"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 3

This addition to DRG's Classic Italian Soundtracks series captures spaghetti Westerns at their eeriest and funniest…

...Ennio Morricone is predominant, of course, with tracks to such films as A Pistol for Ringo and Blood and Guns, and vocal themes to The Return of Ringo and Death Rides a Horse. A rarely heard voice-free version of "My Name Is Nobody" has the virtue of sounding like a soda pop commercial. Other pasta-and-pistols maestros such as Piero Piccioni ("I Don't Forget... I Kill"), Carlo Savina ("The Two Ringos from Texas"), and Luis Bacalov ("Gold of the Proud Ones") make an impressive showing, though there are some dull moments. In contrast to our domesticated Tiomkin-style Hollywood clichés, these eccentric to melancholy flourishes represent fantasies of the American West nurtured by a pastry-crazed European imagination. - Joseph Lanza

trax:
1. Gunfight at Red Sands [A Gringo Like Me] 2. Pistol for Ringo (Main Titles) 3. Seven Guns for the Mac Gregors [Santa Fé Express] 4. Return of Ringo [The Return of Ringo] 5. Death Rides a Horse [From Death Rides a Horse] 6. Days of Violence (Finale) [The Days of Violence] 7. I Don't Foget...I Kill [I Don't Forget...I Kill] 8. Two Ringos From Texas [The Two Ringos from Texas] 9. Seven Guns for a Killing 10. Sugar Colt: Sugar Colt [Orchestal Suite] 11. Blood and Guns [Alternate Version] 12. Rose [Alternative Version][Alternate Take] 13. Professional Gun (Main Titles) 14. Face to Face (Main Titles) 15. Gold of the Proud Ones 16. Companeros (Main Titles) [Alternative Version] 17. Life Is Tough, Eh Provodence? (Main Titles) 18. My Name Is Shanghai Joe (Departure) 19. Man Called Noon (Suite) 20. My Name Is Nobody [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
…originally served by Russ...