times through the years, beginning with an album in 1958 (Colpix CP-502). The tracks were: Main Title Pyewacket-Queenie-Gil Send Me Nicky Way…
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West – Soundtrack
The music for the sound track was composed and conducted by James Horner. Stewart voiced the role of Wylie Burp, the lawdog of Green River (pictured in the upper left hand corner of the jacket) and the idol of Fievel in the animated film. Others in the film were Phillip Glasser (as Fievel), Cathy Cavadini…
The Glenn Miller Story – Part 2
Besides the actual soundtrack recordings discussed in the first blog, there were also a number of related releases which we will discuss here. First, Decca issued an EP featuring Louis Armstrong’s two songs from the film. The sleeve even carried the now familiar photo of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. Decca ED 2126 (1954) –…
The Glenn Miller Story – Soundtrack
Tracing the recording history of The Glenn Miller Story is a very big project, one which will be spread over two blogs. In the first part, presented here, we will take a look at the actual soundtrack materials. Here is another soundtrack on which Stewart doesn’t appear vocally, but his photo does appear on all…
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