Music credits
What is the name of the song that is being played during the picnic scene where Clint Eastwood attempts to kiss Inger Stevens?
shareI know I have heard that song before too.Cant say what it is.I know i enjoyed that soundtrack in the movie,with the bells ringing to the music.I just brought this movie.
shareI've been wondering about tha background music myself, for it seems VERY familiar. I searched the web and found no answer.
However, I'm pretty sure the background music in the romantic scene is (or is adapted from) "Younger than Springtime," a song from the musical "South Pacific." It seems a bit odd for a Clint Eastwood western to include music from a popular broadway play, but it sure sounds like it.
Something that often happens in post-production is that the film editor adds a "temp" score, made up of readily available cues, which influences the music that the composer ultimately writes. It sounds to me like "Younger than Springtime" is what the director wanted, so Dominic Frontiere gave him a sound-alike song. (That's just a guess on my part.) Frontiere stated that he only had eight days to compose the music for this film, so he was in a big rush to get it done. He did manage to write several memorable themes in that short amount of time.
The soundtrack CD lists the title of that love theme as "Rachel" (after Inger Stevens' character). There's a sample from "Rachel" available at http://lalalandrecords.com/HangEmHigh.html, but unfortunately the online clip is too short to hear the love theme portion.
What is heard there is called "They Took Me" on track 9 (a slightly different arrangement), which is a very melancholy cue; I've always loved that one. I first heard it on the final episode of "The Fugitive" (1967), over the scene where the one-armed man lays dead at the amusement park. My guess is that Frontiere composed it for one of Quinn Martin's earlier shows (like "12 O'Clock High" or "The New Breed") and the music editor simply re-used it in "The Fugitive". Frontiere gave it a "western" arrangement for "Hang 'Em High" (1968) and later, a deliriously dramatic arrangement in "A Name for Evil" (1973), which is another CD available online...
http://lalalandrecords.com/ANameForEvil_TheUnknown.html
In that soundtrack, Hang 'Em High's "They Took Me" is known as "The Kill". The CD also includes music from The Outer Limits episode "Forms of Things Unknown", later reused for Quinn Martin's "The Invaders". Highly recommended.
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