Jerry Goldsmith THE SWARM LP Film Soundtrack OST 1975 Michael Caine Irwin Allen

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	$		21

Here I have for sale the original film soundtrack LP to 'The Swarm' (1978), composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Orchestrations by Arthur Morton. This Irwin Allen disaster movie starred 'everyone'...!

Jerry Goldsmith – The Swarm (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1978)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl – VG-EX. Clean on visual inspection. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is superb. The odd click/static. Plays with no skipping, jumping or sticking.
Outer sleeve (Cover) – F. Obvious signs of wear. Disc showthrough outline. Creases, soiling, tears, blotching as well as edge/corner/aperture wear on both front and reverse. However, it remains intact.
Inner Sleeve – EX. Not original. EMI. Clear plastic with EMI record care instructions one side in blue text. Some creases, folds and disc outline. Clean and intact.

Label: Warner Bros. K 56541 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Year: 1978
Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen, Theme, Disaster, Pop
Style: Contemporary, NeoClassical, Score, Instrumental, Easy Listening

Track listing:
A1. Main Title
A2. A Gift of Flowers
A3. The Bees' Picnic
A4. Tommy's Death
A5. The Bees Arrive

B1. Bees Inside
B2. Don't Take Him
B3. Exact Instructions
B4. A Boy's Story
B5. End Title


Review:

Jerry Goldsmith's filmography contains two subsets remarkable in size - those films which are utterly god-awful but which received marvellous scores (I won't bother listing them, there isn't enough time in the world), and those on which he seems to be playing second-fiddle to John Williams. Williams gets Jurassic Park, Goldsmith gets Congo; Williams gets Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goldsmith gets King Solomon's Mines; Williams gets Superman, Goldsmith gets Supergirl. And – Williams gets the tremendously successful The Towering Inferno, Goldsmith gets the catastrophically-unsuccessful The Swarm. Unlike with those other films, Goldsmith not only managed to transcend the quality of the film for which he was writing, but managed to eclipse the quality of Williams's music by an unmeasurably large degree.

Between the late 1960s and late 1970s, Goldsmith went through probably the most inventive and high-quality period experienced by any film composer - even when the films failed to match (which was frequently), Goldsmith was breaking new ground and pushing the boundaries as far as they would go. He basically invented action music in the way we have known it ever since (with Hans Zimmer the only film composer to try something new since then) and when he came onboard The Swarm, he had just won his only Oscar, for The Omen. He had of course worked with director Irwin Allen years earlier on various "classic" tv shows.

Goldsmith is known to admire Bernard Herrmann's ability to score a film, and there are certainly parallels with Herrmann to be made when considering Goldsmith's main action motif for The Swarm, a snarling brass motif. In truth, there isn't all that much action music in the score, but when it does turn up, in cues like "The Bees Picnic", "The Bees Arrive" and "The Bees Inside" (who wrote these titles!?) it is thrilling and impressive. On that point, it's important to note that the majority of the album is taken up by suspense music. It's particularly tense and effective, however, and never gets too dull. The action music might be quite sparse, but it appears often enough to relieve the tension. There are even a couple of romantic moments, perhaps most effective being the lovely "Oh Maureen".

What could be termed the main theme, a victorious piece given its fullest treatment in the end title cue, contains a rare film music joke, in that it is a three-note motif - and those three notes are B-E-E (the latter two an octave apart). That Jerry Goldsmith, eh?


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ITEM CONDITION - items are graded according to Record Collector definitions - see below:

MINT: The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.

EXCELLENT: The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and / or creasing.

VERY GOOD: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.

GOOD: The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.

FAIR: The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even jump. The cover and contents will be torn, stained and / or defaced.

POOR: The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise, etc. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.

BAD: The record is unplayable or might even be broken, and is only of use as a collection filler.