Varèse Sarabande VSD-5630

Original Release Date: January 30, 1996

Produced by Bruce Kimmel

Engineer: Vinnie Cirilli

Music by Ennio Morricone

Arranged, Orchestrated and Conducted byLanny Meyers

Lanny Myers on Piano & KeyboardsBob Mair on BassEd Smith on Drums Paul Viapiano on Guitar

and

Phil Feather on ReedsRobert Carr on ReedsWayne Bergeron on TrumpetDennis Farias on Trumpet

Ira Nepus on TromboneStephanie Mijanovich on French Horn

Jean Marinelli on French HornLiesl Erman on Harp

and on violins a host of characters from Hitchcock Films

Margaret Edgar (Marnie)•Frances Stevens (To Catch A Thief)•John Robie (To Catch A Thief)•John Ferguson (Vertigo)

Melanie Daniels (The Birds) Leila Crane (Psycho)•Madeline Elster (Vertigo)•Jonathan Cooper (Stage Fright)

Tony Wendice (Dial M For Murder) Alexander Sebastian (Notorious)•Charles Oakley (Shadow Of A Doubt)•

Joseph Newton (Shadow Of A Doubt)•John Jones (Foreign Correspondent)•Carol Fisher (Foreign Correspondent)

and on violas more characters from Hitchcock Films

Lisa Freemont (Rear Window)•Charlotte Inwood (Stage Fright)•Ann Morton (Strangers On A Train)•Michael Armstrong (Torn Curtain)

and on cello even more characters from Hitchcock Films

Jo McKenna (The Man Who Knew Too Much)•Michael Logan (I Confess)•Albert Wiles (The Trouble With Harry)

and Sam Marlowe (The Trouble With Harry)

I asked Bruce Kimmel about the above names and here's the explanation:

You are, surprisingly, the first person to ever realize what we were doing.  That album was from the days when we were using union musicians (our regular LA folks) but doing them non-union (a regular practice by many here in LA) - however, the union had been cracking down and everyone was nervous so for a few albums we did this.  From about 1998 on we did everything union so that was never a problem again.  That is because, after all of my bitching to the AFM, they finally changed their low-budget pressing agreement so that it made sense.  They would, of course, never give me the credit for having led them there, but I'm here to tell you after listening to me berate them for five years, they finally changed it so they didn't have to listen anymore.
 

Musical Selections

1. In a Line of Fire
2. Cinema Paradiso
3. Mission
4. Cage aux Folles
5. Once upon a Time in America
6. Duck, You Sucker
7. Gabriel's Oboe {from the Mission}
8. Hamlet
9. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
10. Frantic
11. Fistful of Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, for a Few Dollars More) [Medley
12. Disclosure
13. Wolf
14. Once upon a Time in the West

Bruce Kimmel had this to say about  Lanny Meyers

Lanny is unique – I’ve never known or worked with anyone like him. In a way, we’ve collaborated more than any of my other wonderful conductors, arrangers, orchestrators. We work very closely together and enjoy that process immensely. He is extremely gifted and a bit wacky, but a wonderful fellow

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