Victor Young's "The Call of the Faraway Hills" from SHANE
The man on the podium was short and stocky, grizzled and growling, with a chewed cigar in one hand and an elegant conductor's baton in the other. One contemporary newspaper described him as looking "more like a fight promoter than a musician." Yet whenever that baton began to sway and the Paramount orchestra began to play, magic was birthed into the world, magic that sounded like this beautiful melody. Titled "The Call of the Faraway Hills," it was written for the movie SHANE by one of Hollywood's premier musical talents, the composer Victor Young.
He was, in the words of his colleague and best friend, the equally great composer Max Steiner (KING KONG, GONE WITH THE WIND, CASABLANCA, THE SEARCHERS), "a very, very talented composer, excellent orchestrator, and wonderful violinist" whose seemingly endlessly inventive stream of lush melodies during a two-decade career as head of Paramount Pictures' music department came to define Hollywood film scoring.
At Paramount, Young became legendary for his unparalleled ability to invent memorable melodies with seeming ease. "The perfect score for a dramatic picture," he would say, "is one which the fans do not think they're hearing but they leave the theater whistling the theme." For SHANE, he eschewed the avant-garde styles growing popular during that era in favor of tried-and-true sentimentalism and classicism. It's criminal that there is no complete recording available on CD.
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