ORIGINAL TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK FROM THE MINISERIES
NORTH AND SOUTH
Music
composed and conducted by
Bill Conti
Bill Conti s epic score for North and South has been released as a 4 CD boxed set by Var se Sarabande Records in 2008. The set is now out of print and has become rarer and rarer through the years.
Bill Conti s sprawling and epic score for the mini-series North and South was one of Var se Sarabande CD Club s most impressive releases.
If you like your film music to be loaded with themes, lushly orchestrated and sounding glorious, look no farther. And North and South wasn t even a film The 1980s were a time of event television. The Winds of War, The Thorn Birds, Masada and North and South were the big ones.
For North and South, Bill Conti composed what may be his magnum opus. The Warner Bros. Television mini-series was broadcast in November of 1985 on ABC, in six two-hour instalments. Conti s score filled 29 reels of tape There were over 600 recorded takes By the way, the original 4 CD set has later been distilled down to 76 minutes of highlights on one single disc.
Based on the novel by John Jakes, North and South starred Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, Wendy Kilbourne, Kirstie Alley, Jean Simmons, Terri Garber and Genie Francis and Davis Carradine, along with such guest stars as Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Johnny Cash, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Forest Whitaker. The story followed the lives of two friends, Orry Main and George Hazard, who met at West Point Academy, during the years leading up to the Civil War.
If you were around in the 80s, you could not have missed this one.
Limited to 2 500 copies. Out of print now
Label/No.: Var se Sarabande CD Club VCL 0208 1072 4 CD Set
Tracks:
Disc 1: North and South: Part I and Part II
1. Main Title 3:39
2. Eggs Ashton 1:15
3. Orry s Odyssey 3:02
4. The Kerchief 2:16
5. Tata Orry 0:24
6. Orry Meets George 1:35
7. Settling In 0:56
8. Spilled Coffee 0:42
9. To the Pails 1:27
10. A Letter From Orry 1:32
11. En Garde, Bent 2:04
12. To Benny Haven s 0:31
13. Icebound Bent 1:52
14. Orry s Ague 0:35
15. To Lehigh Station 0:54
16. Hazard Iron 0:39
17. To Madeline s 1:01
18. Mont Royal 0:43
19. Madeline s Marriage 1:51
20. Bitter Kerchief 0:54
21. Wedding Night 4:13
22. Good Old Alice 2:02
23. Fiske and Satan 1:21
24. Alice and Bent 1:08
25. George Did It 0:55
26. I Won t Forget 0:32
27. The Slaves Want Freedom 2:03
28. Remember That 1:44
29. Branded 1:30
30. Orry and Madeline 2:03
31. Don t Interfere 1:22
32. Churabusco 1:16
33. Churabusco Bridge 2:01
34. Mexican Hospital 1:26
35. My Irish Lass 0:47
36. Orry s Down 0:30
37. Bent Gets His 1:02
38. Constance 3:31
39. Resolute 1:35
40. Priam s Gone 0:44
41. Cuffy, My Horse 1:58
42. Church Meeting 4:32
43. End Credits 1:33
Disc Time: 67:40
Disc 2: North and South: Part III a
