That jingle when the troops march..
Does anyone know what that is? The play it throughout the movie
shareThere are a number of different marches played as ambient music during the various parade scenes. The first one, which is played when the Moroccan troops pass in review after the Moroccan official decorates Patton, I have no idea as to the title or who composed it or even its country of origin.
The march played when the US troops enter Palermo and Patton is received by the Cardinal of Palermo is The Washington Post by John Philip Sousa. Sousa, who was known as "The March King" and who served at different times as a bandmaster in the US Marine Corps and US Navy, was one of the most prolific American composers of all time.
The march played on the bagpipes when the British troops enter Messina is Scotland the Brave, which appears to be a folk song and has no credited author. The march that the band from Patton's army uses to drown out the bagpipes is The Stars and Stripes Forever, also by John Philip Sousa. It's the same march that the British female Auxiliary Territorial Services band plays when Patton arrives at Knutsford for the dedication of the Welcome Club.
First, thanks for your reply.
It is not any of those. :)
This one is played & replayed numerous times in the movie and is upbeat. It comes on at good times when Patton's troops win something & are celebrating.
It is easiest to find as it comes on, for the last time just as the credits begin to roll at 2:50 (at least on my video, I assume they are all the same.)
The cadence is
Da da da da da daaaaa
Da da da da da,
Da da da da da
da daaaaaa
da daaaaaa
Again any toughts helpful.
First, thanks for your reply.
It is not any of those. :)
This one is played & replayed numerous times in the movie and is upbeat. It comes on at good times when Patton's troops win something & are celebrating.
It is easiest to find as it comes on, for the last time just as the credits begin to roll at 2:50 (at least on my video, I assume they are all the same.)
The cadence is
Da da da da da daaaaa
Da da da da da,
Da da da da da
da daaaaaa
da daaaaaa
Again any toughts helpful.
It's not a previously composed musical piece with a separate identity, but rather original music written by Jerry Goldsmith specifically for the movie. Here is a quote taken from the dust jacket of the soundtrack that was marketed at the time the movie was first released.
Patton was a complicated, contradictory man. The classic warrior, believing in reincarnation--religious, profane.
Jerry Goldsmith's music grasps this from his opening archaic cries of the trumpet voluntaries through his towering orchestral surges delineating always the bewildering and magnificent contradictions of the character. The lyricism and the grandeur of the "Battleground" piece, the joy Patton felt in attack, and the overwhelming confidence he had in his ability to deliver victory are movingly stated in Goldsmith's veritable tone poem. And again in the snow scenes as we see the weary procession of troops on their way to relieve Bastogne, one feels in the music an almost painful accentuation of the stillness in the scene and the loneliness of the foot soldiers. And contrast this with the music underscoring the final German counterattack in the Ardennes, so moving in its articulation of the despair and hopelessness of the venture.
{Praise of Goldsmith}...listen to the music in this album which transcends all of its corporate services and stands by itself as a musical entity, a contemporary "Eroica" containing its own dramatic narrative as an engaging symphonic integrity.
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Ok well thanks again for your reply and I am very impressed with your incredible knowledge on this subject.
So now that you know what it is, I assume it is "un-gettable" correct? Can it be found anywhere?
Thanks for any leads you may have.
I'm not especially knowledgeable about the subject. I simply have an original copy of the LP record of the movie soundtrack and could just copy the narrative on the dust jacket.
If I were looking for that soundtrack (Patton, movie, 1970) which was primarily sold as an LP back then I'd start with Google. Items like that can sometimes be found on e-Bay.
I don't know if it was also released as a cassette tape, and that was before the more advanced media types came along.
Alternately, the tune itself might be found on youtube.
I'm not looking for it myself since I still have my copy of the LP. So I won't personally be doing any of these searches. I just mention them as suggestions.
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It will probably be helpful for anyone seeking a recording of Jerry Goldsmith's score to Patton to know that he re-recorded the entire score on a CD in 1997 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It was quite faithful to and nearly indistinguishable from the original film soundtrack. The only things missing that were on the soundtrack album were George C. Scott's voice, first in Patton's original address to the troops which was on the opening track before the Main Theme, and then in the End Scene with Scott's closing soliloquy describing the triumphal parade for Roman conquerors. There are actually two additional tracks from Patton which didn't make the original LP, and an then five more bonus tracks from Goldsmith's other movie soundtrack of 1970, Tora! Tora! Tora!
This CD might actually be easier to find and play than the vinyl LP.
There is this remarkably fertile place called the "internet" where you can find almost anything nowadays.
Is this the piece you want? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsU6difHB9Q
The Patton theme which is what this thread was started about is something I cannot find on the Internet in relation to a movie I've seen several time and it plays at the end. People are hugging and laughing and stuff and then there's a freeze frame at the end of the movie but that song is playing to end it. It's driving me crazy because when I hear that tune which is on Patton right now that's movie I think of but I can't think of the name of the movie!! HELP!!
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