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Music from the Wild Bunch

posted 17 years ago by bullit2513
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Does anyone know why Jerry Fielding's score from The Wild Bunch was used in The Deadly Trackers? My first thought was that it'd be cheaper than hiring a composer to do a whole new score, but maybe I'm missing something.

I saw this with another 70s western. The Last Hard Men uses the same score as 100 Rifles. It's not necessarily a bad thing, both scores are good, but it is odd hearing music that you're used to in a different movie than you originally saw.

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[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

It sounded like the music from John Ford's "Hurricane" to me, but then I'm deaf.

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[–] bobo-29 14 years ago

No, it's definitely the soundtrack from The Wild Bunch by Jerry Fielding. Don't know the backstory of how it ended up in this film, mixed in with some other extraneous guitar music. The studios did this occasionally in the 1940's and 1950's to economize on a film's budget. Fielding's music is most closely associated with Sam Peckinpah's films so perhaps they were trying to cash in on that at the time in this violent western. This movie was adapted from an original story by Sam Fuller so it had a pretty good pedigree.

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[–] PhillipNoir 11 years ago

You're right -- Jerry Fielding contributed music to Trackers (and wrote the music for Wild Bunch), and is credited here. The theme, which demonstrates Fielding's mastery of counterpoint, is certainly good enough to be used twice. Consider it an encore.

[–] Paul_Ke 11 years ago

I noticed they copied the music from The Wild Bunch too.