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First, this is not the background score for the film THE AVIATOR but rather the actual, original period songs that Scorsese used to create atmosphere to the scenes.
Any sophisticated movie-goer knows that Marty Scorsese always chooses his music very carefully. This time, to invoke the jazz era of an America emerging on the world stage (just as Hughes is emerging in the public mind), Scorsese has provided an amazing compilation of popular music from the 1920s and 1930s. Sonically, these recordings are pristine and sound better than they ever could off of old RCA radios or 78 rpm records. The songs are of the big-band/swing flavor with a wide variety of artists represented. If you like this sort of thing, you will enjoy this CD. (Don't miss the closing track: Lead Belly's "Howard Hughes." No doubt this was added not just for thematic reasons, but also because Lead Belly was the first blues musician that moved Scorsese.)
And in case you haven't gotten enough of this era, you may want to check out the soundtracks to THE CAT'S MEOW (for mostly re-recorded songs weighted towards the 1920s) and RADIO DAYS (for actual, original songs weighted towards the late 1930s and early 40s). There is little overlap between these collections, so they make for a nice set.
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This is an unusual score I heard several times on Spotify and decided it should be in my collection. Some of the quieter, Howard-Going-Nuts type pieces I skip over; because I go more for the uplift of cuts like The Hercules plane being revealed, the awesome flight of the H-1 Racer and other parts so numerous they really wipe out those few cuts I dont like. What really does it for me are the actual recording of Long Beach Harbor, 1947, and that dramatic, building music as the Hercules takes off, or the wild Hollywood, 1927 cuts. ** Note there are none of the music ffrom the Coconut Grove nightclub scenes on this disc, nor the classical music heard in parts. While I'm not that old, this is a fine album of listening that recreates the era so well.
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This is an unusual score I heard several times on Spotify and decided it should be in my collection. Some of the quieter, Howard-Going-Nuts type pieces I skip over; because I go more for the uplift of cuts like The Hercules plane being revealed, the awesome flight of the H-1 Racer and other parts so numerous they really wipe out those few cuts I dont like. What really does it for me are the actual recording of Long Beach Harbor, 1947, and that dramatic, building music as the Hercules takes off, or the wild Hollywood, 1927 cuts.
** Note there are none of the music ffrom the Coconut Grove nightclub scenes on this disc, nor the classical music heard in parts.
While I'm not that old, this is a fine album of listening that recreates the era so well.
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