Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970), was a major American co… Read Full Bio ↴Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970), was a major American composer of music for films.

In 1939, Newman began a twenty-one year career as music director for 20th Century-Fox Studios. He composed the familiar fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of Fox's productions. At Fox, he also developed what came to be known as the Newman System, a means of synchronising the performance and recording of a musical score with the film. The system is still in use today.

He was the head of a family of major Hollywood film composers including his son, Thomas Newman, who is currently active. Other notable Newman family members include his brothers, Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, and his nephew, the singer/songwriter Randy Newman.

He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times.

How the West Was Won
Alfred Newman Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'How the West Was Won' by these artists:

Andrew Weiss and Friends How The West Was Won Lyrics and Music by Andrew Weiss I'm…
C.V.E. (Chillin Villain Empire) Blood from a stone Water from wine Born under an ill-placed …
Cal Scruby This is the story about how the west was won I…
Herzig Katie I don’t know how the west was won How the ocean…
Immaculate Fools Catch me this morning my head is undone. Curse my eyes an…
John Vanderslice the hand that cut this body i'd like to know the…
Katie Herzig I don’t know how the west was won How the ocean…
Laibach Come let us prepare We brothers that are Joined on this merr…
Peter Perrett If I ever get really depressed I'll download Tor, buy a…

Shaye Fell awake into this war state Nothing to recognize No mista…
The White Buffalo Rolling like a freight train through the night I can't get…
Tom McRae Light me a smoke I'll tell you a story Of how the…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Alfred Newman:

Anastasia Anastasia, tell me who you are Are you someone from another…
Careless Love Love, oh love, oh careless love You've fly through my head…
Marcellus / Farewell So you tell me you're certain about it Sure to tell…
Marcellus Farewell So you tell me you're certain about it Sure to tell…
Overture I'm Always Chasing Rainbows I'm always chasing rainbows Watching clouds drifting by My s…

The Farewell So you tell me you're certain about it Sure to tell…

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@diogeneslamplit6573

6y↑4

"Another example of how music can make a movie"-----DOLRED

I hate to be argumentative but...

The concept of this film transcends filmkaking or scoring or casting. This film was intended to reveal the very essence not only of the nation that developed on this land but of the very land itself.

Some people come here because they believe they'll be on "easy street" but it's not. North America has more tornadoes in a year than the entire rest of hte world.

This is a harsh land demanding much of the people who would inhabit it.

It's very nature infected the filmmaker, the cast and yes the musician who scored the film They were all possessed by the essence of this land as were the people who came here and did what had to be done to make a nation worthy of this land. There is no separating the elements of this film. It's holographic.

When I hear that theme I stand and I raise my arms to embrace this land. I face to the four winds. I know I'm not worthy to l ive here but I bitterly cling to my opportunity to try to survive and thrive here anyway. It's more moving than any other spiritual experience I've ever had. I've had an out-of--body experience near the Missouri River. I've seen the creepiest/eeriest thing I've ever seen there. Every time this land has challenged me I've survived it ( so far ) and that means more to me than being the Emperor of any other land you could name.

I've walked it's alpine trails and I've crawled through it's very bowels having to hold my head up over my shoulder to breath because the hole I was crawling through had water up to the top few inches.

When I was a child a buffalo was something from a book. Now I can go to a park near me and be right in their very midst. I used to visit a farm wher e there were buffalo/cow hybrids and I experience the awe and respect due them and I kept my distance.

When I was a child you had to go "out west" to see an eagle. Now I've seen one from my suburban back yard.

When I was a child the creek near my home was an open sewer. Since then I've seen the belted kingfisher and the herons cavorting in that creek. I've seen the shad flash where formerly only brown algae and pond snails dwelt.

This is a great and demanding land and it requires great people to dwell in it properly. I'm not worthy I know that but at least I realize how fortunate I was to have been born here and to see it and experience it on a visceral/full-immersion level.

The concept of this land and this film made to attempt to depict it's essence possessed all who participated in this great cinemagrahic work of art and that's how that music got so fantastic. The experiences this land had given to all who participated rose up in them and they all did their due dilegence and the result was superp and is superp and will stand the test of time.

May this land bless us and keep us and not find us lukewarm and spit us out. I humbly thank this land for allowing me to breathe it's air, walk it's ground and see it's skies. If I can't honor it by being worthy of it at least I can sing it's praises.

Nobody should come or remain here who does not love it.

All comments from YouTube:

@johncoulombe833

4y↑251

When I was in the fifth grade, our class piled into a school bus and drove to Hollywood, Calif., specifically to the Warner Cinerama Theater. We filed into the theater and sat in the first row, which was about 30 feet from the Cinerama curved screen which was almost as big as an IMAX screen. When this sound track opened on the huge stereo speakers, we were totally blown away! That was in 1962 and I remember it clearly today. Amazing movie.

@satishs8481

4y↑8

A big thanks for sharing you memories

@Wahian1

4y↑9

Same here when I went to see it in Denver at the Cooper Cinerama Theatre. Great opening to a great Cinerama film.

@avm392

4y↑6

Sure that was an unforgettable experience. We watching it in 2020 for the 1st time enjoy it so much what more of back then, especially when the film captivated many audiences.

@EDavis-iw4zc

4y↑4

Wahian1 I saw it at the Crest Cinerama in downtown Sacramento, California.

@AmericanIsraeliJew

4y↑5

@@Wahian1 Me too. We say it on Colorado Blvd the Cooper Cinerama. A big orange movie theatre. I think we saw Ben-Hur there too.

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@oliviakay2936

44w↑24

i was 7 years old when my grandfather showed me this movie. I’m 14 now. when i ask my grandpa to watch it with me he chuckles and calls me an old soul. but if they had masterpieces like this and other favorites of mine (laurel & hardy, sound of music, singing in the rain, etc) i’m happy to be an old soul ❤

@Berlitz81

35w↑6

The woke mob have made sure that the making of such epics a thing of the past.

@histoireenimages5986

35w↑1

@@Berlitz81You have right but look ah Oppenheimer, great film, a true masterpiece ( like his main theme)

@drhkleinert3245

17w↑1

Enjoy every minute with your gramps, nobody knows how long it will go on that way. I watch so many great Hollywood classics esp Western with my dad every Saturday when we take him to us, and of course this movie, too. After a fatal brain stroke last year my beloved dad died in March this year at the age of 90 and i have tears in my eyes everytime i hear these Western scores (this, Comancheros, Alamo, El Dorado etc). But now its December and i still cant watch Westerns now. Same with my elder brother, he was a huge fan of Gene Kelly and we loved to watch his movies, but after my brother died 20 yrs ago its hard for me to enjoy Gene Kelly movies, in the last 20 yrs i hadnt watch his fav again, Singing in the rain. So God bless your Gramps and i hope you have many years of joy together before you.

@oliviakay2936

16w

@@drhkleinert3245 im so sorry for your losses

@barneshomestead1240

Relish every second you have with him.

@kurtlorentzen3996

3y↑84

Everything about this film is epic. The story, the filming, the locations, the greatest actors of the 20th century. And, of course, the music. I was about 10 years old when my dad took us to the "Cinerama" in Seattle to watch it. Ok, it wasn't IMAX, but it was pretty awesome at the time. The movie begins with an overture that includes variations on the theme and also some great American folk songs. Then, in true epic form, the intro starts and about 10 seconds into it those fabulous French horns explode! When I started junior high not too long after hearing this, I joined the band and played horn all the way through the rest of my school days. Newman was a movie score genius. You can hear the influence of this piece in Western movie scores from this point on, including Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (Brooks wrote the theme). If you haven't seen How the West was Won, you need to, it's a spectacular accomplishment in filmmaking.

@dianalee3059

47w↑4

I love your post! How wonderful Alfred Newman’s incredible score inspired you to play the French horn, certainly not the easiest of instruments! Well done!

@whitetiger1008

38w↑2

Hahahaha, me too!!! I saw it at about the same age in a big cinerama theater in Honolulu, those big screens with the wrap-around edges so you felt encased in the movie! Oh man, you could almost see around the corners! Yeah, I got swept up in the story, the filming in such grand locations and of course the music weaving it all together. This is the movie that inspired me to become the lyricist I am today. I've always wanted to write lyrics to this so maybe it's time. I've written lyrics to several John Barry movie themes (none recorded, yet). Movie music is the most inspiring for me because of all the different levels of stimulation. Yeah, I feel too that cinerama was the precursor to IMAX. Time to hit my Youtube button!

@dianalee3059

38w↑1

@@whitetiger1008 Nice!! Good luck with your lyric writing! I appreciate your reply.

@whitetiger1008

38w↑1

@@dianalee3059 Thanks, Diana!! Appreciate that. 😁

@lakeunion4671

29w

I too experienced this stunning film at the Seattle (*Martin's then) Cinerama 3 strip projector presentation ! What a joy to behold on the Cineram's pre-Imax enormous screen and the music and sound track so alive (six channel stereo - WOWZER in 1963 when HTWWW played in Setattle)! I "dove under my seat at the buffallo stampeded AND FELT i COULD COUGH UP DUST ! Seattle is so blessed to have had this Cerama franchise for os long, And it is STILL showing state of the art movie presentation over SIXTY years later !

@k.heessels7109

2y↑29

Listening to the beautiful theme music of the movie:" How the West was won" reminds me of the greatness of the United States of America and the good people of the United States.
Be proud of your great history, the theme music reflects your greatness and achievements!
Greetings from a Dutch admirer of these United States of America.

@georgeheld1901

2y↑1

Here here! Long live the United States! We need to regain the gumption and bravado we’ve had in years past, but our nation is of a strong stock, and - God willing - will rise to the occasion!

@dianalee3059

1y↑2

How very lovely. You have a beautiful country as well!

@violetskye6863

3y↑19

My father was one of the sound engineers brought in for the premiere at cinerama dome. He took me with him. I was 6 at that time. This will always in my mind be one of the great movie theme compositions of all time.

@stevepeter2207

47w↑7

What an undeniable RUSH! Those three unapologetic pitches that so inspired, “This Old Man”, to become a music teacher! I’d been taken by my parents from our hometown of Lincoln, NE all the way to Omaha (65 whole miles), to take in the new Cinerama movie, and even to this day, as a 72yo retired music aficionado, hearing that decades old theme instantly flings me back 60+ years in time! What magical mystery is MUSIC. No idea why or how it burrowed into my head this particular morning out here on the NW Oregon coast as we begin our 2023 Memorial Day weekend, but I DO KNOW, that without music, “THIS old man’s”, life would never have come to pass. Special thanks to composer, Alfred Newman, for the cinematic JOLT!

@garaijeno5804

2y↑36

This is one of alfred Newman's most beautiful, monumental music! Forever honored.

@skunkygrogan6956

2y↑5

Everything bold and courageous that is conceived by this nation and world as representing 🇺🇸 is here in the parameters of this work......

@xJM1

15w↑2

An absolutely fantastic film with a star studded cast from this era one of the best Westerns

@high-speedfreighttrains934

3y↑27

What a gorgeous sounding masterpiece!

@tomsmith7742

49w↑8

This theme has been played by a thousand different orchestras, but none surpass this original MGM orchestra take. Still get the chills...

@kt9166

3y↑37

I remember our family going to the Cooper Cinerama in Denver, Colorado in 1962 to see this. It was our big family night out, and we got all gussied up in our best clothes. We went out to dinner, and then to the movies. It still brings tears to my eyes. The opening music is still one of the best themes ever written. I just got the Blu-Ray, which has both the original "smilebox" Cinerama picture, and the widescreen version, both lovingly remastered for the best sound and picture I've seen since that day in 1962. WOW! Highly recommended!

@Johnoftheshire

2y↑2

I saw the movie at the Cooper Theater in Cinerama in Denver in 1962 too, but the matinee. A special, special movie and event. Pure heaven. I remember the multicolored lighting on the curtains prior to the start.

@marknelson2846

2y↑2

I remember the Cooper Theater! It was really something to see a movie there. The last movie I saw there was "Gettyburg," another great movie.

@jcrook5904

44w↑2

I saw it at the Cooper too. We came over from the western slope.

@fanwithnoname

7y↑302

How the West Was Won came at a time when films were an event, a night out, something that really was a special occasion. There were intermissions, overtures, dressing up in suits and ties. Those days are gone, like the old west. But, to hear that triumphant score by Alfred Newman immediately brings images to mind of a time past – adventure, a wide-open country, friends and enemies at every turn.

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑5

Well said! I don't think ANY of us would be able to stand the soundtrack that would cover today..... Sadly.

@TerryReedMiss

5y↑7

You know, I've always wanted to open a specialty theater! Maybe down in Florida.

@tomdynia9951

5y↑23

I was fortunate enough to see How the West Was Won at the Cinerama theater in Denver when I was a child. My family made a special trip from Colorado Springs for the occasion. The following year, we made a trip to see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World.

@ninahettema6427

4y↑2

@@TerryReedMiss There's one like that in Berkeley, CA, has about 30 big comfy rocking armchairs. They show classics - and they pack 'em in!

@alfredneuman6488

4y↑4

We must be of a similar age because I saw both those movies with my folks when they first came out at the Cimerama in Auckland New Zealand.

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@jamesvanover5477

5y↑16

In 1972 I used this theme as an entrance to my high school band's half time and contest show. It drew more fan reaction than any other show I ever did.

@edwardfleming5434

4y↑1

Ferris State College in 1976 had a band day, several high school bands took the field and played this. It was truly awesome and inspirational.

@davidthomas8599

5y↑11

The closing narration by Spencer Tracy is so inspiring, I think it epitomises all that is or was good about America. ...fantastic

@JD-ul8qu

1y↑4

I, too, was a kid when I saw this. I was in the sixth grade, in Boston, and it totally blew me away. There were so many great epic films in the late fifties and early sixties...this, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, The Alamo, etc. I’m lucky my parents liked to take me to the movies!

@drhkleinert8241

17w↑1

Ten Commandments...all of this had a Entr'Acte (prelude, for to Take Your Seats", an intermission and an Exit music. Big like Opera.

@robertjensen4249

4y↑5

AWESOME!! HOW GOOD IS THIS!! PERFECT AND INSPIRING ! THE AMERICAN SPIRIT LIVES !!

@paullewis2413

6y↑31

OMG this music takes me back over 50 years in an instant, as if it was yesterday! As a kid being taken to see this film in Cinerama was a highlight of my early years, I was in awe of the whole thing.

@weitzfc1

5y↑2

I saw Cinerama when I was eight . then thirty years later . I wasn't imagining what I saw . in this day and age you would think they'd have no trouble duplicating Cinerama .

@edwardfleming5434

4y↑1

My family took me to the Detroit Cinerama. In those days, it was an event, not just a movie. They don't make them like that anymore. :-(

@whatsina1

4y↑1

Highlight of my childhood also..along with other 3 strip Cinerama presentations. Had such an impact I still regularly have dreams that I have found an abandoned Cinerama theatre in my home city and set about restoring it and track down good prints around the world and they play forever to packed houses.
I wish...

@genitalgore1376

7y↑96

We need more music like this

@marklloyd4087

5y↑2

I just want to get on a horse and ride into the sunset, God I'm a real man 😂 🇬🇧

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑1

We need ANY music like this!!!!

@Tina-qp7py

3y↑1

Listen to Aaron Copeland's Rodeo, especially Hoe-down.

@nstix2009xitsn

@genitalgore Well, all you have to do is bring back Al Newman from the dead.

@bunkerman99

3y↑2

I'm 64 and when this came out I so wanted to be either Jimmy Stewart or George Peppard; I still Do.

@benhur1959

5y↑28

Brings back memories of being in the cinema away from the rest of the world, lights dimmed, curtains drawn back, looking at that awsome cinerama screen, and the main theme being blasted out. Sheer heaven

@ericseal4453

4y↑15

EPIC historical and western movie, for all you history buffs! Good soundtrack as well!

@davindaire

8y↑100

This score gives me goose bumps! Alfred Newman mastered EVERY genre.

@reeblesnarfle5443

Tru th!

@matthewr1900

4y↑5

You are absolutely right!

@nosuchthing4789

4y↑5

100% true. Every time...

@donnaallen9863

1y↑1

Yes, me too

@WhispererWest

3y↑18

The music tells so many stories and conveys meanings. It is nice to listen to it on different occasions and continue to see what visions and sentiments it evokes

@bobanderson6080

4y↑5

I was 22 when I saw this movie in 1962 in Glasgow, I still love the movie and the soundtrack, those days you went dressed in a suit shirt and tie, I think life was more equal then and most of the people were working, what a change to life today everyone has so many material goods and their still not as happy as we were back then, most of the stars of the movie have all gone now although Carol Baker is still around at 88, I bought the DVD and put it on now and again.

@BradBrassman

4y↑19

This and The Big Country are amongst the best western themes!

@scherzofrenicno1679

7y↑113

I can't believe Alfred Newman did not win the Academy Award for this music! One of my all time favorite movie themes.

@nedland20

6y↑11

Believe it! It was a gross insult to musical intelligence for members of the Academy to pass right by Alfred Newman's monumental score in favor of John Addison's fanciful offering for the 17th century sex-romp "Tom Jones."

@rogerlynch5279

5y↑1

Just can speculate but I guess it had something to do with the corrected view about the colonisation of the North American continent. The picture about the Native Americans was in the change already back then towards the reconstructed stand we have today. So some in the Jury might have thought the film outdated and backwards looking, even though it was a major success world wide and this has overshadowed the decission about the main theme.

@jslasher1

5y↑4

He should have won, but John Addison's infectious score for "Tom Jones" was the odds-on favourite.

@smoothlady1983

5y↑6

Captures the west in sum...

@lagunaflyguy

3y↑1

What me worry?

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@SanDiegoPsychology

6y↑6

I saw this in Cinerama in 1962 and it was the most exciting film experience of my life. I was ten years old and on that day, a lifelong love of cinema began. The score brings back so many great memories of sitting in that theater, immersed in the tremendous imagery, sound, and technical wonder.

@dennisesplin3285

2y↑2

Sad that these days have gone. Big films. Big music Big stars. Lavish productions. A real night out with bells on. Start with an earthquake finish with a climax.

@dennisesplin3285

Thanks. I went to the Cinema or Pictures three times a week. My favourite film was Lawrence of Arabia. Could this magnificent film be made today. No. Only using CGG. No comparison. Also theatres were full. The splendid buildings were a treat to visit. I was lucky to meet Peter O Toole. A wicked sense of humour.

@jspee1965

9y↑210

This is, was and always be a magnificent soundtrack....

@brettb7693

5y↑4

You could say you give it a 7 out of 5

@WimHamhuis

@@brettb7693 this is such a nice track it sounds like a total victory :)

@brettb7693

5y↑3

@@WimHamhuis you get the reference though right? I was referencing the magnificent seven, another great cowboy movie with a sick soundtrack

@reeblesnarfle5443

Name that song in three notes!

@Tmanaz480

5y↑2

Of course there was a full overture before the vast traveller curtain opened to reveal the huge wraparound screen

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@hannahtaylor670

6y↑10

I am 16 years old and I have seen lots of movies but somehow I always come back to the old ones. They are by far the best; and the actors are phenomenal, like John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn ect. Yup, I am a very much oldies fan.

@stephenhagen234

13w↑1

THANK YOU amuggle15 for posting this wonderful, inspiring music for our appreciation and enjoyment. The artwork from the movie is awesome too!

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑4

When you were in the theatre, and you saw an opening like this, you KNEW you were in for a really good movie!!! BIG production, attention to detail, quality all round, actors, music, script, location, EVERYTHING first class, and done RIGHT!
Just exactly WHAT happened Hollywood? Sellout for mula? Power? Control? All of it?

@edwardfleming5434

4y↑10

One of the greatest if not the greatest movie score of all time.

@joycejustin6108

35w↑2

This brilliant score screams the "American West".......thank you Alfred Newman

@saikarlsass710

4y↑7

Great! I love this kind of music. I would like to see the orchestra playing this song. Amazing!

@markvonschlieder6032

5y↑4

This has got to be the finest piece of music that I have ever heard; and that is why this is my most favorite film as well.

@georgestemple3310

6y↑2

Excellent movie love the music as much as the acting

@alecwilliams7111

14w

Thanks for running this. Those of us who saw it in the original Cinerama will never forget it.

@justinratcliffe947

4y↑5

This is my all time favorite movie. Has been my whole life.

@larryjohnson452

8y↑41

A true masterpiece of composition by Newman - captures the spirit of the movie!

@braddavis4276

3y↑1

When I was in second grade I saw this movie , and Wow ! I then bought the album .

@justinsublett5880

2y↑2

Those were the damn days of American cinema! Goodness, nobody writes scores like that anymore.

@edwardpate6128

6y↑7

One of my all time favorite films!

@drhkleinert8241

The biggest Western of all times...my dad is a big fan from Westerns and so i am happy that we watch this movie on my 69 " 4 k flat TV...
He never saw this movie before and he was really impressed (bec he is a big fan from Jimmy Stewart).
My Dad is 89 yrs old and i didnt know how many movies can watch together...

@drhkleinert8241

After a hard brain stroke and many other health problems my dad lays in a special home now and we all expect his passing away every day.
Its hard to know that we never will watch his beloved Westerns, John Wayne, James Stewart etc again, but i am happy that we watched this movie together. But i am very sad and have tears in my eyes to hear this music and realise its all over now.
Same with all his and my favourite movies and music like Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments etc...
When he will pass i will remember our Saturday movie time for the rest of my life.

@drhkleinert8241

49w

My beloved Dad passes at the 18. of March 2023 but everytime i listen this Music i remeber when we watch this Movie together...

@timothyadams8489

2y↑3

We saw this at the Indian Hills Cinerama in Omaha when I was 10. My love for film music began with this soundtrack. It's still my favorite kind of music.

@tomsmith7742

4y↑25

Debatably the best, but definitely the most impressive movie theme of all time.

@pointermom7641

2y↑1

I love the Patton theme as well

@margiecarol2944

AMEN! I SAW IT IN "CINERAMA".

@PerfectTommy81

1y↑1

When I first saw this movie, as a young person, and heard this music, I was totally blown away and really proud to be an American, this was our history, this was my history, as my relatives came across the country on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s!! But decades later, I'm 76 now, I realized that how the west was won, was the genocide of the Native Americans and their culture!! So today, I am proud to be from an Oregon Pioneer family, but I am not so proud to be an American with Native American blood on his hands!!

@PerfectTommy81

@@JesusisLordSEEK ?????

@MadMax75th

6y↑2

Greatest Western ever! How this brings back memories! Saw it as a kid with my parents, movie house was huge, ornate and a real experience!

@maj.d.sasterhikes9884

4y↑3

One of the greatest movies ever! I've never got tired of it, in fact, just listening to this made me get my DVD out and put it on. I loaned it to an old friend several years ago and he thought it was kind of corny. Many of today's generation dismiss it as racist, (but what don't they call racist?). Regardless... I have loved this movie since I was a little kid and it is still one of my all time favorites. When ever I watch it, I am glad I was born in America!

@Tlyna1952

5y↑15

I'm glad I grew up when most of those movies were first run at theaters. It was great seeing them on the big screen and the movie scores only enhanced the experience.

@songsmith31a

6y↑8

Certainly up there with the best of Western film themes. I saw this film when it was released in the UK and shown at
the Cinerama Cinema, Old Compton Street, Soho, London - and I still recall the thrill at the size of the screen and the
power of the title music when the curtains seemed to part almost back to where I was sitting! No wonder the film
made such an impact on Kevin Costner and saw him make one of the later great Westerns: Dances With Wolves.

@weitzfc1

5y↑1

if you saw it in Cinerama, you saw this movie at it's best .

@samirarnaout8421

9y↑22

This music film returned me back 53 year when I was in 17 year old and I was behind the projection camera and playing this film in cinema dunia in beirut in cinerama and surrounding system hope these days will return back.

@whatsina1

I very much wish so too. I can't understand how they have not. There was nothing ever since to compare and you would think it can't be that hard to make digital cameras and projectors to replicate the original scope..or close to it. They just need to make them more user friendly especially for directors and actors.
Certainly no problems to rebuild the screens. Most would be in storage around the world anyway.
I have a recurring dream that I'm on the hunt for all the equipment from the Auckland NZ Cinerama. I do find it (constantly) but it is in a bit of a bad state (in the dream) Shows how it got into my brain in those few short years and never came out!.
It was a mind blowing technology..

@johnprovince5304

With cinema screens shrinking and TV screens enlarging, unlikely. Soon an entire wall in your home will be a HDTV.

@georget1717

1y↑1

I love the great film soundtracks. This one among them. Saw the film as a little boy. Always remembered the score. I find it running through the background of my mind sometimes. Thank you for sharing.

@my2cents2u

4y↑3

This music just popped into my head this morning - no clue why. Now I can't wait to see the movie again. It's been decades.

@allanstone4371

2y↑2

I'm right in there with John!!! I remember seeing this film 60, yes I said 60 years ago, at the Avalon Theater in Chicago as a 5th grader. It has stuck with me my entire life and just yesterday i discovered the book of the same name by Louis L'Amour, which is the original story source for the film. I actually remembered many of the words to the theme song, or at least I thought I did, and when I played the track on YouTube today I realized I had in fact carried those words and that tune with my my entire life. Funny the things we remember, and in this instance the potency of the memory was obviously due to the power and excellence of the music. And then just 2 years later the Beatles came to the Ed Sullivan Show and music took an unexpected turn to foreverness. Donald Sands

@thicks2007

3y↑4

Hearing this reminds me of when I was a kid. Every year, my brother, sister and I used to take turns going over to my grandma's house and spending the night on a weekend when the Iowa State Fair was being broadcast on Iowa Public Television. This was the theme song and they always showed a video clip from the 1930s of 2 trains crashing into each other. Such great memories. Iowa Public Television just changed the theme song and entrance video for the fair this year. Not hearing it this year kinda feels like my childhood is finally over (I'm 33). Not to mention my grandma and grandpa passed way in 2020 and 2021. Gonna miss hearing this on tv every August summer.

@georget1717

5y↑2

Has to be one of the best and most inspirational of motion picture soundtracks I've ever heard. I try to collect my favorite scores/soundtracks.

@pebble2137

4y↑2

Simply brilliant.

@ianrobertson7551

7y↑32

I remember seeing HTWWW in the Cinerama Glasgow when I was 14. The memory of the 3 projectors on the huge screen and the surround sound has stayed with me ever since
Nothing including IMAX comes near to the huge curved screen
Just Amazing

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑1

TRUTH SURVIVES!!! THANK YOU JESUS!

@jerrymichaelcrowe1917

5y↑2

Amazing soundtrack & movie. My favorite in both cases. Always picks up my spirit.

@BLP1261

4y↑4

Great music. For as long as I can remember Iowa Public Television (now Iowa PBS) has used this as the opening theme to their coverage of the Iowa State Fair each August. I had to Shazam the tune to find out what it was.

@lawrencebittke8478

6y↑28

Dad and I went to all the epic production movies. We saw EL CID when I was eight and I had a boyhood crush watching Sophia Loren on the screen. I saw HTWWW when I was nine with that huge cast of stars and this phenomenal musical score. Mikla Rozsa and Alfred Newman were musical geniuses who MADE movies like these memorable. Great times!

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑3

What was absolutely amazing about these films, was the fact that both movie and soundtrack were integrated to produce a final product; not just simply thrown together for effect! 😒

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑2

They don't do that anymore, trying to dumb down the public!

@babymonge1049

3y↑2

Oh, what an amazing musical score. Got an unbelievable and unlimited talents our Lord God to entertain and love the wonderful things He has created for His people to enjoy, praise and thank Him forever. With this You always make my day. Magandang buhay sa ating lahat. God loves and bless us forever. Deo gratias.

@drhkleinert8241

2y↑1

I watch Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments in big Cinema with my Dad in the early 70s when i was a child...amazing.

@kenandersen8335

5y↑17

What an astounding score, one of my all time favorites. They don’t do this in movies anymore. Not to this scale and complexity that I have seen. Love it.

@tarareign8872

13w

My god this theme absolutely gets your heart pumping. An exquisite masterpiece.

@johnprovince5304

8y↑166

Saw this in Cinerama in 1962 and have been studying American history ever since. $1.00 well spent.

@johnjarou2357

6y↑6

john province I saw it at the drive in theater when it came, with my family. quite a memory.

@michaelgreco7597

Didnt think movies were that expensive to see in 1962.........

@kateschmidt1698

6y↑4

This might be the best comment on anything I've ever read.

@coleparker

6y↑1

Saw it in 1962 when I was 9 years old along with my brother and my father. I am now 65.

@coleparker

Depended on what age you were. I was 9 and at the theater I saw it I believe I paid 50 or 75 cents.

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@TheFacefinder

4y↑3

I saw this in cinemascope as a kid. Three full size outdoor drive-in screens side by side. Amazing.

@tomsmith3961

I think you meant Cinerama.

@DOLRED

9y↑214

Another example of how music can make a movie....

@11304800

8y↑8

+DOLRED YES!! Have you noticed--that lotz of times when the music is good---the movie usually is to.,

@Seanchai_Tostach

8y↑6

+Johnny Wewoka well i would say its not always the case considering movies like cutthroat island and a million ways to die in the west were bot terrible films with amazing scores

@11304800

8y↑2

Horatio Ackerley Well --I suppose it's a matter of opinion.

@bradbaker12

DOLRED

@diogeneslamplit6573

6y↑4

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@DavidMartin-vh4gx

8y↑28

Phenomenal piece of music. Just phenomenal

@reeblesnarfle5443

5y↑2

Well said!

@michaelscribe4827

4y↑3

Alfred Newman so gifted and so underrated, and he ran the Fox music department and conducted its orchestra all at the same time, and wrote great music.

@drhkleinert8241

17w

And composed the 20th Century Fox Fanfare, i never forget that once every Star Wars began with that...

@dianalee3059

47w↑2

I’m not really a very big fan of westerns….but this AWESOME score is off the charts fabulous

@shrimpy8188

Magnificent. God bless America. You're what every Western country should have been.

@LordRocksavage100

9y↑10

Many years ago I had the record. I haven't heard this music in many years. Thank you.

@shawnmichaelduncan5951

6y↑1

I got ahold of one at used record store few years back.

@chrisj2539

You can get the whole unedited 'track now. It's on a double CD. I know--I own it.

@whatsina1

You can still purchase vinyl copy on line. I got one in from the US and found it had a warp. Too much drama to send back.

@autumnlheureux4231

6y↑2

Flawless score! I have the complete soundtrack. I got to see it in Cinerama when they rereleased it. I am of native and european heritage. I wish the indigenous side had been shown more accurately. they had a great opportunity here. And it wasn’t fully realized. But it is a majestic film. Amazing talent. My mom played this title in her high school band the year the film came out.and RIP Debbie Reynolds you were such a great highlight in this film.

@Parsley1000

4y↑5

Ah yes, good 'ol Cinerama. Pity they didn't make more movies in this aspect. Very epic, and the soundtrack music really enhances an already BIG experience. Boy what an opening , Play it big, Play it loud!

@drhkleinert8241

17w

The only movie where i must turn my head while watching on my large 70 " TV. Unfortunately the Cinerama was to difficult and too expensive, and needed special cinemals and screens. Imagine Movies like Ben Hur, Ten Commandments, Lord of the Rings or Endgame with this.

@iancohen1986

4y↑2

I just recently played this in my marching band show and loved it!

@johnpatterson4816

2y↑2

All the greatest westerns had the most epic theme songs!!!

@dianalee3059

Oh how this man could compose!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@robertjohnston4280

38w↑1

You can't believe it? Neither can I! Such superb music!!!

@Phntomz

6y↑7

This is one of those movies that whenever I see it playing, I immediately switch to that channel!

@susangrossman8431

3y↑2

This score is so perfect there are no words to describe it.

@wpatrick6105

5y↑7

When it came out, I saw this movie when I was a child with my father. The music is all inspiring and uniquely in its own class. I play it when I work on my genealogy and reflect on the hardships my foreparents incurred when settling in Kentucky, Texas, and Missouri. A great piece of music.

@stephenhagen234

13w

I saw this movie when it first was released for public viewing in 1962. Martin-Cinerama in St. Louis, Missouri and was projected from two separate cameras on the left and right side of the projection booth. Viewed on a HUGE curved screen and almost looked to be 3D. The sound was awesome too! Never forget what those early Americans gave to us was a gift!

@taroman7100

35w↑1

I love your Miklos Rozsa icon. He was genious.

@billbuyshouses7077

5y↑1

I’m 60 and this one is at the top of my list, I still get invigorated when I hear this!!!!

@compsecure77

3y↑7

This Newman masterpiece Ennio Morricone, Miklos Roza Ben Hur and Bernstein's Magnificent Seven are simply the greatest Themes ever composed.

@guileniam

Star wars by John Williams?

@drhkleinert8241

17w

Yes, but i think No John Williams Score without the influence of the big composers before. Williams and Zimmer, or Shore with the Lord of the Rings score are today, but the seed for this was planted in the 50s and 60s.@@guileniam

@geesching

9y↑3

A GREAT SCORE! MEMORABLE AND TREMENDOUSLY MOVING.

@joanschansberg3540

6y↑5

I have such wonderful memories of playing this on vinyl of course back in the day....so good to have it here now! I played French Horn because of this song.

@k.heessels7109

Hi I am a Dutch guy, yesterday I have seen the movie: how the west was won, a beautiful movie with a powerful and beautiful theme music magnificent composed and played! Thank you so much for this outstanding piece of music!
Greetings from a Dutch admirer.

@christophers.o622

7y↑1

I seen How the West was won on July 6, 1964 at the Atco Drive In movie in Atco, NJ. I was 10 going on 11 then. I just love that movie and I even read the book later when I was living outside San Diego in Spring Valley. It was a great movie with a great cast, great soundtrack, great narration by the late Spencer Tracy.

@robertcarlson53

7y↑5

Great music and a Great movie and very very good actors

@ru_faded4355

was one if my faves movies growing up as I was born in 78 but loved this movie and it made we want to listen to music and I became a DJ and took trumpet in school still got my trumpet I wanted to play in orchestra growing up bought so many soundtracks to listen to the music!!!😊💥🐎👍

@Lulabellexd

10y↑46

Alfred Newman you were a genius!

@pbrucpaul

6y↑4

Sweeping and Dynamic music to a well done movie Those 3 screens were awesome.

@alfonsocaro3609

4y↑7

Sin duda una de las mejores películas del oeste que se alla filmado jamás

@donnaallen9863

My favorite movie. Saw it first run in theatre and have loved it since

@Koloth2000

5y↑1

This is probably my favorite western soundtrack of all time. :)

@robertlock7088

I was on the front tow at fort Buckner theater and it was the most awe inspiring movie especially when all 3 cameras were in perfect sync

@normvw4053

28w

I rember this song from the soundtrack album that my parents had. I think that it was 1968, in Ft. Defiance, Arizona I would listen to this composition several times a day. Thanks Mom and Dad, for your introduction to this type of music, it has truly enriched my life...and baffled my high school friends.