The Towering Inferno | Soundtrack Suite (John Williams)
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- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974). Composed and Conducted by John Williams.
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Music Awards:
- None
Nominations:
- Academy Award - Best Original / Dramatic Score
Playlist:
00:00 Main Title
02:07 Lisolette And Harlee
03:55 The Flame Ignites
04:29 Something For Susan
05:14 More For Susan
06:20 Let There Be Light
06:51 Alone At Last
07:35 The First Victims
08:16 Trapped Lovers
09:30 Down The Pipes / The Door Opens
10:13 Helicopter Rescue
11:15 Planting The Charges
12:38 Finale
13:54 = "An Architect's Dream"
Music Source:
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Little did anyone know that John Williams' music for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno would only be the beginning of his domination of Hollywood film scores in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, becoming the greatest film composer of all time.
John Williams is by far the Mozart of modern times.
Lol no.
when i hear this music i feel like i'm in a time capsule, so beautiful... Soundtrack Fred
Yes I feel the same. I listen and I'm transported to 1974 and I'm 12 years old. John Williams music leaves an impression in your soul that will last forever.
William Holden played the typical senior executive at the time in several movies (Towering Inferno, Network, etc.). His acting chops were stellar.
I've heard of this movie and have some memory of seeing it on TV in the late 80's. This is my first time hearing the soundtrack. My ears just perked up when I heard the opening acoustic guitar for "Lisolette and Harlee." That's John Williams?! The whole thing sounds so different for him. It's down-to-earth and so metropolitan sounding for him. Man, what are we gonna do when (I don't wanna say it...) Williams, practically the last of the Silver Age greats, finally goes to that big concert hall in the sky?
One of John Williams' most underrated scores. Such an incredible piece of his early career.
Not underrated but forgotten
This is the John Williams score that made him the #1 all-time composer for me. I purchased the soundtrack in 1974 and listened to it over and over again. I still, obviously, have it. A year later, he had composed Jaws and won an his first Academy Award for an Original Score. Then Midway the next year and, in 1977, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I couldn't get enough of his work. I went back and obtained as many of his scores as I could. As of now, I have close to 150 of his scores.
This was indeed a GREAT score....As a kid of 12 in 1975 I went out & bought the Original Motion Picture soundtrack Vinyl LP of it I was so enraptured by it.....Which I STILL have in 2020.
@@GopherBaroque61 I forgot about Midway!
Yessss!!! I really love this soundtrack. Lisolette and Harlee part is really nice, i love the melodies and harmonies of it. It remembers me to a glamorous and classy 70,s cocktail party.
John Williams - the greatest of all time, no one will ever come close GOAT
Apart from John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Miklos Rozca, add another dozen here.
@@burtingtune 🤣
John Williams is definitely my favorite film composer, but as stated in the comment above, there are many others who definitely are at the same level. I might add Alan Silvestri and Ennio Morricone. Immediately after John Williams, and that's only my own humble opinion, come Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith.
@@burtingtune Alan Silvestri could be added to that category, and I definitely agree about Goldsmith and Zimmer
Interesting how you can hear bits and pieces of future music.
First film I ever saw in cinema. Amazing soundtrack.
FRom a time where movies were a work of cinematic work of art. Everything was taken seriously with the choosing of the actors and the story then the finishing touch of the film score. Sometimes the music told the story or guided us into the next second of the film. Music was important in moving the story along.
Oscar nominated, John Williams massive and thrilling score lifted an already good film to great.
Chief O'Hallorhan: You know we got lucky tonight, body count's less then 200. Someday you're gonna kill ten-thousand in one of these firetraps, and I'll keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us how to build them.
Doug Roberts: Ok, I'm asking.
Chief O'Hallorhan: You know where to reach me.
Zoom out.....
A brilliant score. Remember mail ordering the LP from the US in 1976. I still have it.
"See ya around Architect"
Always loved the opening title. So exciting.
Saw this in 1974 happlest year of my life all good things come to an end thats life for ya
8:11 onwards... a literal 'fire alarm' sound created by the repetition. Genius!
I love this -- and unlike some other people, I love the 70s soft rock sound in some places. Brings back great memories from that era.
I always loved to hear 70s songs evoking a sense of modernity, excitement, and optimism for the future.
Movie composers today can’t even come close to this! They all sound just alike; can’t differentiate them like you could “Jaws,” “Poseidon Adventure,” “Star Wars,” etc
True, it's all incredibly bland... As Goldsmith stated once "Music must make a statement" -- it has to add something. Listen to Hoosiers or Explorers (the construction) or The Challenge and you will see what I mean. Or Lionheart, Air Force One, Russia House.
If you can't tell Joseph Trapanese from Ramin Djawadi and both of them from Daniel Pemberton, you gotta have your ears checked.
@@TB1M1 Will do!
Absolutely agree.
I beg to differ, You should include Hans Zimmer and Jerry Goldsmith (RIP)
Gold from the great John Williams.
Much '70's.
Amazing powerful music I love it forever
This is a masterpiece of music.
Visionary TV producer Irwin Allen took his chance and came up with some cinematic masterpieces during the 70's making him the master of disaster.
"The Poseidon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno" and "Earthquake" were hitting cinemas worldwide, accompanied by the fantastic scoring of one of Allen's collaborators from earlier TV projects, such as "The Time Tunnel" and "Land Of The Giants": John Williams. Enjoy!
I have to thanks life that allowed me the grace to watch these three movies that you've mention above from Irwin Allen in the big screen and enjoy their ST AND FX as it should be. Plus many other wonderful productions of the seventies.
Where can i found the Song from 2:15 to 4:00??
Your definition of "masterpiece" is clearly different than mine. Allen created several generally entertaining "popcorn" movies that made money, but great art they were not. This from a guy who saw them in first run as a kid in the seventies.
mostly the same format,i feel those disaster movies have aged badly.
I have always LOVED the music from this morbit Hollywood spectacle!! John Williams is a musical genius!!
15 seconds into the opening theme and you already know it is going to be one hell of a ride! A definite case of strap yourself into your Cinerama-seat. A great soundtrack to a great movie, and yes, the ONLY way to really see it was Cinerama, did so as a teen.
Great score. Captures the 1970s movie sound prior to Star Wars.
Jennifer Jones falling out of the elevator just TRAUMATIZED me as a kid when I first saw that.
I know right! Especially after she saved the lives of the two children & their mother and also finding romance w/Harlee Claiborne (Fred Astaire). 😔😥
@@goodowner5000 Mrs. Muller didn't deserve to be with Murty..
Who that was around in 1974 as a teen to adult can't forget this movie "disaster" epic. It may have been somewhat loose in script...trying to rely more on special effects and some "pulling it together" from some of the actors (and, that was a lot of them in this movie)
John Williams was really getting on a role of hits...one after another in different story themes. It should a very good diversity in his amazing talent for doing "one better than the last". "The Poseidon Adventure" from the year before (1973) was that "disaster" style he did well. This one - "The Towering Inferno" sure had that early to mid 1970's style of city life in America theme.
The amazing thing is, as of the actors, a lot of them are gone now. Steve McQueen as one of the main stars with Paul Newman playing firemen... a bit hard to put in that role because of these guys style of acting. Oh well...At least the movie didn't go up "in a puff of smoke".
He also did the score for Earthquake. Same year. But this one got him a Oscar nomination.
If you listen to both scores, you'll notice hints of each in both. Boy, that was tough to put into words for me. What I mean is that there's some incidental music in The Towering Inferno that it extremely similar to Earthquake and vice versa.
Great John Williams soundtrack.
Gosh this is such a treat. Fantastic stuff by the great John Williams. Thank you so much for sharing
タワーリングインフェルノの映画好きです。凄いシーンがあります。素晴らしい映画です。ロバートワグナーさんのファンです。撮影が大変だったと思います。素晴らしい。
Snagging this from Film Score Monthly when it came out is one of the best achievements I ever pulled off as a soundtrack/John Williams score collector!
Muy buena película l vi en ese año hace 45 años 1974
What a cast of people in front and behind the camera.
Two of the greatest movie stars we've ever had (McQueen and Newman) and John Williams score. They dont make em like this anymore!'
I have the album released in LP ( here, in Brasil ) in 1974. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the track " An Architect's Dream ", with his solemn and powerful intro!!! Very good to listen the other tracks! Thanks!!!
The fanfare @6:20 is fantastic--I'm very surprised it heard more often in other venues.
There are so many excellent moments in the scene. Jack Collins portraying Mayor Ramsay and Shelia Allen portraying his wife were spot on in playing those characters and the gravitas these titles once conferred. The lighting ceremony was spectacular in creating the awe of the moment. Too bad we can't go back to those days (in some ways).
I remember the ballyhoo when this movie came out...what a scary situation to get trapped that high in a scyscraper. And it became real in sept 2001.
I found sort of eerie the way at the end when Steve McQueen says "One day you are going to kill 1000 in one of these death traps.
I couldn't watch Towering Inferno on TV anymore after 9/11. I had to wait for a long time. 😢
Principal photography was completed on Sept. 11, 1974 oddly enough.
You can tell Williams waa doing both this and Earthquake at the same time. During Lisolette and Harlee, the motif of the theme from Earthquake can plainly be heard. Very interesting.
Long time no hear ! ...that brought back memories !
SOUNDTRACK FRED - I Came Across This Great "Suite" Thinking I Was Gonna Hear The Same Tracks I Was So Familiar With From This Big Disaster Movie From 45 Years Ago !! Instead I Heard Alot Of Pieces Like It Was The First Time ! I Have Enjoyed All Your Vids Especially The Disaster Stuff From The 70s. I Was Just A Kid When The Towering Inferno Hit The Theaters Christmas 1974 - Can't Believe It Was That Long Ago !! I'm Subscribed - And Many Thanks For This Real Scary Memory.
This is a Great Movie on December 23 1974 went to se the towering inferno out in the Lobby they a display you can pulling the strings of the glass tower Elevator's my mom and dad left my older sister and Brother at the movie theater watch me why they Finnish ther Christmas shopping
@@markvitale8754 Too Funny The Things We Remember Even Decades Ago. I Was Just A Kid When "My Mom" Took Me To See This On My Birthday, May 1975. Those 1970s' Disaster Movies Were Something Else!! Have A Good Cino De Mayo Weekend & Thanks For The Comment.
“You know where to reach me...so long architect.”
Anything with Steve McQueen is America good guy kick ass.
one of my favorite films, still feel bad for the senator, rip :(
It's out of control and heading your way.
I figure you got about 15 minutes.
@@jesseburleson432 "now they wanna try something"
ESTA MUY BIEN LA MUSICA GRACIAS
Has anyone noticed that the beginning of this is the same score that David Copperfield used when he made the Statue of Liberty disappear on live TV back in the 80's?
The 150 storeys high building in Dubai has some similarity to the one in this movie !
If only we could get a reprinting of the complete score. I missed out on the Film Score Monthly release years ago. :(
Hello Mark,
I am very sure the FSM release will get an update (not very far in the future), regarding how old the release is and thinking of the fact how many glorious "complete" FSM recordings got an updated re-release in even more expanded form from La-La Land- and Intrada Records, to name just a few.
Hopefully the next one will get very striking artwork!
Best always!
Fred
Mark Calvert try La La Land Records. New 4-CD set.
@@mjt2231 I found this as soon as it was announced and got the set. Thanks!
以前作曲家の建部先生とお話した時ことメインテーマなら自由曲にしても良いじゃないと意気投合しました！
Of the 10 people pictured in the Towering Inferno poster only 4 are still alive in 2019. They are Fay Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, OJ Simpson, and Robert Wagner.
LOL! I had must counted the same!! Funny!
Yeah and one of them got away with.........
@@retire14pattaya9 two of them actually.
@@leigy100 That other one is not quite as likely as the really really likely one. If you know what I mean.
And not a single Marvel or DC superhero in this film. Yes, folks, it's possible.
What would it be to watch that movie without that kind of score?
@@mjt2231 Well I'm glad to see that we have a movie connoisseur here!
ジョン・ウィリアムズは映画界史上最高の作曲家です！
Hello from puerto rico
Hey hello from NYC. Hey are there still curfews in PR now. I want to travel to the island. Came many times in the 70"s.
the last score he did with Irwin Allen , i think they had a parting of ways after this ,but a beautiful score to say the least. i think that's he doesn't do these in his concerts ?
Spannende Interpretation dieses ein bisschen bedrohlichen Meisterwerks mit perfekt synchronisierten Töne aller Instrumente. Der unvergleichliche Komponist/Dirigent leitet das funktionelle Orchester im erregenden Tempo mit effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt Gänsehaut!
wounderfull music and wounderfull or maybe the best job in this planet saving lifes ;) honour for braves
This reminds me of flying under the Golden Gate Bridge in a Helicopter
Ah those 70's disaster flicks.
Hi Fred, this OST is also one of may favourite!
Thank you for this short suite.
I bought the LP when still in school, this is a good "Williams Vintage" pre-star-wars style. I have the same interest for this one on the same level than "JAWS", not that Williams' compositions were inferior later, but more in the symphonic style, and with more classical references or plagiarism. I think the compositions before SW, were more personnals and for smaller orchestras. I could get the Earthquake OST recently, I find it was a kind of look alike but with less melodic interests!
It got more recently the FSM long extended version which is quite interesting, and is of course exactly the music heard in the movie. Among other interests, the Maureen McGovern song different of the first LP release, for it is the version heard in the movie too!
I saw all those movies in theaters when they were released, and I saw anew the Towering Inferno few years ago, I think the music is better than the film itself, because the plot is quite classical but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
Regards from Normandy France
Hello Bernard, thank you very much for your detailed comment!
"Jaws" is also one of my all time favorites, have collected all the soundtracks on countless mediums. It started my passion for film music really.
As you say you got the Towering Inferno soundtrack more recently, I hope that you didn't had to pay too much for it, as it became a real expensive collectible!
All the best!
Fred
I try to get the music I noticed in movies, but sometimes I borrow CD in my local library and make a "private copy". Well for the "Towering Inferno" "russian friends" help me to find it !
regards
Bernard
Maureen McGovern's We may never love like this again didn't come within a mile of The Morning After in The Poseiden Adventure however Mr Williams instrumental music was very appropriate.
Only because Maureen's performance was only a 'bit part' and she was never seen again in the movie, where as The Morning After in Poseidon was sung by one of the main cast throughout the entire movie. It ends up being what sticks in people's minds over the decades to follow
I looked into this mainly because of the ending theme. And one thing I found disappointing is it does have my favorite part of that score a few minutes prior to it is left out. Even though the part I like is in it I still love the build up to that part.
Always impresses me the performance JW gets out of orchestras.
I think it has to do his excellent grasp of Orchestration and timing, it's often said JW's music is easy to play.
Will we ever see this type of a cast again?
S05052018. When happened The 9-11 or terrible and Sad day 11 of september th 2001, I remembering that movie Starring by Steve MacQueen and Paul Newman. Many Thanks for his videos and Musical Suites from thats Classical Movies Mr Fred.
Very sad indeed! But without 9-11 ironically this film may had a second coming. I did not have heard about this film until the media compared the event to it. Cannot say if there was any connection. In addition being an European I might not be competent person to say this but it seems that some people seem to explane everything with the 9-11. Sure it was a great tragedy.
9:24 that view down inflamed glass tower on the JBL professional cinema with pro cinema luasfilm ltd THX sound system gives whole new of end game audio here , just like getting flashback at the cinema in feb 1975 , movie played for months ! not one of these rubbish star wars mary sue disney trash that plays a week and then gone and forgotten about , the towering inferno played for months at the uk cinemas
The sound track sounds great, when you watch the film, it seems to over ride the sound track. It could be just me ,but i hear a bit of the mgnificent seven aswell ?
Fred you have all my fav OSTs, except Jaws
Hello JD,
believe it or not, but JAWS is THE ONE. The one that brought me to film music, one of my holy grails. I have it here on LP's, CD's and so on. Almost every release next to many merchandise products of that time.
I had it uploaded a few years ago, but it and JAWS 2 were immediately taken down. Quite unfair when you realize that many tracks are 1:1 on CZcams. I probably will try it again soon, as this are one of my all time favorites and always will be.
Best to you!
Fred
@@SoundtrackFred same here Fred, Jaws was the second film I saw as a kid at the cinema. Towering Inferno being the first. Did you get those reaction figures a couple of years ago? I bought 6 of the shark figures with Quint. Out To Sea is one of my all time fav pieces of music
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Hello JD, I didn't get those figures, they didn't really got my attention.
One of the few things I adore are the original (german) posters of all four movies. No reprints.
Out To Sea is a lovely cue. Very short in the movie and I am happy Williams recognized its power and rearranged and expanded it for the concert hall.
@@SoundtrackFred my most prized is original vinyl soundtrack release. My first OST as a kid. Unfortunately my second was Star Wars but it was the disco version
Very fine. The fancy Meco version I suppose. Love it!
The Aaron Copland influence is very strong
The opening sections sound like they're right out of Star Wars (or do I have that backwards?). Thrilling, yet oh so familiar.
Robert Cohn you have backwards. This movie cane before Star Wars and Jaws. His did this movie and The Poseidon Adventure.
Towering Inferno and Poseidon are the grey disaster movies of all time
En el minuto12:00 la mejor parte, con todo el suspenso de la película a full
Hallo Fred.
Sorry wenn ich mich längere Zeit nicht mehr gemeldet habe.
Deine Uploads sind nach wie vor super.
Und noch einmal herzlichen Dank für die Übersendung des Ortalini-Socres.
Leider habe ich manchmal gar nicht soviel Zeit wie ich gerne hätte.
Den Film Brennendes Inferno wie er glaube ich in Deutschland hieß, kenne ich nur aus dem Fernsehen gegen Ende der siebziger oder Anfang der achtziger bevor RTL auf Sendung ging.
Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich mir die Original-Scores der Star-Wars-Filme von 1977 bis 1983 gekauft.
Dadurch habe ich auch endlich wieder diesen Ewok-Song yub nub.
Dir noch eine schöne Zeit.
Bis denne.
MfG EchoHotelGolf.
P.S.: Ich habe inzwischen angefangen selber Videos auf youtube hochzuladen.
Schau doch mal vorbei wenn du dafür Zeit hast.
Vielen Dank für die Rückmeldung!
Wenn ich die Zeit finde, schau ich mal vorbei!
Guten Morgen Fred.
Vielen Dank für deine Antwort.
Ich freue mich schon auf deine Kommentare. ^_^
Bis denne.
MfG EchoHotelGolf
The song that begins at 2.09 Lisolette And Harlee I think it is called is to me at least the most beautiful relaxing music I've ever heard. The saying is music soothed the savage beast, it this tune was playing then I must agree, as it soothes me big time. I can't put into words why I love this song so I just do. I use this music track during my relaxation therapy seasons and it calms me down effortlessly every time. I remember sitting in the movie watching the Towering Inferno and hearing this song the one time its played as the lovely lady is ascending in the only working scenic elevator. I loved the lovable con-man part Fred Astaire played in this movie.
Only thing I did not really like in the movie was the tower itself. The tower was so one dimensional. I know they were trying to design the tower from the Hyatt Regency base used for establishment shots of the building but really I could have done a far better design. Super tall buildings should not be boring. Also why have a party in that specialty room before all three scenic elevators were in place. I mean if I wanted to get people interested in the building I would have for sure had all three scenic elevators online as part of my marketing. You have your potential buyers trapped for a good few minutes in a glass elevator seeing SF at its best. All the while you can tout the building and all its amenities as they are dazzled by the scene outside.
Who ever was marketing this building should have been fired.
Ok yeah THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR POSTING THIS MUSIC!
Please Song Name from 2:10 to 4:00???
Lisoeltte and Harlee
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Aynen bro hahaha
D20052018. Es very Similar The Intro from The Towering Inferno-Williams To Ben Hur-Rozsa New Fanfare For Circus Parade ( Parade of The Charioteers), four seconds next for that version Parade Of The Charioteers, part eliminated in many Colections B.S.O. But sound and repeat in Parade Of The Charioteers Extended Version Ben Hur-Rozsa. And also is repeat Conflict. Messala's Revenge versions Friendship Ben Hur-Rozsa. This can are a Remembrance of Master John Williams of his Master; Master Miklos Rozsa. Not a Plagium. Never a Plagium. 0:00-0:04 and where repeat.
D03062018. Same Score and Representation in Entry Of Nobles From The Cid-Rozsa.
Fred, THE TOWERING INFERNO, a small mistake in your title.
Robert Bettens
Oh, didnt notice the typo. Corrected! Thank you!
OJ Simpson was absolutely killer in this movie. Many of his female colleagues, I have it under good authority, said sometimes it was absolutely murder working with him, as demanding as he could be.
This is a weird John Williams score
Sounds like a western, then morphs into The Carpenters
I'm not hearing what others are hearing. If it weren't John Williams would anyone really care? The theme is fine as far as it goes, rising up like the titular skyscraper, but then descending into some TV western-sounding arrangement (as someone else noted). The subsequent, dated 70s mood music is just awful, and the action music pretty standard stuff of rhythmic time keeping punctuated by the low brass and strings punching out syncopated pseudo-melodies. Nothing more than the picture needed, or deserved. Williams was clearly not inspired by this film. When Irwin Allen approached Williams about his next disaster film, The Swarm, Williams' success meant he could move on from Allen's increasingly ridiculous movies and impolitely declined, supposedly saying "Give it to Jerry [Goldsmith]...He will score bullshit films." Ironically, Goldsmith turned in a very fine score for The Swarm, a true disaster of a film.
I have to agree, this is nothing like what I'd expect from John WIlliams. I thought maybe he hadn't found his sound yet, but I listened to his earlier work and it's fantastic. He obviously just tried to do an okay score for an okay film.
Steven Spielberg asked mr. Williams do the score for the movie Schindler's list when mr. Williams saw clips from the movie he was overcome with emotion he had to step out of the building to compose himself. He told Steven Spielberg to get another music composer they just as good as me but Spielberg told him they're all gone