Music by CHARLES FOX
Intrada announces the revisit of a classic Charles Fox score, the 1978 Paramount Pictures film Foul Play. This new edition is a 2-CD set, remixed from the original 16-track sources stored at Paramount.The first disc features the complete score, including selections of The Mikado recorded for the film and assembled with the score as they appear in the film. Fox carefully constructed the score to seamlessly weave in and out of the operetta, as the film intercuts back and forth between the San Francisco street chase and a performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic. Disc 1 concludes with source music heard in the film and a few alternates (including the unassembled chase music from the end of the film for those that want it Mikado free) and film versions, including the film version of “Ready to Take a Chance Again.” Disc 2 features the original album program, rebuilt from the newly mixed masters as well as the complete suite of cues recorded for The Mikado.
Charles Fox collaborated with lyricist Norman Gimbel to create a melancholy yet empowering song, “Ready to Take a Chance Again,” sung by Barry Manilow during a visually sweeping opening sequence. Fox incorporated the song’s melody into the body of the film as an instrumental “Love Theme.” Though director Colin Higgins was saluting Hitchcock, Fox drew his musical style from the tense, orchestral sound of 1940s and ‘50s film noir. While Fox’s score reaches unusually dark heights, its menace is countered with a harmlessly hilarious action theme that pops up periodically and the tongue-in-cheek chase sequence at the end of the film.
Foul Play stars Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase and is a salute to Alfred Hitchcock, most notably the grand assassination plot of The Man Who Knew Too Much. Hawn plays Gloria Mundy, an innocent victim of knowing too much (or at least thought to know too much) about a plot to kill the Pope, and she becomes a target of an albino gunman and a nefarious “dwarf.” Chase plays a handsome, glib detective who believes Mundy’s seemingly tall tales when no one else will. Together they make an effervescent screen couple like hip updates of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, in a San Francisco-set film that affectionately references Hitchcock classics.
Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 505
Film Date: 1978
Album Date: 2024
Time: 156:37
Tracks: 63
TRACKLIST
| CD 1 EXPANDED SOUNDTRACK 01. Ready To Take A Chance Again – Main Title (Album Version) (3:09) 02. Overture To The Mikado (0:31) 03. Scotty Followed (1:20) 04. Gloria Walks Home I (0:27) 05. Movie Music (2:39) 06. Gloria Walks Home II (1:05) 07. Esme/Man At Window (1:49) 08. Beware Of The Dwarf (2:51) 09. Scarface/Gloria Grabbed From Behind (3:23) 10. Gloria Escapes (1:30) 11. Gloria On The Fire Escape (1:05) 12. Will Find Out Who And Why/Holy S. (1:00) 13. Gloria Attacks Dwarf (1:18) 14. You’ve Just Attacked/Archbishop’s Door/Now It Really Has Hit The Fan (1:18) 15. Houseboat (Love Song) (1:32) 16. Love Theme – Ready To Take A Chance Again (Film Version) (3:54) 17. What’s The Clue?/Gloria Falls For The Trap (3:30) 18. The McGuffin Burns/Meet Me ‘Round Back/Don’t Move Lieutenant (1:30) 19. Overture From The Mikado/Help (2:14) 20. The Mikado/Get Me To The Opera On Time – Part 1 (3:20) 21. The Mikado/Get Me To The Opera On Time – Part 2 (11:07) 22. Ready To Take A Chance Again (Finale) (0:36) 23. Ready To Take A Chance Again – End Title (Album Version) (2:14) Expanded Soundtrack Total Time: 53:24 THE EXTRAS 24. Cocktail Piano (Ready To Take A Chance Again) (4:26) 25. Ready To Take A Chance Again – Main Title (Film Version) (2:56) 26. Gloria Walks Home (Original Version) (0:27) 27. Holy S. (Film Version) (0:22) 28. Kojak Bang Bang (0:43) 29. Get Me To The Opera On Time I (1:14) 30. Crash Into Pizza Parlor (0:40) 31. Get Me To The Opera On Time II (0:27) 32. Far Out (0:41) 33. Get Me To The Opera On Time III (1:50) 34. Kojak! (1:03) 35. More Kojak (1:04) 36. Kojak Bang Bang (Record Version) (0:41) 37. Ready To Take A Chance Again – End Title (Film Version) (2:34) 38. Cocktail Piano, Again I (1:57) 39. Cocktail Piano, Again II (0:41) 40. Cocktail Piano, Again III (0:58) 41. Foul Play – Main Title (Television Series) (2:09) The Extras Total Time: 24:54 CD 1 Total Time: 79:01 | CD 2 FOUL PLAY – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM 1. Ready To Take A Chance Again – Main Title (Album Version) (3:09) 2. Help (1:35) 3. Beware Of The Dwarf (2:50) 4. Love Theme (Ready To Take A Chance Again) (3:53) 5. Copacabana (At The Copa) (3:57) 6. Gloria Falls For The Trap (2:26) 7. Foul Play Disco (3:22) 8. Scarface (2:52) 9. Gloria Escapes (1:28) 10. Houseboat (Love Song) (1:30) 11. Get Me To The Opera On Time (3:09) 12. Ready To Take A Chance Again – End Title (Album Version) (2:14) Original Album Total Time: 32:27 FOUL PLAY – SOUNDTRACK ALBUM ALTERNATES 13. Copacabana (At The Copa) (Extended Disco Mix) (5:46) 14. Foul Play Disco (Extended Version) (5:54) 15. Copacabana (At The Copa) (Original LP Mix) (4:08) 16. Ready To Take A Chance Again (Mono 45 RPM Mix) (2:59) Soundtrack Album Alternates Total Time: 18:47 FOUL PLAY – THE MIKADO SOURCE MUSIC 17. The Mikado – Overture (7:31) 18. The Mikado – If You Want To Know Who We Are (2:42) 19. The Mikado – Our Great Mikado (2:59) 20. The Mikado – Three Little Maids (1:35) 21. The Mikado – So Please You Sir, We Much Regret (2:04) 22. The Mikado – Act I Finale – The Threatened Cloud (9:32) The Mikado Source Music Total Time: 26:22 CD 2 Total Time: 77:36 |
