INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) isolated music score

[kdegru]

It was great to get a listen to the music and effects track for this film. I wish you would post everything from that film because it makes for great listening and stirring of the imagination where one could think again about the film or any other kind of memories or fantasies that this music is bound to stir up. You did an excellent job with this Youtube posting.

[kdegru]

I am 58 and this film scared the you know what out of me when I first saw it on B/W TV most likely in the late 60's. The music is what did it combined that scene on the bluff where the grass turns to like desert sand is a visual that still instills fear in me to this day. It absolutely stunned me to see the lady that Lou Costello had puppy love for on his TV show play the mother in this movie that was taken over by the aliens. She was really scary with that icy coldness.

[prben2]

Some of the 1950s Sci-Fi movies sure had eerie and sinister music, such as this and Forbidden Planet.

[jnh3]

Homage to William Cameron Menzies

[bharfarar]

Very well done vid, and does a classic movie justice. This movie scared the daylights out of me as a kid. I dreamed many nightmares of the flying saucer going down behind the sand dune at night. Seeing this clip gives me the shivers, and takes me back to some great times.

[mdchoc13]

omg One of my favorite movies and definatly one of my favorite soundtracks ever! Very different for 50's with that dream like uneven sound, God I love it!!!!

[oceantracks]

Stunning, I remember loving this score as a kid. So great to hear isolated!

[120446219]

God bless you my friend...I always loved the music in this great movie...you did a fine job.....I must of seen invaders at least 50 times...best of luck to you.

[charel196]

@paullubliner -I added a stereo reverb also on the last segments. The rest of the music was de-noised but any distortion you hear was on the original film track

[axecalibore]

Wow- isolated! Thank you. I've loved this score since I recorded it off a patch in cord to the TV speaker in 1970, enjoying for the first time the warlike title theme and other choice moments. Watch for a *note for note swipe* from Venus from Holst's "The Planets" when little Kathy comes to the door! :-) IFM is kind of a merge of best moments from Saturn and Neptune from The Planets.

[nickandmikec]

The first part intro and the last parts near the end are just so fine. I have never heard it without the vocal opening before...so amazing...I wish I had just the first and last parts without the stuff lifted from the film between. It really brings one's past back.

[usnorac]

thank you glorious! i've been looking for this since i was a kid-

[horofhay]

Of course the music also borrowed from Holts' "The Planets", Bernard Hermann, and other mid-20th-modern composers, achieving something quite sublime.

[horofhay]

Stunning! As a child in the 50's I was haunted by the film's music, and when two decades later the first Philip Glass recording, North Star, was released, I thought that surely the film's music had left its mark on Glass as well. Still inspiring... thank you.

[WAROFTHEWORLDSfan]

Please tell me how you got this music. The music not only is cool, creepy, and errie at the same time, but to me it also makes me think back many many years back to when I got this movie in 2004 or 2005. Please help me get this song.

[charel196]

@WAROFTHEWORLDSfan

I found a soundtrack collector friend who had the entire film music and sound efx track on a CDR (probably dubbed from a film negative)

[charel196]

@paullubliner - the "high fidelity" came from my mastering tools. I ran the music thru a stereo imager in Cool Edit Pro (widens depth) and processed out more hiss.Thanks.