Very nice, Corbett! Haha, now I kind of think there should be a top 20 themes list, as in with lyrics. Could this be considered?
Other songs that I like:
“Trinity” sung by Annibale
“They Called Him Django” sung by John Balfour
“Hey Amigo, Your Dead” sung by Don Powell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktBv4UAzdg
“The Wind in My Face” sung by Stephen Boyd
“The Price of Gold” sung by Roberto Matano
This one should be in the top 20 too. ;D
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Heh. ;D
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I’m sure Captain Apache will get tossed in there if a list ever comes around
Some of the my favorite soundtracks:
Top 20 with vocals:
Find A Man - De Masi
Laredo - Giombini
A Man Must Fight - De Masi
Pastures Of Plenty - Morricone/Tevis
Return Of Ringo - Morricone
They Call It Gold - Cipriani
The Moment To Kill - De Masi
Rocks Blood and Sand - Savina
The Price Of Gold - Lavagnino
Ehi Amigo… Sei Morto - Savina
La Morte Non Conta I Dollari - Orlandi
Roy Colt & Winchester Jack - Umiliani
Gray Skies - Alessandroni
Pochi dollari per Django - Savina
The Last Game - Ferrio
Lanky Gunman - Fidenco
A Gringo Like Me - Morricone
Stranger - De Masi
Back Home Someday - Gori
Tequila Joe - De Masi
Top 20 instrumentals is harder… gotta think about that one.
hard to pick, some of these are instrumentals and some of these aren’t, but they are the best soundtracks I think out there in the spaghetti western world.
- for a few dollars more- ennio morricone
2.Boot hill -Carlo Rustichelli - The Great Silence- Ennio Morricone
- Johnny Oro- Carlo Savina
5.Arizona Colt- Francesco De Masi - Tepepa (Viva La Revolucion) - Ennio Morricone
- El Desperado- Gianni Ferrio
8… A sky full of stars for a roof- Ennio Morricone
9… His name was Holy Ghost- Bruno Nicolai - Sartana is Coming- Bruno Nicolai
- Ringo the lone rider- Francesco De Masi
- Shoot the Living pray for the dead- Mario Migliardi
- Sycamore Trails- Piero Piccioni
- Colt in the hand of the devil- Piero Piccioni
- Navajo Joe- Ennio Morricone
- The ugly ones- stelvio Cipriani
- The Hellbenders- Ennio Morricone
18.KIll them all and come back alone- Francesco De masi - death rides a horse- Ennio morricone
20.Minnesota Clay- Piero Piccioni
No love for The Rope and The Colt? I haven’t made a list yet, but it will definitely be in my top ten.
Definitely: Scott Walker. A favorite of mine since … ever.
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For me, after the Morricone-for-Leone works, it begins and ends with Egisto Macchi’s theme for Bandidos, and indeed, the entire score for this film. It’s a shame this was his only western:
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Off the top of my head…
- The Man with the Harmonica-Morricone
- Jill’s theme-Morricone
- The Trio-Morricone
- The Ecstasy of Gold-Morricone
- La Resa dei Conti-Morrricone
- GBU Main Theme-Morricone
- Find a Man-Francesco De Masi
- The Big Gundown-Morricone
- La Arena-Morricone
- The Return of Ringo-Morricone
- The Forgotten Pistolero-Pregadio
- Vamos a Matar Companeros-Morricone
- Long Days of Vengeance-Trovaioli
- A pistol for Ringo-Morricone
- FAFDM Main theme-Morricone
- Farewell to Cheyenne-Morricone
- El Desperado-Ferrio
- Navajo Joe-Morricone
- The Rope and The Colt-Hossein
- Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead-Migliardi (Strange lyrics, but it works)
It’ll be a different list this time tomorrow.
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Just finished re-watching -The Moment to Kill - and now I can’t get the song out of my head. It definitely moves up a couple of notches on my top 10 for sure.
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I’m going with vocal songs here. I’m pretty confident about the placing of this list.
1.You’d Better Smile - Gian Piero and Gianfranco Reverebi
2. Django - Luis Bacalov
3. Pastures of Plenty - Ennio Morricone
4. An Eye For An Eye - Ennio Morricone
5. Return of Ringo - Ennio Morricone
6. Come Mai / Gold - Francesco De Masi
7. Lo Chiamavanos Trinita - Franco Micalizzi
8. Una Bara Per Lo Scriffo - Francesco De Masi
9. Stranger - Francesco De Masi
10. Angel Face - Ennio Morricone
11. Run Man Run (La Resa Dei Conti) - Ennio Morricone
12. The Wind In My Face - Nico Fidenco
13. Amica Colt - Robby Poitevin
14. A Man Is Made of Love - Danielle Patucchi
15. Let It Rain, Let It Pour - Gianni Ferrio
16. God Said To Cain - Carlo Savina
17. The Last Game - Gianni Ferrio
18. Can Be Done - Luis Bacalov
19. Laredo - Marcello Giombini
20. Non Mi Aspertavvi Piu - Vasco And Mancuso
And a few extra:
Adios Gringo - Benedetto Ghiglia
Grey Skies - Alessondro Alessondroni
Vengeance - Carlo Savina
Gli Specialisti (Johnny Hallyday’s Single)
Kidnapping - Michelle Lacerenza
Jesus We Love You - Franco Micalizzi
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1.You’d Better Smile - Gian Piero and Gianfranco Reverebi[/quote]
Thought I’d be the only one to have this as my #1
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Thank goodness somebody else agree’s with me! In all honesty I love Morricone, and his music is ingenious and wonderfully original, but “You’d Better Smile” is such an incredibly catchy and well crafted piece of music that I couldn’t place it any lower. It manages to be transcend being just a good “Spaghetti” song and becomes something that could also be played on the radio (I don’t understand why it didn’t actually hit any of the charts).
Most of the songs in Spags are cheesy and terrible. One point where Spags really suck.
Funnily I think while in 50s westerns after High Noon songs for the credit sequences became popular, in the time the Spags copied that, you hardly find those in US westerns.
Strange, I find them cheesy and terrific. Another point where spaghetti westerns really excel. Italian movies in general up through the 70s, 80s really. You got to love the genre I guess
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I’m with you AvatarDK. Cheesy and terrific sums them up perfectly for me. I will happily listen to a compilation of those songs all afternoon and often do.
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Jesus, and you once listened to Punk …
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