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Elmer Bernstein – Some Came Running (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP) (1958)
British 1st release original motion picture soundtrack to ‘Some Came Running’ (1958, dir. Vincente Minnelli), composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein.
The movie starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine with Arthur Kennedy, Martha Hyer and Nancy Gates.
Condition VINYL: G. Unsoiled on visual inspection. A few light hairlines on side 1; lots more on side 2 – but no deep scratches. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is good throughout and very good in places. Some of the loud jazz cues sound decent. Run-in to side 1 has some crackling and surface noise through to track 2. More prominent interference at side 2 run-in with repetitive clicking through hairline. Surface noise only dissipates after track 3. An enjoyable listen despite these defects. OUTER SLEEVE/COVER: G+. Thick-stock card. Thin lamination on front has become brittle over time and some has peeled off on aperture edge. Front is clean mainly except from lower area and bottom right where there is dirt. Edge and corner wear is minimal. Reverse is intact but suffers from pockets of staining and very yellowed central area. Flipbacks are intact and attached. Only minor marks on these. INNER SLEEVE: EX. Original poly-lined thick paper with centre hold. Clean and intact. Minor crimping/folding.

Track listing A1. Prelude (01:17)
A2. To Love and Be Loved (02:29) – by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen A3. Dave's Double Life (01:59) A4. Dave and Gwen (01:50) A5. Fight (01:25) A6. Gwen's Theme (02:33) A7. Ginny (03:16) A8. Short Noise (01:50)
B1. Live It Up (01:29) B2. Tryst (02:32) B3. Seduction (02:37) B4. Smitty's Place (02:30) B5. Rejection (02:43) B6. Pursuit (04:39) B7. Finale (02:23)

Review: Some Came Running (1958) was a prestigious adaptation of James Jones's second novel, a gargantuan tome about a serviceman (Frank Sinatra) who returns to his rural Indiana hometown following World War II. While struggling to find his purpose in life, he is torn romantically between a luckless floozie (Shirley MacLaine) and an intellectual schoolteacher (Martha Hyer) who appreciates his ambitions as a writer but spurns him romantically. The film features first-rate performances—including Dean Martin as a laconic gambler—and masterful direction by M-G-M's Vincente Minnelli.
Some Came Running was scored by a composer ideally suited to capturing all of the film's aspects: Elmer Bernstein. This was Bernstein's most glorious period, in which he was writing landmark scores for everything from biblical epics (The Ten Commandments) to westerns (The Magnificent Seven) to dramas (To Kill a Mockingbird)—with jazz scores like The Man With the Golden Arm especially capturing the public's attention. Some Came Running continued his association with Frank Sinatra—for whom he scored The Man With the Golden Arm and Kings Go Forth—and offered another opportunity for his brand of big band "film jazz" that had become one of the most dominant and effective sounds in cinema.
Some Came Running required from Bernstein not only a jazz score, but moments of musical Americana for high-minded drama involving life in small-town America. The film practically uses his music as a narrative device to illustrate the two "worlds" in which Sinatra walks: a "legit" orchestral sound for polite society, measured yet evocative, with a love theme for the schoolteacher; and a bluesy, jazzy sound world for the nightlife, with questing woodwinds, ominous bass lines and madcap piano climaxing in a furious chase sequence that leads to the film's tragic conclusion.


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