MISTER MOSES by John Barry – 1965 – The Original Score

A suite from this film score, which was never released on LP or CD, was poorly re-recorded by Sillva, but the score is
much better than that…

http://eu.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/9/b70-4807

The movie has (mysteriously) completely vanished from this planet. John Barry himself wasn’t very fond of this score.
But remember: This is John Barry in 1965. You can’t get any better than that.

We really NEED a release of the original tracks! In the movie, it sounds like this:

MISTER MOSES 1965 – Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVd1YJKPatA)

Let’s call this archaeology:

"Mister Moses
by ianmac � Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:00 pm

I have been a Barry addict since 1958 and in the 60’s had regular chats with Tony Palmer, A&R man at the UA label. Around 1964 he showed me a proof of a forthcoming album of this score. It had, I recall, 13 tracks with some of them being commercial instrumental extensions. The sleeve featured Elephant Emily in the foreground with Mitchum on its head and Baker walking beside, with a montage of scenes from the film in the background. The title ‘ Mister Moses’ in large grey type over the top and Music Composed etc at the base more or less bottom right hand. It was numbered around SULP/ULP 1090, but in view of its non release this number may have been allocated to another project. Anyway a guy called Frank Ross, who I think was the films producer threw a spoke in the wheel and there was a major disagreement and nothing was released. Tony would not disclose details but said it centred around royalties/rights issues. In the 1990’s I spoke to Vic Lanza, archivist at EMI, when he was researching the ‘EMI years’ CD’s, and asked him to look for this item in the vaults at Abbey Road – No sign of it!! – it was almost as if it had never existed!! Maybe the film Company took it all back, from those days forth it completely disappeared!!"

If such a source existed, and they printed sleeves, too – then we MUST FIND IT.

We just haven’t searched enough.

Hans

Try here for this
MISTER MOSES (COND RAINE) (http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9160/.f)