JW for beginners

[MrScratch 294]

I'm going to the Phillie JW concert in July and my wife and another friend of ours is going. My wife is not a film music fan at all and my friend is a very mild film music fan. He owns several Williams scores (Star Wars, Jurassic Park) and a few others (Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans) but I don't really think he listens to them that much.

Anyway, I'm preparing a JW CD for us to listen to in the car on the way to Phillie. Its about an hour and a half drive, so a 60-75 minute CD is perfect to wow them with JW music and prep us for the concert.

Here is my current tracklist:

SUPERMAN: Main Title/The Planet Krypton

ATTACK OF THE CLONES: Across The Stars

JAWS: Theme

THE PHANTOM MENACE: Duel of The Fates

WITCHES OF EASTWICK: Dance of the Witches

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: The Imperial March

HOOK: Flight To Neverland

STAR WARS: Here They Come!

INDIANA JONES & LAST CRUSADE: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra

1941: March

HARRY POTTER: Harry's Wondrous World

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: The Asteroid Field

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: March

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Theme (Kunzel cond.)

E.T.: The Bicycle Chase (Kunzel cond.)

STAR WARS: Main Title

My main goal was to keep the album upbeat for the casual fans (no EMPIRE OF THE SUN or SCHINDLERS LIST, if it were just me, these would be definites!) and lots of the familiar stuff that we are likely to hear at the concert but also introduce some music that they might not know (WITCHES, 1941, HOOK).

Any thoughts? Suggestions? I like the Kunzel recordings of Close Encounters and E.T. above any other concert recording out there and the 15 minute Adventures on Earth was too long for this CD. For the Superman intro, I took the Williams/BPO recording of the Superman Theme and mixed it with Kunzels recording of Planet Krypton. (Sorry, JW!!) I tried to use as many concert recordings as I could so to give the CD a concert feel. The only exception to this being ESBs The Asteroid Field, I don't like the existing recordings of the concert version. I like it bookended with the IMperial March and the Love Theme.

[Lurker 5]

Indeed, the Boston Pops recording of "The March from Superman" is my favorite performance of that piece. Seems like a nice compilation.

Neil - who would load up his 12 disc car CD changer with only Williams CD's and then would push the random button.

[diskobolus 3]

i dont feel duel of the fates belongs there. try fawkes's theme or monica's theme (or the mecha world if that is too un-upbeat)

[redtwo 0]

I made a CD for a friend of mine of all Williams music to rebuff his theory that it all sounds like 'Star Wars'. This probably has some stuff on it that you may not want to include but was a nice rounded CD with very different tracks.

Main Titles from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

End Title (Theme from ?Jaws?) from Jaws

Exsultate Justi from Empire Of the Sun

Setting the Trap from Home Alone

Fighting For Dough from Far and Away

Over the Moon from E.T.: The Extra ?Terrestrial

Taking Pictures from Stepmom

Remembering Petticoat Lane from Jurassic Park

Swing, Swing Swing from 1941

Ann and Gabriel from The Patriot

The Temple of Doom from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan

The Early Days, Massapequa from Born on the Fourth of July

You are the Pan from Hook

Theme from Sabrina from Sabrina

Remembrances from Schindler?s List

The Mecha World from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Prologue and Main Title from Superman

Princess Leia?s Theme from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Just some more ideas

H