Track Listing
01. The Sugarland Express – Main Title 1:29
02. Freedom At Last :46
03. The First Chase 2:32
04. Taking The Jump 1:48
05. The Caravan Forms 2:01
06. To The Roadblock 1:27
07. Sugarland Dance 1:38
08. Road Ballad 2:05
09. Out Of Gas 2:24
10. Trading Stamps 1:14
11. Police Cars Move 1:00
12. Along The Route 1:18
13. Man And Wife 2:09
14. Franklyn Falls :29
15. Sealing The Bargain 1:27
16. The Deputies Arrive :55
17. The Onlookers 1:02
18. Open Highway 2:04
19. Pursuit 1:51
20. Over The Next Hill 1:04
21. Setting The Trap 1:41
22. Last Conversation 2:00
23. The Final Ride 3:36
24. The Sugarland Express – End Title 1:45
La-La
Land Records and Universal Studios proudly present the twenty-first
title within the acclaimed Universal Pictures Film Music Classics
Collection – THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, a world premiere
release of music from the original soundtrack for the very first
collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and composer John
Williams (JAWS, E.T., SCHINDLER’S LIST).
Celebrating its 50th
anniversary, THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, released in 1974, stars Goldie Hawn
as a Texas mother who breaks her husband (William Atherton) out of a
prison farm when she is denied custody of their baby. Together they
hijack a highway patrolman (Michael Sacks) and lead a convoy of media,
onlookers, and countless police cars across the state.
Spielberg’s first feature film balances comedy, drama and action
in what Pauline Kael of The New Yorker called “one of the most
phenomenal debut films in the history of movies.”
For decades, Maestro John
Williams felt that the score for THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS was too brief
for an album, especially in comparison to the more expansive and well
known projects that followed, such as STAR WARS, SUPERMAN and RAIDERS
OF THE LOST ARK. The 50th anniversary of his partnership with
Spielberg, along with a revisitation of the film for Universal
Studios’ new 4K restoration, yielded the proper conditions to at
last create an original soundtrack, which now takes a place of honor in
the successful Universal Studios Film Music Classics Collection.
While Spielberg originally
hoped for a larger scale score for his first movie, Williams convinced
him that THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS called for something more intimate. The
great Belgian harmonica soloist Toots Thielemans became the principal
musical voice of the film, supported by an ensemble of top guitarists
and percussionists and a small string ensemble. The resulting music
reflects the complex characters and the building tension of the story,
with a bluesy, country vibe evoking the landscape and cultural backdrop
of the tale. The album presentation, produced by the composer, delivers
a distinctive musical journey and features material not used in the
completed film.
Classics Collection producer
Mike Matessino mixed, edited and mastered the album from high
resolution transfers of pristine 8-track master tapes, archiving the
material as well as conforming the music for a new stereo mix of the
film. Matessino also contributes in-depth liner notes detailing the
history of the production, the creation of the music, and its place in
the legendary Spielberg/Williams collaboration. Art direction by Jim
Titus appropriately celebrates this historic premiere release.
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