Kenyon Hopkins • Baby Doll - Original Soundtrack 1956

 

Description from Rate Your Music review:
Hopkins composed a groundbreaking score that creatively merged jazz, blues, and orchestral elements for this Tennessee Williams film adaptation directed by Elia Kazan. The soundtrack features sultry saxophone work combined with powerful symphonic arrangements, creating an innovative approach that influenced Hollywood scoring. Hopkins, working in the declining studio era alongside composers like Alex North and Elmer Bernstein, brought fresh contemporary sensibilities to traditional orchestral film music. The result is an alternately sensual and dramatic score that perfectly captured the controversial black comedy atmosphere of the original 1956 film.
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Descripción de la reseña de Rate Your Music:
Hopkins compuso una partitura innovadora que fusionó creativamente jazz, blues y elementos orquestales para esta adaptación cinematográfica de Tennessee Williams dirigida por Elia Kazan. La banda sonora presenta trabajo de saxofón sensual combinado con poderosos arreglos sinfónicos, creando un enfoque innovador que influyó en la música para cine de Hollywood. Hopkins, trabajando en la era de declive del sistema de estudios junto a compositores como Alex North y Elmer Bernstein, aportó frescas sensibilidades contemporáneas a la música orquestal tradicional para cine. El resultado es una partitura alternativamente sensual y dramática que capturó perfectamente la atmósfera controversial de comedia negra de la película original de 1956.
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Tracks:
1 - Baby Doll and Empty House
2 - The Doctor and Archie
3 - The Fire and Baby Doll
4 - Biblical Justice
5 - Ghosts
6 - Baby Doll's Fright
7 - Lemonade
8 - Shake, Shake, Shake! (vocal: Smiley Lewis)
9 - The Confession
10 - The Cradle
11 - Archie's Break-Up
12 - Baby Doll's Birthday


Credits:
Music Composed and Arranged by Kenyon Hopkins
Performed by Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
Conducted by Ray Heindorf
Track 8 vocal performance by Smiley Lewis
Music written by Kenyon Hopkins and Ruby Fisher

Original Soundtrack for the film Baby Doll (1956)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Based on works by Tennessee Williams

Label: Columbia CL 948 (original mono LP, 1956)
Reissued: DRG Records (CD)
Country: US
Released: 1956 (original), 2013 (CD reissue)
Genre: Soundtrack, Jazz
Style: Film Score, Jazz, Blues
Duration: 35:30

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