Michael Small - Klute - 01 Love Theme

Music from Michael Small's score for Klute (1970)

[@kevinryan4857]

The EVERYTHING about this amazing film, THRILLS me still, and I've seen it at least 30 times.

[@cerro2003]

Yo la vi una sola vez en 1971, y solo me acuerdo o creo que me acuerdo de las botas de Jane y de algunos pasajes de la música de trompeta o saxo quizás del final de la película. La volveré a ver pronto

[@lucianedamestois]

written when movie music really MATTERED. Beyond mezmerizing.

[@julianaugustus1788]

I finally saw this film for the first time last night! Great performances from both Fonda and Sutherland! The music captures the tone of the characters and the 70s era really well.

[@saaliiiii]

May i ask where can i watch this movie ?

[@julianaugustus1788]

@@saaliiiii Tubi. I believe it's still available. You can watch for free.

[@bre9060]

@@saaliiiiitubi

[@moogyboy6]

So beautiful and melancholy...this piece captures not only the feel of the movie, but also of the hung-over, hazy dusk of despair of early '70s New York itself--a decaying once-great city whose best years were rapidly receding into the past. (Thank goodness, of course, it came back!) I don't know how to describe it...it's like I can feel the closed-inness of the place through the music. Just haunting and filled with infinite sadness.

[@garryvanamburg5684]

I was there in the early 70's before auto emission standards and all types of air emission standards had been set by the EPA. The air was always hazy and smelled of pungent chemicals. When people complain about the EPA I wish that I could transport them in time back to the early 70's to the Northeast US corridor so they could see and smell what it was like before the EPA was established. The clearing of the air had a lot to do with NYC's resurgence.

[@timoakes450]

they wrote a book about it they said it was like Ancient Rome-lou

[@joshuagerthoffer2321]

@@garryvanamburg5684 Pittsburgh used to be the same way. It was cleaned up alot since.

[@lavendersprig2905]

What an amazing and poetic way of a perfect description .

[@antontyurin2453]

Rest in peace, dear Donald

[@bobandjim13]

This is one of the best themes ever.

[@purveyoroffinefoodslaszlo9955]

Michael Small. Brilliant. Every few years I come back to this film and discover the beautifully, aching melody.

[@SherAli-zy9gi]

Such a haunting yet romantic music piece

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Just love the jazzy love themes from these 70s films, they make ya cry!!!

[@timothymansfield200]

I saw this movie about nine times in a Chicago theatre (the Esquire?) when I was 17 and felt very much alone. It might have saved me.

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

There is just something about this theme that's just immaculate 🥰

[@joni525]

Favorite scene in the movie is them at the market with this beautiful song in the background. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland create the mood so brilliantly. Truly moving.

[@AlexandrosDeligiorgis]

Joni John Τotally agree. Not a great movie but it contains two spectacular scenes. Pakoula is a great director.

[@joni525]

Alexandros, absolutely. The movie has *moments* of greatness! :-)

[@AlexandrosDeligiorgis]

Joni John These are the scenes I meant :-)

[@joni525]

:-) agreed.

[@Suggsonbass]

Joni John it's the way she tugs at his coat

[@DK640OBrianYT]

I have a growing appreciation of this movie. It's solely down to Jane Fonda's intense and comprehensive portrait of the Bree Daniel character, that fits ever so nicely with if not thousands or millions of girls/women who at some point had to put their emotional development on pause and the thought processes, inner contradictory forces and character traits that follows. Her exquisite and detailed portrait therefore also showed the discoveries, realizations, determination and most important cognitive decision making and maturity that eventually saves her from rotting into evaporation. (While girls/women may suffer, so does boys/men and they also have their things to deal with, if bad upbringing has mutilated their inner space.) Love the theme. Her taking the trusting step beyond a point of no return, is at the market scene where she leans her face ever so softly onto Klute's shoulder and afterwards grips his jacket like an "I'm attached to you from now on". This precise moment was just so...."yeah, right choice girl".....and comforting. Brilliantly done. Brilliantly.

[@sagpoint]

I saw this wonderful film on TV the other night. One of my favorite scenes is at the market with them buying fruit,and this music comes in. You can't take your eyes off Fonda what a star!

[@AlexandrosDeligiorgis]

haydn jenkins Τotally agree. Not a great movie but it contains two spectacular scenes. Pakoula is a great director.

[@fredlinne]

agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yulno]

That scene jumped out at me also....What it shows is rare and difficult to express...the subtle growth of love. We see in that scene a continuum....

[@blancagoodfriend9477]

Yes-the scene at the fruit market!!! When this music came up I was mesmerized!

[@akablonded]

I can't think which trumpet solo I like more: KLUTE or CHINATOWN. Both, so evocative and haunting ...

[@davidkennet]

Gorgeous theme....what a gift Michael Small left us with!

[@davenelms68]

R.I.P. Donald

[@321mcg]

Yes glad someone else liked the market scene it just had something special .every now and again I come back for it. thanks.

[@gman2010ification]

I think the most hauntingly beautiful theme music of any movie in history.

[@gregwinter1081]

The melancholy trumpet here & in Chinatown are standouts in establishing a theme that captures the sadness of the "sin in the city" motif. Both LA composers...u c why these guys r in such demand. Great theme & wise enough to know that Less is definitely more.

[@aaroncoston7895]

absolutely sultry very smooth i love it !

[@yulno]

Absolutely adore this score...So much psychology there. So many different emotions and cognitive cross-currents.

[@gregwinter1081]

& China town

[@lizardas]

My cousin is playing the piano in this film. Uncredited, but he's listed in the IMDB.

[@klotzilla]

Who?

[@lizardas]

@@klotzilla Larry Muhoberac

[@djVinylFrontier2014]

Job Well Done

[@micheler878]

So cool! Does he have the sheet music for piano? Could you ask him for me? Thank you in advance

[@lizardas]

@@micheler878 I wish I could, but Larry passed away a few years ago. He also played in Elvis Presley's Las Vegas band and was a studio musician with many other artists of the time.

[@johnwalsh9767]

This is a love story. A story of love through redemption. For me, the market scene is poetry, the sort that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, those brief lyrical poems that catch you in that ‘unbearable lightness of being’

[@fredlinne]

Can not stopping watching this movie...saw it as a lad at Keno drive in theater with my folks... they would tell me to duck in the back seat when it was "adult"

[@61kimmarie]

Anytime, I hear this love song it always pull at my heart strings....absolutely lovely. 🥰❤

[@gman2010ification]

Happy Birthday Jane (Dec 21, 2017)---what a great performance and movie this was.

[@dma929]

Just moves me in every way.. all my cells love this x

[@brucewayne9962]

Beautiful

[@barbaraedwards601]

Great music for good movie!! Thank you!!

[@sepio41]

thank you for doing this. this music is one of the best aspects of this very great film!

[@gregwinter1081]

this & Chinatown theme for trumpets!!!!

[@marianneturner7267]

@@gregwinter1081 check out the theme from the 1989 movie "Sea of Love".

[@gman2010ification]

I also LOVE the theme music from the Sam Elliot move "Lifeguard" (1976). BOTH that music and the Klute theme are so beautiful they are almost "painful".

[@AlexandrosDeligiorgis]

One of the ten best themes ever

[@longmemory1620]

David Shire Marlowe Theme is my fave

[@hcrun]

Wonderful! A mesmerising tune. In 2010 I posted 40 seconds of the ending, which was all I could find then. Thanks very much for this - most appreciated.

[@moniquelacosta8522]

Beautiful music to compliment the mood of the characters in the movie. This music makes me think of a love story instead of the gritty harsh reality of life as a prostitute in New York. The music does have a haunting quality. It makes me feel that this love story may not have a happy ending. BRILLIANT WORK. I love this soundtrack.

[@marionsmith7090]

Mesmerizing

[@roxannadorsey9716]

BEAUTIFULLY MAGNIFICENT.

[@mariarivera51]

love love love this market scene....Fonda and Sutherland are sexy together music is wow

[@oolongoolong789]

Sublime theme. Excellent film.

[@ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

I need this vinyl

[@fredlinne]

just received an original poster from e-bay....kick ass with the creases and all

[@chehislastname4636]

Thank you for posting this.

[@KL0098]

@billyralphweeden A great character study too; Bree is one of the most interesting women ever seen in cinema.

[@jackjcarlin4217]

I’m hearing a connection to the 1979 film, “10”.

[@gomerhodge]

I think I'm addicted to this movie theme. Fonda was the sexiest of the sexy.

[@SLYSPYHIWAY90]

Yes there was a time when she was !

[@JJBGaming__YT]

70s movie themes like this and Taxi Driver ❤️

[@braunhausmedia]

Brilliant movie.

[@TheBee87bee]

Haunting theme!

[@robbietheking69]

in the movie there's the final scene, she's on the phone then both quit the door, music that sounds till the end of very few titles... there this music is particularly good.

Great, thanks.

[@filgoods3466]

Tears means something at that time.....

[@CharlotteFallon-vb7po]

Rest in peace, Donald

[@colejacobs1000]

That's Jack Sheldon, playing the horn as only he could.

[@surfin9481]

love it

[@timoakes450]

classic modern noir ala china town/mulloholand falls etc -great

[@laylam9997]

This song fills me with anxiety especially at the end

[@stuartwray6175]

This instrumental. There's no singing, no lyrics.

[@derekseven1647]

WOW!!!!

[@cilletofox8610]

Haunting, sexy melody...

[@VideoForBusinessMSK]

Волшебно!!!

[@KL0098]

@ubbuu It's one of her best performances.

[@ubbuu]

i love jane fonda in this

[@gomerhodge]

And Sutherland was perfect.

[@KL0098]

@hcrun My pleasure, listen to the other tracks I've posted.

[@KL0098]

@sepio41 My pleasure

[@2011thecats]

itunes or spotify

[@roblogosz1]

seeing this on tv - put it on pause to research the music. any idea who performed the solo? (trumpet)

[@KL0098]

@steelydan53 Always a pleasure.

[@odedfried-gaon2880]

nice NICE

[@klotzilla]

Sounds like Conte Candoli's trumpet.

[@sepio41]

next question. was this score ever released as a full recording or not?

[@TonVermeij]

indeed nice intro.....

[@chrisb587]

Anybody have the chords ? Quite similar to the Look of Love don't you think ?

[@chehislastname4636]

Chris Blower exactly!

[@philburpalooza8]

Jane Fondas best performance.

[@davidcarson1959]

Who is the trumpet soloist? Thanks

[@davenelms68]

Not sure, but I know Michael Small used 2 trumpets on this brilliant piece, you can hear the 2nd shadowing the 1st in some passages.

[@andrewheyes8055]

Jack Sheldon performs the solo on flugelhorn.

[@heidinewman9335]

​@@andrewheyes8055 thanks. I was wondering if this was a flugelhorn...

[@laylam9997]

This is almost scary

[@stevenshar1233]

Would this film be considered as noir or noir inspired?

[@dneiss89]

It would be considered as neo-noir.

[@gman2010ification]

The FIRST noir film in color--it was called at the time of its release--summer of 1971.

[@longmemory1620]

i see Michael Shannon and Angelina Jolie remaking KLUTE with brad as the sadistic killer

[@nedmerrill5705]

Nice tune but misnamed. Love Theme?!? There is no "love" in this entire film. "It's so pathetic."