1. Overture
2. Main Title/Legend of the Alamo/Sam Houston
3. Dave Crockett and the Tennesseans
4. Cantina Music
5. Davy Crockett's Speech (Republic Is One of Those Words...)
6. Love Scene
7. Crockett and the Tennesseans Enter the Alamo
8. The Mexicans Arrive
9. Intermission
10. Entr'acte
11. Tennessee Babe - Dimitri Tiomkin, Webster, P.F
12. Here's to the Ladies - Dimitri Tiomkin, Webster, Paul Franc
13. Raid for Cattle
14. Santa Anna
15. Crossing the Line
16. The Green Leaves of Summer
17. Charge of Santa Anna/Death of Davy Crockett/The Final Assault
18. Finale
19. Exit Music
20. Davy Crockett and Flaca (I'm Gonna Tell You Something, Flaca)
21. The Eyes of Texas Are upon You - Dimitri Tiomkin, Singer, J.L
22. Ballad of the Alamo
23. The Green Leaves of Summer
The Alamo (1960)
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1995-03-14)
- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Format: Soundtrack
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 14 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #190562
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: THIS is "THE ALAMO"to remember 2006-07-24
Comment: Recently the Disney company inflicted upon the viewing public a revisionist version of "The Alamo"..It was released in April after being yanked from a christmas day opening ..That film was among the worst "Alamo"films ever made,and,adding to the garbage seen on-screen the film was saddled with a minamalist "celtic"yanni-type score by Carter Burwell...This version of "The Alamo"starring John Wyane works well as mythology,and boasts one of Dimitri Tiomkin's best ever fully symphonic scores..
What can one say when one compares the two?In the John Wyane version,history is side-tracked in favor of entertainment,and the result is marvelous.A lot of action,larger-than-life charecters,and robust,coplanesque "western"flavored music...No wonder the film was nominated for so many awards.
In the recent version Billy Bob Thornton replaces John Wyane as Davey Crockett,and instead of getting an all-american hero we get an opportunist who has come to Texas thinking that the revolution was already over,and that as a former congressman,he might renew his political career as a big shot in the new Texas republic..Worse,the revisionist weenies who wrote the script chose to ignore every account that had davey crockett dying an heroic death in favor of the one,MEXICAN(and therefore biased)account that branded crockett one tiny step up from a craven coward...No wonder the music used in this fiasco was not only minamalist,but poorly written to boot.
Tiomkin's music,on the other hand,celebrates heroic men and heroic deeds.It it tuneful,melodic,memorable,and very "american"...It is the kind of music one associates with an"epic"motion picture.Burwell,writing to induce sleep,gives a murky score devoid of any interest..
In the John Wyane version,and contrary to historical fact,the final battle is fought in broad daylight.The sequence is long and exciting,and Tiomkin gives us an exciting sequence of music..In the recent fiasco the producers give us an historical rendering of that final battle,fought in almost total darkness,and Burwell gives us a dirge-like monotone that is more suitable for a funeral service that an epic life and death battle.
Buy this album...It is one of the great scores.Skip the Burwell flapdoodle...Tiomkin's score has been in-print and available for over 40 years,a testament to it's greatness.Burwell's score will go out of print soon,if it has not done so already,and it will stay out of print,a testament to it's basic unsuitability both as a score for a would-be adventure film,and it's general grade zee quality.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great Score Supplemented with Movie Sound Clips 2006-02-01
Comment: In short: A great score by Dimitri (The Guns of Navarone) Tiomkin. Say what you will about the motion picture, but the soundtrack epitomizes the Texian war of independence. During an extended stint in southern Texas, I had this CD playing almost non-stop.
The CD is supplemented with tracks taken directly from the 1960 movie, dialogue, sound effects and all. Apparently many of the original soundtrack tapes disappeared and the only recourse was to borrow heavily from the film itself. Way back in 1960, when the movie was released, the soundtrack was to be a two-record set. The film's less than successful release caused the soundtrack to be pared-down to a single record.
I am hopefull that the full soundtrack will yet be recovered and re-released. Until then, enjoy the combination of music, horses hooves pounding the prairie, and John Wayne dissertations.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Remember the Alamo 2005-09-09
Comment: It is more than 40 years since John Wayne's epic film appeared in London's West End and, with this CD, it is as yesterday. Not only does it include all the music from the film and the old vinyl recording but here are the words of Wayne's David Crockett and Harvey's Travis. It is as if the whole film has been condensed into an hourglass. Listen...and "remember the Alamo!"
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Almost there 2005-07-12
Comment: This recording is heaps better than the old lp, but i could have done without the spoken words. still, i liked this version of this subject a lot better than the more recent version with Billy Bob Thornton.
However, the John Wayne version has its flaws as well. The final battle took place before daylight, for example, not after daylight as Wayne depicts it.
Plus, Jim Bowie was very critically ill at the time of the battle, and had lost his wife three years before, not during the siege as Wayne describes it.
Otherwise, this is one of Dimitri Tiomkin's best scores.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: EXPANDED ALAMO SOUNDTRACK A WILLFUL RIP-OFF! 2005-03-26
Comment: This so called "definitive edition of Dimitri Tiomkin's magnificent score to "The Alamo" is not only a disgrace it is a supreme and willful rip-off. The majority of the additional tracks are filled with dialogue and sound effects which make it impossible to hear or enjoy the music behind it. It was obviously lifted off the final mixed theatrical film soundtrack but nowhere on the outer CD package does it mention this. The original LP of this soundtrack had already insulted Tiomkin by including John Wayne's dialogue over one music track and adding two pop songs which had little or nothing to do with the film, thereby cutting Tiomkin's music down even further. This latest CD adds irreparable injury to the LP's original insult by the addition of these intrusive dialogue tracks. The fact that in the last 25 years, thanks to the efforts of people like Charles Gerhardt, George Korngold, Tony Thomas and others, film music has gained a new well-deserved respect as an art form being able to stand on its own outside the film for which it was written, seems to have escaped the notice of the producer of this CD, who singularly has been responsible for the musical mutilation of numerous classic soundtracks from different major labels over the last few years (West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Bye Bye Birdie, A Star is Born, Carousel, and Oklahoma, to name some of the worst examples). If you want to hear Tiomkin's score to "The Alamo" with a little more musical respect look for the out of print Varese Sarabande CD which includes the John Wayne track from the LP but at least presents the remainder of the score with no intrusions imposed by people who produce a CD as a mere souvenir of the movie with no respect for the composer and his music.
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