John Barry Theme Out of Africa

 

http://youtu.be/FSO3DEcyxPI

 

 

*  *  *

 

 

 

*  *  * 

 *  *  *

Beyondness by John Barry

 

*******************************************************

 

Awards and nominations:

Five Academy Awards

• 1966 Best Original Song for "Born Free" from Born Free
• 1966 Best Original Music Score for Born Free
• 1968 Best Original Music Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) for The Lion in Winter
• 1985 Best Original Score for Out of Africa
• 1990 Best Original Score for Dances with Wolves

Academy Award nominations

• 1971 Best Original Dramatic Score for Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1992 Best Original Score for Chaplin

Grammy Award

• 1969 Best Instrumental Theme for Midnight Cowboy
• 1985 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band for The Cotton Club
• 1986 Best Instrumental Composition for Out of Africa
• 1991 Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television for Dances with Wolves

BAFTA Award

• 1968 Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for The Lion in Winter

BAFTA Fellowship Award

• 2005

BAFTA nominations

• 1986 Best Score for Out of Africa
• 1991 Best Original Score for Dances with Wolves

Emmy Award nominations

• 1964 Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television for Elizabeth Taylor in London (a 1963 television special)
• 1977 Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Max Steiner Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by the City of Vienna)

• 2009

Lifetime Achievement Award from World Soundtrack Academy (presented at the Ghent Film Festival)

• 2010

Barry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998.

The American Film Institute ranked Barry's score for Out of Africa #15 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated:

• Body Heat (1981)
• Born Free (1966)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• Somewhere in Time (1980)

 

************************************

 

Film scores:

• Beat Girl (1960)
• Never Let Go (1960)
• The Cool Mikado (1962)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962)
• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
• Man in the Middle (1963)
• A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• Zulu (1964)
• Boy and Bicycle (1965)
• Mister Moses (1965)
• Four in the Morning (1965)
• The Party's Over (1965)
• The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
• King Rat (1965)
• The Ipcress File (1965)
• Born Free (1966) (Two Academy Awards - Best Original Song (lyrics by Don Black), Best Original Score, Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture)
• The Chase (1966)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
• The Whisperers (1967)
• Dutchman (1967)
• Boom! (1968)
• Petulia (1968)
• Deadfall (1968)
• The Lion in Winter (1968) (Academy Award - Best Original Score, BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score)
• The Appointment (1969)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) (Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition)
• Monte Walsh (1970)
• The Last Valley (1970)
• They Might Be Giants (1971)
• Murphy's War (1971)
• Walkabout (1971)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) (Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
• Follow Me! (1972)
• A Doll's House (1973)
• The Tamarind Seed (1974)
• The Dove (1974) (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song)
• The Day of the Locust (1975)
• King Kong (1976)
• Robin and Marian (1976)
• The Deep (1977) (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song (lyrics by Donna Summer) - Motion Picture)
• First Love (1977)
• The White Buffalo (1977)
• Game Of Death (1978)
• The Betsy (1978)
• Starcrash (1978)
• Hanover Street (1979)
• The Black Hole (1979)
• Somewhere in Time (1980) (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture)
• Touched by Love (1980)
• Inside Moves (1980)
• Night Games (1980)
• Raise the Titanic (1980)
• The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) (Razzie Award for Worst Musical Score)
• Body Heat (1981)
• Frances (1982)
• Murder By Phone (1982)
• Hammett (1982)
• The Golden Seal (1983)
• High Road to China (1983)
• The Cotton Club (1984)
• Until September (1984)
• Mike's Murder (1984)
• Jagged Edge (1985)
• Out of Africa (1985) (Academy Award - Best Original Score, BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Film Score)
• Howard the Duck (1986)
• A Killing Affair (1986)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
• Hearts of Fire (1987)
• Masquerade (1988)
• Dances with Wolves (1990) (Academy Award - Best Original Score, BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Film Score, Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture)
• Chaplin (1992) (Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Original Score, Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture)
• Ruby Cairo (1993)
• My Life (1993)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• The Specialist (1994)
• Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)
• Across The Sea of Time (1995) (3D IMAX movie)
• The Scarlet Letter (1995)
• Swept from the Sea (1997)
• Mercury Rising (1998)
• Playing by Heart (1998)
• Enigma (2001)

Bond films:

Barry worked on the soundtracks for the following Bond films:

• Dr. No (1962) – James Bond Theme used on main and end titles and Bond's arrival in Jamaica
• From Russia with Love (lyrics by Lionel Bart) (1963), Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Song in a Motion Picture
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Thunderball (1965)
• You Only Live Twice (1967)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
• Moonraker (1979)
• Octopussy (1983)
• A View to a Kill (1985), (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture & for Best Original Song - Motion Picture)
• The Living Daylights (1987)

Musicals:

• Passion Flower Hotel (1965)
• Lolita, My Love (1971), a musical comedy (text by Alan Jay Lerner) based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita
• Billy (1974)
• The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981)
• Brighton Rock (2004)

Television themes and scores:

• Dateline London (1962)
• Elizabeth Taylor in London (Grammy award nomination) (1963)
• Juke Box Jury (1959–1967)
• The Human Jungle (1963–1965)
• Impromptu (1964)
• Sophia Loren in Rome (1964)
• The Newcomers (1965–1969)
• Vendetta (1966)
• The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
• The Adventurer (1972–1973)
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973)
• The Glass Menagerie (1973)
• Born Free (1974)
• Love Among the Ruins (1975)
• Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
• Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
• The War Between the Tates (1977)
• Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
• The Gathering (1977)
• The Corn is Green (1979)
• Willa (1979)
• Svengali (1983)
• USA Today-The TV series (1988)
• The Witness (1992)
• John Barry-Moviola (1993)

Other works:

• Stringbeat (1961)
• The Americans (1975)
• The Beyondness of Things (1999)
• Eternal Echoes (2001)
• The Seasons - no release date set

Hit singles:

(Excludes co-composed hits, e.g. Duran Duran's A View to a Kill)

• "Hit And Miss" as The John Barry Seven plus Four, UK#10 (first charted 1960)
• "Beat For Beatniks" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#40 (1960)
• "Never Let Go" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#49 (1960)
• "Blueberry Hill" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#34 (1960)
• "Walk Don't Run" as The John Barry Seven, UK#11 (1960)
• "Black Stockings" as The John Barry Seven, UK#27 (1960)
• "The Magnificent Seven" as The John Barry Seven, UK#45 (1961)
• "Cutty Sark" as The John Barry Seven, UK#35 (1962)
• "The James Bond Theme" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#13 (1962)
• "From Russia With Love" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#39 (1963)
• "Theme From 'The Persuaders'" as John Barry, UK#13 (1971)

The 4 highest-charting hits all spent more than 10 weeks in the UK top 50.

 

 

************************************

John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English film score composer.  He is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the musical style of the 007 series, along with the general feeling of the films.

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Barry received numerous awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won a BAFTA Award), Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves (for which he also won a Grammy Award) and Somewhere in Time (1980) (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture).^[1]

 

---