Hi,
Yes ... and mine started 45 years ago, with Bernard Herrmann and with some of the other giants like Maurice Jarre. A lot of their music is legendary and makes a lot of other movies and specially "songs" ... kinda be left out in the desert.
There are many, whose music we can still humm ... like Ennio Morricone ... but you don't exactly remember ... where did that come from? You can go ask Clint Eastwood that question, btw.
The other well known director to use a lot of music was Stanley Kubrick, and you heard Richard Strauss because of one piece of his music, as you might never have heard anything else he did!
The best director to EVER use music on film, is without a doubt Nicholas Roeg, who in the early days made the film "Performance" stand out, and he was the real pre-cursor to the MTV generation ... and several musicians were first named in that film, like Randy Newman, Gil Scott Heron and Buffy Saint Marie, as well as another person that had a darker history in music, named Jack Nietzche. Maybe one day we can listen to St. Giles Cripplegate. In the following films that Nickolas Roeg did, the amazing number of musicians and music used in his films is second to none. Maybe one day you want to check out the use of the soundtrack in the film "Bad Timing, A Sensual Obsession", or if you are bored, how the music was used later in several of his other films, up to and including his directing of an opera piece in the film ARIA. MTV even used that part of the film that has Mick Jagger singing that famous song from the film! A lot of people thought it was just a music video ... nope ... it was a part of the film itself.
There are many others in film that illustrate music like no other, and is one of the big things I always look for in film to review. It's really hard to miss Vangelis, Riuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, or Mike Oldfield ... but I don't think I have to mention that to you! Later you got Popol Vuh being used in a lot of Werner Herzog films and Nino Rota had one Oscar for his Fellini soundtracks.
Up until rock music took over after Elvis, the music that most everyone remembered was film music, that was often augmented by a star in film that also sang, like Judy Garland, and many other well known voices in film during the 50's. Some of these were even soundtracks from musicals, that also had a song from it be a hit ... West Side Story is one such example.
post edited by Moshkiae - 2012/08/06 21:23:49