Alex North

• 180 gram VINYL-AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

• LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs

• HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

PERSONNEL:

• Music composed and conducted by ALEX NORTH

Recorded in Hollywood, 1961

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. MAIN THEME
• A2. RENDEZVOUS
• A3. NEW LIFE
• A4. ROSLYN
• A5. LOVE’S REVERIE
• A6. LOVE IDYLL
• A7. PADDLEBALL
• A8. RENO BAR DANCE
• A9. COMPASSION / COMPASSION FOR GUIDO
• A10. HELP

• SIDE B
• B1. THE ROUND-UP [DISAGREEMENT, ROUND-UP, CHASE, TENSION]
• B2. TRYING FOR FREEDOM
• B3. RESOLVED [Part I]
• B4. RESOLVED –END TITLE

• “Alex North was known for his soundtrack work with people who, like him, came out of the theater, especially director Elia Kazan, who brought him into the movies to score Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The Misfits reunited him with Miller, who wrote the screenplay, and introduced him to director John Huston, with whom he went on to work frequently thereafter. All of which is to say that this was a happy project for him, even if The Misfits is mainly remembered today as the last picture made by Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe before each died. North’s varied score is typicallycontemporary (it even boasts a rock & roll track, ‘Paddleball’) and jazzy, with strong melodic themes and a melodramatic tone appropriate to the mood of the film.” William Ruhlmann