steviefromalaska
04-27-2015, 10:53 AM
Victor Young's score for the 1956 film, THE BRAVE ONE is one of the composer's two final completed film scores (the other is 1957's Run of the Arrow). Both films were released after Young's sudden death from a heart attack at age 59.
The Brave One was also the last film to win the Academy Award for Best Story before the award was discontinued. The Award officially went to Robert Rich, a pseudonym used by Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten in 1947 after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo was not presented with the actual Academy Award until 1975. The score for THE BRAVE ONE was recorded in Munich, Germany, as were many other Hollywood soundtrack scores of the mid to late 1950s & 1960s, mostly to avoid the Musician’s Union requirement that all of the players on the soundtrack had to be paid a second fee if the recording was used to produce a soundtrack album of the score. This is why a lot of film score soundtrack albums were re-recordings with a smaller orchestra used during this period. It was cheaper to record the score over and the alternative was to go to Europe to record where there were no such restrictions. Although THE BRAVE ONE was recorded in 3 track stereo the original music only masters are presumed lost although a stereo music & effects track of the score with sound effects was found and used for the wide screen DVD release of the film. This remaster of THE BRAVE ONE is from a � inch tape of the Decca soundtrack album which preserved about 20 per cent of the stereo and the rest in unmixed monaural. I have tried to mix the recording as un-obtrusively as possible in the transitions from stereo to mono sections. It does, however, sound better than the Decca album, in my opinion. Victor Young’s colourful score for THE BRAVE ONE is greatly admired and remembered and I hope this new remix/remaster meets with your approval in its presentation of this wonderful soundtrack.
https://mega.nz/#!ZooSjQyZ!G4WRds5afYskTUPFNm7wrVe6SJxiQiTKXVMlLfSAtRY
The Brave One was also the last film to win the Academy Award for Best Story before the award was discontinued. The Award officially went to Robert Rich, a pseudonym used by Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten in 1947 after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo was not presented with the actual Academy Award until 1975. The score for THE BRAVE ONE was recorded in Munich, Germany, as were many other Hollywood soundtrack scores of the mid to late 1950s & 1960s, mostly to avoid the Musician’s Union requirement that all of the players on the soundtrack had to be paid a second fee if the recording was used to produce a soundtrack album of the score. This is why a lot of film score soundtrack albums were re-recordings with a smaller orchestra used during this period. It was cheaper to record the score over and the alternative was to go to Europe to record where there were no such restrictions. Although THE BRAVE ONE was recorded in 3 track stereo the original music only masters are presumed lost although a stereo music & effects track of the score with sound effects was found and used for the wide screen DVD release of the film. This remaster of THE BRAVE ONE is from a � inch tape of the Decca soundtrack album which preserved about 20 per cent of the stereo and the rest in unmixed monaural. I have tried to mix the recording as un-obtrusively as possible in the transitions from stereo to mono sections. It does, however, sound better than the Decca album, in my opinion. Victor Young’s colourful score for THE BRAVE ONE is greatly admired and remembered and I hope this new remix/remaster meets with your approval in its presentation of this wonderful soundtrack.
https://mega.nz/#!ZooSjQyZ!G4WRds5afYskTUPFNm7wrVe6SJxiQiTKXVMlLfSAtRY