Unseen Footage: Jerry Goldsmith at Abbey Road Studios

This never before seen footage was shot by engineer Alan Snelling during a 1991 recording session in Abbey Road Studio One for the feature film ‘Not Without My Daughter’.
Composer\conductor Jerry Goldsmith is seen rehearsing with an 80-piece orchestra featuring six or seven synthesisers with three keyboard players, all playing live.
Also seen is:
Alan Snelling - engineer
Arthur Morton - Jerry Goldsmith’s orchestrator
Terry Rawlins - picture editor (he also cut Aliens, Bladerunner and Chariots of Fire)
Ken Hall - music editor
David Firman - session keyboard player
Sidney Sax - eminent violinist, fixer and leader of the orchestra for Goldsmith.
© Alan Snelling

[@dianalee3059]

Such a brilliant composer. I was blessed with a decades long career as a studio singer in Los Angeles during which time I had the honor of working with Jerry Goldsmith on the scoring session for Poltergeist. I told him then how much I loved his Alien score and he smiled, thanked me and said it was not the happiest of experiences for him as director Ridley Scott had been difficult. Goldsmith was such a nice guy, I was sorry to hear that. RIP good sir and thank you for every note!

[@PeterSmith-go9ef]

Terrific. A joy to see the Master bringing his creation to fruition. Many thanks.

[@hectorguzman256]

We need more Goldsmith videos of him in action.

[@jandreidrn]

Jerry Goldsmith playing Chopin on the piano is a treat.

[@MarekMichalakMusic]

Gotta love it. Everybody else buggers off for lunch and what does Jerry do? Sit at the grand piano and play a spot of Chopin while all the others stuff their faces 😉

[@jensroth3106]

What a great video! Jerry Goldsmith at work! Please more! 🙂

[@TANKTREAD]

Jerry Goldsmith was and will always be AWESOME.

[@doogboh]

The Master at work

[@goodguyjas8363]

Fantastic! Great to see the late great composer at work. Much missed. Thanks Mr Snelling for this.

[@burdbrain1598]

What a treat! I was lucky enough to see him conduct at the Barbican in 2003, which was unfortunately the last time he came to the UK.

[@jandreidrn]

4:12 this part made me think of Alexander Courage's joke about Jerry Goldsmith: "find out what's making that noise and bring it here and maybe Jerry can incorporate it to his music!"

[@jochenw7232]

Exactly!

[@TheGoldsmithOdyssey]

Oh, nice!

[@ColinPurves]

Lovely to be a fly on the wall during this session. Many thanks for your time to film, archive, capture and share. You get a real sense of this amazingly talented man, as well as the team.

[@acevaptsarov8410]

fantastic video of magical moments left... somewhere in time

[@charlesanderson2213]

Thanks for posting this. Just watching jerry at work always brings me to sadness as he was and still the greatest and my hero.

[@Scatscar1985]

Thanks for this!

[@michalzukowski1683]

More of this score session treasure ,please

[@DocLitmus]

brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!!!!

[@joanmartin-royo9606]

Wow! Many thanks!

[@tornado7002]

Such a pleasure to watch.

[@benphu]

I love the fact that he's talking about Roland Jupiters and Yamaha SY77s

[@theviolinoob]

huge classic verb on that room! amazing video

[@NeilBulk]

5:42 That's editor Terry Rawlings in the background and it's orchestrator Arthur Morton in the foreground holding the manuscript. 7:11 is music editor Ken Hall.

[@yiagoulas]

I met Terry Rawlings when we were recording Entrapment at Air in Feb of 99

[@bisseborjesson9533]

The woman who sat up and goes away at 3.49. Who is that? Is it Lois Carruth? Or who?

[@watttv1388]

@@yiagoulas Where’d you record that?

[@yiagoulas]

@@watttv1388 Air Lyndhurst in London

[@watttv1388]

@@yiagoulas Can I see a video of that?

[@BLMT-df4on]

the yamaha sy77 and prophet vs synthesizers can be seen in this video. i don't what the third synth was.

[@graugaarddk]

Nice video. Run it through a video Editor and use the White Balance tool on Jerrys notes on the piano, and the colors will be correct, and the "yellow! light would dissapear. ;)

[@JonathanSao]

Beautiful to see Arthur Morton. Not too much material about him.

[@iceomistar4302]

He was a bit arrogant and not very nice by all accounts.

[@TB1M1]

so the synths are recorded live here? or pre record. Goldsmith was indeed gold!

[@ZipBalloon1989]

Jerry always did it live.

[@fesubala4144]

Jen

[@marcelchristian5375]

What is the model of the mixing console?

[@edbuller4435]

SSL

[@marcelchristian5375]

@@edbuller4435 thank you

[@iceomistar4302]

I believe Sidney Sax conducted the Wild Rovers score

[@catchoupiote]

I've always been rather skeptical about that. Sax was'nt a conductor and Goldsmith always conducted his scores (with a few exceptions for some of his 20th century scores, conducted by Lionel newman). I wonder if it wasn't simply a mistake of the album producers based on the fact that Sax was credited as "leader" (first violin) of the orchestra.

[@iceomistar4302]

@@catchoupiote I agree, I think someone should check the facts, Sidney Sax was Concertmaster, Jerry likely conducted the score.

[@MrVideoVagabond]

The actual soundtrack sessions for Wild Rovers were held in Los Angeles, and conducted by Goldsmith. The composer then flew to London to re-record the score (and some "inspired by the film" tracks) for the MGM Records album release. Sax was credited as conductor on the album, but the rumor is Goldsmith actually conducted.