Tracklist

1	Main Title	1:48
2	The Drop Of Water	9:19
3	The Telephone	17:33
4	The Wurdalak	30:03

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Orion Pictures Corporation
• Copyright (c) – Orion Pictures Corporation
• Licensed From – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Inc.

Credits

• Arranged By, Conductor – Les Baxter
• Producer – Douglas Fake*

Notes

World premiere release of U.S. score for American International Pictures horror film directed by Mario Bava, starring Boris Karloff. Many prints of film feature Italian score but MGM vaults did yield complete Les Baxter scoring masters for all but final reel (roughly five minutes). Fortunately, M&E elements (music & effects without dialog) were available, allowing entire score to be presented in excellent mono as recorded for film. Though happily without dialog, those last few minutes do have requisite footsteps, doors, horses, whatnot. (Remaining 53-minutes of score play from excellent condition scoring session rolls). Film divides into three separate tales with separate scores for each tale as well. Interestingly, Baxter writes each score with attention to overall architecture of music, allows numerous smaller pieces to connect by key, motivic structure or color perfectly from one piece to the next. Three rich, cohesive suites are the result. "The Drop Of Water" offers complex, involved score with exposed ideas for strings, woodwinds getting spotlight. "The Telephone" offers dramatic score in symphonic jazz mode with generous amount of music dropped from final production of film. "The Wurdalak" is longest score, with powerful ideas, florid Eastern Europe flavor and rich symphonic colors getting attention. Action, vampire terror, rich love theme are all on display! Great cover art plus complete cue assembly details inside booklet add to nice package. Les Baxter conducts. Intrada Special Collection release available while quantities and interest remains!

Album produced by Douglas Fake (c)(p)1963, 2012 Orion pictures corporation. Motion picture artwork, stills & images (c)1963 Orion pictures corporation. Manufactured under license from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Inc. by Intrada Inc., 6200 Antioch street, Suite 101, Oakland, CA 94611. Warning: Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 720258521521

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BAX LB-1000	Les Baxter	Black Sabbath ‎(LP, Album)	Not On Label	BAX LB-1000	US	1973
Special Collection Volume 215	Les Baxter	Black Sabbath ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Intrada	Special Collection Volume 215	US	2012
LB-17	Les Baxter	Black Sabbath ‎(LP, Pri)	Bax	LB-17	US	1974
BAX LB 1000	Les Baxter	Black Sabbath ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE)	Bax	BAX LB 1000	US	1980

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