{"id":5363,"date":"2012-08-07T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:21:41","slug":"cd-little-shop-of-horrors-the-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"CD: Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0Kritzerland Records<\/a> \/ Released: April 27, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 16 tracks \/ (33:59)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 8-page booklet with liner notes by producer Bruce Kimmel \/ Limited to 1000 copies..<\/p>\n

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Composer: Fred Katz<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

Best known today as one of the key members of the Chico Hamilton Quintet, Fred Katz was involved in scoring just a handful of film projects, but it\u2019s rather odd his best-known work \u2013 the original Little Shop of Horrors <\/strong>(1960) \u2013 is really comprised of cues assembled from prior Corman films for which Katz wrote the music – A Bucket of Blood<\/strong> and The Wasp Woman<\/strong> (both1959).<\/p>\n

Katz\u2019 classical music background (which preceded his entry into jazz) gave the composer a strong dramatic style, yet in listening to the Shop<\/strong> album it\u2019s clear he could\u2019ve remained in film, scoring dramas, period film, comedies, and subject matter than mandated some avant guard writing. A good sampling of Katz\u2019 modern composing style is evident in the lengthy jazz suite on the B-side of the jazz combo LP for Sweet Smell of Success<\/strong> (1957), his first foray into film, but the Corman films allowed him to have fun, gamble on some unique writing, and find his own identity outside of the Quintet, with which he also appeared on several memorable Decca jazz LPs.<\/p>\n

Kritzerland\u2019s CD is mastered from pristine mono elements, and producer Bruce Kimmel thankfully dumped the dialogue excerpts which Rhino Records interpolated into their 1984 LP release. Katz\u2019 score isn\u2019t filled with micky-mousing cues; there\u2019s drama, suspense, irony, and sadness, and aside from some great jazz source cuts, the music shows Katz treated the original corresponding films with complete sincerity. The writing in \u201cMushnick and Audrey Junior \/ You\u2019ll Get Yours\u201d is filled with neat tonal experimentation, whereas the \u201cMain Title\u201d music (derived from Bucket<\/strong>) still works as a theme for a social misfit who gets in over his head and is consumed by his addiction (further human chum in Little<\/strong>, and social acceptance in Bucket<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Pity the CD doesn\u2019t feature more music from Katz\u2019 Corman years, but perhaps one day a compendium will emerge, neatly arranging the cues in their original filmic and chronological order.<\/p>\n

Note: for further info on Fred Katz, check out Randall Larson\u2019s 1983 interview<\/a> with the composer, originally published in CinemaScore.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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