Cool Hand Luke (soundtrack)
Cool Hand Luke | ||||
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Soundtrack album by | ||||
Released | 1967 | |||
Genre | Film score | |||
Length | 31:47 57:15 (reissue) | |||
Label | Dot | |||
Producer | Tom Mack, Donna Schifrin (reissue) | |||
Lalo Schifrin chronology | ||||
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Alternative Cover | ||||
Cool Hand Luke is a soundtrack album for the Warner Bros. film of the same name, released in 1967 on the Dot label.
History
The original music for Cool Hand Luke was composed by Lalo Schifrin, who reissued it in 2001 along with additional cues and new music on his own Aleph label.[1][2]
In part because its staccato melody resembles the sound of a telegraph,[3] an edited version of the 6
4 musical cue from "Tar Sequence" has been used for many years as the news music package on several television stations' news programs around the world, most notably on ABC's owned-and-operated stations (except WPVI and KFSN) as part of their local newscasts starting in 1968 and lasting until the mid-1990s.[citation needed] After an increase in licensing fees to the theme and its variants, however, many stations dropped the Tar Sequence and themes based directly on it (such as the Frank Gari-composed news music packages News Series 2000). The Eyewitness News collection by Gari Media, currently used by WABC-TV and many other ABC affiliates, has a similar sound to the Tar Sequence. In Australia, the Nine Network introduced the "Tar Sequence" cue for Nine News in the early-1980s, and is still using variants of the theme as of 2022.
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Reception
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Source | Rating |
SoundtrackNet | 4.5/5 [5] |
Thom Jurek stated in his
The Cool Hand Luke score was nominated for an Academy Award.[5]
Track listing
All songs by Lalo Schifrin unless otherwise noted.
- "Main Title" – 2:08
- "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (Traditional) – 2:54
- "Tar Sequence" – 3:13
- "Lucille" – 2:45
- "Egg Eating Contest" – 2:58
- "Plastic Jesus" (Ed Rush, George Cromarty) – 1:57
- "Bean Time " – 1:12
- "Ballad of Cool Hand Luke" – 2:36
- "Arletta Blues" – 2:54
- "The First Morning" – 1:51
- "The Chase" – 3:18
- "Road Gang" – 1:48
- "End Title" – 2:13
2001 reissue track listing
- "Main Title" – 2:08
- "Tar Sequence" – 3:13
- "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (Traditional) – 2:54
- "Chase" – 3:17
- "Lucille" – 2:45
- "Egg Eating Contest" – 2:57
- "Eye-Ballin Glasses" – 2:24
- "Arletta Blues" – 2:54
- "Criss-crossing the Fence" – 2:19
- "Plastic Jesus" (Rush, Cromarty) – 1:56
- "Got My Mind Back" – 3:08
- "Ballad of Cool Hand Luke" – 2:34
- "The First Morning" – 1:49
- "Bean Time " – 1:10
- "Road Gang" – 1:48
- "Radio in Barracks" – 1:47
- "Dog Boy" – 3:09
- "End Title" – 2:13
- "Sketches of Cool Hand Luke" – 6:56
- "Down Here on the Ground" – 5:59
Personnel
- Tom Mack – producer
- Donna Schifrin – producer (reissue)
- Thorne Nogar – engineer
- Andrew Richardson – engineer
- Lalo Schifrin – conductor, liner notes (reissue)
- Theresa Eastman – art direction, design (reissue)
- Bobby Bee – mastering (reissue)
- Stuart Rosenberg – liner notes (reissue)
- Howard Roberts, Tommy Tedesco - guitar
- Earl Palmer - drums
- Tom Malone - Harmonica
- Ray Brown – bass
References
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ^ Goldwasser, Dan. Schifrin's Latest Rush. SoundtrackNet. August 25, 2001. Retrieved January 2010.
- ISBN 978-3-03764-027-2.)
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- ^ SoundtrackNet. Retrieved June 26, 2011.