In Cold Blood (soundtrack)
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| In Cold Blood | ||||
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| Released | 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 1967 at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World | |||
| Genre | Film score | |||
| Length | 31:41 | |||
| Label | Colgems COM/COS 107 | |||
| Producer | Neely Plumb | |||
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In Cold Blood is a 1967 film score for the film In Cold Blood, composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The soundtrack album was released on the Colgems label in 1967.[1][2]
Truman Capote lobbied unsuccessfully to have Jones removed from the film. According to Jones, Capote called director Richard Brooks and said "Richard, I don't understand why you've got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.' And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music".[3] Capote later apologized to Jones.
The Vinyl Factory said "The opening title track, with its galloping drums and corrosive strings, lets you know you are entering a bleak musical terrain. "Perry's Theme", which begins with a beatific Spanish guitar, mutates into something terrifying, as strings rise and fall ominously. With its harrowing organ blasts, "Murder Scene" is a haunting aural crime photo. At the time, this menacing soundtrack was considered a convention breaker not only for Jones, but also for black composers in Hollywood".[4]