Reply To: Victor Young
Didn’t he have (a little bit like Alan Menken) a reputation of rather being a songwriter than a composer?
Yes, I think he had one as a good theme/melody writer and lots of those ended up as film songs.
I also have that rerecording of The Uninvited. Didn’t do that much for me.
Yes, for me too. Been a while I listened to the album but I think I liked the other scores more.
But I am a fan of his Scaramouche suite on that swashbuckling Captain Blood album conducted by Richard Kaufman.
Overall one of my favourite Golden Age albums.
That’s a good suite.
You named a lot of the scores I would also list. I would add the western scores RIO GRANDE, JOHNMY GUITAR and SHANE. Although I prefern Tiomkins western scores in general of that era.