Gone With the Wind (Score) (1961) Vinyl LP •PLAY-GRADED• Soundtrack, Max Steiner

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Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Non gate-fold cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing and surface impressions (front/back); discoloration with darker discoloration spots on back. Inner-sleeve is original (plastic). Spine is mostly easy-to-read with some wear and developing splits. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; some wear to corners. Top-edge has text and is easy-to-read. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. STEREO pressing with palm tree label. Black background with yellow lettering cover variation. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Tara's Theme
2. Invitation To The Dance
3. Melanie's Theme
4. Ashley
5. The Prayer
6. Bonnie Blue Flag
7. Scarlet O'Hara
8. Scarlet's Agony
9. War
10. Belle Watling
11. Bonnie's Death
12. Rhett Butler
13. Bonnie's Theme
14. Ashley And Melanie (Love Theme)
15. The Oath
16. Return To Tara

About The Record:

Gone With the Wind (Score) is the soundtrack from the 1939 film with music composed and conducted by Max Steiner. The music score was nominated for Best Music (Original Score) at the Academy Awards. To compose the score, David O. Selznick chose Max Steiner, with whom he had worked at RKO Pictures in the early 1930s. Warner Bros.—who had contracted Steiner in 1936—agreed to lend him to Selznick. Steiner spent twelve weeks working on the score, the longest period that he had ever spent writing one, and at two hours and thirty-six minutes long it was also the longest that he had ever written. Five orchestrators were hired, including Hugo Friedhofer, Maurice de Packh, Bernard Kaun, Adolph Deutsch and Reginald Bassett. The score is characterized by two love themes, one for Ashley's and Melanie's sweet love and another that evokes Scarlett's passion for Ashley, though notably there is no Scarlett and Rhett love theme. Steiner drew considerably on folk and patriotic music which formed the basis of Scarlett's theme. The theme that is most associated with the film today is the melody that accompanies Tara, the O'Hara plantation; in the early 1940s, Tara's Theme formed the musical basis of the song My Own True Love by Mack David.