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FEATURES

Limited Edition
2xLP pressed on 180g Black Vinyl
Long-awaited vinyl reissue of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film
Original score by Ron Goodwin and the rejected score by Henry Mancini, the only one in his successful career
Housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket

DESCRIPTION

Quartet Records and Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection proudly present the world premiere vinyl release of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.

FRENZY marked the director’s triumphant return to London in 1972. With an excellent script by Anthony Shaffer, the film was immediately considered one of Hitchcock’s best and has since become a classic.

After the parting of ways with Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock changed composers in each of his last four films, choosing from those who were popular at the time. For FRENZY, his first choice was Henry Mancini (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE PINK PANTHER, HATARI!, CHARADE), who wrote a sumptuous, gothic-hued score featuring an unusual orchestral palette. The main theme uses the dolorous tones and sepulchral pedals of a mighty organ, and the tension-filled score that follows is grim and at times almost brutal. Hitchcock, feeling it was too “dark and cruel,” turned it down and hired celebrated British composer Ron Goodwin (MURDER, SHE SAID, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WHERE EAGLES DARE, SQUADRON 633) to compose a lighter, yet still suspenseful, score. For the main title, a panoramic shot over the Thames, Goodwin wrote a majestic melody ornamented with trumpets and timpani, in the best English tradition of pomp and circumstance.

FRENZY was the only completely rejected score in Henry Mancini’s long career, and also one of the most famous and requested Goodwin scores over the ensuing decades. Neither of them, however, have previously been officially released in any form until today.

This 2-LP collection has been painstakingly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino from stereo and mono elements vaulted at Universal Pictures, with the collaboration of both the Ron Goodwin and Henry Mancini estates.

This special edition features an exclusive, in-depth essay by writer and composer Deniz Cordell packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold and pressed in audiophile 180 GM black vinyl.

TRACKLIST

Main Title (From the Motion Picture ‘Frenzy’)
Covent Garden
Frenzy
Arrival At Brenda’s Flat
In The Salvation Army Hostel
Death Of Brenda
Fugitive From the Coburg Hotel
A Talk in the Park
A Spree De Corpse
Murder Flashback
Escape and Retribution
Frenzy (End Title)
Source Music:
Poem
Juke Box
Additional Music:
Murder Flashback (Alternate)
Frenzy (End Title) (Film Version Edit)
Prologue
My Tie Is Your Tie
My Kind Of Woman
Son Of My Kind Of Woman
Exit Oscar Wilde
Big Drag For Babs
Hot Potatoes
Babs Grabs
The Inspector Thinks
Rusk On Candid Camera
Off to Rusk’s Place
End Credits / End Rusk
Source Music:
Posh For Two
Tijuana On Thames
Prologue (Alternate)
Babs Grabs (Alternate)

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Artist: Henry Mancini