Jerry Goldsmith was one of the finest EVER...period. James Horner, Bill Conti, John Williams and Hans Zimmer are amongst my favorites. But I don't think any one of them could have toped this masterpiece!
We watched this movie in high school as a basketball team 2 weeks before the Louisiana High school championship tournament. We were a bunch of small white guys( I was the tallest at 6'-2") and beat a really tall team whose front line was 6-7, 6-8, 6-6 for the state title. This movie and music will forever be burned into my memory and life.
Jerry Goldsmith was robbed of an Academy Award in 1986. Hoosiers was the best original score by far. More than 30 years later, Goldsmith's work on the original score for Hoosiers remains one of the best original scores of any movie of any era! Congrats, my friend! Well done!
I do agree. I saw this in the theater when I was younger... And if I were to make a top 10 list of movies, it would be in there in part because of what Jerry Goldsmith did, here.
"Round Midnight" (Herbie Hancock)...won Best Original Score the year that Hoosiers was nominated. It's ok, but it's not Hoosiers. ruclips.net/video/j2wj1xF8dUo/видео.html
I interviewed Jerry Goldsmith once. I was told to wait on his patio, he would be out soon. I began whistling the theme from "Hoosiers/Best Shot." He came out and said, "You like that?" I said, "Yes, I love it ... and I'm from Indiana." Goldsmith told me, "I think it's the best thing I ever wrote." Wow.
My personal favorite from Goldsmith is 'Fist Contact'. But this is actually probably the best thing that he ever wrote. I envy that you met him and discussed this piece. I've spent quite a bit of time in Indiana. My parents were both born there. It is as this music describes. It's simply amazing that Goldsmith was able to capture the corn and barns and Interstates and old school buildings and flat land forever in this. I wish that I could have met him. He is, by far, my favorite film composer. I remember exactly where I was, driving, when I heard that he had passed.
Only Jerry Goldsmith can get away with using synth music for a movie set in the 1950's and make it work really, really well. And that's why he's such a great composer.
@@EverettDudgeon138 Except Vangelis didn't get away with it. Chariots of Fire is an overrated, outdated score done by a one-note composer. He can't touch Goldsmith.
As good as this movie was, Jerry Goldsmith's Soundtrack made it even better. The synth line was in stark contrast to what we were seeing but it also showed us that courage, drive and determination are just as relevant today as they were then.
Very few movies have scores as incredible, as creative, as grand as the one Jerry Goldsmith composed for Hoosiers... every time I watch the movie, I´m in awe as the basketball scenes flow so perfectly with this score... Goldsmith couldve gone the route he chose for Rudy, used a more basic dramatic OST that puts tears instantly in your eyes because of the overabundance of sorrow... however. this energetic powerful song doesn´t serve as the tearjerker, the way it sounds in the scenes give it a sense of power that leaves you ecstastic and drawn to the movie, little by little the emotion takes in, and you just gotta admire that. Hoosiers is an amazing film, if it werent for this masterpiece of a socre the movie wouldnt have had the sheer impact it has now
Concur, there are a couple of movies like that, let's you know your ahead of the game if you ask me. Who wants to be dead inside like a vampire? Unless your Nick Cage : )
it always brings a tear to my eye too, if you like these kind of movie's as I do check out the movie American flayer's which is just as equally powerful and passionate, and has a great movie score to match.
even though a lot of people think that this great movie is about basketball, that's just the undertone of the film its about triumph of the spirit, its what gene Hackman says in his final speech don't get get caught up in winning or loosing this game, if you put your heart and soul into being the best that you can be I don't care what the score board's say, as far as I'm concerned we're going to be winner's, best basketball ball movie of all time, best shot.
I think Jerry Goldsmith is the only composer who's music can get me pumped or excited about getting movitated. RIP Jerry Goldsmith, you are an inspiration to many.
there are many artist's who raise the bar, and touch so many people with the talent that God gave them and Jerry Goldsmith was such an artist not only did he Grace us with his passion for music, but he paved the way for many a young composer, to which anyone has heard any of his movie scores will be forever grateful for sharing his genius and inspiring us to a level of music that will be forever with us.
One of my favourite ever movies around sport and surely one of the best ever made!? The movie makes important points about self sacrifice and bravery and this soundtrack, this wonderful, stirring, emotional soundtrack by one of the best ever composers wonderfully underlines these qualities which we should all, including me, attempt to discover!
One of the all time great scores for the Greatest Sports Movie Of All Time. This movie still brings tears to my eyes. Anyone who played high school ball and loved it as much as I did knows exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm now 38 years old I was 8 years old when this movie came out basketball in Indiana is a sport I grew up watching and I'm on my 15 year as a season men's basketball ticket holder for the Irish it's been a great program to be apart of the guys on the team are all like brothers to me two trips to the elite 8 I am hoping for a little more this season maybe a final four would be nice the success on the team has come because group of guys wanna work hard to make a season so successful.
I'm 37 and grew up in a basketball town in Nebraska. So many great memories. Watched a girl in the mid 1980's come from a broke home and get herself through college with basketball. She was always up at the park shooting and she lived across town. I don't ever remember her coming back except when her college team came to town to play an exhibition game against another college. Must have been a great moment for her.
I've had the pleasure of growing up with this music and this movie all my life. I feel as if it is a soundtrack for a time gone my in Indiana...our one class basketball tourney is gone and buried, but I can always remember it when I hear the echoes of this great score.
1:45 - "The Moment": it's a thing, in sports, that you can look up. Some of statistically best athletes in history aren't as well remembered as some with lesser stats who are Legend, because of either "understanding The Moment", or just plain being an intricate part of it as it happened. On this song, the greatest sports movie song of them all, 1:45 is "It", where It begins, and the feeling of a fading dream suddenly changes to one of the greatest things ever seen. You can play it for any comeback, ever, in any sport or conflict, and it will MAKE you want to give the famous last full measure of devotion, to whatever that game, battle or cause.
Everytime I hear this track I think of my son Gabriel Evan Suddreth on how he is a very gifted student and football player. I couldn't be more than proud of my son who has high hopes for his future in the NFL.
Watched Hoosiers 1 final time as a high school ball player before our 1st rd playoff game. Did no hw that night and none in school that day. All I thought of was that game and how much I loved my seniors and my team. Will never forget the lockeroom after that game. We played our hearts out. God I miss it. Go Hoosiers
I was 8 years old When this Movie was Released I'm From Indiana and the High School Basketball Watching it has always been My Passion it's just an amazing Sport the Coaches the Players throughout the State and Knowing the Zeller Boys Luke Tyler and Cody It's Just been amazing.....out of all the Years Of High School Basketball I have seen a Family except for the Drew's and Zeller Family It's Been amazing and It keeps getting better and Better every year......
I was at the very first showing ever of the completed version of "Hoosiers" at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis, which was for the local people who were in the movie. I knew several of them and the invited me. The governor got to see the second showing that evening. About 30 seconds into the show, with this music playing to the sunrise I leaned over to one of the others and said "I like this movie already." I had been to the state finals in Hinkle Firehouse as our team played in the 1967 State Finals, and later covered more than 20 state finals as the photographer of the IHSAA. I still love to watch this movie and listen to this wonderful music.
i was in a bad mood tonight,and went to this video,and it cheered me up!! BEST PART OF MOVIE IS WHEN GENE HACKMAN TOLD THE REF"MY TEAMS ON THE FLOOR" when he only had 4 players!! I fucking loved it!!
What a master stroke is the drum machine. It perfectly mimics the sound a basketball being dribbled. There weren't two Jerry Goldsmiths. 7:12 "I'll make it."
Only Goldsmith can do this. + I believe that he used the sound of bouncing basketballs for some of the percussion (play it again and you'll "hear" it suddnely!). A fun day out for that section of the orchestra. Gym shorts, timpani and basketballs.
After all these years, I just realized both the lower and higher pitched thumps in the percussion sound like a basketball hitting the court! From the beginning up till about 6 minutes. Sorry if this is somehow already in the comments…
"Hoosiers" was an exceptional movie about an extraordinary team. If someone tries to do a remake of it, they would have better luck with remaking "Gone With The Wind".
If you look at movie music from the standpoint of this question: Did it help or Did it hurt the movie? Then you have to throw this into the all-time-great-movie-music list. And you do not have to add the label "Sports" when you do.
If Goldsmith made ready-meals, the ready-meals would walk themselves out of the supermarket, unwrap themselves, turn the oven on until they were sizzling hot, and then walk themselves over to your dinner table. And they'd be so nutritious that you'd pack on muscle just by eating them, and you'd live a 100 years longer just because you ate Jerry Goldsmith ready-made meals. Its a shame then, that he wasn't in the meal making business. However, I'll take his music as a workable alternative.
Las veces que he podido verla,y siempre,simepre termino con un escalofrío que recorre mi espina dorsal hasta hacerme llorar como un niño. Si tuviera que reunir en este comentario todos los valores que recoge esta obra maestra me llevaría una eternidad. Y Gene Hackman.....ayyyy Gene Hackman,ENTRENADOR!!!! Min 8:30-8:45. Casi me lo hago en los pantalones de la emoción. Grande GoldSmith!
Raise hand if you listened to this with eyes closed and it was indescribable!!!!!
"Team, team, team. The five players on the floor function as one single unit. OK? No one more important than the other. I love you guys."
This proves beyond a doubt that Jerry Goldsmith BELONGS on the list of ALL TIME GREAT film composers! PERIOD!!!
it is truly a masterwork. there is absolutely no doubt.
@@nicholasvaughan1328 I 2nd that!👍👍
God bless Indiana basketball and the Midwest. I’m from Michigan.
Jerry Goldsmith was one of the finest EVER...period. James Horner, Bill Conti, John Williams and Hans Zimmer are amongst my favorites. But I don't think any one of them could have toped this masterpiece!
We watched this movie in high school as a basketball team 2 weeks before the Louisiana High school championship tournament. We were a bunch of small white guys( I was the tallest at 6'-2") and beat a really tall team whose front line was 6-7, 6-8, 6-6 for the state title. This movie and music will forever be burned into my memory and life.
I'll make it.
Jerry Goldsmith was robbed of an Academy Award in 1986. Hoosiers was the best original score by far. More than 30 years later, Goldsmith's work on the original score for Hoosiers remains one of the best original scores of any movie of any era! Congrats, my friend! Well done!
I do agree. I saw this in the theater when I was younger... And if I were to make a top 10 list of movies, it would be in there in part because of what Jerry Goldsmith did, here.
"Round Midnight" (Herbie Hancock)...won Best Original Score the year that Hoosiers was nominated. It's ok, but it's not Hoosiers. ruclips.net/video/j2wj1xF8dUo/видео.html
It's a crime he only won one Oscar. Should have easily won 5 IMO.
Rudy was damned good too!
I interviewed Jerry Goldsmith once. I was told to wait on his patio, he would be out soon. I began whistling the theme from "Hoosiers/Best Shot." He came out and said, "You like that?" I said, "Yes, I love it ... and I'm from Indiana." Goldsmith told me, "I think it's the best thing I ever wrote." Wow.
My personal favorite from Goldsmith is 'Fist Contact'. But this is actually probably the best thing that he ever wrote. I envy that you met him and discussed this piece. I've spent quite a bit of time in Indiana. My parents were both born there. It is as this music describes. It's simply amazing that Goldsmith was able to capture the corn and barns and Interstates and old school buildings and flat land forever in this. I wish that I could have met him. He is, by far, my favorite film composer. I remember exactly where I was, driving, when I heard that he had passed.
When did you interview him?
Omg that’s amazing I wish I could have met him.
Wow. I love your story. My personal favorite was 1994's
"The Shadow". Awesome story though. Just curious, why were you on his patio? Lol
@@trivellekoolaidrian6921 He was looking for the gold...bc his name was Goldsmith...(okay, that wasn't a very good joke...but I did try...)
JERRY GOLDSMITH IS THE MOST WONDERFUL COMPOSER!!
Williams, Mancini, and Goldsmith - the best movie soundtrack composers of all time.
Agreed, but I would also include Vangelis & Basil Poledouris (for his Conan soundtrack alone) to that group.
Only Jerry Goldsmith can get away with using synth music for a movie set in the 1950's and make it work really, really well. And that's why he's such a great composer.
43nostromo Um Vangelis And Chariots Of Fire which was set way before the 1950s.
@@EverettDudgeon138 Except Vangelis didn't get away with it. Chariots of Fire is an overrated, outdated score done by a one-note composer. He can't touch Goldsmith.
@@FranticAnimations EXACTLY.
I don't understand how someone can conjure such a beautiful thing. Pure genius.
As good as this movie was, Jerry Goldsmith's Soundtrack made it even better. The synth line was in stark contrast to what we were seeing but it also showed us that courage, drive and determination are just as relevant today as they were then.
Very few movies have scores as incredible, as creative, as grand as the one Jerry Goldsmith composed for Hoosiers... every time I watch the movie, I´m in awe as the basketball scenes flow so perfectly with this score... Goldsmith couldve gone the route he chose for Rudy, used a more basic dramatic OST that puts tears instantly in your eyes because of the overabundance of sorrow... however. this energetic powerful song doesn´t serve as the tearjerker, the way it sounds in the scenes give it a sense of power that leaves you ecstastic and drawn to the movie, little by little the emotion takes in, and you just gotta admire that. Hoosiers is an amazing film, if it werent for this masterpiece of a socre the movie wouldnt have had the sheer impact it has now
When Dennis Hopper leaps up on his bed and screams "YESS!" as Goldsmith's music soars... always dab a tear from my eye.
Concur, there are a couple of movies like that, let's you know your ahead of the game if you ask me. Who wants to be dead inside like a vampire? Unless your Nick Cage : )
it always brings a tear to my eye too, if you like these kind of movie's as I do check out the movie American flayer's which is just as equally powerful and passionate, and has a great movie score to match.
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I've been lucky enough to have two or three "Hoosiers" moments in my life, and you know exactly how he feels when that ball goes through the hoop.
Love the small towns. Used to be a sportswriter. I rooted for those small towns.
How can anyone not like this music and this movie? This is one of the all time great movies and I enjoy watching it every time it comes on.
PS-this also proves what a digital keyboard can REALLY do-in the hands of a TRULY GREAT master musician!👌
even though a lot of people think that this great movie is about basketball, that's just the undertone of the film its about triumph of the spirit, its what gene Hackman says in his final speech don't get get caught up in winning or loosing this game, if you put your heart and soul into being the best that you can be I don't care what the score board's say, as far as I'm concerned we're going to be winner's, best basketball ball movie of all time, best shot.
CX xsrvd
Nizza george Well said Sir.
And to think Hackman was a horse’s ass during the filming.
I think Jerry Goldsmith is the only composer who's music can get me pumped or excited about getting movitated. RIP Jerry Goldsmith, you are an inspiration to many.
One of my favorite soundtracks of all time. A unique blend of orchestra and 80's techno. Somehow Goldsmith pulls it off.
RIP Jerry Goldsmith-you ARE missed!!!
there are many artist's who raise the bar, and touch so many people with the talent that God gave them and Jerry Goldsmith was such an artist not only did he Grace us with his passion for music, but he paved the way for many a young composer, to which anyone has heard any of his movie scores will be forever grateful for sharing his genius and inspiring us to a level of music that will be forever with us.
+Nizza george well put chief!
Very well said Nizza george! So true!
Very true his brilliance lives on.
Just think how the movies have brought us music we might never have heard without them. But music in the movies often lives beyond the movies, too!
it starts briiliantly and it only gets better for the next 15 minutes, thats how you do proper exciting music! ole, jerry!
One of my favourite ever movies around sport and surely one of the best ever made!? The movie makes important points about self sacrifice and bravery and this soundtrack, this wonderful, stirring, emotional soundtrack by one of the best ever composers wonderfully underlines these qualities which we should all, including me, attempt to discover!
One of the all time great scores for the Greatest Sports Movie Of All Time. This movie still brings tears to my eyes. Anyone who played high school ball and loved it as much as I did knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Who needs John Williams when you've got Jerry Goldsmith. Don't worry, John-you are definitely a tough act to follow.
Unparalleled brilliance!Nobody can reach Jerrys talent!
Awesome score! I just watched Hoosiers, and while I loved the movie, the music and score is one of the best I've heard. :)
It was nominated for an Oscar that year so yeah it was pretty good. :)
I remember watching Hoosiers every fall. A classic that I could just watch over and over again.
The best sports score EVER.
I'm now 38 years old I was 8 years old when this movie came out basketball in Indiana is a sport I grew up watching and I'm on my 15 year as a season men's basketball ticket holder for the Irish it's been a great program to be apart of the guys on the team are all like brothers to me two trips to the elite 8 I am hoping for a little more this season maybe a final four would be nice the success on the team has come because group of guys wanna work hard to make a season so successful.
I'm 37 and grew up in a basketball town in Nebraska. So many great memories. Watched a girl in the mid 1980's come from a broke home and get herself through college with basketball. She was always up at the park shooting and she lived across town. I don't ever remember her coming back except when her college team came to town to play an exhibition game against another college. Must have been a great moment for her.
Always makes me cry.
Everything about this movie was great. Especially the soundtrack and Gene Hackmam- who is probably the most underrated actor hollyweird has seen.
I've had the pleasure of growing up with this music and this movie all my life. I feel as if it is a soundtrack for a time gone my in Indiana...our one class basketball tourney is gone and buried, but I can always remember it when I hear the echoes of this great score.
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an excellent soundtrack for an excellent sports film. jerry goldsmith was one of the finest american film composers.
One of the best movie themes.
Good movie. Great inspiring tune.
1:45 - "The Moment": it's a thing, in sports, that you can look up. Some of statistically best athletes in history aren't as well remembered as some with lesser stats who are Legend, because of either "understanding The Moment", or just plain being an intricate part of it as it happened. On this song, the greatest sports movie song of them all, 1:45 is "It", where It begins, and the feeling of a fading dream suddenly changes to one of the greatest things ever seen. You can play it for any comeback, ever, in any sport or conflict, and it will MAKE you want to give the famous last full measure of devotion, to whatever that game, battle or cause.
agreed
Everytime I hear this track I think of my son Gabriel Evan Suddreth on how he is a very gifted student and football player. I couldn't be more than proud of my son who has high hopes for his future in the NFL.
Makes me well up. The most up-beat piece he ever did.
One of my all time favorite movies!!! Always got goosebumps when the drum kicks in (1:47)!!! Best score I've ever heard by far!!!
the best!1!!!!!!
Watched Hoosiers 1 final time as a high school ball player before our 1st rd playoff game. Did no hw that night and none in school that day. All I thought of was that game and how much I loved my seniors and my team. Will never forget the lockeroom after that game. We played our hearts out. God I miss it. Go Hoosiers
really sporty music..while im exercising in gym normally listening this.. its grate work.. grate Goldsmiths Golden work.....
The best basketball movie ever
Get the chills everytime
I was 8 years old When this Movie was Released I'm From Indiana and the High School Basketball Watching it has always been My Passion it's just an amazing Sport the Coaches the Players throughout the State and Knowing the Zeller Boys Luke Tyler and Cody It's Just been amazing.....out of all the Years Of High School Basketball I have seen a Family except for the Drew's and Zeller Family It's Been amazing and It keeps getting better and Better every year......
Goldsmith was special, and Williams isn't far behind.
I friggin love this.
At one time they would play this sound track in between at the indiana sectional we were in. it was cool.
Great music by s great guy!
Now let's win this!
I was at the very first showing ever of the completed version of "Hoosiers" at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis, which was for the local people who were in the movie. I knew several of them and the invited me. The governor got to see the second showing that evening. About 30 seconds into the show, with this music playing to the sunrise I leaned over to one of the others and said "I like this movie already." I had been to the state finals in Hinkle Firehouse as our team played in the 1967 State Finals, and later covered more than 20 state finals as the photographer of the IHSAA. I still love to watch this movie and listen to this wonderful music.
keep the mistake Hossiers. If they change it to Hoosiers, they will remove the song for copyright. Keep the dream alive you Hossiers.......
To me it's the best sports movie ever made.
As great as this movie is, it is very flawed. The soundtrack is not flawed at all. Perfect music for the movie.
"i dont care what the score board says at the end of a game, in my book were gonna be winners!"
OK !?!?!?!
The emotional response evoked by this song makes me feel like such a dork. Still great though!
Get chills every time at 5:15 to 5:35.
i was in a bad mood tonight,and went to this video,and it cheered me up!! BEST PART OF MOVIE IS WHEN GENE HACKMAN TOLD THE REF"MY TEAMS ON THE FLOOR" when he only had 4 players!! I fucking loved it!!
Jerry are THE BEST!
What a master stroke is the drum machine. It perfectly mimics the sound a basketball being dribbled. There weren't two Jerry Goldsmiths.
7:12 "I'll make it."
the drum machine and synthesizers in this soundtrack are totally amazing and perfect. this is lightning in a fucking bottle.
Okay, I start crying at 10:58. Particularly when I've been drinking vodka. Which is like every day.
The BEST the BEST and THE BEST
Only Goldsmith can do this. + I believe that he used the sound of bouncing basketballs for some of the percussion (play it again and you'll "hear" it suddnely!). A fun day out for that section of the orchestra. Gym shorts, timpani and basketballs.
After all these years, I just realized both the lower and higher pitched thumps in the percussion sound like a basketball hitting the court! From the beginning up till about 6 minutes. Sorry if this is somehow already in the comments…
Inspirational nough said
Best Shot was the movie title over seas.
For anyone who likes this movie, check out american flyers with Kevin Costner, it also has a great soundtrack live on the 80s.
Very good music, I have this Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD. Name is "This Best Of Hemdale"; It's 1991 CD.
Amazing
Modest mussorgsky influences . The percussion is like the basketball rhythm drill.
Actually Alot from MM. Goldsmith has said he was strong influence on him.
"Hoosiers" was an exceptional movie about an extraordinary team. If someone tries to do a remake of it, they would have better luck with remaking "Gone With The Wind".
Our hickory's won't crack!
If you look at movie music from the standpoint of this question: Did it help or Did it hurt the movie? Then you have to throw this into the all-time-great-movie-music list. And you do not have to add the label "Sports" when you do.
Jerry Goldsmith me recuerda mucho a Rick Wakeman en el OST de México 86: Heroes, quiza por que se estilaba mucho el sintetizador en los 80's.
8:33 YESSSS YESSSSS !!!!!!
Maybe they were right about us! Maybe we don’t belong here!
I wanna go play basketball in indiana right now
He also sampled a basketball dribbling and used it in addition to the drum machine.
@BlueberryHearts - Agreed. Also, don't forget Rudy!!!
8:58 beautiful french horn counterpoint.
Awsome
9:45-10:55 is the best part of the whole score
For me, Best Part starts from 11:04 !!!!!
10:50 "I love you guys."
10:50 "I love you guys..."
If Goldsmith made ready-meals, the ready-meals would walk themselves out of the supermarket, unwrap themselves, turn the oven on until they were sizzling hot, and then walk themselves over to your dinner table.
And they'd be so nutritious that you'd pack on muscle just by eating them, and you'd live a 100 years longer just because you ate Jerry Goldsmith ready-made meals.
Its a shame then, that he wasn't in the meal making business. However, I'll take his music as a workable alternative.
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Awesome comment. Made my day!
Vamos argentina y milei
Chitwood is the best player Ive ever seen.
@rsb3118 and then again this year
It's "Hoosiers," btw. And no -- no one really knows where the term came from.
4:35
Las veces que he podido verla,y siempre,simepre termino con un escalofrío que recorre mi espina dorsal hasta hacerme llorar como un niño.
Si tuviera que reunir en este comentario todos los valores que recoge esta obra maestra me llevaría una eternidad.
Y Gene Hackman.....ayyyy Gene Hackman,ENTRENADOR!!!!
Min 8:30-8:45. Casi me lo hago en los pantalones de la emoción.
Grande GoldSmith!
Go Butler!
I'll make it
8:25
Go KU Jayhawks Men's Basketball
Jimmy Chitwood was a bad man!