Brian Dee - A Fistful Of Dollars (Ennio Morricone)

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From '' Great Western Movie Themes ''
Label: Hallmark Records ‎– SHM828
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1974

Tracklist
A1 The Good The Bad And The Ugly
A2 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
A3 The Magnificent Seven
A4 A Fistful Of Dollars
A5 The Big Country
A6 Ghost Riders In The Sky
B1 High Noon
B2 True Grit
B3 The Call Of The Faraway Hills
B4 Everybody's Talkin'
B5 For A Few Dollars More
B6 Buttons And Bows

© 1974 Hallmark
℗ 1974 Hallmark

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A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari), titled on-screen as Fistful of Dollars, is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.

A Fistful of Dollars was filmed on a low budget (reported to be $200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role.
Released in Italy in 1964 and then in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the spaghetti western film genre.
It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, also starring Eastwood.
Collectively, the films are known as the "Dollars Trilogy", or "The Man With No Name Trilogy".
The film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho.
In the United States, the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as the "Man with No Name".

A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in Almería province.

Soundtrack

The film's music was written by Ennio Morricone, credited as Dan Savio.

Leone requested Morricone to write a theme that would be similar to Dimitri Tiomkin’s El Degüello (used in Rio Bravo, 1959). Although the two themes are similar, Morricone states that he used a lullaby he had composed before and developed the theme from that. He adds that what makes the two themes similar is the execution, not the arrangement.

"Some of the music was written before the film, which is unusual. Leone's films were made like that because he wanted the music to be an important part of it, and he often kept the scenes longer simply because he didn't want the music to end.
That's why the films are so slow - because of the music."
Though not used in the completed film, Peter Tevis recorded lyrics to Morricone's theme for the film.
As a movie tie-in to the American release, United Artists Records released a different set of lyrics to Morricone's theme called Restless One by Little Anthony and the Imperials.

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[Soundartprojekt]

Hi, this reminds me of my youth, where all these great western movies ran with the super music of Ennie Morricone. Great
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[AccurateCrabLegs]

I heard this song in the gas station today.