Frenzy

Quartet Records

QRL40-BLK

2LP Black

$40

2LP pressed on black vinyl
Long-awaited vinyl reissue of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film
Original score by Ron Goodwin and the rejected score by Henry Mancini, the only one in his successful career

Description

Quartet Records and Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection proudly present the world premiere vinyl release of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.

FRENZY marked the director’s triumphant return to London in 1972. With an excellent script by Anthony Shaffer, the film was immediately considered one of Hitchcok’s best and has since become a classic.

After the parting of ways with Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock changed composers in each of his last four films, choosing from those who were popular at the time. For FRENZY, his first choice was Henry Mancini (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE PINK PANTHER, HATARI!, CHARADE), who wrote a sumptuous, gothic-hued score featuring an unusual orchestral palette. The main theme uses the dolorous tones and sepulchral pedals of a mighty organ, and the tension-filled score that follows is grim and at times almost brutal. Hitchcock, feeling it was too “dark and cruel,” turned it down and hired celebrated British composer Ron Goodwin (MURDER, SHE SAID, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WHERE EAGLES DARE, SQUADRON 633) to compose a lighter, yet still suspenseful, score. For the main title, a panoramic shot over the Thames, Goodwin wrote a majestic melody ornamented with trumpets and timpani, in the best English tradition of pomp and circumstance.

FRENZY was the only completely rejected score in Henry Mancini’s long career, and also one of the most famous and requested Goodwin scores over the ensuing decades. Neither of them, however, have previously been officially released in any form until today.

This 2-LP collection has been painstakingly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino from stereo and mono elements vaulted at Universal Pictures, with the collaboration of both the Ron Goodwin and Henry Mancini estates.

This special edition features an exclusive, in-depth essay by writer and composer Deniz Cordell packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold and pressed in audiophile 180 GM black vinyl.

1 Main Title (From the Motion Picture ‘Frenzy’)
2 Covent Garden
3 Frenzy
4 Arrival At Brenda’s Flat
5 In The Salvation Army Hostel
6 Death Of Brenda
7 Fugitive From the Coburg Hotel
8 A Talk in the Park
9 A Spree De Corpse
10 Murder Flashback
11 Escape and Retribution
12 Frenzy (End Title)
13 Source Music:
14 Poem
15 Juke Box
16 Additional Music:
17 Murder Flashback (Alternate)
18 Frenzy (End Title) (Film Version Edit)
19 DISC 2: Unused Score Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI
20 Prologue
21 My Tie Is Your Tie
22 My Kind Of Woman
23 Son Of My Kind Of Woman
24 Exit Oscar Wilde
25 Big Drag For Babs
26 Hot Potatoes
27 Babs Grabs
28 The Inspector Thinks
29 Rusk On Candid Camera
30 Off to Rusk’s Place
31 End Credits / End Rusk
32 Source Music:
33 Posh For Two
34 Tijuana On Thames
35 Additional Music:
36 Prologue (Alternate)
37 Babs Grabs (Alternate)

Frenzy

Preview Tracklist

1 Main Title (From the Motion Picture ‘Frenzy’)

2 Covent Garden

3 Frenzy

4 Arrival At Brenda’s Flat

5 In The Salvation Army Hostel

6 Death Of Brenda

7 Fugitive From the Coburg Hotel

8 A Talk in the Park

9 A Spree De Corpse

10 Murder Flashback

11 Escape and Retribution

12 Frenzy (End Title)

13 Source Music:

14 Poem

15 Juke Box

16 Additional Music:

17 Murder Flashback (Alternate)

18 Frenzy (End Title) (Film Version Edit)

19 DISC 2: Unused Score Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI

20 Prologue

21 My Tie Is Your Tie

22 My Kind Of Woman

23 Son Of My Kind Of Woman

24 Exit Oscar Wilde

25 Big Drag For Babs

26 Hot Potatoes

27 Babs Grabs

28 The Inspector Thinks

29 Rusk On Candid Camera

30 Off to Rusk’s Place

31 End Credits / End Rusk

32 Source Music:

33 Posh For Two

34 Tijuana On Thames

35 Additional Music:

36 Prologue (Alternate)

37 Babs Grabs (Alternate)