The Long Goodbye – Limited Edition 2012 (John Williams, 1973) [FLAC]

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"The Long Goodbye" (1973) – [FLAC]
ORIGINAL MGM MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Limited Edition, 2012

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Composed and conducted by John Williams
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
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For this revision of the Philip Marlowe character, Altman asked Williams to provide a most unusual score: one single theme repeated throughout the film with many variations adapted for various scenes. The tune, one of Williams� most inspired from the seventies, is presented as a song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer), with vocals by Jack Sheldon and Clydie King. Williams also presents the theme in different jazz versions (with the Dave Grusin Trio), as a tango, in blues style ("Night Talk�), as a warm love theme for trumpet and strings, on sitar (for the hippie party), or in Mexican variations for the last part of the film ("Mariachi,� "Guitar Nostalgia�). Williams arranged and personally supervised the different versions, in addition to adapting the song as underscore ("The Border, "Marlowe in Mexico, "The Mexican Funeral� and "Finale�). The lengthy 10-minute "Main Title� sequence deserves special mention as an example of how Williams developed his tune.

(Text from Quartet Records (http://www.quartetrecords.com/the-long-goodbye.html))

Quartet Records’ release of the complete score to the film along with some rehearsal tracks by Clydie King and others are present here for the first time as a portion of the score and album was released by Varese Sarabande in 2004 as a double dip pairing with Fitzwilly which at the time was thought that the 25 minutes featured were all that was available and now, this special new release features more than double that and with great results. The Long Goodbye is both and amazing film because of a great script, direction and marvellous performances all around. John Williams’ part in the film is really bigger than expect as his music really adds to the varying moods in the film and the score based on the song, is one of his more ingenious efforts in his career. A wonderful experience all around and one of the more enjoyable Williams’ efforts from the 70’s as well as his career. Highly recommended!!

(Review by Dany Gonzalez at examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/review/the-long-goodbye-music-by-john-williams))

This sold out album was previously shared by Sanico in 2012, and the users who prefer MP3 can download it in her thread. The included 11 MB of descreened (i.e., smoothed) x1400 scans are good enough for most of us, and the not-descreened x2800 parents are in a separate upload, from a scans package by Soundtrackjungle in ed2k.

Tracklist:

17M 01 – The Long Goodbye (John Williams, Piano Soloist) [03:07]
26M 02 – The Long Goodbye (Clydie King, Vocal) [04:35]
28M 03 – The Long Goodbye (Dave Grusin Trio) [05:02]
22M 04 – The Long Goodbye (Jack Sheldon, Vocal) [03:32]
27M 05 – The Long Goodbye (Dave Grusin Trio) [04:33]
14M 06 – The Long Goodbye (Tango) [02:30]
18M 07 – The Long Goodbye (Irene Kral & Dave Grusin Trio) [03:11]
12M 08 – The Long Goodbye (Mariachi) [02:04]
19M 09 – Marlowe In Mexico [03:37]
54M 10 – Main Title Montage [10:00]
9,9M 11 – Night Talk [02:08]
2,8M 12 – The Border [00:36]
9,5M 13 – Love Theme From ”The Long Goodbye” [01:58]
5,4M 14 – The Long Goodbye (Sitar) [01:02]
4,6M 15 – Guitar Nostalgia [01:01]
13M 16 – The Mexican Funeral [02:31]
4,5M 17 – Finale [01:08]
50M 18 – Clydie King Adlibs Rehearsal [08:25]
7,7M 19 – Jack Riley And Ensemble Rehearsal [01:39]
8,9M 20 – Violin Rehearsal [02:06]

Total playtime: 1h 04′ 45”

Download:

FLAC (http://www.mediafire.com/file/8my0cm401r6ftdo/TLGM.7z/file) (358.0 MiB). Password: missedhello
MP3 thread (160.1 MiB).
Alternate covers, x2800 (https://www.mediafire.com/file/uo4qvdluys5yy64/TLG_-_x2800_covers.7z/file) (73.9 MiB)

It’s too late to try
when a missed hello
becomes the long goodbye.

Enjoy.

Let me be the first in say… Thank you very much for sharing this Williams score!!

Thanks, kooke 🙂

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Thank you very much, kooke for the FLAC version and the info notes!

Great batch of the "Johnny Williams" era… thanks!!!

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Thank you so much for this one in FLAC, I tried to buy the CD but it was sold out before I could place the order.

Yes, not a big surprise, Kobayashi-Maru. As phbart said in another thread, "Johnny Williams is selling out faster than John Williams :)"

// Edit: I think the last album credited to "Johnny" was Heidi, 5 years earlier, but well… "young" Williams sells quite well.

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Better than a can of Curry Brand cat food and some hash brownies. It’s okay with me. A thousand thanks for this!

Lol, Creedmore. Good that it’s okay with you, and I’m happy also for your cat. Enjoy it.

You’re welcome, friends.

Believe it or don’t, I saw this film over 75 times – on the screen – when it originally opened. I adore this movie. If only the soundtrack contained Mrs. Wade’s doorbell. Thanks again!

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I’m too shocked with the number to even try to understand, let alone believing. I don’t think I’ve even listened to a song so many times.

The doorbell is not on the disc, but maybe you have good copies of the movie. If you rip that part someday, would you share it with us? It would be a nice extra.

It’s a form of madness on my part.
I’m not skilled enough to rip a track from a DVD, but I’m trying to get a little tutorial help from a friend. I do own the DVD (DUH!) and when the knowhow eventually catches up with me, I’ll gladly rip and post. 😀

That’s great, Creedmoor; take your time. And don’t worry much about quality or format. You could rip the DVD audio and reencode it to mp3, but a short fragment like that will be OK capturing the live output of the soundcard with Audacity, and saving it as .wav or your format or choice.

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Audacity needs to have the "Stereo Mix" activated to capture the soundcard. This video tutorial that shows how to enable it in Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2Ki4NL3jk

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frjamisi: the password is on bold text at the right of the download link.
La contrase�a es missedhello

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Many thanks for link to this one,my friend!

I’ve never seen the movie so now is my chance to hear this Williams score.

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The MP3 link is gone.

Thanks for the upload in FLAC!

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Parece que el enlace FLAC ya no est� disponible. �Alguna posibilidad de volver a subirlo?

Por supuesto, PPKA. Resubido.

You’re welcome, friends. New links in first post.

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Thank you

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You’re welcome, rollotomasi19970; enjoy (yeah, English is much quicker 🙂 ).

Thanks so much.

Thanks for taking the time to offer this to us all. Your efforts are appreciated.

Never expected to hear this score properly. Many thanks.

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