Dimitri Tiomkin

INCLUDES 7 BONUS TRACKS

This release contains the complete original soundtrack to the classic 1961 film "The Guns of Navarone", a British-American war epic directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by producer Carl Foreman was based on Alistair MacLean’s 1957 novel by the same title, inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II.

The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker and Anthony Quayle. The music was composed and conducted by Dimitri Tiomkin. Five versions of the popular theme song, performed by tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, harpist Dorothy Ashby, and bandleaders Xavier Cugat, and Manny Albam, have been added here as a bonus, along with Albam’s arrangements of two further movie themes composed by Tiomkin, from the films The Alamo (1960) and High Noon (1952), plus a Ramsey Lewis reading of the latter theme.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 PROLOGUE [narrated by James Robertson Justice]
02 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [Mitch Miller Sing Along Chorus]
03 SEA SCENE –ODYSSEY BEGINS
04 CLIMBING THE SOUTH CLIFF
05 ANNA
06 DEATH OF YOUNG PAPPADIMOS
07 LEGEND OF NAVARONE
08 YASSU
09 PREPARATION FOR GUNS
10 WEDDING MUSIC
11 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
12 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (Finale)
13 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [performed by Johnny Griffin](*)
14 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [performed by Dorothy Ashby] (*)
15 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [performed by Xavier Cugat] (*)
16 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [performed by Manny Albam] (*)
17 HIGHEST NOON (from High Noon) [performed by Manny Albam] (*)
18 THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER (from The Alamo)
[performed by Manny Albam] (*)
19 HIGH NOON THEME [performed by Ramsey Lewis] (*)
(*) BONUS TRACKS

TOTAL TIME: 66:24