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- The Godfather (1972 Film)

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CD Release

March 24, 1972

Label

Mca

Number of Discs

1

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Track List

Disc 1
  1. Main Title (The Godfather Waltz)
  2. I Have But One Heart - Johnny Farrow, Marty Symes
  3. The Pickup
  4. Connie's Wedding - Carmine Coppola
  5. The Halls Of Fear
  6. Sicilian Pastorale
  7. Love Them From The Godfather
  8. The Godfather Waltz
  9. Apollonia
  10. The New Godfather
  11. The Baptism
  12. The Godfather Finale

Additional Information

When director Francis Ford Coppola turned novelist Mario Puzo's pulpy The Godfather into one of the greatest accomplishments of modern American cinema in 1972, one of his shrewdest decisions was to hand the scoring assignment to the great Italian film composer Nino Rota. Rota, who had built his reputation alongside Fellini (though he'd already scored some three dozen films in the previous 20 years), brought Neopolitan jazz stylings and a Sicilian melodic sensibilty (characterized perfectly by the main title's mournful solo trumpet, which has since become a cinematic icon) to a story of corruption and betrayal as American as, well, gnocchi. Listening to this masterful score one can't help but wonder what Rota, who died in 1979) might have accomplished had he begun working with Hollywood's resources a decade earlier. --Jerry McCulley - Amazon.com

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