Chinatown | Soundtrack Suite (Jerry Goldsmith)
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- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974). Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Trumpet Solos by Uan Rasey.
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Music Awards:
- None
Nominations:
- Academy Award - Best Original / Dramatic Score
- Golden Globe - Best Original Score
- BAFTA Award - Best Original Score
Playlist:
00:00 Love Theme From Chinatown (Main Title)
01:53 J. J. Gittes
03:29 The Boy On A Horse
04:26 The Last Of Ida II
05:11 Jake And Evelyn
07:30 The Wrong Clue II
09:37 The Wrong Clue I
10:52 It's Not Worth It
11:36 Love Theme From Chinatown (End Title)
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"Forget it, Fred. It's Chinatown."
Very jocular. Just saying.
The most elegant noir theme ever.
masterpiece hair stands on end it pulls the emotional chords in multiple directions
My entire body chills when I hear this theme, Jerry Goldsmith a genius among his peers , there are others but Goldsmith , where again he makes you FEEL the story , and this story line, script , written by Robert Townes back in the 70’s and Robert evans , this was their baby, Evans highly protective of getting this movie made , remember reading (I’m a movie buff I don’t forget movies that leave an emotional impact on me) Dunaway was somewhat hesitant to do the movie as I remember but Evans had a way how to handle Dunaway , Nicholson being good friends with evans had no problem doing the movie thus making ( the entire cast included) a masterpiece in my top 10 favorite all time movies for sure, the story is what got to me, plus this absolutely haunting music , so beautiful makes you FEEL the movie and the tragedy that unfolds, the music, the script, the cast , simply a masterpiece. Dunaway , beautiful in the movie , Nicholson the handsome tough P. I, in the movie worked so well together understatement I know but brilliant movie thank you Jerry for leaving us such gorgeous music.
Where did you find the Midget, Claude?
Maybe, maybe not, as there are a lot of great film noir/neo-noir soundtracks around! e.g. "Body Heat" (1981):
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or "Taxi Driver" (1976):
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or "Blade Runner" (1982):
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3 years ago, you wrote this comment.
It has aged very well .
One of the most beautiful soundtrack ever composed.
of corse! although saying that most of his work gives me such feelings even if the drums are heavy like Along came a spider, just an incredible soul that shines through in all his work.
Haunting....great!
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@@432HertzStreet *of course
It's not really beautiful it's more like melancholic, haunting, dirty and a little bit depressing, which really fits the film. Apparently Goldsmith told the MGM chief trumpet player Uan Rasey to "play it sexy - but like it's not good sex!"
This score/song Chinatown has literally ruined me from listening to any other soundtrack. I get goosebumps when listening to it. I saw this movie in 1976 when i was 14, I am now 57 and I still love this song. It set the bar. It is the soundtrack that all other soundtracks should attain to be. Which is a beautiful piece of work........."A Masterpiece".
Peace and love. 🎶🎶🎶
You don’t think it would compare to the score from Taxi driver??
@@rubenenrique8823 They're very different scores for very different movies.
Mullholland falls is good too.
@@user-bx9dd7bd2t I agree with you.
That's a very good one too!!!
@@rubenenrique8823 That is lovely as well.
I guess it all depends on what moves you.
You, as well as many others on this thread have wonderful taste when it comes to theme songs.
Someone else (A) mentioned the theme from Mullholland Falls which is also a nice piece of music.
This theme is so evocative of nostolgia, love and loss. Its an amazing composition. It starts with that magical trumpet solo that hugs you like your lovers smile from an old photo and transitions at around 1:35 with the violin progression that almost says "oh well it was sweet, but long gone". wow what power.
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Jerry was one of a kind. He was constantly inventive. Almost every score was a masterpiece! We all miss him and his wonderful scores.
Inventive genius. Just finished listening to the main theme of The Blue Max, now this.
Jerry Goldsmith was a master
Godfather, Taxi Driver, and these are among my most favourite theatrical scores. I hope one day I will be part of the movement to revive this style in a refreshing but honourous manner.
yotoronto12 i have had the idea running around in my mind of a place that celebrated what amazing works of art these films are. A library of such significance and care that one could spend hours there. A library that showcased all the amazing talent that makes these films and can teach others their amazing craft. Its still an idea and a dream but who knows.
The 20th century is over, we're in the end now.
Fun fact: Jack nearly played the lead in both films.
You have very good taste
Dude, are you down to help me with a score for a film?
Definitely feel like listening to this while smoking a cigarette in a coffee shop at night while its raining
Jerry goldsmith. Absolute top tier of film scorers. Total recall (1990) score won multiple awards too. And many others
Bravo to Jerry Goldsmith. This haunting, evocative score to Chinatown ranks ninth on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores.
9th? I can't imagine 8 were better!
@@jtandme-ot9cl I know right? AFI lists Star Wars as #1.
Well the 8th spot was the score for The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein.
The movie and this score blended into a 'Film noir' masterpiece. Perfection. (UK)
Maybe the best movie score of all time?
Certainly one of them. Also like Jerome Morross' "Big Country" score, especially opening credits.
For me, it's a toss up between this, and Morricone's score for Once upon a time in America.
Certainly the most haunting.
I love this soundtrack
Possibly one of the best movies of all time
GREAT FILM MUSIC FROM A GREAT FILM...A REAL CLASSIC.....
Uan Ramsey on trumpet made Jerry's composition beautiful.
65strad ☆☆☆ Indeed!!!
Rasey.
@@rightmarker1 Yup, auto correct!
65strad - We’re agreed - Rasey owned the piece. 😊👏👏. Be well.
I guess everyone knows the story about how Uan Rasey recorded this after he had just come back from a two week vacation. The backgrounds had already been recorded and he sat in a booth and recorded his part separately.
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You wonder how movies have a perfect sound track and how much work goes into it.
The incomparable Jerry Goldsmith. Pure genius.
Greatest noir soundtrack of all time, followed by Body Heat!
This was my first Jack Nicholson experience. I've been hooked on Jack for nearly 45 years and counting. Never disappoints.
He was great in "Five Easy Pieces". Showed nice range in that one.
The Last Detail. Overlooked masterpiece from Jack.
It takes me back to my high school days . One off my friends father who was a private investigator and once in a while we could ride along with him tracing a unfaithful husband what a life altering experience one off my friends became a famous private investigator and he would take me with him and we met a lot off Hollywood actors. This took me back in time after my experience 1957- 1965. Chinatown we knew it we’ll .⛩.
Tip Toeing through the the trap doors, revelations and realizations
of this epic masterpiece. This is genius at it's best. 2023
Thanks Fred 💗
I had the privilege of watching Jerry Goldsmith conduct an orchestra on the Paramount scoring stage when I worked there. The score was for "Congo." My boss, a soundtrack fan and connoisseur, brought her original "Chinatown" vinyl, which Mr. Goldsmith gladly and graciously signed (this was before it was even available on CD). A giant of the industry - but also a gentleman. A wonderful memory, which hearing his great work always conjures. Thanks for this suite!
Thank you Matthew for this great story. You surely can be proud of your memories! :-)
Fred
Uan Rasey’s soaringly beautiful and flawless trumpet over these achingly beautiful strings is so perfect I just sit here and weep over the beauty of it. Why is his name not known to everyone?
Studio musician, was trumpet teacher to Jack Sheldon among others.
Chinatown is one of my favorite movies. This soundtrack captures the essence of the film. Im always amazing of composers that can see visual art and make music to complement it. Bravo Jerry Goldsmith.
Absolutely sublime. Jerry Goldsmith was a genius.
One of the most beautiful "Black Movies" brought to the screen, becoming cult like "The Big Sleep", "The Maltese Falcon", "Mean Streets" or "Taxi Driver". All these films have an essential particularity, the musical composition which fits perfectly with the general atmosphere of the movie, the theme, the characters, the places, the detective story, the time and Jerry GOLDSMITH is one of the greatest composers in the history of cinema who is a past master in this genre. You never come out unscathed after seeing a Masterpiece like this, the film and its heavy atmosphere with its pathetic or tragic characters will continue to haunt you long after... Music has an essential part in the success of a Masterpiece like "CHINATOWN", I listen to it regularly to immerse myself in this dark, strong and nostalgic story of a definitively bygone era...
What do you mean by cult like?
*“ Forget it J. It’s chinatown“*
The finest score ever . . . the finest film composer ever -- Jerry Goldsmith was peerless.
Love the trumpet solos by Uan Rasey. Beautiful!!!
Breaks my heart …it’s so beautiful
Great noir movie.
Goldsmith was a great composer.
Achingly beautiful.
Doesn't get much better than this
I've never known anyone to use a harp to illustrate a story so effectively as Goldsmith does here.
Genius. He captured the mood of Chinatown and enhanced it beautifully. Love this!!!
Hauntingly Beautiful.
Thank You Mr. Goldsmith.
Possibly the most haunting and noir soundtracks ever, right next to David Raksin's Laura.
Christ in heaven
This takes my
Breath away.
Jack Nicholson was great in this movie. Many kids my age don't even know who Jack Nicholson is, but he is a true artist and I love his movies. It's sad that you can't find many actors like him today.
I guess those kids aren't Lakers fans.
Im 18 yo and I love Jack Nicholson, love Shinning, China town, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Batman (1989)❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Don’t forget Faye Dunaway. .
@@BoBo-ti6jh of course I wouldn't forget Faye Dunnaway she is up there in my favorite actors/actresses
He was great in "Five Easy Pieces". That was where I got hooked on his talent.
I've listened Islands in the stream too as soon as i learned Mr Goldsmith said it was his favorite work, and a very beautiful film too, bit underrated.
Pure unadulterated class. Goldsmith was a musical genius. His quality of work never wavered. An incredible artist. There will never be another like him.
Amazing movie and music
It' took Jerry goldsmith only two days to write this prefect score .
Sounds like more legend than reality. Factoring in the details of making scoring decisions and depending on how much he contributed to the orchestrations, two days seems unrealistic.
I read 10 days to score the movie, including recording. The composer that Goldsmith replaced at the 11th hour was Phillip Lambro who called the Oscar nominated score "television music". There has probably never been a movie score that so perfectly matched the picture.
2 days?? No effing way! He must've had this stored away somewhere..
The story is that Robert Evans (the producer) contract Phillip Lambro (as @Charon58 wrote) but Polanski wasn't very satisfied with the score, so he contacted with his friend and European composer, Bronislau Kaper. Finally Polanski reach an agreement with Goldsmith. Goldsmith composed this score in nine days, (its a small period of time as well) to compose this perfect score.
10 days not two. Still, amazing and so beautiful. And Uan Rasey's haunting sexy trumpet solos...
" just find the girl mr. gitts "
MAKE IT ☆☆☆ Classic John Huston line.!!!😊😊😊
My vote for the best bad guy ever. "You see, Mr. Gitts, most men never have to face the fact that under the right circumstances, they're capable of... anything." Absolutely perfect. (though I doubt I got the actual quote perfect.)
@@randywest1185 A desperate criminals way of moralising his immorality through the attempt to bring everyone down to his own level and make moral men his equals.
@@randywest1185 the way he drags away his incest child at the end and gittes is powerless and helplessly staring at them.
@@randywest1185 It's one of the best quotes, and especially deliveries, I've ever heard.
Best soundtrack ever for the best film ever
This is one of the beautiful music ever made
Famous musician
Fabulous music from Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith a really talented composer one of the best soundtracks I have heard j
Goldsmith was and is the absolute best.
Hit a home run on this one. Tks
This melody 🎵is so beautiful. An all time great.
The theme haunts me. Unforgettable
Thanks. Even more astounding when you consider he was brought in at the last minute to replace the previous composer, Phillip Lambro. "Chinatown" also has the greatest original screenplay ever written, IMO. Cheers.
This music is like stepping back into the world of Raymond Chandler.
So evocative, sultry, and lush - Goldsmith outdid himself with this score.
This has been one of my very favorite Goldsmith works for years! THANK YOU, FRED for putting it here!
From start to finish, a true masterpiece of film making.
JERRY GOLDSMITH
SIMPLY DIVINE
Great composer and a great music. The most beautiful track of Jerry
Just love the score to this film. Such a beautiful jazzy piece of music there. That's 1 thing I liked about so many 70s films, was the urban/metropolitan/jazzy overtones in them ....
Uan Rasey - on that trumpet. Sublime.
His Music will last Forever !
Randy
Hauntingly Beautiful! The music and the film are as one!
Goldsmith a Master of the Art of Music.
Miss you Jerry! Still one of the great all-time scores.
Gerry goldsmith was a genius❤
Today would have been the 88th birthday of Jerry Goldsmith.
There could not be a better moment to remember him with a requested score, which became famous as the score that has been written in 10 days.
Enjoy the film version tracks to Roman Polanski's milestone movie!
Appreciate this SO MUCH. This is my favorite of Goldsmith's and one of my favs of ALL TIME. It stands for so many things to me. REAL movie scores. REAL films with REAL soundtracks. Nicholson, Polanski, Huston. A different time, a different day. When men were men. When we could call a ts a ts, and an F an F. When men could have a drink in the afternoon. When public education and teachers were something that was RESPECTED. When young adults got a 4-year degree face-to-face in person.When movies could have a melancholy ending and not be wrapped in a pretty bow and we saw the pragmatic realities of the human race. When you actually WANTED to open a door for a woman and WANTED to hold the door open because she was graceful, soft-spoken and didn't weigh 300 pounds. Oh well. Now we have the 1s and 0s of binary code. SO MUCH FOR THE THINKING MAN. Enjoy the video games millennials. God hope someone enjoys this shallow culture.
Great music also like Thomas Newman , John Barry.Michel LeGrand Thomas Crown 68
91 now
From the very opening notes, this soundtrack just pulls you in deeper and deeper. It's the best of all time. Thanks for putting this together "Soundtrack Fred." I'm now addicted to listening to it on a continuous loop.
I'm enjoying this while eating shrimp fried rice and an egg roll. Thanks! I'll probably want to listen to it again in a few hours.
Youre living the life
This, the 2 movies and my time in L.A., its surreal how it plays with my heart and I love that... childhood, drama, unwritten dialogues....
What impressed me about Goldsmith was his restraint. He could've easily indulged his ego and filled a film with wall-to-wall music as Korngold and others would've. Instead, he'd be handed a three-hour film like "Patton," compose forty minutes of music and call it a day. No need to compose a ton of music just because the film was a long one.
Beautiful track. One of the best I' ve heard.
제리골드스미스의 음악중...가장 좋아하는 음악...너무나 차이나타운 다운....
rhapsodic-hypnotic-never a tune composed like it
bad for the glass...the most perfect piece of music ever
Just played on Sound of Cinema, BBC Radio 3. ❤️WONDERFUL Music!
Adding to the miracle -- the full score was composed, arranged, performed, and recorded in ten days.
Iconic score, much in the same way his work on ALIEN was. You can’t think of the movie or experience it fully without the precise work he wrote for each respective film. True genius.
Masterpiece.
One of my all time favorite scores from a great composer. Jerry was wonderfully influenced by great classical composers like Bartok. Listen for a section that sounds very close to Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta." I love the fact that Jerry used a lot of "contemporary" effects but always for a MUSICAL reason.
Really? I will listen to Bartok to find out if there is simularity
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I love this movie & the sequel too
Jerry Goldsmith is a genius,,,such perfect poetic music to a terrific movie and one of the great ones with a theme that rings loudly today more than many people realize
Hauntingly tragic and yet so beautiful, perfectly fitting this all-time classic movie. Thanks for posting!
Great trumpet 🎺 solo incredible sound .. Uan
I remember hearing album on a hi-fi stereo in Eaton's...it captures the mood of the 70s..before disco. Wow!
I saw Chinatown last year and ended up loving the noir genre, great score the film had
Fantastic Score by a Fantastic Composer !!!
If this could be the soundtrack to my life, that would be great.
My life may not have a Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack, but Roman Polanski has never sliced my nose.
Absolutely wonderful and so evocative and right for the film. A work of art and Pulanski initially wanted just 30's tunes and Goldsmith said, "Give me a weekend to come up with something." And, wow, did he!!! And to think that he wrote the theme music for "Room 222!"
Simply magnificent
When listening to that music I want to become a private detective, in my old age.
insane music. lush, melancholic. extremely evocative. What a great main title theme.
The best there ever was.
R.IP a great mister jerry goldsmith
Goldsmith made this and the theme for Rambo first blood 1-3. The soundtracks for both these movies make them that much better.
God I’ve loved this music ever since I watched it this evening for the first time, it’s just so haunting and eerily beautiful. My favourite part is definitely the beginning part of the song where it’s so mystical sounding and dark. That’s why the opening credits to this film are so epic, because this song is used.
le meilleur film détective avec Jack Nicholson et Faye Dunaway !! j'ai fort bien aimé et la musique du film est impeccable
Another Great Score by Jerry Goldsmith. Thanks Fred. Out.
Thank you for this masterpiece that breaks my heart every time I hear that mournful trumpet.
God ! 👁 love Chinatown.