@@jjsc4396 You guys are so right. I saw the very end of that L.A. This speaks of all the quiet streets, dark restaurants, evening mists from the ocean...of walking alone at night in Echo Park or sitting on the parapet at Griffith Observatory and looking at the city lights below...thinking "This...this is where James Dean was..." The Los Angeles that was and will never be again.
Just got home from a 3am drive on Mulholland Dr looking over the lights of a Los Angeles while listening to this theme. LA has been rather quiet these days...
Romantic, sad, noir, ominous... one of the most beautiful love themes ever written, and one of the best scores by Jerry Goldsmith. I miss this kind of film music.
Utterly beautiful...When Robert Evans, theproducer of the film "Chinatown," first heard the score, he was mesmerized. I quote from "The Big Goodbye" by Sam Wasson: "The sound stunned Evans. The ache, the longing, dying but sweetly pleading, like a happy memory drowning in truth...The feeling was that word he lost so much trying to find and hold on to -- now he had it -- a word, in the time of Nixon, almost embarrassing to speak -- "romance." For Evans it was more than moonlight and ocean winds and Gatsby's green flare across the bay; it was not fantasy but palpable evidence of a dream becoming true, the rare and shivery threshold of immeasurable pleasure, the promise imagination grants the mundane, and the mountain stream through which beauty and goodness, against all probability and reason, flow down into the world as art."
I've been playing this on trumpet since the movie came out. It is a joy to play, a perfect song for trumpet. Here played by the immortal Uan Rasey. Listen to L A Confidential love theme. Goldsmith did bot scores and ripped himself off for that score. The trumpet solo there is played by Malcom McNabb who was mentored by Rasey. BOTH themes were inspired by Lenny Bernstein's Score to On the Waterfront's opening theme.
I just read an interesting fact about the score. When they were recording it, Jerry Goldsmith told Rasey to "play it sexy, but play it like it's bad sex." I thought that was funny.
@@paulsenforprez And it sounds almost exactly like that. The trumpet isn't into it at ALL, like if there was an anthem for a flaccid penis, it would be this one 🤣
Some info on Rasey: Rasey was born in Glasgow, Montana, on August 22, 1921. He taught himself to play the trumpet as a child. Rasey became a first-call trumpet player for MGM studios from 1949 until the early 1970s, and other studio orchestras. He contracted polio as a child and spent his career playing trumpet while using crutches.He lived in Southern California, where he taught privately into his old age. His pupils included Arturo Sandoval and Jack Sheldon. AMAZING!
Uan was a huge track & field fan which may have been somehow connected with his own polio? He began in big bands and then was very much in demand for studio work, but had contracts written so he could be a spectator at Olympics and major track meets. By the way, another great trumpet solo on soundtracks was student Jack Sheldon on The Sandpiper (1965).
Sad but true, just finished watching the film and within the first few seconds of hearing this in the opening credits then BANG, violins hit then title card read "music by Jerry Goldsmith". It was rediscovering him all over and my god... truly an amazing experience. Rest well Mr. Goldsmith, you've given us all music to feel to.
What's beautiful about this score, is that you hear it at the beginning as a lovely piece of music, but after the final scene, the score turns into the theme of the story..........brilliant! God bless!
Probably my favorite film from the 70's..with the likes of Godfather I & II, Star Wars, Network, Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter etc...that's saying a lot. This score is unforgettable.
I was just watching the movie Chinatown and actually stopped midway through the credits because of the music. I just had to make a comment here about the music. Wow! One of the greatest film scores ever, listen, and you will hear the story unfold; beautiful, melancholy and tragic, just like the film . Thank you Jerry Goldsmith!
They say that when the movie came out Paramount Studios got so many calls asking who the trumpet soloist was. Many times the players names are lost because it’s just another session among many daily studio sessions, but this one by Uan Rasey was extra special!
Now I don't know if anyone notice, or whether that was intentional or not, but I love how those opening shrills from the violins sound like a creaky water valve being opened; as though they were foreshadowing the crucial plot point of the movie. If ever that was the case, such was the *genius* of Jerry Goldsmith to employ auditory context clues within his music.
Uan Rasey ...amazing, he becomes the trumpet and the creative interpreter for Jerry Goldsmith. Here in this touching, emotional, theme we get a beautiful cry of and for love
The passion in which he plays this piece is true brilliance and lifts me to another place each time it's played . Thanks for sharing that info , sounds like your a fan of his also .
+Michael Rotman That"s great ! You must feel fortunate to have studied with such an accomplished player .I play this piece often and very loud , I wonder what my neighbors must think , but at that level it is truly something . I have a very good sound system so it's blissful Thanks again .
I do feel fortunate, he helped me a lot, and it's fun meeting someone so great , I made a replica of the CD leabel, which give Uan credit and asked him to sign it. Its a treasure keepsake. Uan died about 4 years ago
Finally managed to get this score on CD. Bought it too at a ridiculously low price as well, just 5$. Love Goldsmith's work and his stuff isn't always easily found especially on CD. Glad to have this as part of my collection...my vinyl copy is in bad shape so hearing this again, with sharp and crisp sound is a real pleasure
Well.Being involved in the music business for nearly 2 decades in one way or another it would be a good idea to get it. Re releases most of the time do not stay on the market for a long period of time and just like the original pressing tend to sky rocket in value. Robocop and The Magnificent Seven scores are prime examples of re releases that followed that pattern.
Oh my gosh this is Gorgeous , this kind of music is soaked into my soul but I have NO idea where from because my mama and daddy never listened or played this kinda music yet it’s so familiar ?
Let's give it up for the composers, Jerry Goldsmith & Bernard Herrmann. Their oeuvres should be watched, listened to, as well as studied if you consider what other films they helped make "Classics" as Jack Nicholson would say.
Soy guatemteco y de verdad admiro el cine de los años setenta de hollywood al igual que las composiciones musicales, es lo mejor que se puede restaurar de un siglo lleno de evoluciones en el cine. Roman polansky ha sido un director muy atrapan te e impredecible, sus películas tienen historias llenas de vida.
jim partridge 5 years is tough for me to say, but if we go past 10 years or so, Harry Potter, Inception, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings. Off the top of my head, those are the only ones I can remember. This is my favorite theme to a film though.
Reminds me of meeting a girl/woman who, on second sight, seemed about as troubled as Faye Dunaway's character in this film. Or perhaps I've seen too many film noirs and just read the situation wrong. And now, to be sure, I'll never know. Hear that blue melody, sonny boy, and carry on. Damn Noah Cross...and I still remember Chinatown. "He owns the police".
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This theme is literally old Los Angeles
+Tecun85 Without a doubt.
If only people could experience the Los Angeles of old. It had a thing.....it was everything you hear.
Just not a paved over uber megalopolis.
Tecun85 it sure is. Exquisite
@@jjsc4396 You guys are so right. I saw the very end of that L.A. This speaks of all the quiet streets, dark restaurants, evening mists from the ocean...of walking alone at night in Echo Park or sitting on the parapet at Griffith Observatory and looking at the city lights below...thinking "This...this is where James Dean was..." The Los Angeles that was and will never be again.
Just got home from a 3am drive on Mulholland Dr looking over the lights of a Los Angeles while listening to this theme. LA has been rather quiet these days...
One of the most haunting soundtracks in film history from the best neo- noir ever
Haunting? I find it beautiful tho...
Agree 100%
@@TheCaptainnoU They're not mutually exclusive descriptions.
Goldsmith ripped himself off and it's very close to the theme from LA Confidential. Check it out !
@@theimp5901 LA got nothing on this
Romantic, sad, noir, ominous... one of the most beautiful love themes ever written, and one of the best scores by Jerry Goldsmith. I miss this kind of film music.
Saw this and Taxi Driver back to back. Two perfect jazz scores
The 70's is the best era for films in my opinion
Totally agree........the peak of cinema. It's all downhill from there.
Man I wish I could smash that like button harder :U
stratton oakmont, There's an actual song of the love theme and taxi driver, it's pretty sexy.
Two movies about the greatest cities in the US
In the opening segment, the piano plays a short sequence that sounds like the tinkle of water drops - water being a major theme of the film.
Utterly beautiful...When Robert Evans, theproducer of the film "Chinatown," first heard the score, he was mesmerized. I quote from "The Big Goodbye" by Sam Wasson: "The sound stunned Evans. The ache, the longing, dying but sweetly pleading, like a happy memory drowning in truth...The feeling was that word he lost so much trying to find and hold on to -- now he had it -- a word, in the time of Nixon, almost embarrassing to speak -- "romance." For Evans it was more than moonlight and ocean winds and Gatsby's green flare across the bay; it was not fantasy but palpable evidence of a dream becoming true, the rare and shivery threshold of immeasurable pleasure, the promise imagination grants the mundane, and the mountain stream through which beauty and goodness, against all probability and reason, flow down into the world as art."
I've been playing this on trumpet since the movie came out. It is a joy to play, a perfect song for trumpet. Here played by the immortal Uan Rasey. Listen to L A Confidential love theme. Goldsmith did bot scores and ripped himself off for that score. The trumpet solo there is played by Malcom McNabb who was mentored by Rasey. BOTH themes were inspired by Lenny Bernstein's Score to On the Waterfront's opening theme.
the most beautiful trumpet solo I ever heard.
I just read an interesting fact about the score. When they were recording it, Jerry Goldsmith told Rasey to "play it sexy, but play it like it's bad sex." I thought that was funny.
@@paulsenforprez And it sounds almost exactly like that. The trumpet isn't into it at ALL, like if there was an anthem for a flaccid penis, it would be this one 🤣
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
Try this one as well.
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and
ruclips.net/video/e5YBcXwPQcI/видео.html
Enjoy
One of the best movies ever with an amazing soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith.
Written in 10 days. Amazing.
Yes, you so right!
This and taxi driver. Absolutely the best movies to ever come out of Hollywood
The most beautiful, haunting melody in all films.
Some info on Rasey: Rasey was born in Glasgow, Montana, on August 22, 1921. He taught himself to play the trumpet as a child. Rasey became a first-call trumpet player for MGM studios from 1949 until the early 1970s, and other studio orchestras. He contracted polio as a child and spent his career playing trumpet while using crutches.He lived in Southern California, where he taught privately into his old age. His pupils included Arturo Sandoval and Jack Sheldon. AMAZING!
Uan was a huge track & field fan which may have been somehow connected with his own polio? He began in big bands and then was very much in demand for studio work, but had contracts written so he could be a spectator at Olympics and major track meets.
By the way, another great trumpet solo on soundtracks was student Jack Sheldon on The Sandpiper (1965).
I love my nose. And I love breathing through it.
Sad but true, just finished watching the film and within the first few seconds of hearing this in the opening credits then BANG, violins hit then title card read "music by Jerry Goldsmith". It was rediscovering him all over and my god... truly an amazing experience. Rest well Mr. Goldsmith, you've given us all music to feel to.
Once heard, this is one hauntingly beautiful melody that you won't forget.
What's beautiful about this score, is that you hear it at the beginning as a lovely piece of music, but after the final scene, the score turns into the theme of the story..........brilliant! God bless!
That's some good playing - he knows how to turn back the clock - making it sound like swagger - like a Cadillac
Best detective film of all time imo.
So haunting. So beautiful. So so lonely.
SO NOSTALGIC; HAS A LONGING TO IT.
Love to listen to this on repeat. I think, Jerry Goldsmith writes fantastic neo-noir music. L.A. Confidential, Basic Instinct.
The sound of melancholy. Still stunning.
Probably my favorite film from the 70's..with the likes of Godfather I & II, Star Wars, Network, Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter etc...that's saying a lot.
This score is unforgettable.
I was just watching the movie Chinatown and actually stopped midway through the credits because of the music. I just had to make a comment here about the music. Wow! One of the greatest film scores ever, listen, and you will hear the story unfold; beautiful, melancholy and tragic, just like the film . Thank you Jerry Goldsmith!
Exactly.
They say that when the movie came out Paramount Studios got so many calls asking who the trumpet soloist was. Many times the players names are lost because it’s just another session among many daily studio sessions, but this one by Uan Rasey was extra special!
One of the all time great musical scores.
Now I don't know if anyone notice, or whether that was intentional or not, but I love how those opening shrills from the violins sound like a creaky water valve being opened; as though they were foreshadowing the crucial plot point of the movie. If ever that was the case, such was the *genius* of Jerry Goldsmith to employ auditory context clues within his music.
This is just so good. Also makes me think it music from Bladerunner.
Yes! This is exactly what i thought. I'm guessing its not from that though. But gave me BR vibes
@@lilandraneramani1 Chinatown precedes Blade Runner by nearly a decade, so if anything, Vangelis took inspiration from Goldsmith.
Neo Noir classics. Fuck I love this sub genre so much I wish I can kiss it in the face MHM
Forget it, Jack. It's Chinatown.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Jared Forget it, Robert Towne. It's China Jake.
Forget it, Jake. It's Cloudtown.
+herociouz Forget it, Homer. It's Chirotown.
herociouz Forget it Number One, it's Lazy Town.
Uan Rasey ...amazing, he becomes the trumpet and the creative interpreter for Jerry Goldsmith. Here in this touching, emotional, theme we get a beautiful cry of and for love
This could be the best trumpet solo ever !
The trumpeter was Uan Rasey, one of the greats session men
The passion in which he plays this piece is true brilliance and lifts me to another place each time it's played . Thanks for sharing that info , sounds like your a fan of his also .
SLYSPYHIWAY90 I studied with him
+Michael Rotman That"s great ! You must feel fortunate to have studied with such an accomplished player .I play this piece often and very loud , I wonder what my neighbors must think , but at that level it is truly something . I have a very good sound system so it's blissful Thanks again .
I do feel fortunate, he helped me a lot, and it's fun meeting someone so great
, I made a replica of the CD leabel, which give Uan credit and asked him to sign it. Its a treasure keepsake. Uan died about 4 years ago
Can't stop commenting on this. It has to be one of Jerry's most beautiful love themes or any love theme ever.
Alright Curly you can't eat the Venituan Blinds I just had them installed on Wednesday 🤣
I have shivers all over my body.
:)
ME, TOO! IT CUTS TO YOUR SOUL!
Absolutely lovely . . . . and I can still see John Candy walking in to the distance wearing that grass skirt.
Bravo Mr. Goldsmith. RIP
Such a hauntling beautiful and introspective piece.
To take an instrument to a level that is insanely beautiful is just the pinnacle of what that instrument was meant for !
Uan Rasey’s trumpet solos are so hauntingly beautiful,
Hauntingly beautiful!
For those who are interested, Uan Rasey played a King Silver Flair trumpet for the theme song
Finally managed to get this score on CD. Bought it too at a ridiculously low price as well, just 5$. Love Goldsmith's work and his stuff isn't always easily found especially on CD. Glad to have this as part of my collection...my vinyl copy is in bad shape so hearing this again, with sharp and crisp sound is a real pleasure
Well.Being involved in the music business for nearly 2 decades in one way or another it would be a good idea to get it. Re releases most of the time do not stay on the market for a long period of time and just like the original pressing tend to sky rocket in value. Robocop and The Magnificent Seven scores are prime examples of re releases that followed that pattern.
Wonderful movie. Haunting soundtrack.
Haunting is the word...
You could mix and match adjectives and be every bit as correct...
no one can play a trumpet solo like this, impossible! :) Amazing he can make the trumpet have this most beautiful sound I ever hears from a trumpet
No they can't and that's why I wrote this in homage to Uan Rasey, I just wanted a longer rendition. wp.me/pyznn-4mp
BillSU77
Trumpet : Uan Rasey .. great sound!
Uan Rasey was quite an amazing fellow.
I need more movies like this now!
try The Two Jakes ( sequel to Chinatown ), Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Maltese Falcon ,
We all do. They're out there. Dig...
heart melting never felt so good
Oh my gosh this is Gorgeous , this kind of music is soaked into my soul but I have NO idea where from because my mama and daddy never listened or played this kinda music yet it’s so familiar ?
For me, It feels more like a late 1920s soundtrack, though the soundtrack is absolutely amazing. :)
“Why does the moon need sunglasses?”
“The same reason cops need ‘em, to be cool.”
Uan Rasey.... amazing trumpet solo and virtuoso. Jerry gets em- the best together again!
yes...I took from Uan,
RIP Mr Evans-you'll be missed.....
Let's give it up for the composers, Jerry Goldsmith & Bernard Herrmann. Their oeuvres should be watched, listened to, as well as studied if you consider what other films they helped make "Classics" as Jack Nicholson would say.
Terrific.
lovely...and more!
beautifull, amazing..
Heavenly Amazing...
:)...really lovely
❤che meraviglia da brividi❤
GOOD ROMANTIC MUSIC
My favorite film. A story of my hometown.
Yes, same here.
Haunting, beautiful, melodic, Goldsmith
Wonderful
Soy guatemteco y de verdad admiro el cine de los años setenta de hollywood al igual que las composiciones musicales, es lo mejor que se puede restaurar de un siglo lleno de evoluciones en el cine. Roman polansky ha sido un director muy atrapan te e impredecible, sus películas tienen historias llenas de vida.
wonderful
It´s from 1.14 on, if only life and the world could always be like that
What a song!... but bad for the glass!
bellísimo solo de trompeta... delicioso!
The best.
masterpiece
Mahaloz!
wow what a score. Best if im not mistaken
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
takes your breath away
Best ost all time
Quelle sensualité dans cette musique !
Jerry Goldsmith, the genius created this score in 9 days. That's genius. M.
first time I heard this I wasn't too krazee about it...but it just grows on U each time U hear it...THIS IS GREAT MUSIC
This soundtrack is so good, it makes me want to become a private detective and smoke a cig in a dark corner. I may do an arrangement of it.
The Fatman Always Rings Twice
❤️😍😍😍😍😍
Forget it Robbie, it's Lazy Town.
You're a frickin' genius.
Robbie, take me to Greek Town!
Jumbo go away.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
whatever happened to great music theme music like this ?????
+jim partridge It went away and I'm not sure it will ever be back
+northofsouth Great theme music hasn't gone away. This style of music, along with film noir, is probably gone for good though, which is sad.
I can't think of any memorable movie theme music within recent (5-or so years) - please some examples
jim partridge 5 years is tough for me to say, but if we go past 10 years or so, Harry Potter, Inception, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings. Off the top of my head, those are the only ones I can remember. This is my favorite theme to a film though.
+jim partridge The Hateful Eight,There Will Be Blood,The Master,Birdman,The Revenant,The Grand Budapest Hotel
Reminds me of meeting a girl/woman who, on second sight, seemed about as troubled as Faye Dunaway's character in this film. Or perhaps I've seen too many film noirs and just read the situation wrong. And now, to be sure, I'll never know. Hear that blue melody, sonny boy, and carry on. Damn Noah Cross...and I still remember Chinatown. "He owns the police".
Family Guy brought me here !!! 💕 2022
RAD!
Os Simpsons me trouxe aqui. Música foda!
Tbm kkk
Just listen.
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
So this is what desperation really looks like...... faye dunnaway, a vision....
Forget it, Johnny. It's Polynesiantown.
The master - Roman Polanski
This is the dopest goddamn song. Oh. Shit.
🌹♥️🌗
Uan Rasey, ................trumpet player
Forget about it, Jake, ...it's Noir.
didnt he score this in like a week or something
yep
10 days to be exact.
All he had were four trumpets, four pianos, two harps, two percussionists and a string section.
- Hello Claude. Where'd you get the midget?
Forget it Lou, It's Chilitown
It's 1937 your in a bar in LA on a summer's night smoking a cigarette and have a drink.
When you find out your ex only pretended to like Radiohead when you were together
The simpsons s28 ep14 brought me here
Does this sound like a zelda song at certain moments to anyone else?