Film Music Reporter

Quartet Records has announced a number of new soundtracks, including a new album for the 1969 drama Midnight Cowboy directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Barry (Goldfinger, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa) who is credited as the film’s music supervisor composed a series of original cues and supervised the entire musical concept of the project. Everybody’s Talkin’ written by Fred Neil was selected as a main theme for the movie and was newly recorded with arrangements by George Tipton and performed by Harry Nilsson. The 2-CD set features a remastered version of the original soundtrack album, as well as alternate song versions on the first disc and the complete music (both songs and score) as it appears in the film on the second disc. For the full album details, to check out audio samples and to order the album, visit the label’s official website.

The label’s other new titles include a new soundtrack album for the 1967 western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly directed by Sergio Leone and starring starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables) has composed the film’s original music. The 3-CD set features the movie’s score, including large number of alternates, revised cues and music not included in the film on Discs 1 & 2 and a remastered version of the original soundtrack album on Disc 3. Click here for the full album details, to listen to audio samples and to order the soundtrack.

Also announced today was a new soundtrack album for the 1977 war drama A Bridge Too Far directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Edward Fox, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Hardy Krüger, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The film’s original music is composed and conducted by John Addison (Tom Sawyer, Sleuth, Torn Curtain, Swashbuckler, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution), ). The 2-CD set,which is limited to 1,00 copies, features the complete film score, as well as alternate cues and previously unreleased music on the first disc and a remastered version of the original soundtrack album on the second disc. Visit the label’s online store to listen to audio samples and to check out the full details.