FSM: Rich and Famous/One Is a Lonely Number (1981, 1972)

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RICH AND FAMOUS / ONE IS A LONELY NUMBER -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT

Composed by: Georges Delerue, Michel Legrand

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This Film Score Monthly two-fer brings together two scores for what might be called womens pictures by two of the finest French composers ever to write for le cinéma: Georges Delerue and Michel Legrand. Although Rich and Famous and One Is a Lonely Number take vastly different approaches to womens lives and relationships, their composers bring a common sensitivity and an intuitive aura of romance to both pictures.

Rich and Famous (1981) was a remake of Old Acquaintance (1940). It starred Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset as longtime friends who become successful writersalbeit of very different types. Their relationship weathers betrayal and loss until a poignant reconciliation brings them together again at the end.

Georges Delerues romantic and lyrical score (one of the first he composed after moving to Hollywood in 1980) anticipates the kind of music he would write for later female-centric American movies like Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart and Steel Magnolias. In some ways, it works against the contemporary edginess of the story and dialogue, contributing old-fashioned heart and emotion to the film. The memorable main theme, for example, is a gentle siciliana in 6/8 time with sweet modal harmonies.

One Is a Lonely Number starred Trish Van Devere as a young wife who is shocked to learn that her husband is leaving her after four years of marriage. The film chronicles her pain, loneliness and heartbreak as she tries to win him back, although she ultimately concludes that she can make it on her own and willingly agrees to the divorce.

Michel Legrands score is based almost entirely on a wistful, yearning melody that is musically simplebut his sophisticated sense of orchestral color and his rich jazz-based harmonic palate assure musical variety and dramatic aptness throughout the film. The score also includes a seductive, bossa nova-flavored vocal sung by the composer himself.

Both scoresnever before available in any formatare complete and mastered from the original ½ 3-track stereo studio recordings. FSMs presentation includes film stills and detailed notes by Cary Wong, Alexander Kaplan and Frank K. DeWald.

Rich and Famous

Music Composed and Conducted by Georges Delerue

Something Strange About You/End Credits (wild) 4:33

Main Title 1:54

String Quartet 1:21

You Owe Me One/Into Him 2:13

Reading the Script/3M2/Youre OK 1:29

Some Years Ago 1:31

Taxi/I Lied/Teddy Bear/Liz 2:16

Eighteen 3:52

Goodnight/Chris/Making Love/Very Still (alternate)/Very Still/Give Me 555/Slowly Read It/Crying Liz 3:55

Something Strange About You (alternate) 0:56

Something Strange About You/End Credits 3:59

Total Time: 28:29

One Is a Lonely Number

Music Composed and Conducted by Michel Legrand

Song: Le Soleil, la Mer et les Bateaux Music by Michel Legrand, Lyrics by Jean Drejac, Sung by Michel Legrand

1M1 (Main Title) 2:10

1M2 (Alone in the City) 1:00

2M1 (The Dress) 1:33

4M1 (Sad Memories) 1:32

5M1 (Loneliness) 1:33

5M2 (Source Rock) 4:08

Le Soleil, la Mer et les Bateaux 3:54

7M1 (The Diving Board)/Shakespearean Fanfare (Mel Stuart) 1:29

9M1 (Moving On) 3:44

9M2 (The Gift)/Fender Rhodes (The Chess Game) 1:37

10M1 (The Photo) 0:58

10M2 (Amy Hits Bottom) 1:58

11M1 (At the Morgue) 1:24

12M1 (Finale and End Cast) 1:58

Total Time: 29:29

Total Disc Time: 58:04

[Beaverhausen]

Super Ding!!!!

[Bernd Junker]

COOL, denn die Suite (Track 2, CD 1) auf der GREAT COMPOSERS SERIES ist einer meiner Lieblings-Tracks der DCD. Für den damaligen Tipp kann ich mich immer wieder gerne bei S.Eicke bedanken.

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Schöne Veröffentlichung für Delerue- und Legrand-Fans. Aber: ich warte nun sehnlichst auf Van Cleaves Robinson Crusoe On Mars. Haben wollen!