Best Williams Score - 1971-1974 - Round One

[robthehand 3]

Due to the HUGE number of scores composed by John Williams in the '70s, I decided to split it up into two separate "tournaments", after which we'll vote between the two winners.

1. Each round, you vote for what you think is the weakest score. After 24 hours, the weakest score will be knocked out, and so on, until there is only one score left - the winner.

2. Each poll is set for 24 hours, any votes AFTER that time won't register.

3. If there is a tie between 2 or more scores, in order to keep things moving along, ALL of them will be knocked out, UNLESS it is the last round where there are only 2 scores left anyway (otherwise both would be knocked out and there would be no winner).

Please report any errors *politely* by PM.

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Your choices are:

Story of a Woman

The Cowboys

The Poseidon Adventure

Pete 'n' Tillie

Images

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

The Paper Chase

The Long Goodbye

Cinderella Liberty

Conrack

The Sugarland Express

Earthquake

The Towering Inferno

or: I haven't heard all of these, so cannot vote yet

(I'm not including score adaptations.)

[TheTennisBallKid 11]

Out of these scores I've heard....The Cowboys.

ttbk, whose vote is therefore obvious...

Binary Sunset(alternate)

[Sandor 459]

I wish I could hear Story Of A Woman... I read somewhere it's Williams unheard gem... Sigh... I wouldn't know...

Perhaps you could inquire first which scores from the 70's are known to most users in order to validate a poll like this...

[futuremartymcfly 0]

this really stinks, i don't have a single one of these soundtracks, there all just too expensive and in my opinion aren't even worth investing. I only have concert suites to Poseidon, Cowboys, Towering Inferno and Earthquake. The only one of which I like is the Cowboys.

[robthehand 3]

If there are less than... say... 20 votes for actual scores as opposed to the "don't know" option, I'll run a thread to see which ones people have heard, and go with only the most-known scores.

[pixie_twinkle 44]

I've never heard Pete n' Tilly, or Story of a Woman. Are there even available anywhere? Does anyone have them to trade?

[Ollie 859]

Conrack.

[Sandor 459]

Well, these are the one I do own by the way (either as a pressed CD or a bootleg). Not too bad...

The Cowboys

The Poseidon Adventure

Images

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

The Paper Chase

The Long Goodbye

Cinderella Liberty

Conrack

The Sugarland Express

Earthquake

The Towering Inferno

So Mark, how's Story of a Woman?

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

I know very few of these. But The Cowboys and Images should stay until the end.

[Justin 2]

So far there is one vote for an actual score.

Justin

[Romão 1,931]

Where is Jane Eyre? I know it is a TV score, but it should still count.

From these, I know The Cowboys, Images, Towering Inferno, Cinderella Liberty, The long Goodbye and couple of tracks from Earthquake. Images and the Cowboys I enjoy particularly.

[Ollie 859]

If my memory serves me right it was similar to Jane Eyre.

Someone's JW website had a clip of it but I can't remember who though. There was a song written for the film that was released but it was in Europe I think.

[Melisande 0]

Where is Jane Eyre? I know it is a TV score, but it should still count.

Jane Eyre was released in 1970 (according to imdb), just missing the time period for this poll. It's by far my favorite of JW's earlier works. Coincidentally, it just started playing on my iTunes playlist.

Looks like "Haven't heard" is winning by a landslide, heh.

[robthehand 3]

I'm just having film scores in this poll - perhaps after the decades I might do a TV poll... I dunno.

[King Mark 2,924]

Technically no one here can vote in this poll.

k.M.Who voted off Pete and Tilly anyways.

[Sandor 459]

Thanks for the info Mark! It is a rarity for sure.

[Elmo Lewis 6]

I haven't heard half of these. I have a soft spot for The Poseidon Adventure, though.

[fommes 126]

Pete 'n' Tillie

[pixie_twinkle 44]

Has anyone got Pete 'n' Tillie? Please PM me.

[King Mark 2,924]

The best music in all of this is the Main/End Titles to Poseidon Adventures and the Main/End Titles to Towering Inferno.

k.M.

[Damo 0]

I haven't heard all of these, so cannot vote yet

[Morlock 9]

Like most, I've never heard Story of a Woman, but I do know the rest. Out of those, Cinderella Liberty is my least favorite.

[pixie_twinkle 44]

Morlock, can you hook me up with Pete 'n' Tillie?

James-who loves the harmonica solos on Cinderella Liberty.

[nightscape94 965]

I thoroughly expect The Towering Inferno to make it a very long way, if not take home the prize.

I haven't listened to Story of a Woman, Pete 'n' Tillie or Conrack. I know all the others. I will reserve my vote until these are off (I highly doubt these three will make it far).

Although I do find it amusing that the first score to go off might only get 3 total votes, because 72% of the MB doesn't know enough to make an accurate decision.

Tim

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

Well, you're asking if we've heard all of these, so it should still be what you're voting for if you've heard them all but one.

And I think a lot of people would have chosen that option in the first round had it been available in the previous polls. I sure haven't heard all of Williams' '80s and '90s scores. Some post-2000 stuff I haven't heard since I saw the films in the theatre.

[Morlock 9]

The best music in  all of this is the Main/End Titles to Poseidon Adventures and the Main/End Titles to Towering Inferno.

I disagree. I never got all the hubub around Towering Inferno, good main titles, nothing particularly amazing, and Poseidon Adventure is great, but for me, the best music in all of those scores is the suite from Conrack, 'Blood Moon' and 'Dogs, Ponies and Old Ruins' from Images, and two or three tracks from Sugarland Express.