Kinda sad to see the NASA today. Buying rides on Russian rockets? No manned liffter? Lay offs of the best & brightest? I cry when I hear this music....
Shamelessly copied from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, but a great theme nonetheless. Think of the irony of that: this is supposed to be a patriotic theme, but it's actually Russian!
@Thucydides411 I think he used a lot of previous themes in this movie. The first mvmt of the concerto is just one example. He also used Holst's "The Planets" "Mars". I would rather have these great masterworks than the a lot of the movie themes today.
@davids2000 He also copied from "Jupiter." I agree that these masterworks sound great in the movie, but I think the credits should acknowledge Tchaikovsky and Holst alongside Bill Conti. That said, this is one of my favorite soundtracks.
@Thucydides411 In the movie's end credits crawl, it references Holst's "Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune" (a mix of all 3 tracks if you've listened to The Planets Suite or have it).
I love The Right Stuff. One of my favorite movies, and it does feature my favorite ending to any movie. The way Conti's music kicks in following the narration and the look on Dennis Quaid's face....Damn, thats the perfect way to end a movie. Sucks that Philip Kaufman didn't get Oscar nominated for either writing or directing, despite the film itself was up for best picture.
Every time I walk in front of the Soaring Over California ride at the California Adventure's theme park I hear this playing and you can't help but be moved by this music. It's like you almost walk in cadense to it when it's playing.
A great movie. It took liberties to get the idea of the book across. Some of my favorite scenes never happened in real life. How about Levon Helms excellent narration?
A great movie. It took liberties to get the idea of the book across. Some of my favorite scenes never happened in real life. How about Levon Helms excellent narration!
@Benjamin241 Try virtually identical, as in "I didn't really feel like composing this part (doing my job), so I just took someone else's work that sounds good." I have not heard the rest of the score, but I have read that this happens elsewhere and with various other composers' works.
@azoriusherald Well I knew the concerto you were speaking of so I said whhaaat? I went to listen again...yea virtually identical is that they are using Orchestra. If that is what you mean by identical. I do hear Marine corp band music, and some from a naval march. But at BEST you can say he may have had some influence by Tchaikovsky, I also hear some heavy influence from Beethoven. Wow former musicians influencing other musicians!? Say it aint so! You pretentious weenie.
You are referring to 'Yablochko', an old Russian folk song, which was featured as the Sailor's Dance in the ballet 'Red Poppy'. It is performed here by the Andreyev Balalaika Ensemble. You have got to see a Contrabass Balalaika in action. Check Youtube.
What's great about this peice is to see good ole' boys who claim they can't stand "classical music" get a tear in the eye hearing this...(especially ex Air Force guys...:-)
What a piece of art this music is, and Yeager's trip on the modified F-104 is my favorite part. What an ending! All true. You could not dream up such an epic. Yeager is the greatest and a true pioneer of spaceflight...
How well I remember sitting glued to my seat while the credits rolled and this theme played. And I don't even like action movies. And I fell in love with Ed Harris.
No more exclamatory phrase could be uttered than to to say this. A wonderful age full of wonderful men doing wonderful things that ended with GORDO doing his thing and this scene demonstrates that when men do their thing they can be wonderful.
Brilliant, spectacular & morale boosting!!! For this soundtrack was no doubt this fitting & outstanding tribute to America's first astronauts, courageous men who dared to be launched into space while riding within these virtually untested, rocket fired tubes & with no precedent what-so-ever. I mean how awesome is that?!?!?! Brass balls indeed, & this mesmerizing, glorious soundtrack does them much justice!
@pathman6 yet it was the Russians who were the first to go into space w/ Sputnik 1 and the first to put a human into space with Comrade Yuri Gagarin...ya cant beat that.......and guess what they will be the first to colonize another planet---------CCCP FOREVER muahahahahahaha
@PlanetOfTheNBApes True, yet WE Americans beat the Russians to the Moon, fair & square! Also, we'll probably beat Russia to Mars, if that ever happens in our lifetimes. Though for the first 11 years ((until Apollo 8 in Dec. of 68!)) of the fabled & frenzied Space Race the Russians definitely had the edge, this slight lead, & for that I tip my hat to the magnificent CCCP for this GREAT job!
@simoneywymney We never forced them to work with us, they chose to work with the americans because they didn't want to work with british assholes like you.
@arsenal553 what is it with you americans and ass holes ? read your history you burger eating, oil absessed flag waving cunt. i never said you forced them, you anal obsessed yank twat . put your burger and fries down for one minuite, take your finger out of your boy friends arse for one second and read my post again.
@simoneywymney Jesus christ, you need to relax. Your tampon is starting to overflow. Your probally just jelous that european sapce agency has had no manned space flights at all. You people are just a waste of space on the planet and never contribute to society. All you do is stay home all day and flame people on the internet.
@simoneywymney who's oil obsessed you abscess. BP has sprung a leak huh. As for rocket engineers I have two words, Robert Goddard. Yes, our Germans were better than their Germans and key to the incipient USA manned space program
@simoneywymney as a former Amerikan, they are just that.... a bunch of fucken idiots. Over dramatic, over zealous, over xenophobic, over paranoid, over fat, and they live in the past
@simoneywymney who's oil obsessed you abscess. BP has sprung a leak huh. As for rocket engineers I have two words, Robert Goddard. Yes, our Germans were better than their Germans and key to the incipient USA manned space program
Oasis, I'll grant he was inspired by the Concerto, but you have to admit it's not exactly a note by note "He's so fine/My Sweet Lord" kind of imitation.
Actually, I would argue exactly that - I think it's closer than the case that George Harrison lost. Movie composers do this kind of thing all of the time, but it's a bit of a joke to get an Oscar for it.
Still, Conti did a great movie theme here that stirred the audience in all the right places.
Regardless of one's nationality or political outlook, bravery is still bravery. These 8 men (I'm including Yeager) made that clear. Bill Conti's score is a stirring musical tribute to them.
The book is much, much better than the movie. The Chuck Yeager part is inspiring, but it is not quite truthful. The focus should have been more on the Mercury program and not on Yeager. Yeager, a real hero, deserves his own war story movie, but he was not a great test pilot and not a good fit for astronaut duty. Parts of the Yeager story were altered in his favor for entertainment purposes.
@JimMcDadeTake I agree. I couldn't put the book down. But the movie is still great imo so that tells ya what I think of the book. If any of you haven't read it, by all means, do so.
Yes, this totally brilliant, sweeping, wonderfully dramatic & soaring music certainly ""captured"" the genuine essence of this magnificent & inspirational movie!
Simply Spectacular (the music!)!!!
For no doubt it has to be ranked as one of the finest, most ""awe-inspiring"" & most vigorously mesmerizing soundtracks in movie history, as Bill Conti's adrenaline boosting music certainly fits, drastically accentuates & truly symbolizes the very theme & nature of this Awesome, Riveting movie!
Very well summed up, for you just hit the nail on the head with your very well chosen words!
GREAT job, as this music was truly GREAT, awesome, mesmerizing, soaring & often hair-raising, while it was steeped in genuine, undeniable Patriotism & American pride!
For just like you wrote, it's "Fantastic," utterly brilliant & "awe-inspiring," as it "captured" the "essence" of this spectacular, adrenaline-pumping movie!
For this movie was greatly enhanced by B.C.s sublime & unforgettable music!
Hell, I think those old dead composers would be delighted to know that 100-150 years laters, their music is probably more relevant than when they were alive. They couldn't earn one red cent in royalties, but to know that a generation has be exposed to their hard earned work probably makes 'em all warm and fuzz y inside. I know they're dead, but . . . damn. I bet Tchaikovsky's beaming with pride somewhere in another dimension of time.
because it didn't have bias adult content and it wasn't politically correct and they made the good old USA look good,that's probably why,dont you love the judges in Hollywood? It should have gotten an award i agree!
A great theme music for a true movie masterpeice, The Right Stuff. My favorite movie spledidly acted by a cast of great players...Kim Hunter, Ed Harris, et al
I highly recommend this movie, and wow what a score
Correct I had my Kim's mixed up. Kim Stanley played the part brilliantly. Kim Hunter, Kim Stanley and my favorite Kim -Kim Novak did a photo spread years ago in a magazine. Three great Kim's
@partyhat3 I think it would be fair to say best score of 1983, as you can’t say its best score period. That’s like saying its better then STAR WARS. It’s the best score for 1983!
Bill Contis score has brassy military theme to the score the won best score 1983. and best sound effects editing and sound over Return of the Jedi, it was fresh sounding score that had, The Right Stuff! Film also took editing and it was nicely paced and played out, these iconic pilots that became Americas, first astronauts. The film sounds wicked on DVD in six-track Dolby stereo, Im look forward to the Bluray!
well.. if you want super accurate it would be "L'étoffe de droite" so yeah.. i think its a bad trnaslation , yeah but its better than the accurate one , is it?
I mean what I said. When translated from german it means the fabric of which heroes are made. "DER STOFF AUS DEM DIE HELDEN SIND". That is german. I was only saying that it is similar to the french translation. Thank you very much.
Well, as far i see your discussion around here about 9/11, muslims, etc, may I remember you that "islam" means "the one who is Submissive to Allah". May I remember you that, we spaniards, fought againist them for 800 years? Muslims even expanded their yihah to Vienna, an far. Muslim as individual is not an enemy but a person laki other, but muslim as relegion that takes control over Estate likw in Middle Eve, is an enemy.
Ok moving this FAR away from failure political talk, I am curious as to whether or not there are copies of the song available online. I admit the right stuff has been one of my favorite movies about the early years of NASA and the early days of the space race. I appreciate the upload.
tks wouldbebariton enuf said the right never mentions that..i try not to get involved with discussions on politics as it gets nasty so tks for speaking up
Excuse me, but who was Preznit on 9/11? It sure as hell wasn't Clinton. Typical Republican: everything is some Democrat's fault.
Who knows what Clinton might have done had the Republicans not decided that Monica was the most important issue in the world, and that the universe as we know it was in imminent danger of collapse if they stopped mentioning her every 5 minutes.
Now that you've admitted it was all for oil, you can go worship Bush's manhood for all I care, you effing clown.
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And for the Right, Bush/Cheney/Rummy can do no wrong; their every word is truth, their every action is good, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy traitor, in league with the terrorists. Did I miss anything? Oh, yes: Shrub is manhood incarnate, bulging flightsuit and all, rather than a coward and a sissy who let his family's money keep him safe during Vietnam. I knew I'd left something out.
Well, with a near unlimited budget they did great things. Now in an era where everyone bellyaches about spending too much (funny with liberals in control of the white house and congress) and a lack of the Spirit that drove America we have fallen from grace. Hopefully some private companies can do what NASA can not. At least before China gets going. Their government and the amount of money they can swing around could easily duplicate the environment that got us to the moon.
Damn, I hope so. I am tired of watching the same damn spirit that made America dissappear down the drain. That same spirit that helped us land on the moon and helped return three astronauts a couple of missions later has been severely hurt by damn liberals. Its time us as citizens and patriots pull up our belts and get to work making this great nation great once again. We still have the capacity. Hoping to see landing on Mars in my lifetime. Currently 30 yrs old.
Yeah, there you go, genius. It's all the fault of the evil liberals. The last 8 years of Bush/Cheney spending the country into oblivion over a useless, unnecessary war just DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Right and the man before him did such a great job of confronting terrorism. Good thing he wasn't around after 9/11. Our response would have been to send some tomahawks over to a deserted camp in Afghanistan. Glad that worked well for us. By the way, the liberals have done a great job with ear marked stimulus package. Bush and Cheney may have started the hole, but lliberals have currently burried us. To bad it will be my grandkids paying this off and I am only 30!!
As opposed to Dubya angering every Muslim on the planet, admitting Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 (did you miss that?), etc. Oh, yes, I feel SO much safer, taking off my shoes at the airport. Well, at least you're admitting that Bushco had *something* to do with the problem. It's a start.
Angering every Muslim on the planet? Wow, I would think every Muslim on the planet would be angered at Bin Laden first. Secondly, lets quit beating around the bush (no pun intended). We went into Iraq to establish a presence in the middle east. That presence may not be so important currently, but will be in 15 to 20 years when oil supply begins to dwindle. China is currently making moves on the Spratly Islands. Iraq just might be our ace in the hole in 15 or 20 yrs.
You gotta be kidding. Who invaded Iraq on false pretenses and trashed it: Osama, or us? As for the rest, you admit then that we didn't go there to stop Saddam from using his nonexistent weapons on us. All those lives, all that ill will, for oil? Have I got that right?
I think you'll agree this isn't the place for such discussions. But as you and the grandkids (and everyone else) continue to pay for Bush's Folly, I hope you will remember to VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!
Who had the chance to take out Osama and didn't give the green light? Maybe if Slick Willy wouldn't have been receiving oral pleasures he could have made a better judement call. Maybe then all of those innocent lives plus the 2974 frm the WTC would still be around. As for the oil, I am sure you will be singing a different tune in 20 yrs. Besides our presence in Iraq solidifies that the Straits of Hormuz stay open. As u have seen, Iran has already challenged us and other countries in this area.
No, not the one coupled with North and South; the entire thing as concieved by Conti. This is the actual album, produced by Bill Conti himself, which was prepared but never released, back in 1983.
The most awesome music to a fantastic movie!!! I think everyone that was alive back then should thank these 8 (yes Gen Chuck Yeager too) men for the risks they took to start going into outer space, and setting the standards high that no country will eve be able to duplicate. I am proud to be n american. To Sen John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter the only two that are left alive, thanks gentleman for a job well done!!!
I think you should spcify that not ALL kids of my generation have forgotten. If you can believe this, I read issues of LIFE magazine, and have read every one of those articles on these brave young men. In fact, I beleive its because of people like them we can dream to anything we want.
It's a shame NASA has so lost the plot - and has been so out of the game for years already. Human astronauts were a glorious chapter of history but now they are an anachronism.
I just don't get it. How can anybody possibly NOT love this ?!
PaterVisitator 1 month ago
"Animal House in space"
-- Wally Schirra, Mercury astronaut
Read the book and ask yourself what the Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture says about Hollywood. Did THEY read the book???
ZenPapageno 1 month ago
La légende de ces héros de l'avenir, la tête tournée vers les Etoiles !
gfeldred 2 months ago
I just can't hold back my emotions when I see the last minutes of that movie with this amazingly great score from Bill Conti.
deckarudo 2 months ago 2
My name , Jose Jimenez....
LockAndLoadp 3 months ago 4
BTW, near the end Chuck yeager is a stupid idiot and tries to go to space with a plane.................and he STALLS. AND CRASHES, AND lives.
LegoMovieMan44 6 months ago
@LegoMovieMan44 He ejected at the end i dont know if you saw that
Btw Some aircraft don't travel into space they travel into the Mesophere
78720 6 months ago
@LegoMovieMan44 Your ignornace of Yeager's goal with that aircraft should remind you to be entertained rather than educated by any such film.
jacopman 5 months ago
@LegoMovieMan44 You should read his autobiography. It is a really amazing story! Awesome dude!
miiitymous 4 months ago
@LegoMovieMan44 THAT is what makes him the BEST pilot EVER!!!!
usersatch 4 weeks ago
Kinda sad to see the NASA today. Buying rides on Russian rockets? No manned liffter? Lay offs of the best & brightest? I cry when I hear this music....
WALTERBROADDUS 7 months ago 3
@WALTERBROADDUS Five bucks they cut Mike Moses. D: NUUUUUUU I WAS JUST STARTING TO LIKE HIM!
TheeRealJRCroblox 7 months ago
Shamelessly copied from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, but a great theme nonetheless. Think of the irony of that: this is supposed to be a patriotic theme, but it's actually Russian!
Thucydides411 8 months ago
@Thucydides411 I think he used a lot of previous themes in this movie. The first mvmt of the concerto is just one example. He also used Holst's "The Planets" "Mars". I would rather have these great masterworks than the a lot of the movie themes today.
davids2000 7 months ago
@davids2000 He also copied from "Jupiter." I agree that these masterworks sound great in the movie, but I think the credits should acknowledge Tchaikovsky and Holst alongside Bill Conti. That said, this is one of my favorite soundtracks.
Thucydides411 7 months ago
@Thucydides411 In the movie's end credits crawl, it references Holst's "Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune" (a mix of all 3 tracks if you've listened to The Planets Suite or have it).
CYBERVISIONSdotCom 7 months ago
@Thucydides411 It was plagiarism in part but a nod to the great composer, too.
zolochnaya 7 months ago
I love The Right Stuff. One of my favorite movies, and it does feature my favorite ending to any movie. The way Conti's music kicks in following the narration and the look on Dennis Quaid's face....Damn, thats the perfect way to end a movie. Sucks that Philip Kaufman didn't get Oscar nominated for either writing or directing, despite the film itself was up for best picture.
EarlWire7 8 months ago
202 peeps have weed A.K.A the right stuff
v01c3funn3hth3s3c0nd 9 months ago
Six people didn't have the right stuff...
muthafakataka2 9 months ago
A brilliant film about all my boyhood heroes minus one.
BradBrassman 10 months ago
Every time I walk in front of the Soaring Over California ride at the California Adventure's theme park I hear this playing and you can't help but be moved by this music. It's like you almost walk in cadense to it when it's playing.
chubbypekingnese 11 months ago
The Right Stuff - the good old general got it.......well done General Yeager!
rhctam 11 months ago
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A great movie. It took liberties to get the idea of the book across. Some of my favorite scenes never happened in real life. How about Levon Helms excellent narration?
Larrymh07 11 months ago
A great movie. It took liberties to get the idea of the book across. Some of my favorite scenes never happened in real life. How about Levon Helms excellent narration!
Larrymh07 11 months ago
Sam Shepard walking from the crash- true hero shot- one of the best of all time
kiaoraguy 11 months ago 2
Surely one of the five or so best film scores of all time.
shaneu1 11 months ago
just saw it on cinemax...brought me back 20 plus years when i first saw it as a kid. wow! totally different perspective. thx for posting.
fabesify 1 year ago
2:13 & on just brings chills to my spine!! Something about the strings in the orchestra
tribeisone 1 year ago
@tribeisone it's not something... it's someone, and his name is Tchaikovsky. Check out his violin concerto.
bob51bob 1 year ago
@bob51bob Yeah I thought I was the only one who noticed this. I have to give Conti credit, though, for making the theme work as it does.
transitny 9 months ago
Score by Bill Conti, good ole LSU boy.
cosmicdingo 1 year ago
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God bless America!!!
sxlfkta 1 year ago
Sir, up ahead ... is that a man? Yeah, you damn right it is !!!!!
celtsfan4life 1 year ago
;-)
PaletNoir 1 year ago
5 people don't have The Right Stuff.
BClay74 1 year ago 24
@BClay74
6 accountants or insurance salesman that have never done anything in their lives and a jealous of those who have
LeRinkRat 7 months ago
@BClay74
They screwed the pooch!
matthompson 4 months ago in playlist #1
This is plagiarism. Compare to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto.
azoriusherald 1 year ago
@azoriusherald It is similar to a short ten second part of it.
Benjamin241 1 year ago
@Benjamin241 Try virtually identical, as in "I didn't really feel like composing this part (doing my job), so I just took someone else's work that sounds good." I have not heard the rest of the score, but I have read that this happens elsewhere and with various other composers' works.
azoriusherald 1 year ago
@azoriusherald Well I knew the concerto you were speaking of so I said whhaaat? I went to listen again...yea virtually identical is that they are using Orchestra. If that is what you mean by identical. I do hear Marine corp band music, and some from a naval march. But at BEST you can say he may have had some influence by Tchaikovsky, I also hear some heavy influence from Beethoven. Wow former musicians influencing other musicians!? Say it aint so! You pretentious weenie.
dwade1962eagle 1 year ago
what gus is saying is
neweast1 1 year ago 2
You are referring to 'Yablochko', an old Russian folk song, which was featured as the Sailor's Dance in the ballet 'Red Poppy'. It is performed here by the Andreyev Balalaika Ensemble. You have got to see a Contrabass Balalaika in action. Check Youtube.
Etherdave 1 year ago
i cant find the piece that was played when vostok was being launched. not in the credits, not anywhere on the net. can anybody help?
severrnijKGU 1 year ago
What's great about this peice is to see good ole' boys who claim they can't stand "classical music" get a tear in the eye hearing this...(especially ex Air Force guys...:-)
gurlsingerfan 1 year ago
What a piece of art this music is, and Yeager's trip on the modified F-104 is my favorite part. What an ending! All true. You could not dream up such an epic. Yeager is the greatest and a true pioneer of spaceflight...
shelkamark 1 year ago 6
How well I remember sitting glued to my seat while the credits rolled and this theme played. And I don't even like action movies. And I fell in love with Ed Harris.
tobyone07 1 year ago
Ah! Mille flammes, un feu, la lumière,
une ombre!...
Le soleil me suit.
(Paul Eluard)
vrouet 1 year ago
So.........Goooooooooood!!!!!!!!
isogiwa 1 year ago
Without the Soviet Union, the United States may have been just beginning to develope rockets in the 80s-90s
leylandcarsloverslea 1 year ago
@leylandcarsloverslea in soviet russia, rockets develope you.
kokothemonkeyy 1 year ago
@kokothemonkeyy *develop
Dazzacopley 1 year ago
@leylandcarsloverslea *develop
Dazzacopley 1 year ago
Une pure merveille....
fransleeuw 1 year ago
Go!
skye1212 1 year ago
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I'm so happy I live in America
Cloverleaf646 1 year ago
Soaring theme for a hot dog kick ass movie
fira2001 1 year ago
GO HOTDOG GOOOOO!!!
winters19 1 year ago 33
No more exclamatory phrase could be uttered than to to say this. A wonderful age full of wonderful men doing wonderful things that ended with GORDO doing his thing and this scene demonstrates that when men do their thing they can be wonderful.
Loosetiger1 7 months ago
@Loosetiger1 yes, great movie and times at end of it, May of 1963.. so much greatness for the US and change... until that day six months later..
irish89055 4 days ago
Request permission to relieve bladder. Gordo? Gordo?
Houdini774 1 year ago 7
Brilliant, spectacular & morale boosting!!! For this soundtrack was no doubt this fitting & outstanding tribute to America's first astronauts, courageous men who dared to be launched into space while riding within these virtually untested, rocket fired tubes & with no precedent what-so-ever. I mean how awesome is that?!?!?! Brass balls indeed, & this mesmerizing, glorious soundtrack does them much justice!
sxlfkta 1 year ago
@sxlfkta yeah big brass balls but I bet if they offered you the first flight you wouldn't turn it down. I know I wouldn't
21513071991 1 year ago
Great Movie with truelly great American's that were played by good actors! Thanks for sharing the great theme music to the Movie the Right Stuff!
LindaB98787 1 year ago
Go hot dog GOOOO!
zambot3 1 year ago 3
@zambot3 That's one of my favorite lines in all of cinema!
Ferrariman601 1 year ago
From the 1983 movie The Right Stuff.
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
Our Germans were better than the Russian Germans, thank God.
pathman6 1 year ago
@pathman6 yet it was the Russians who were the first to go into space w/ Sputnik 1 and the first to put a human into space with Comrade Yuri Gagarin...ya cant beat that.......and guess what they will be the first to colonize another planet---------CCCP FOREVER muahahahahahaha
PlanetOfTheNBApes 1 year ago
@PlanetOfTheNBApes
CCCP?
Where?
Is it over there?
That's Russia now?
Hmm.
Bitemis 1 year ago
@PlanetOfTheNBApes
What CCCP?
Bitemis 1 year ago
@PlanetOfTheNBApes
You can beat that. It's called the Apollo Program.
PsychoCheese1337 1 year ago
@PlanetOfTheNBApes True, yet WE Americans beat the Russians to the Moon, fair & square! Also, we'll probably beat Russia to Mars, if that ever happens in our lifetimes. Though for the first 11 years ((until Apollo 8 in Dec. of 68!)) of the fabled & frenzied Space Race the Russians definitely had the edge, this slight lead, & for that I tip my hat to the magnificent CCCP for this GREAT job!
sxlfkta 1 year ago
@sxlfkta
Honestly, the US space program has the Soviet Union to thank.
Thanks for being great rivals.
Bitemis 1 year ago 2
@Bitemis and the soundtrack too, the theme is a variation of the theme of the violin concerto of tchaikovsky.
MIGUEL2005LIMA 1 year ago
Wow! Those great Americans had balls of steel! Thank goodness we had men like that to lead us into space.
mrwcf 1 year ago
@mrwcf dont you mean germans ? after all they took all the german boffins back to the usa to get the space program to work. typical americans
simoneywymney 1 year ago
@simoneywymney We never forced them to work with us, they chose to work with the americans because they didn't want to work with british assholes like you.
arsenal553 1 year ago
@arsenal553 what is it with you americans and ass holes ? read your history you burger eating, oil absessed flag waving cunt. i never said you forced them, you anal obsessed yank twat . put your burger and fries down for one minuite, take your finger out of your boy friends arse for one second and read my post again.
what a cunt.
simoneywymney 1 year ago
@simoneywymney Jesus christ, you need to relax. Your tampon is starting to overflow. Your probally just jelous that european sapce agency has had no manned space flights at all. You people are just a waste of space on the planet and never contribute to society. All you do is stay home all day and flame people on the internet.
arsenal553 1 year ago
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@simoneywymney who's oil obsessed you abscess. BP has sprung a leak huh. As for rocket engineers I have two words, Robert Goddard. Yes, our Germans were better than their Germans and key to the incipient USA manned space program
irish89055 1 year ago
@simoneywymney as a former Amerikan, they are just that.... a bunch of fucken idiots. Over dramatic, over zealous, over xenophobic, over paranoid, over fat, and they live in the past
PlanetOfTheNBApes 1 year ago
@PlanetOfTheNBApes
Good thing I'm an American and not an Amerikan. They sound like assholes.
PsychoCheese1337 1 year ago
@arsenal553 Yeah really, like Ike and the OSS gave them a choice.
I can just here them saying, "hmm those Red Army guys and that fine Stalin fellow seem an interesting choice.!!"
More like; "...get in the jeep your off to the states Herman.!!"
"But my name is Werner..."
Nuff said
Time for your nap.?
SALTYWOOFHOUND 6 months ago
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@simoneywymney who's oil obsessed you abscess. BP has sprung a leak huh. As for rocket engineers I have two words, Robert Goddard. Yes, our Germans were better than their Germans and key to the incipient USA manned space program
irish89055 1 year ago
A very good version!
FrederickNetwork 1 year ago
My favorite movie. Glorious!
ToughXArmy69 1 year ago 2
"The theme song by Bill Conti?"
Hardly. It's a not-too-subtle reworking of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago
Absolutely True.
mayrji 1 year ago 2
Oasis, I'll grant he was inspired by the Concerto, but you have to admit it's not exactly a note by note "He's so fine/My Sweet Lord" kind of imitation.
matthewdkaufman 1 year ago
Actually, I would argue exactly that - I think it's closer than the case that George Harrison lost. Movie composers do this kind of thing all of the time, but it's a bit of a joke to get an Oscar for it.
Still, Conti did a great movie theme here that stirred the audience in all the right places.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago
I Want a new drug/Ghostbusters?
roquey44 1 year ago
go! hotdog go!
jackloops 1 year ago 2
Great. Loved the movie and sound track.
paramediclee 1 year ago 4
@paramediclee Imo one of the greatest American movies ever made.
ripperduck 1 year ago
Regardless of one's nationality or political outlook, bravery is still bravery. These 8 men (I'm including Yeager) made that clear. Bill Conti's score is a stirring musical tribute to them.
mpgingdl 1 year ago
The book is much, much better than the movie. The Chuck Yeager part is inspiring, but it is not quite truthful. The focus should have been more on the Mercury program and not on Yeager. Yeager, a real hero, deserves his own war story movie, but he was not a great test pilot and not a good fit for astronaut duty. Parts of the Yeager story were altered in his favor for entertainment purposes.
JimMcDadeTake 2 years ago 2
@JimMcDadeTake I agree. I couldn't put the book down. But the movie is still great imo so that tells ya what I think of the book. If any of you haven't read it, by all means, do so.
ripperduck 1 year ago
Simply Glorious!!!
sxlfkta 2 years ago
Yes, this totally brilliant, sweeping, wonderfully dramatic & soaring music certainly ""captured"" the genuine essence of this magnificent & inspirational movie!
Simply Spectacular (the music!)!!!
For no doubt it has to be ranked as one of the finest, most ""awe-inspiring"" & most vigorously mesmerizing soundtracks in movie history, as Bill Conti's adrenaline boosting music certainly fits, drastically accentuates & truly symbolizes the very theme & nature of this Awesome, Riveting movie!
sxlfkta 2 years ago
Fantastic !!!!
This movie was awe inspiring and the brilliance of Bill Conti captured its essence in the music .
Imagine what it would be like today were it not for the brave men -our 7 Astronauts -
And the wisdom and courage of ....
Mr Chuck Yeager
I am so very proud to be an American .
Thank you for posting this uplifting video.
hlywdplayer 2 years ago 3
Very well summed up, for you just hit the nail on the head with your very well chosen words!
GREAT job, as this music was truly GREAT, awesome, mesmerizing, soaring & often hair-raising, while it was steeped in genuine, undeniable Patriotism & American pride!
For just like you wrote, it's "Fantastic," utterly brilliant & "awe-inspiring," as it "captured" the "essence" of this spectacular, adrenaline-pumping movie!
For this movie was greatly enhanced by B.C.s sublime & unforgettable music!
sxlfkta 2 years ago
im 18 yrs old and am inspired by this... great movie btw. used to watch it all the time when i was a kid with my dad.
ColtsFootballFan91 2 years ago
How did Bill Conti win an Oscar for this when he ripped a lot of the movements from other compositions?
RebelYank 2 years ago
Hell, I think those old dead composers would be delighted to know that 100-150 years laters, their music is probably more relevant than when they were alive. They couldn't earn one red cent in royalties, but to know that a generation has be exposed to their hard earned work probably makes 'em all warm and fuzz y inside. I know they're dead, but . . . damn. I bet Tchaikovsky's beaming with pride somewhere in another dimension of time.
roquey44 1 year ago 4
because it didn't have bias adult content and it wasn't politically correct and they made the good old USA look good,that's probably why,dont you love the judges in Hollywood? It should have gotten an award i agree!
OsanBlackCat5RS 2 years ago
why didn't this film win best picture of the year
zombiemonster 2 years ago
"One of the greatest pieces of orchestrated music EVER!!!"
poindexterqueef 2 years ago 6
From 2:26 to the end there are several parts from tchaikovsky's violin concerto
rapter9800 2 years ago 2
A great theme music for a true movie masterpeice, The Right Stuff. My favorite movie spledidly acted by a cast of great players...Kim Hunter, Ed Harris, et al
I highly recommend this movie, and wow what a score
ToughXArmy69 2 years ago 36
@ToughXArmy69 It was Kim Stanley.
mvp822 1 year ago
@ToughXArmy69 Instead of Kim Hunter, I believe you're referring to the late, great Kim Stanley, who portrayed "Pancho" Barnes.
shaneu1 11 months ago
@shaneu1
Correct I had my Kim's mixed up. Kim Stanley played the part brilliantly. Kim Hunter, Kim Stanley and my favorite Kim -Kim Novak did a photo spread years ago in a magazine. Three great Kim's
ToughXArmy69 11 months ago
@ToughXArmy69 Was Kim Hunter in this? Did she play Zira? I've seen the Movie about a hundred times and I swear I don't know what scene she's in.
eddiepism 10 months ago
@eddiepism Good one man. I hate when people don't know who Kim Stanley is.
dylanbonnar 10 months ago
If you like this, you will probably like the "Looking Upward Suite" by Sousa, too. The Marine Corps band plays it well.
1chumley 2 years ago
The best film score ever. Period
partyhat3 2 years ago 27
@partyhat3 I'm just starting to realize that, there's something so inspirational, and universal about this music ...
ElMaruecan82 2 years ago 4
@partyhat3 I think it would be fair to say best score of 1983, as you can’t say its best score period. That’s like saying its better then STAR WARS. It’s the best score for 1983!
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
Bill Contis score has brassy military theme to the score the won best score 1983. and best sound effects editing and sound over Return of the Jedi, it was fresh sounding score that had, The Right Stuff! Film also took editing and it was nicely paced and played out, these iconic pilots that became Americas, first astronauts. The film sounds wicked on DVD in six-track Dolby stereo, Im look forward to the Bluray!
EmpireLS56KW 2 years ago 4
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vegardlygre79 2 years ago
2:18 begins my favorite part of the piece
Beautiful
Reservoirdog119 2 years ago 6
Yes, me too, but this part was stolen from Tchaikowsky, a german compositor much older than the space conquest.
helm4267 2 years ago
The french translation isn't very accurate
Loosely it means "The stuff of heroes"
frenchstudentA 2 years ago
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etikiller0 2 years ago
well.. if you want super accurate it would be "L'étoffe de droite" so yeah.. i think its a bad trnaslation , yeah but its better than the accurate one , is it?
etikiller0 2 years ago
sounds like the right stuff to me, the stuff of heroes.
devil952 2 years ago
Translated back from german it literally means "the fabric of which heroes are made".
Quite lame, huh?
Phliblib 2 years ago
It's not in German. It's French
wemonk 2 years ago
I mean what I said. When translated from german it means the fabric of which heroes are made. "DER STOFF AUS DEM DIE HELDEN SIND". That is german. I was only saying that it is similar to the french translation. Thank you very much.
Phliblib 2 years ago 4
Love this movie and love this song ever since I was a kid
aviationnutsv 2 years ago 5
If anyone could answer me, what is the exact name of this song? thanks.
TheBleuFlame 2 years ago
The exact name of this song is "Main Title".
neon340 2 years ago
Didn't Conti "quote extensively" Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert?
muthafakataka2 2 years ago
I could be wrong, but I believe it was "The Planets" by Holst. He might have taken some from Tchaikovsky, too, but I'm not sure.
Maisy5 2 years ago
Gustav Holst "Mars, the Bringer of War" is in there, as is "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity". Both taken from "The Planets".
OrthodoxSteel 2 years ago
Well, as far i see your discussion around here about 9/11, muslims, etc, may I remember you that "islam" means "the one who is Submissive to Allah". May I remember you that, we spaniards, fought againist them for 800 years? Muslims even expanded their yihah to Vienna, an far. Muslim as individual is not an enemy but a person laki other, but muslim as relegion that takes control over Estate likw in Middle Eve, is an enemy.
Cuchasoft 2 years ago
Ok moving this FAR away from failure political talk, I am curious as to whether or not there are copies of the song available online. I admit the right stuff has been one of my favorite movies about the early years of NASA and the early days of the space race. I appreciate the upload.
danschaoticmind 2 years ago 3
tks wouldbebariton enuf said the right never mentions that..i try not to get involved with discussions on politics as it gets nasty so tks for speaking up
pdogone1 2 years ago
Excuse me, but who was Preznit on 9/11? It sure as hell wasn't Clinton. Typical Republican: everything is some Democrat's fault.
Who knows what Clinton might have done had the Republicans not decided that Monica was the most important issue in the world, and that the universe as we know it was in imminent danger of collapse if they stopped mentioning her every 5 minutes.
Now that you've admitted it was all for oil, you can go worship Bush's manhood for all I care, you effing clown.
wouldbebaritone 2 years ago
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For lefties, the sky is always falling. Bush is to blame for everything. Even when they can't get it up he's to blame.
dickypot 2 years ago
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And for the Right, Bush/Cheney/Rummy can do no wrong; their every word is truth, their every action is good, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy traitor, in league with the terrorists. Did I miss anything? Oh, yes: Shrub is manhood incarnate, bulging flightsuit and all, rather than a coward and a sissy who let his family's money keep him safe during Vietnam. I knew I'd left something out.
wouldbebaritone 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this...one of my all-time favorite movies I've seen it so many times I have it memorized
TheIttap65 2 years ago
I remember I had to do a project in 4th grade to make up my own country. I chose this song for my national anthem.
Ferrariman601 2 years ago
ed harris 4 life
lukimahle 2 years ago
Well, with a near unlimited budget they did great things. Now in an era where everyone bellyaches about spending too much (funny with liberals in control of the white house and congress) and a lack of the Spirit that drove America we have fallen from grace. Hopefully some private companies can do what NASA can not. At least before China gets going. Their government and the amount of money they can swing around could easily duplicate the environment that got us to the moon.
patsfreak 2 years ago
Damn, I hope so. I am tired of watching the same damn spirit that made America dissappear down the drain. That same spirit that helped us land on the moon and helped return three astronauts a couple of missions later has been severely hurt by damn liberals. Its time us as citizens and patriots pull up our belts and get to work making this great nation great once again. We still have the capacity. Hoping to see landing on Mars in my lifetime. Currently 30 yrs old.
dynodonfb7 2 years ago
Yeah, there you go, genius. It's all the fault of the evil liberals. The last 8 years of Bush/Cheney spending the country into oblivion over a useless, unnecessary war just DIDN'T HAPPEN.
wouldbebaritone 2 years ago
Right and the man before him did such a great job of confronting terrorism. Good thing he wasn't around after 9/11. Our response would have been to send some tomahawks over to a deserted camp in Afghanistan. Glad that worked well for us. By the way, the liberals have done a great job with ear marked stimulus package. Bush and Cheney may have started the hole, but lliberals have currently burried us. To bad it will be my grandkids paying this off and I am only 30!!
dynodonfb7 2 years ago
As opposed to Dubya angering every Muslim on the planet, admitting Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 (did you miss that?), etc. Oh, yes, I feel SO much safer, taking off my shoes at the airport. Well, at least you're admitting that Bushco had *something* to do with the problem. It's a start.
wouldbebaritone 2 years ago
Angering every Muslim on the planet? Wow, I would think every Muslim on the planet would be angered at Bin Laden first. Secondly, lets quit beating around the bush (no pun intended). We went into Iraq to establish a presence in the middle east. That presence may not be so important currently, but will be in 15 to 20 years when oil supply begins to dwindle. China is currently making moves on the Spratly Islands. Iraq just might be our ace in the hole in 15 or 20 yrs.
dynodonfb7 2 years ago
You gotta be kidding. Who invaded Iraq on false pretenses and trashed it: Osama, or us? As for the rest, you admit then that we didn't go there to stop Saddam from using his nonexistent weapons on us. All those lives, all that ill will, for oil? Have I got that right?
I think you'll agree this isn't the place for such discussions. But as you and the grandkids (and everyone else) continue to pay for Bush's Folly, I hope you will remember to VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!
wouldbebaritone 2 years ago
Who had the chance to take out Osama and didn't give the green light? Maybe if Slick Willy wouldn't have been receiving oral pleasures he could have made a better judement call. Maybe then all of those innocent lives plus the 2974 frm the WTC would still be around. As for the oil, I am sure you will be singing a different tune in 20 yrs. Besides our presence in Iraq solidifies that the Straits of Hormuz stay open. As u have seen, Iran has already challenged us and other countries in this area.
dynodonfb7 2 years ago
cant do stuff like this in the obamanation
SHMUJEW 2 years ago
Flying High into the wild blue yonder ENOUGH SAID
BravoEcho3991 2 years ago
No, not the one coupled with North and South; the entire thing as concieved by Conti. This is the actual album, produced by Bill Conti himself, which was prepared but never released, back in 1983.
llhsknts 2 years ago
Excellent! Been wanting that one for 20 years now, and now finally it is available :)
Altimeter75 2 years ago
The soundtrack is finally available for this movie! It's about time.
llhsknts 2 years ago
Finally? I've had it for years.
RTSiciliano 2 years ago
2009 marks the 25th Anniversary of the original release of "The Right Stuff" I have watched about 60 times. My all-time favorite!
SarahMDGal 2 years ago
Actually, "The Right Stuff" was Oscar nominated as Best Picture of 1983, so 2008 was the 25th anniversary of the movie's release.
mvp822 2 years ago
Should have won it too! Stupid Oscars.
fls13ec 2 years ago
and the commies that vote to decide the winners!
mcmjr405 2 years ago
The Right Stuff is running on TCM July 20. Check it out if you've never seen it!
fls13ec 2 years ago 2
Great movie to watch again and again...i think ive seen it 5 times since its release...
leworld1964 2 years ago
Read TomWolfe's book.
Those 7 we're the last of America's
'single combat warriors'.
Great film.Great music.
DrTWG 2 years ago
The most awesome music to a fantastic movie!!! I think everyone that was alive back then should thank these 8 (yes Gen Chuck Yeager too) men for the risks they took to start going into outer space, and setting the standards high that no country will eve be able to duplicate. I am proud to be n american. To Sen John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter the only two that are left alive, thanks gentleman for a job well done!!!
agre8tutubenut 2 years ago
I think you should spcify that not ALL kids of my generation have forgotten. If you can believe this, I read issues of LIFE magazine, and have read every one of those articles on these brave young men. In fact, I beleive its because of people like them we can dream to anything we want.
Suprkit 2 years ago
It's a shame NASA has so lost the plot - and has been so out of the game for years already. Human astronauts were a glorious chapter of history but now they are an anachronism.
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
Except when they're repairing the Hubble. :O)
fls13ec 2 years ago
WIthout them, aviation history would be much, much, shorter. They are the true heroes of all time.
All American, ALL The Way!!
Andrew122122 2 years ago 3
Yeah, shame about those pesky Ivans getting there first (by a long way), eh?
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
true heroes that the new generations have forgotten. There new heroes now dunk balls or run touchdowns for our kids. sad very sad.
rickker20 2 years ago 3
I know what ya mean man. A damn shame.
RifleMan80 2 years ago
Yes It is truly Sad kids idolize over paid showoboating drug addicted athletes and rappers. Where did things go so wrong?
I am 33 and even as a kid others my age still dreamed of being astronauts and President of the USA. Now kid's goals are so low its pitiful!
BadCamera32 2 years ago