The Cincinnati Kid | Soundtrack Suite (Lalo Schifrin)

[@SoundtrackFred]

Steve McQueen is “The Cincinnati Kid” and stars next to other great personalities, such as Karl Malden, Cab Calloway and Edward G. Robinson, who are all focused in a thrilling game of either: winning- or losing everything. The music was provided by Hollywood’s jazz legend Lalo Schifrin, whose “Mission Impossible” fingerprints shine through the Cincinnati Kid score. He composed a great main title, that sung by Ray Charles, became a legendary recording. Due copyright reasons it won’t be featured here, but give it a listen on KZbin or elsewhere. The score, besides the main theme, contains also tender moments and a great “Cockfight” sequence. This program was selected from Film Score Monthly’s 5-Disc set “Lalo Schifrin Film Scores Vol. 1 (1964 - 1968)”, featuring not only great soundtracks by the composer, but those in their album- and (for the first time) in their film versions. Thanks to them we now can enjoy Schifrin’s appreciated work as heard in the movie, conducted by Robert Armbruster. To give you a feel of completion, I included a round arrangement of the main theme at the end, which was dropped from the movie (or rather replaced by the Ray Charles track, if you ask me). Enjoy!

[@jubalcalif9100]

As always, THANK YOU, Friend Fred ! Not only for the music but the very interesting background info ! Kudos ! Well done, sir ! Please keep up the good work ! :-)

[@herecomesforego1787]

Fantastic 🎉

[@rajkumarrajamani4811]

GENIUS AT WORK

[@canallumiere3103]

Eu amo trilhas de cinema.Parabéns pelo canal.Obrigado!

[@nicomedy2010]

RIP Artie Kane ;-(

[@morlock2086]

Thanks. Your suite is superb.

[@garybryant1501]

Sweat and tears of high stakes gambling with a great cast and of course who else would do the score

[@fredbrezelberg4393]

Ann Margret - one of the prettiest Women! And, of course, the very little appearance of - Tricky Bob! Give me the money!

[@njuham]

I had the film on VHS in the 80's and Istill have the paperback book. In the film, Tuesday Weld is dreamy.

[@maxlinder5262]

You had to be there..........

[@herecomesforego1787]

That opening riff is exactly Mission impossible isn’t it… But anyway, I still prefer his Medical Center theme. That’s absolutely number one…. After MS Hawaii Five-0, I mean, of course.😂

[@EchoUnready]

Hi Fred. Ein sehr guter Film. ^_^ Schade das man sich nicht mehr wirklich traut Filme wie in den sechzigern zu machen. ^_^ Lalo Schifrin gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit Korngold, Goldsmith, Horner, Böttcher und Morricone um nur einige zu nennen. ^_^ Ich beneide dich wirklich um dein CD-Archiv. ^_^ Hast du all diese Scores auch auf auf deinem PC oder nur als CDs ? ^_^ Bis denne. MfG EchoHotelGolf

[@dickmann1979]

definitiv ein sehr guter film. und ja, wirklich schade, dass solche klassiker wie damals leider nur noch extrem selten zu sehen sind. passt auch zur heutigen gesellschaft, die sich viel mehr für dioe form als für inhalte begeistert.

[@glorykwok919]

Kinda remind me of bullit I know is the same composer