Russian-born Dimitri Tiomkin was one of the most celebrated composers of film music in the history of the industry, nominated for 22 Academy Awards. • Great-value 45-track 2-CD set comprising themes, soundtrack music and songs written by Tiomkin for film and TV, including all his 4 Academy Award winners, including “High Noon” and “The High And The Mighty” • Features 27 recordings of his songs by various artists which made the US pop charts • This collection provides a substantial and varied insight into the unique talent of one of the legendary figures of movie music who wrote the music for dozens of memorable Hollywood classics from “Strangers On A Train” to “The Alamo” Composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin, born in Russia in 1894, but who emigrated to the USA after the First World War, is one of the most successful and celebrated composers of film music in the history of cinema. Nominated for 22 Academy Awards, he won four of them, for Best Original Score for “High Noon”, “The High And The Mighty” and “The Old Man And The Sea” and for Best Original Song for “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me”. In the process of writing songs and themes for dozens of movies, he had more than 25 chart entries with his compositions when recorded as singles by other artists. This great-value 55-track 2-CD set comprises themes and music from original soundtrack compositions, along with recordings of his movie songs and music by other artists from the first and highly significant first quarter-century of his career. It includes music from all the films for which he won Academy Awards, and a significant proportion of those for which he was nominated. It also features 27 records which made either US or UK charts, including Top 5 hits with Frankie Laine’s “High Noon” and “Blowing Wild”, Les Baxter’s “The High And The Mighty”, and Pat Boone’s “Friendly Persuasion”, as well recordings by many major artists like Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin and Gene Pitney. It offers a substantial and varied insight into the work of one of the legendary, but sometime unheralded, figures in the world of movie music via some compositions which are veritable masterpieces of their kind. – 1 – 1. Lost Horizon Theme (Conway and Sondra) Dimitri Tiomkin & His 2. Shadow of a Doubt (Main Title Theme) Universal Studio Orch. 3. Strangers On a Train (Main Title Theme) Main Title Theme (F 4. Duel In the Sun (Ecstasy Theme) Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. 5. Main Title Theme From “Red River” Original Sound Track (From 6. The March of the Champions Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (From 7. Love On the Sly United Artists Studio Orch. (From Champion 8. Cyrano De Bergerac Main Title Theme (From Cyrano De Berger 9. Thing From Another World (Main Title Theme) Original Sound T 10. The Big Sky (Main Title Theme ) Rko Radio Studio Orch. (From 11. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) Frankie Laine (From High Noon 12. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) Tex Ritter (From High Noon) 13. I Confess Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (From I Confess) 19 14. Return To Paradise Percy Faith (From Return To Paradise) 15. Return To Paradise Nat King Cole (From Return To Paradise) 16. Julie Charlie Ventura (From Take the High Ground) (Coral 6 17. Blowing Wild (the Ballad of Black Gold) Frankie Laine (From 18. Hajji Baba (Persian Lament) Nat King Cole (From the Adventu 19. Hajji Baba Dimitri Tiomkin & His Chorus and Orch. (From the 20. Dial M For Murder Main Theme Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (F 21. A Bullet is Waiting (Jamie) Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (Fro 22. The High and the Mighty Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (From T 23. The High and the Mighty Les Baxter With His Chorus and Orch. 24. The High and the Mighty Leroy Holmes & His Orch. (From the 25. The High and the Mighty Johnny Desmond (From the High and T 26. The High and the Mighty Victor Young & His Singing Strings ( 27. Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (Main Title Theme) Dimitri T – 2 – 1. Land of the Pharaohs Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orch. (From Land 2. Land of the Pharaohs Johnny Desmond With Dmitri Tiomkin & Hi 3. This Too Shall Pass Johnny Desmond With Dmitri Tiomkin & His 4. Strange Lady In Town Frankie Laine (From Strange Lady In To 5. Friendly Persuasion Thee I Love) Pat Boone (From Friendly P 6. Friendly Persuasion Thee I Love) the Four Aces (From Friend 7. Giant Jack Pleis & His Orch. & Chorus Feat Ralph Young (From 8. Giant Les Baxter, His Chorus & Orch. (From Giant) (Capitol 9. Giant Art Mooney & His Oorch. & Chorus (From Giant) (Mgm K 10. Theres Never Been Anyone Else But You George Cates & His or 11. Gunfight At the Ok Corral Frankie Laine (From Gunfight At T 12. Strange Are the Ways of Love Gogi Grant (From the Young Lan 13. Wild is the Wind Johnny Mathis (From Wild is the Wind) (Co 14. The Old Man and the Sea Main Title Theme (From the Old Ma 15. Last Train From Gun Hill Main Title Theme (From Last Train 16. Rio Bravo Dean Martin (From Rio Bravo) (Capitol F4174) 195 17. My Rifle, My Pony, and Me Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson (From 18. Rawhide Frankie Laine (From Rawhide) (Columbia 41230) 1959 19. Theme From the Sundowners Billy Vaughn & His Orch. (From 20. Theme From the Sundowners Felix Slatkin Orch. & Chorus (Fr 21. Theme From the Unforgiven (the Need For Love) Don Costa an 22. Pretty Little Girl In the Yellow Dress Carl Dobkins Jr. (Fr 23. Ballad of the Alamo Bud & Travis (From the Alamo) (Liberty 24. Ballad of the Alamo Marty Robbins (From the Alamo) (Columb 25. The Green Leaves of Summer Brothers Four (From the Alamo) 26. Tennessee Babe OST (From the Alamo) 1960 27. Town Without Pity Gene Pitney (From Town Without Pity) (Mu 28. The Guns of Navarone Joe Reisman Orch. (From the Guns of Na
