Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from May 31, 2016

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Tue. Jul 14th, 7pm - 8pm: Harold Faltermeyer (More info...)

Munich keyboardist and composer Harold Faltermeyer discusses scoring 80s blockbusters "Beverly Hills Cop" (“Axel F”!!), "Top Gun," "Fletch" and "The Running Man," the latter recently reissued by Varese Sarabande. Starting at Deutsche Grammophon (engineering Stockhausen), Giorgio Moroder recruited Faltermeyer to Hollywood as his secret weapon on "Midnight Express," "American Gigolo," "E=MC2" and Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" (writing "Hot Stuff") before scoring his first Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer film "Thief of Hearts." He returns in 2020 to compose for "Top Gun: Maverick."

Tue. Jul 21st, 7pm - 8pm: RIP Johnny Mandel (More info...)

Morricone Island pays tribute to jazz trumpeter and trombonist turned composer Johnny Mandel who died at 94 on June 29. Mandel's debut film score for 1958's "I Want To Live!" garnered his first of 17 Grammy nominations before penning "The Shadow of Your Smile" for 1965's "The Sandpiper" and "Suicide Is Painless" for 1970's "M*A*S*H*." Other highlights include "Point Blank," "The Last Detail," "Freaky Friday," "Being There" and "Caddyshack."

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Images	Approx. start time
Akira Ifukube	Repel Godzilla! (M1)	Godzilla, King of the Monsters	Toho		0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Footsteps FX	Godzilla, King of the Monsters	GNP Crescendo		0:03:24 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster	Toho		0:04:12 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Mechagodzilla	The Terror of Mecha-Godzilla	Toho		0:05:20 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Godzilla vs Gigan	Godzilla on Monster Island	Toho		0:06:07 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Let's Summon Happiness I	Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster	Toho		0:08:55 (Pop‑up)
Music behind DJ: Akira Ifukube	Godzilla Under the Sea (M22)	Godzilla, King of the Monsters	Toho		0:12:04 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title (M1)	King Kong vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:15:25 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	King Kong Roars FX	King Kong vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:17:34 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title (M1)	Monster Zero	Toho		0:21:20 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Title Credits	Destroy All Monsters	Toho		0:22:03 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	The Kilaak Starmen I (M9)	Destroy All Monsters	Toho		0:22:56 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Battle In Outer Space	Toho		0:23:44 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Sacred Springs	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:24:57 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Mothra FX	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:26:12 (Pop‑up)
Music behind DJ: Akira Ifukube	Adult Mothra vs. Godzilla (M21)	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:27:06 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Go! Go! Godzilla	Godzilla on Monster Island	Toho		0:31:02 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Feel In My Heart	War Of The Gargantuas	Toho		0:34:17 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	War Of The Gargantuas	Toho		0:36:23 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Wiring Complete	War Of The Gargantuas	Toho		0:38:04 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Mahara Mothra (PS-19PBMIX)	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:39:24 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	The Little Beauty's Theme Song (M5T1)	Mothra vs. Godzilla	Toho		0:42:50 (Pop‑up)
Music behind DJ: Akira Ifukube	Mogera Attacks	The Mysterians	Toho		0:43:52 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Zatoichi Monogatari ("The Tale Of Zatoichi")	King		0:48:23 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Zatoichi's Revenge	Zatoichi Nidan-Giri ("Zatoichi's Revenge")	King		0:51:18 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Zatoichi No Uta Ga Kikoeru ("Zatoichi's Vengeance")	King		0:52:14 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Shin-Zatoichi Monogatari: Kasama No Chi-Matsuri (Zatoichi's Conspiracy)	King		0:53:03 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Ending	Nemuri Kyoshiro 7: Tajo-ken (Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Mask of the Princess)	King		0:54:49 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Ending/Prayer for Peace [Godzilla 1954]	Godzilla, King of the Monsters	Toho		0:56:07 (Pop‑up)
Akira Ifukube	Main Title	Son of Godzilla	Toho		0:59:44 (Pop‑up)

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:01pm common: good eve devon and all
	7:01pm dale: godzirra!!!!
	♥ 7:02pm common: a double bass! i always wondered.
	7:02pm dale: love your description of the how the roar and footsteps were made.
	♥ 7:03pm Michael 98145: ゴジラ Gojira!!
	7:05pm dale: i hope we hear some wacky whimsy from 'son of godzilla'
	7:11pm Listener Mike W: I've been looking forward to this week's show!! Big fan of his Godzilla scores
	7:12pm dale: costume? what costume?
	7:14pm Listener Mike Wood: My favorite score of his was "Godzilla vs Biollanté", for which Ifukube-san patiently recorded the sounds of various plants growing over a period of ten years, and then sped them up x1000 to use as Biollanté's various screams and attack-sounds
	♥ 7:14pm Michael 98145: dunno, dale. i think it's a conspiracy theory.
	♥ 7:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: YAY ! : ) ...yerknow - as a kid in the 1970s, ya taped movies w/ yer cassette player. I taped 'Monster Zero' - & - most people wouldn't look twice @ this flick - but - I think it just - *sounded* really neat - yaknow ??...
	7:16pm dale: seriously mike wood? that's crazy!
	♥ 7:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm plain Kaiju Krazy...Godzilla & I both Nov. 3rd babies...
	7:21pm JakeGould: God this is great! Also, “King Kong vs. Godzilla” is great! The scientists just constantly get King Kong drunk and airlift him to different places to fight Godzilla. Best plot ever!
	♥ 7:22pm Joe McG: Devon, this music is great. I feel like fighting some big lizards.
	7:23pm Listener Mike Wood: Rabbit -- I did the same!! (But in the 80s)
	♥ 7:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: KK vs. G makes so little sense it goes straight over to Surreal DreamLogic. Speilberg advised the Muricans *not* to try to remake Godzilla - on the grounds that it was already so *convincing* as done in Japan. That's interesting from him, because that's not what *most* would say about these flicks...
	7:25pm Listener Mike Wood: I love when the atmosphere of a movie or show can still be fully re-enjoyed off its audio track alone
	7:26pm JakeGould: Here is Godzilla with a lady friend. files.tofugu.com...
	7:27pm JakeGould: Here he is enjoying a stroll on a sunny day. img.myconfinedspace.com...
	♥ 7:28pm Michael 98145: ( wouldn't want to ruin the skin by tanning! )
	7:30pm dale: SO....what happened to the brian cranston godzilla? tons of hype and like it never even was released.
	♥ 7:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...unlike The Monkees, attempts to create his own music for his features were...best forgotten... : s78.photobucket.com...
	♥ 7:32pm melinda: This is fun.
	7:33pm dale: this is go go groovy!
	♥ 7:40pm Mike East: @dale - it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good. Another attempt to cash in on a known brand without really giving people what they really love about the brand.
	♥ 7:42pm Mike East: make a campy low budget forced perspective guyinasuit version and maybe that'd be something
	♥ 7:43pm Ken From Hyde Park: That 2014 Godzilla had such a tiny little head. It looked weird. (Only saw the trailer; didn't watch the actual movie).
	♥ 7:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shin Gojira coming out of Japan this year: Reportedly a Fukushima type theme - w/ a Gojira like the original post-Hiroshima Noir 1954 one - but all dried up & red w/ shriveled arms & a real mean look...Angry Red Godzilla for 2016...
	7:44pm JakeGould: The American Godzilla films have no fun or joy to them. It’s all dour and serious nonsense.
	♥ 7:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: pbs.twimg.com...
	♥ 7:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: Godzilla vs. Trump - Someone should make that.
	7:46pm dale: re: the mysterians - why do aliens ALWAYS want the fainted girl with pointy boobs?
	♥ 7:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Muricans' have neither the proper sort of nuke terror - nor the kawaii...just nevermind - leave it to the Japanese.
	♥ 7:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also the Japanese understanding of earthquakes & tsunamis...they're Natural forces - like Dragons...Mothra for example represents Mother Earth in a sense. It's heavy stuff, man! & also pure childhood escapism in remarkable toys...
	♥ 7:59pm Devon E. Levins: Instant request for Dale!
	8:00pm JakeGould: The Japanese understanding of gigantic lizard monsters who destroy cities also surpasses ours.
	♥ 8:00pm Devon E. Levins: Thank you ALL!
	♥ 8:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Truly Jake. Thx Mr. DJ !
	10:40am Number Six: How the hell did I never find your show before?
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