Truly, THE iconic piece of Western Movie music...as much as I respect Tiomkin (and his also iconic but less so work for "The Alamo") it's hard to believe this lost the Golden Globe to "Alamo" and Oscar to "Exodus". That's the thing...though lauded throughout his career, Bernstein NEVER won an Oscar for composing (only for adapting the music to "Thoroughly Modern Millie") - a damn, damn shame!
Best scene in ANY western: Yul driving the hearse, Steve literally riding "shotgun" and McQueen practically tossing the shell into the barrel. Talk about a scene-stealer!
The great, highly respected - but under-lauded - composer Elmer Bernstein apparently studied for a time under Aaron Copeland...and Copeland's Modernist influence, particularly from "Appalachian Spring" can be felt here. Check out Bernstein's "To Kill a Mockingbird" which contains one of the most wistful themes in movie history, and his last major score, "Far from Heaven" in which he slyly "pastiches" his own earlier work to match Todd Haines ironic directorial archness,
@Autostade67 I didn't know about the Copeland connection but you're so right! I could listen to the Mockingbird music non-stop. Brilliant score! Thanks for the info!
I'm not a fan of westerns. There are only three westerns I've seen that I really enjoyed: Cat Ballou, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Magnificent Seven. True classics!
You bloody americanos....you do not know what is quality music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go and drink the ass washed waters of ennio morricone and then comment you gringos!!!!!!!!!!! this musica is just ok. not to the level you people have claimed like its the ultimate?????? my foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@NICOSIADON I know Ennio Morricone Great composer however this is my favorite theme of all time. Ennio was inspirational for all three of the Clint Eastwood Man with no name trilogy, and my personal favorite of his My name is nobody. This song is Epic in all manner.
This theme song was a pure stroke of genius! Nothing else comes close! If the sound of this track doesn't send and ru tingles up and down your spine, you must be dead!
I was a freshman in Arellano Manila North High School when this movie was shown in Odeon Theather and runs for almost a month. Tnx for posting it as it remind me of my youth.
@particleproductions1 I can't remember for sure, but one of the major publishers has it out. It may be Hal Leonard. I know we got it fr our Muni Band a while back. Although, now that I think about it, it was almost 10 years ago....
so this is where the marlboro man theme. came from... i don't smoke (...anymore) i like tune it to be remembered as the theme for magnificent seven theme.
@petruscephas It might be better to say that it captures the rough, heroic and romantic spirit of our mythology of the west. Brilliant music and a brilliant story.
This music certainly captures a mythology of the West that has fed us with images of wide open spaces and people living out their lives without the restrictions of the quotidian 9-to-5 lifestyle that unfortunately defines so many of us.
What a GREAT movie !.... Thanks a lot for remember me !
mmunteanu53 14 hours ago
Welcome to (cough) Marlboro (cough) Country
yearinyale 1 day ago
i think i have given you atlease 100 of you views :)
WasabiBurgler 3 days ago
壮大なテーマ。
kouhei731rock6969 3 days ago
壮大なテーマ。
kouhei731rock6969 3 days ago
But to be honest...,this symphony "singing" in my head since yesterday... :-D
marisahadidjaja 4 days ago
@ DaMegaGerman: I really did ask myself, what for that pineapple at 0.05.....?? :-D
marisahadidjaja 4 days ago
what's with the pineapple at 0:05 ?
DaMegaGerman 5 days ago 2
How amazing....how talented this song writer!!! Wonderful wonderful song with wonderful amazing conductor!!!! LOVE IT....
marisahadidjaja 5 days ago
Would you believe that this is from the same guy who made music for Ghostbusters?
TLSoulDude 1 week ago
Truly, THE iconic piece of Western Movie music...as much as I respect Tiomkin (and his also iconic but less so work for "The Alamo") it's hard to believe this lost the Golden Globe to "Alamo" and Oscar to "Exodus". That's the thing...though lauded throughout his career, Bernstein NEVER won an Oscar for composing (only for adapting the music to "Thoroughly Modern Millie") - a damn, damn shame!
Autostade67 1 week ago
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Why a pineapple ?
nicolasmauser asked two weeks ago... CAUSE IT'S MY VALENTINE HORST BUCHHOLZ - "CHICO" (the third on the left)...Yipp!
MrsRammaDamma 1 week ago
I like this movie
kampees 1 week ago
One of the all time greatest pieces of music ever!
TheCowboyRaider 1 week ago
WOW! EPIC!!!!
MrTommellino 1 week ago
All time favorites..
karen81ify 2 weeks ago 2
Best scene in ANY western: Yul driving the hearse, Steve literally riding "shotgun" and McQueen practically tossing the shell into the barrel. Talk about a scene-stealer!
jackpark7927 3 weeks ago
como me dieron ganas ver otra ves esas grandes producciones sobre vaqueros, al oir esta melodia.
000optimus000 3 weeks ago
Why a pineapple ?
nicolasmauser 3 weeks ago
The great, highly respected - but under-lauded - composer Elmer Bernstein apparently studied for a time under Aaron Copeland...and Copeland's Modernist influence, particularly from "Appalachian Spring" can be felt here. Check out Bernstein's "To Kill a Mockingbird" which contains one of the most wistful themes in movie history, and his last major score, "Far from Heaven" in which he slyly "pastiches" his own earlier work to match Todd Haines ironic directorial archness,
Autostade67 1 month ago
@Autostade67 I didn't know about the Copeland connection but you're so right! I could listen to the Mockingbird music non-stop. Brilliant score! Thanks for the info!
garymichael1950 1 week ago
The best movie and the best song forever ! I love it !
TheShootkiller95 1 month ago
Enjoyable childhood movies I loved
druhbe1996 1 month ago
I'm not a fan of westerns. There are only three westerns I've seen that I really enjoyed: Cat Ballou, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Magnificent Seven. True classics!
whitedaddy4u 1 month ago in playlist Music Videos
yeahaaaaaaaa come'on baby let's take a ride on my horse.
nicolasmauser 1 month ago
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You bloody americanos....you do not know what is quality music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go and drink the ass washed waters of ennio morricone and then comment you gringos!!!!!!!!!!! this musica is just ok. not to the level you people have claimed like its the ultimate?????? my foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NICOSIADON 1 month ago
@NICOSIADON I know Ennio Morricone Great composer however this is my favorite theme of all time. Ennio was inspirational for all three of the Clint Eastwood Man with no name trilogy, and my personal favorite of his My name is nobody. This song is Epic in all manner.
j1980boy1 1 month ago
A Pineaple?
Zombieslayer10191995 2 months ago 5
@Zombieslayer10191995 2nd best bit after the theme song dude!!
jwbillabong100 1 month ago
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mywalkinfridge 2 months ago
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Hell Jeah. kicks ass!
mywalkinfridge 2 months ago
The Magnificent Seven, America's answer to The Seven Samurai.
tierno1922 2 months ago
Good movies pass on generations; this is one of them!!!
rhctam 2 months ago
I´ve seen this movie a lots of times, it´s one of my favourites westerns!. Thanks for sharing!!!
machadoneto41 2 months ago
Go Marlboro!!
lobotism 2 months ago
Marlboro theme as well..
masterdan13 2 months ago
agree 1000 % ....takes me right back to my youth and makes my spine tingle 35 years on just like it did then ..thanks for posting this masterpiece ..
gamsmoothbtm 2 months ago
Woot! no! dislikes! The trolls have yet to find this video. Lets keep it that way eh? :P
truthfullcomentator 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
Magnific movie, magnific music!!!
janina7240 2 months ago
This theme song was a pure stroke of genius! Nothing else comes close! If the sound of this track doesn't send and ru tingles up and down your spine, you must be dead!
TheDiego347 2 months ago
Fantastic!!! I was hoping to be able to watch the movie today, but can not. This is the next best thing. Thanks for posting this great music.
davefordavefor 2 months ago
They need to have the lone ranger. Tondo , also an oak house home built with very harry oak
Bidil6 3 months ago
clássico!!
plwfl 3 months ago
best music
from poland
ochlej 3 months ago
I was a freshman in Arellano Manila North High School when this movie was shown in Odeon Theather and runs for almost a month. Tnx for posting it as it remind me of my youth.
edgarchico1000 3 months ago
best western music made
TheBadmanryan 4 months ago
THE ULTIMATE WESTERN!!!
tomirmigi 4 months ago 2
Steve McQueen was sooo cool and such a great understated actor. To bad he died so young.
muthafugger 4 months ago
Gives me such wonderful memories of playing this in my school band.
sabrinakimba 4 months ago
Best of western.
TheCarguy974 6 months ago
Any body know where I can get the full score for this?
particleproductions1 8 months ago
@particleproductions1 I can't remember for sure, but one of the major publishers has it out. It may be Hal Leonard. I know we got it fr our Muni Band a while back. Although, now that I think about it, it was almost 10 years ago....
gund2281 7 months ago
@particleproductions1 i kno Hal Leonard has a version of this....itz quite costly thou cuz it has alot of parts :)
betty647 3 months ago
so this is where the marlboro man theme. came from... i don't smoke (...anymore) i like tune it to be remembered as the theme for magnificent seven theme.
phoenixjepoy1 8 months ago
After listening to an insipid remake on another thread, I had to find the real thing. A great Western needs a great theme, and this is the greatest.
diptwares 9 months ago
This song should play when the Four Horsemen of the Apacolypse come
mikethesmooth 11 months ago
JUST DOSN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. BEST WESTERN MUSIC EVER WRITTEN
21udt 11 months ago 38
@21udt Try listening to the music from The Cowboys sometime. THAT is the best western score ever. This is a VERY close 2nd though :-)
gund2281 7 months ago
@21udt : Yes...this symphony singing in my head since yesterday..... VERY lift up your mood.... and I turn on gain and again.........
marisahadidjaja 4 days ago
@21udt No.
FetaCheese222 3 days ago
This for me was the best western ever made, what a group of actors, none better!!!
TheRacerbrown 11 months ago
You know this is the movie that should have found a way to insert the saying "you brought two too many" into it's dialogue......
lukebccb 1 year ago
Love this theme.
ErinsChannel01 1 year ago
Not to mention selling millions of cigarettes!!
buckzx12r 1 year ago
@buckzx12r: correction quatrillions....
lukebccb 1 year ago
Light em folks and lets ride!
sonofmabarker 1 year ago
I need a Marlboro about now...
AcessDBpro 1 year ago
@AcessDBpro GREAT COMMENT! Thanks for reminding me of the "Marlboro Man" commercials!
lsq68seb48 10 months ago
Flat out awesome.
Perfectly captures the rough, heroic and romantic spirit of the West and the men and women who made it such an iconic part of our history.
petruscephas 1 year ago 11
@petruscephas It might be better to say that it captures the rough, heroic and romantic spirit of our mythology of the west. Brilliant music and a brilliant story.
cericj 1 month ago
@cericj
Agreed.
This music certainly captures a mythology of the West that has fed us with images of wide open spaces and people living out their lives without the restrictions of the quotidian 9-to-5 lifestyle that unfortunately defines so many of us.
petruscephas 1 month ago
brilliant.
warking39 2 years ago