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margie's avatar

Ecstasy of Gold! beautiful Susanna Rigacci! 🔥 and all the rest. So sad he's gone. My Name is Nobody is so funny and beautiful, starring Terence Hill, il mio nome e nessuno, the music 🔥

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Jon Miltimore's avatar

My Name Is Nobody is one of my favorites. Just rewatched it recently. It manages to be funny and melancholy at the same time.

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margie's avatar

Did you see They Call Me Trinity? one of my favorite substackers likes my favorite movies :)

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Clayton Smith's avatar

Thank you for the YouTube link.

For me, this is ideal Sunday reading music.

My favorite pieces are The Trio, Ecstacy of Gold, and of course, The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

My Dad loves old westerns, and that's where I would have been exposed to my first spaghetti western.

With my now wife, one of the first movies we watched together was The Good The Bad and the Ugly. Classic stuff.

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KurtOverley's avatar

Amen! Yes, the truly “classic” music of the 20th and 21st centuries was written for films, and Morricone was one of the best composers of this genre. I had the privilege to hear him conduct his own music with the Orchestra of Rome in Sao Paulo circa 2008. Who cannot love his innovation with vocalise, especially with scores such as “Once Upon a Time in the West”.

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