Willow Soundtrack CD United Kingdom

Willow Soundtrack Music

List Price	$13.98 (You save $2.19)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Soundtrack CDs
Label	Virgin
All Time Sales Rank	2816
CD Universe Part number	1245941
Discs	1
Release Date	Sep 11, 2002
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Additional Info	Import; United Kingdom

Willow Soundtrack Songs

	1.	Elora Danan
	2.	Escape From the Tavern
	3.	Willow's Journey Begins
	4.	Canyon of Mazes
	5.	Tir Asleen
	6.	Willow's Theme
	7.	Bavmorda's Spell Is Cast
	8.	Willow the Sorcerer

Willow Soundtrack Music Review

Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

5 stars Soundtrack to the greatest movie ever.
Finally, I found the official soundtrack to my favoirte movie of all time, Willow! James Horner did a fantastic job at mixing orchestral and folk music to give the movie a bit more of a fantasy atmosphere. To finally hear these versions uncut and through my stereo is a great experience.
Submitted by cousinitt (Caro, Michigan. USA.)
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5 stars Clearly Horner's finest work, Willow is up there with Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
This is one of those scores that can be listened to at any time. Driving, relaxing, or even reading. I loved the movie, and I think at least half the credit for that belongs to the music. It is cleary James Horner's finest score, inching just past his work for Glory, and heads and shoulders above the widely popular Titanic score. This album is a treasure and should be purchased before it is too late.
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Additional Tracks; Deluxe Edition Producers: Stephen Blauner, Joel Sill, Steve Barri.
Compilation producer: Mike Ragogna.
Includes liner notes by Mike Ragogna.
Includes liner notes by Bud Scoppa.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Easy Rider was the surprise box-office hit of the summer of 1969, a low-budget film about a couple of hippies who use their profits from a drug deal to drive their motorcycles across the Southwest and attend New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations, encountering adventures and tragedy along the way. It turned out to be a telling portrait of America's cultural divide in the late '60s, and no small part of its impact was the soundtrack music, which eschewed a traditional score (the filmmakers couldn't have afforded that, anyway) in favor of rock music. Even then, director Dennis Hopper didn't have much special music written, instead mostly using songs he'd heard on the radio in 1968 while he was editing the film. (In the liner notes to the 2000 CD reissue, Hopper claims that he canceled a proposed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young score when he became enamored with his own selections; other accounts claim the film studio insisted on the music used in the rough cut.)
So, the film's music consisted of such 1968 rock radio favorites as Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" and "Born to Be Wild," the Band's "The Weight," the Byrds' "Wasn't Born to Follow," and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "If Six Was Nine," with such humorous changes of pace as the Holy Modal Rounders' cosmic folk song "If You Want to Be a Bird" and Fraternity of Man's marijuana-smoking behavior guide "Don't Bogart Me." Hopper had little trouble persuading various record labels to grant the screen rights to these songs at a time when re-used rock wasn't heard much in movies. Roger McGuinn, making his solo performing debut, contributed new recordings of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and his own specially written "Ballad of Easy Rider," actually co-written with Dylan, who was not credited.
When Easy Rider became a successful film upon release, a decision was made to release a soundtrack album, and most labels agreed to license their tracks to Dunhill/ABC. Only Capitol Records held out, so the Band's version of "The Weight" was replaced by a near-copy recorded by Dunhill act Smith. The soundtrack album also featured some dialogue and sound effects from the film. The result was a commercial bonanza: The album reached the Top Ten and went gold, becoming the second most successful soundtrack ...