20,000 vinyl LPs 409: Jimmy Page ~ Death Wish II soundtrack

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Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP front cover 

 cover illustration by R. Graves 

photo of album cover by Styrous®

On Monday, March 1, 1982, the first solo LP by guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was released.         

 

That year, Page collaborated with director Michael Winner to record the Death Wish II soundtrack. This and several subsequent Page recordings, including the Death Wish III soundtrack, were recorded and produced at his recording studio, The Sol in Cookham, which he had purchased from Gus Dudgeon in the early 1980s.         

 

Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP front cover details 

cover illustration by R. Graves 

detail photos of album cover by Styrous®

Death Wish II is a 1982 American vigilante action-thriller film directed and co-edited by Michael Winner and produced by Cannon Films. It is the sequel to the 1974 film Death Wish. It is the second installment in the Death Wish film series. The sequel makes a complete breakaway from the Brian Garfield novels Death Wish and Death Sentence, redefining the Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) character. It was succeeded by Death Wish 3. All three films starred Charles Bronson.               

 

Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP back cover 

photo of album back cover by Styrous®

 

 

The actions of the Bronson character are dictated by the inability of the police to prevent crime, the preoccupation of the courts with technical rather than real justice, and the cancerous climate of fear in which we find ourselves today. Paul Kersey is no hero. In his pursuit of vengeance he loses the only emotional relationship of his life and by story's end has become as much a victim of crime as the thugs he leaves dead in his wake".             

 

 

 

Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP back cover details 

detail photos of album back cover by Styrous®

 

Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP record sleeve 

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Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

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Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP record side 1 

photos by Styrous®

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Page  ~ Death Wish II

vinyl LP record side 2 

photos by Styrous®

 

   

Tracklist:
       
Side 1:

        

A1 - Who's To Blame - 2:38
A2 - The Chase - 5:45
A3 - City Sirens - 1:57
A4 - Jam Sandwich - 2:35
A5 - Carole's Theme - 2:48
A6 - The Release - 2:32

       
Side 2:
       
B1 - Hotel Rats And Photostats - 2:36
B2 - Shadow In The City - 4:00
B3 - Jill's Theme - 3:59
B4 - Prelude - 2:18
B5 - Big Band, Sax, And Violence - 2:48
B6 - Hypnotizing Ways (Oh Mamma) - 2:45
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Distributed By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Atlantic Recording Corporation
    Copyright © – Swan Song Inc.
    Pressed By – Allied Record Company
    Pressed By – Europadisk
    Published By – Flames Of Albion Music Inc.
    Mixed At – The Sol Studio
    Mastered At – Strawberry Mastering
       
Credits:
       
    Drums – Dave Mattacks
    Electric Piano – Gordon Edwards (2)
    Engineer, Mixed By – Stuart Epps
    Producer, Written-By, Electric Guitar, Bass – Jimmy Page
    Vocals – Chris Farlowe
    Written-By – Gordon Edwards (2) (tracks: A3)
       
Notes:
       
"AR" in matrix number denotes an Allied Record Company pressing.

Soundtrack to Michael Winner's 'Death Wish II' (1982).

Matrix Info:
Sides A/B: "EDP" is in an oval.
Side A: The "4" in "824887" is a "4" etched over an "8"
Side A: "++" is two plus signs, with a dot in each quadrant (8 dots total).

       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
        

    Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): ST SS 824887 AR
    Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): ST SS 824888 AR
    Matrix / Runout: + ++ △1198 ST-SS 824887-B (2) B-16558-B EDP MISFI SM1 STRAWBERRY
    Matrix / Runout: + △1198-X ST-SS-824888-B (2) B-16558-B EDP MISFI SM1 STRAWBERRY
    Matrix / Runout (Sides A/B - stamped): EDP
    Matrix / Runout (Sides A/B - stamped): STRAWBERRY
    Rights Society: ASCAP

 

Jimmy Page – Death Wish II (The Original Soundtrack)
Label: Swan Song – SS 8511
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, AR - Allied Pressing
Country: US
Released: Mar 1982
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Classic Rock, Synth-pop, Symphonic Rock

         

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20,000 vinyl LPs 249: Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish & Charles Bronson

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Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP front cover detail 

photo by Styrous®

Today is the birthday of Charles Bronson who was born in 1921. He was an American actor who was often cast in roles of police officers, gunfighters, or vigilantes in revenge-oriented plot lines. He had long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson and appeared in 15 films with his second wife, Jill Ireland. At the height of his fame in the early 1970s, he was the world's No. 1 box office attraction, commanding $1 million per film.            

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP front cover

photo by Styrous®

Death Wish is an American vigilante action-drama film loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, an architect who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted during a home invasion (link to plot below). This was the first film in the Death Wish franchise; it was followed eight years later with Death Wish II and other similar films. It was released on July 24, 1974.          

 

The film was based on the Brian Garfield 1972 novel of the same name. Garfield was inspired to use the theme of vigilantism following incidents in his personal life. In one incident, his wife's purse was stolen; in another, his car was vandalized. His initial thought each time was that he could kill "the son of a bitch" responsible. He later considered that these were primitive thoughts, contemplated in an unguarded moment. He then thought of writing a novel about a man who entered that way of thinking in a moment of rage and then never emerged from it. The novel denounced vigilantism, whereas the film embraced it. The film marked the screen debut of Jeff Goldblum, playing one of the "freaks" who assaults Kersey's family early in the film.     

In 2018, Death Wish was remade with Bruce Willis assuming the role of  the vigilante, now a Chicago surgeon.      

 

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP front cover detail 

photo by Styrous®

The score for Death Wish was written by Grammy award-winning jazz musician Herbie Hancock; it was his third film score.     

The music is progressive jazz with lots of strings. Most of the music puts me in mind of the group, Passport, a German jazz ensemble led by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger. A member of the group was jazz rock and rock music keyboardist, Brian Auger.      

 

The interesting cuts from the album are Do a Thing, with its ticking-clock beat and mysterious strings, Fill Your Hand that has a great sax played by Bennie Maupin who was with the jazz-fusion band, The Headhunters formed by Herbie Hancock in 1973. The group fused jazz, funk, and rock music.        

 

Hancock's theme for the film was quoted in Judge, Jury and Executioner, a 2013 single by Atoms for Peace.                    

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP back cover

photo by Styrous®

Death Wish was a watershed for Bronson, who was 53 years old at the time, and who was then better known in Europe and Asia for his role in The Great Escape. Bronson became an American film icon, who experienced great popularity over the next twenty years.       

 

Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the eleventh of fifteen children, into a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian descent in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He did not speak English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania. In 1954, during the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) proceedings, he changed his surname from Buchinsky to Bronson at the suggestion of his agent, who feared that an Eastern European surname might damage his career.     

 

In a 1973 interview, Bronson said that he did not know his father very well and "I'm not even sure if I loved him or hated him." He said that all he could remember was that when his mother said that his father was coming home, the children would hide. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died and he went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine.       

 

The family suffered extreme poverty during the Great Depression, and Bronson recalled going hungry many times. His mother could not afford milk for his younger sister, so she was fed warm tea instead. His family was so poor that he once had to wear his sister's dress to school for lack of clothing.         

 

Bronson worked in the mine until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 during World War II. He served in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress aerial gunner with the Guam-based 61st Bombardment Squadron within the 39th Bombardment Group, which conducted combat missions against the Japanese home islands. He flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle.       

 

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP back cover detail 

photo by Styrous®

Bronson scored the lead in his own detective series for ABC, Man with a Camera (1958–1960), in which he portrayed Mike Kovac, a former combat photographer freelancing in New York City.   

Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac - October 2, 1959

Charles Bronson retired from acting after undergoing hip-replacement surgery in August 1998. He died at age 81 on August 30, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.      

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP record label, side 1

photo by Styrous®

Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish

vinyl LP record label, side 2

photo by Styrous®

   

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Death Wish (Main Title)     6:11
A2 - Joanna's Theme     4:46
A3 - Do A Thing     2:13
A4 - Paint Her Mouth     2:16
A5 - Rich Country     3:46
    Suite Revenge     (9:25)

Side 2:

B1a - Striking Back    
B1b - Riverside Park    
B1c - The Alley    
B1d - Last Stop    
B1e - 8th Avenue Station    
B2 - Ochoa Knose     2:07
B3 - Party People     3:32
B4 = Fill Your Hand     6:15

Companies, etc.

    Manufactured By – Columbia Records
    Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
    Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.
    Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.
    Produced For – Catero Sound Company
    Recorded At – The Burbank Studios
    Recorded At – Western Recorders
    Recorded At – Wally Heider Studios
    Mastered At – CBS Studios, San Francisco
    Mastered At – Customatrix
    Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman

Credits:

Producer – David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock

Tenor  Saxophone: Bennie Maupin
Bass  Guitar: Paul Jackson
Drums: Mike Clark
Percussion: Bill Summers
Guitar: Wah Wah Watson
Producer: David Rubinson/Herbie Hancock for David Rubinson and Friends, Inc.
Recording  Engineer: Fred Catero

Notes:

 This is the OST recording. First pressing, pressed by:
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman, as indicated
by a "P" stamped in the runout areas.

 
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Price Code (On Spine): X698
    Matrix / Runout (A-Side Label): AL 33199
    Matrix / Runout (B-Side Label): BL 33199
    Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout, Stamped): o P AL 33199-1A 1 A1
    Matrix / Runout (B Side Runout, Stamped): o P BL 33199-1A / A1

 

         

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Looper ~ The untold truth of Death Wish         

Mental Floss ~ 15 Surprising Facts About Death Wish      

Roger & Ebert ~ Death Wish (1974)        

SF Chronicle ~ Charles Bronson: Much more to him than Death Wish   

Variety ~ Death Wish ~ 2018       

        

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Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish (complete soundtrack)        

        Do a Thing      

        Fill Your Hand        

        

         

        

        

        

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1,001 LaserDiscs 10: 10 To Midnight & Eugene M. Davis

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Eugene M. Davis is an American actor best known for playing the psychotic killer, Warren Stacy, in the 1983 film, 10 to Midnight, with Charles Bronson. He also played a role as a cross-dressing police informant in the 1980 Al Pacino movie Cruising.            

 

      

10 To Midnight LaserDisc front cover

music score by Robert O. Ragland 

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His filmography is truly amazing; in addition to the above mentioned films, he has starred in The Alien Encounters, Night Games, Universal Soldier and many other films as well as the TV series, The Hitcher.       

    

10 To Midnight LaserDisc back cover

music score by Robert O. Ragland 

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He was raised in Titusville, Florida, attended and graduated from Titusville High School. He is the brother of actor Brad Davis of the 1978 film, Midnight Express which was produced by Casablanca Records (link below).           

     

10 To Midnight LaserDisc

music score by Robert O. Ragland 

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10 to Midnight

  

Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Produced by	Pancho Kohner Lance Hool
Written by	William Roberts J. Lee Thompson
Starring	Charles Bronson Lisa Eilbacher Andrew Stevens Gene Davis Geoffrey Lewis Wilford Brimley
Music by	Robert O. Ragland
Cinematography	Adam Greenberg
Edited by	Peter Lee Thompson
Production company	Cannon Group City Films
Distributed by	Cannon Films[1]
Release date	March 11, 1983 (U.S.)
Running time	101 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4,520,000 (US)
Box office	$7,175,592 (US)

     
 
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