NELSON RIDDLE: THE GREAT GATSBY – 1974 Soundtrack Dramatic & Song Scores FLAC

The 1974 film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, THE GREAT GATSBY was not well received by the critics or the movie going public. Francis Ford Coppola’s script was very faithful to the novel but instead of getting Coppola to also direct, Paramount chose British director Jack Clayton and he seemed more concerned with getting the visuals, costumes and choreography of the 1920s correct than assembling a good cast. Robert Redford & especially Mia Farrow’s miscasting as the leads was a mistake and to make matters worse the pair displayed zero chemistry in their scenes together. Despite excellent supporting performances from Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Sam Waterson, Lois Chiles & Howard Da Silva, this version of Fitzgerald’s iconic novel is a misstep at every turn except with the brilliant Academy Award winning (Adaptation) music score by Nelson Riddle, who weaves his own original themes with Irving Berlin’s song “What’ll I Do” in the dramatic scoring and superb period arrangements of the 1920s tunes for the party scenes. This wonderful music makes the film at least bearable. I recently remastered the Nelson Riddle soundtrack to the 1974 film, which, to my knowledge, has been out of print for a quarter of a century and has never been released on CD. Unlike the original Paramount Records album, Riddle’s dramatic underscore is programmed separately from the party source songs score. If you have never heard this soundtrack you are in for a real treat.

Original Soundtrack Recording from the Paramount Picture
THE GREAT GATSBY
FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!ws4kjAba!v8At2EHdha7eoMWus8GFmtkIU-dQDwmGOvrrMJVgGbk

Original Score Composed & Conducted by NELSON RIDDLE
interpolating “What’ll I Do” by Irving Berlin
Tracks 1 thru 14 are programmed to play without any pause in between:
1. Roadshow Overture
2. What’ll I Do – Vocal-Bill Atherton (I. Berlin)
3. Tom And Myrtle
4. Jordan’s Tango
5. Gatsby’s Estate
6. We’ve Met Before. (Berlin-Riddle)
7. Daisy
8. Gatsby’s Obsession
9. Myrtle’s Dead
10. Daisy’s Tango
11. A Long Time Ago
12. My Favourite Beau
13. Gatsby’s Murder / Summer’s Almost Over
14. The Ring

Song Score Arranged, Supervised & Conducted by NELSON RIDDLE
15. The Shiek Of Araby. (Smith-Wheeler-Snyder)
16. Has Anybody Seen My Gal – Vocal-Nick Lucas. (Lewis-Young-Henderson)
17. Who? (Harbach-Hammerstein II-Kern)
18. I’m Gonna Charleston Back To Charleston -Vocal-Nick Lucas (Turk-Handman)
19. Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby. (Kahn-Doanldson)
20. Whispering. (Schonberger-Coburn-Rose)
21. Charleston. (Mack-Johnson)
22. It Had to Be You. (Kahn-Jones)
23. When You And I Were Seventeen -Vocal-Nick Lucas. (Kahn-Rosoff)
24. Alice Blue Gown. (McCarthy-Tierney)
25. Kitten On The Keys. (Confrey)
26. Beale Street Blues – James Stacy, piano (Handy)
27. What’ll I Do/Ain’t We Got Fun (Berlin-Kahn-Egan-Whiting)
28. Exit Music

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Another interesting upload, thanks Steve!

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Another great upload!
Thank you so much for your efforts, Stevie!

Great stuff – Riddle was an underrated genius film composer, though he certainly garnered praise for his pop arrangements… Thank you for this beautiful work!

Glorious MUSIC – Awesome SHARE 😀

Yet another quality share.
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Great share for Great Gatsby!

Does anyone who downloaded it still have it? I would like to have it in FLAC too.

Does anyone who downloaded it still have it? I would like to have it in FLAC too.

Here is an updated link to this file. The initial post has also been updated.

https://mega.nz/#!ws4kjAba!v8At2EHdha7eoMWus8GFmtkIU-dQDwmGOvrrMJVgGbk

Here is an updated link to this file. The initial post has also been updated.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/rij843 Thanks very much!

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Here is an updated link to this file. The initial post has also been updated.

https://mega.nz/#!ws4kjAba!v8At2EHdha7eoMWus8GFmtkIU-dQDwmGOvrrMJVgGbk

Thank you for the Nelson Riddle music (THE GREAT GATSBY)

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Thanks a lot for this terrific score.

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