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2006-01-22

This was a fun album to do. Very difficult and challenging for the orchestra in many instances.

Of course, I had to record Silverado because of Bruce. Well heck I was the Artist/conductor and I could make those choices, but lets face it, this is great stuff besides.

I also recorded Tombstone: Final Credits. Also Bruce’s music but this had a nice little story. Bruce was just finishing recording the score for the movie to be released. I don’t really remember the particular dates but it was sometime in December because I was back in Mexico City around the same time recording these albums. I told him I would love to record Tombstone because I knew it was new and it hadn’t even been released in the theatres yet. As I mentioned I don’t really remember the dates but I do know that Bruce sent me the manuscripts and part in the order of play and we re-recorded the final credits about 10 days after Bruce complete the original movie score session. I thought that was really cool!

The Cowboys Overture by John Williams, in my opinion is some of his best writing and it was really tough to play. However, I remember that particular piece, after I rehearsed the orchestra was recording in one take. It was an incredible moment for orchestra and conductor. I suppose we could have done it again and again like one is able to do in a movies session, but my responsibility was to record so many pieces a day and have six albums in the perverbial "can" in two weeks. As a general rule I rehearsed the orchestra for 45 minutes and began recording. Most pieces were done within three takes and enough good stuff that could be neatly edited into some good performances.

Claudia's Theme composed by Clint Eastwood for his Academy Award winning movie was a bit of a challenge to arrange. I would always want to keep the integrity of the movie in any of my arrangements and the main thrust of the movie was a lovely guitar. So I decided just to keep things as simple as possible, except for the timpany line that was played in the original score as well, except that the bridge part of the melody was perfectly fit for my kind of trombone playing so I took a little license there. But I think this is a very lovely tune worth buying the CD of the original score for.

Anyway, here’s the play list for the Wild Wild Westerns.
1. Silverado: Suite, Bruce Broughton 4:45
2. Dances With Wolves: Main Theme, John Barry 2:09
3. How The West Was Won: Suite, Alfred Newman 3:29
4. The Magnificent Seven: Suite, Elmer Bernstein arranged by Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes 4:26
5. Tombstone: Final Credits, Bruce Broughton 6:51
6. City Slickers: Main Theme, Mark Shaiman orchestrated by Mark McKenzie, Mark Watters, Larry Rench and Bruce Fowler 2:58
7. Unforgiven: Claudia’s Theme, Clint Eastwood arranged/orchestrated Bill Broughton 4:41
8. The Cowboys: Overture, John Williams 9:35
9. The Lone Ranger: "William Tell" Overture, Gioachino Rossini 12:05

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