art direction Doug Haverty
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 chorus master [vocal direction] Ken Darby
tracks 1-1 to 1-23 composed by Elmer Bernstein
tracks 2-1 to 2-17 composed by Hugo Montenegro
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 composed by Lionel Newman
tracks 1-1 to 1-23 conductor Elmer Bernstein
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 conductor Harry Sukman
tracks 2-1 to 2-17 conductor Hugo Montenegro
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 conductor Lionel Newman
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 edited by Ken Wannberg
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 edited by [editorial assistant] Neil S. Bulk
tracks 1-1 to 1-33 edited by [original editing] Dan Hersch
tracks 2-1 to 2-17 edited by [original sequencing and assembly] Douglass Fake
liner notes Bruce Kimmel
management [soundtrack executive for twentieth century fox] Tom Cavanaugh
mastered by [original mastering] Dan Hersch
tracks 1-1 to 1-23 mixed by [music score remix] Brian Risner
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 orchestrated by Bernard Mayers
tracks 2-1 to 2-17 orchestrated by Herbert W. Spencer
tracks 1-1 to 1-23 orchestrated by Jack Hayes
tracks 1-1 to 1-23 orchestrated by Leo Shuken
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 orchestrated by Urban Thielmann
reissue producer Bruce Kimmel
reissue producer Nick Redman
remastered by James Nelson
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 research [score restoration] Michael Matessino
transferred by [35mm film assembly] Ron Fuglsby
tracks 1-24 to 1-33 transferred by [audio transfers] John Davis
Published By TCF Music Publishing, Inc.
Recorded At Twentieth Century Fox Scoring Stage
Mastered At Digital Outland
Engineered At Precision Audiosonics
Designed At Art & Soul Design
Pressed By Tape Specialty, Inc.
Pressed By Tape Specialty, Inc.
From kritzerland.com:
John Wayne at Fox – not a lot of films, but some extraordinarily entertaining ones.
The Comancheros (1961), based on the 1952 novel by Paul I. Wellman, was directed by Michael Curtiz, the great director who’d done any number of classics, including some of the most beloved films of all time – Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Sea Hawk, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, White Christmas, to name just a handful. Starring were Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff and Bruce Cabot. It’s a wonderful film with colorful performances, gorgeous photography, and a rousing musical score by Elmer Bernstein. At the time, Bernstein had just written what would become one of the most iconic western scores ever, The Magnificent Seven. The Comancheros was his follow up western score, and it, like the film it graces, is colorful, bigger than life, and filled with action and adventure. You know what you’re in for as soon as the first chords of the main title music begin, one of Bernstein’s all-time classic themes. But the score is rife with melody and invention and Bernstein’s music is as iconic and big as the Duke himself.
A year earlier, the John Wayne Fox western was North to Alaska, a big, sprawling comedy western starring the Duke, Stewart Granger, enticing Capucine, Ernie Kovacs and teen heartthrob Fabian. The score, credited solely to Lionel Newman, but containing music by several others, fits the film like a glove. It’s got a tuneful title song by Mike Phillips, a nice song for Fabian called “If You Knew” and some fun original orchestral cues by Newman.
Next we jump to the third of the Fox Wayne westerns, the 1969 film The Undefeated, starring Wayne and Rock Hudson, along with Roman Gabriel, Lee Meriwether, Bruce Cabot, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Harry Carey, Jr., Paul Fix, Richard Mulligan, John Agar and Dub Taylor. Hugo Montenegro’s music for The Undefeated is big as all outdoors, with strong themes and a real sense of storytelling. As with many Western scores, there’s a lot of Copland “Americana” as well as a stirring main theme, some great dramatic scoring, some Mexican-flavored cues and even a hoedown
Both The Comancheros and The Undefeated were previously released on CD by FSM, and North to Alaska was released on CD by Intrada – all are out of print – in the case of The Comancheros, for many years. But we’re pleased to bring them all together in one great 2-CD set – they’ve all been newly remastered for this release.
John Wayne at Fox – The Westerns is limited to 1000 copies only

THE COMANCHEROS
Previously released on Film Score Monthly ‎– FSM Vol. 2 No. 6
Published by TCF Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)
℗© 1961, 2013 Motion Picture Artwork, Photos and Fox Trademarks and Logos TM, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

NORTH TO ALASKA
Previously released on Intrada ‎– Special Collection Volume 168
Recorded September 23, 26, 28, 29, 30 and October 3, 5, 8, 13 1960 at Twentieth Century Fox Scoring Stage
Published by TCF Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)
℗© 1960, 2013 Motion Picture Artwork, Photos and Fox Trademarks and Logos TM, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

THE UNDEFEATED
Previously released on Film Score Monthly ‎– FSM Vol. 3 No. 6
Published by TCF Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)
℗© 1969, 2013 Motion Picture Artwork, Photos and Fox Trademarks and Logos TM, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Poster Art and Stills Courtesy of the Fox Photo Archive
Printed in the U.S.A. by Kritzerland
Barcode: 8 57252 00270 8 (Text)
Barcode: 857252002708 (String)
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