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The MGM Soundtrack Treasury FSM Box 03 The MGM Soundtrack Treasury Supplemental Liner Notes Contents The Apartment 1 The Fortune Cookie 3 How to Murder Your Wife 4 Duel at Diablo 7 The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming 9 The Fugitive Kind 11 A Rage to Live 15 Goodbye Again 17 The Happy Ending 21 Billion Dollar Brain 26 Shake Hands With the Devil 31 The Charge of the Light Brigade 35 The Honey Pot 37 Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You 40 The Hills Run Red 43 Hornets’ Nest 45 The 7th Dawn 47 The Glory Guys 50 Hannibal Brooks 53 The Final Option 56 Liner notes ©2008 Film Score Monthly, 6311 Romaine Street, Suite 7109, Hollywood CA 90038. These notes may be printed or archived electronically for personal use only. For a complete catalog of all FSM releases, please visit: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com The Apartment © P 1960, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The Fortune Cookie © P 1966, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios Inc. How to Murder Your Wife © P 1965, 2008 George Axelrod and Jalem Productions Inc. Duel at Di- ablo © P 1965, 2008 Meredith Nelson Wiltsie, Peter Nelson, Theodore Nelson, Ralph Nelson Jr. and Fred Engel. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming © P 1966, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The Fugitive Kind © P 1960, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. A Rage to Live © P 1965, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and U.S. Trust Company. Goodbye Again © P 1961, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The Happy Ending © P 1969, 2008 Pax Enterprises Inc. Billion Dollar Brain © P 1967, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Shake Hands With the Devil © P 1959, 2008 Pennebaker Inc. The Charge of the Light Brigade © P 1968, 2008 Woodfall America Inc. The Honey Pot © P 1967, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You © P 1970, 2008 Three Pictures Corporation. The Hills Run Red © P 1966, 2008 Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica S.P.A. Hornets’ Nest © P 1970, 2008 Triangle Productions. The 7th Dawn © P 1964, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The Glory Guys © P 1965, 2008 Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions Inc. Hannibal Brooks © P 1969, 2008 Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios Inc. The Final Option © P 1983, 2008 Richard Light Horse Productions. All rights reserved. FSM Box 03 • The MGM Soundtrack Treasury • Supplemental Liner Notes The Apartment The premise of The Apartment (1960) came to leg- der that title. Ferrante & Teicher, a duo-piano team re- endary writer-producer-director Billy Wilder after see- cently signed to the United Artists label, recorded an ing David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945), in which a doc- arrangement that rose to No. 10 on the Billboard charts tor and a housewife, both married, use a friend’s res- and helped propel them to stardom. idence for a romantic assignation: “I always thought Another pre-existing tune—“Madalena,” a samba there was an interesting character there—the one who by Brazilian songwriters Ary Macedo and Ayrton loans the apartment, a touching a funny character, and Amorim—is heard as source music throughout the film I kept this idea with me.” when Baxter’s co-workers entertain their lady friends C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon), an employee at the apartment, and also at a New Year’s Eve party of the Consolidated Life insurance company, begrudg- attended by Fran and Sheldrake. ingly advances his career by loaning out his New Although only Deutsch was credited in the film York City bachelor pad to a string of philandering co- and on the soundtrack LP (UAS 6105), Charles workers. Jeff Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), director Williams was widely acknowledged on other record- of personnel, promotes Baxter—with the understand- ings of his theme. Now-legendary composer John ing that Sheldrake can use the apartment himself to Williams (no relation) also contributed to the film’s rekindle an extramarital affair. Unbeknownst to Bud, score: he not only played piano on the soundtrack but Sheldrake’s paramour is elevator operator Fran Kube- assisted with the orchestration as well. “I’d known lik (Shirley MacLaine), with whom Bud is smitten. Deutsch from playing on other films like Some Like It Over the course of his career, Wilder worked Hot and Funny Face,” John Williams told Derek Elley in with many of Hollywood’s greatest composers, in- a 1978 interview. “He said to me, ‘Look, can you or- cluding Franz Waxman and Miklos´ Rozsa.´ His pre- chestrate three or four sequences from this section of vious film, Some Like It Hot (1959), had been scored The Apartment?’ And I said, ‘Sure. Of course. Let me by Adolph Deutsch, who returned for The Apartment. have the sketches.’ ” Deutsch composed a playful “Career March,” which This release marks the CD premiere of the sound- helps chronicle Baxter’s quick rise upward through track album for The Apartment (the original film tracks the ranks at Consolidated Life, and “Lonely Room,” no longer survive). For clarity, the album tracks are a piece that speaks eloquently of his solitary existence discussed below in film order. amid constant reminders of the sexual escapades reg- ularly unfolding in his apartment. Yet the most fa- 1. Main Title—Theme from The Apartment “Jeal- mous music associated with the film was a pre-existing ous Lover” plays over the opening credits. The album work: Charles Williams’s “Jealous Lover,” originally version includes eight bars of solo piano not used in composed for an obscure 1949 British film, The Roman- the film. tic Age. 9. Career March Deutsch’s march theme is first Williams (whose real name was Isaac Cozerbreit) heard after the main titles, when Baxter introduces enjoyed a successful career as a composer of “light himself and his company in voiceover. This extended music” and worked extensively in radio and film (in- version was created for the album. cluding Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail and The 39 Steps). 13. Office Workers (They Want You Upstairs) A He scored “Jealous Lover” in concertante style for pi- heroic variant of the march sounds as Baxter is sum- ano and orchestra, following in the footsteps of other moned to Sheldrake’s office, yielding to the “Lonely British films of the period, such as Brief Encounter Room” theme as Bud chooses Fran’s elevator and brags (which famously made use of Rachmaninov’s Piano to her that he is expecting to receive a promotion. Concerto No. 2), 1941’s Dangerous Moonlight (Richard 7. Hong Kong Blues That night after work, Fran Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto) and 1944’s Love Story meets Sheldrake at a Chinese restaurant. The piano (Hubert Bath’s Cornish Rhapsody). player strikes up “Jealous Lover” when she enters, and “Jealous Lover” is indicated in The Apartment’s continues playing the tune as Sheldrake pleads with script as the piece of music played by a restaurant pi- her to return to him. The pianist continues with this anist upon Fran’s entrance: during her prior relation- Deutsch composition, “Hong Kong Blues,” when Shel- ship with Sheldrake it was “their song.” The melody drake promises to leave his wife for Fran. This longer is also incorporated into the underscore and used for instrumental version created for the LP features solos the film’s title sequence. By an arrangement with the for clarinet, piano and muted trombone. original publisher, Mills Music, the piece was renamed 6. Tavern in Town On Christmas Eve, a wild of- “Theme from The Apartment” and became a hit tune un- fice party unfolds on the 19th floor of Consolidated ©2008 Film Score Monthly 1 FSM Box 03 • The MGM Soundtrack Treasury • Supplemental Liner Notes Life. An arrangement of “There is a Tavern in the record when he brings Mrs. MacDougall back to his Town” (a popular 19th century song by composed by apartment. It plays through the scene as he discovers William H. Hills) plays as source music as Bud encour- Fran passed out on his bed and rushes to get help from ages Fran to join the party. his neighbor, Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen). 12. Little Brown Jug Source music for the party 5. So Fouled Up Bud keeps Fran company in his continues (with another popular 19th century tune, by apartment on Christmas Day as she recovers from her Joseph Winner) while Miss Olson (Edie Adams), Shel- suicide attempt. She relates her life story as he deals drake’s secretary, reveals to Fran that she is aware of cards for a game of gin rummy. Fran wants to write her affair—and that she preceded Fran as Sheldrake’s a letter to Mrs. Sheldrake, but Bud dissuades her and mistress. Fran—exhausted—falls asleep. Deutsch provides sen- 4. Ring a Ding Ding An original piece of source sitive support with a tender setting of “Jealous Lover.” music by Deutsch follows as Bud happily shows off his 11. Kicked in the Head Sheldrake gives Baxter a new bowler hat to Fran, who is distracted by the reve- promotion to the 27th floor but Bud’s reaction is sober lation from Miss Olson. rather than jubilant when he also learns that Sheldrake 2. Lonely Room Deutsch’s “Lonely Room” theme is getting divorced and plans to continue his relation- is heard as source music in a bar on Christmas Eve ship with Fran. The “Lonely Room” theme evokes while Bud—exiled from his apartment once again by sympathy for Baxter’s heartbreak. Sheldrake—drowns his sorrows after discovering that 3. Where Are You, Fran? On New Year’s Eve, Fran is Sheldrake’s lover. Fran learns from Sheldrake that Bud has quit his job 8.
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