ED ORA... RACCOMANDA L'ANIMA A DIO!

THE SOUNDTRACK

Franco Bixio, at the time an eighteen years old boy, composed an acustic OST with a smaller team, arranged and directed by Vince Tempera, with tipical Beat sonorities. Main theme “Like a coward”, performed by Mary Ushua, lays among the end credits and was published on Cinevox SC 1060 single, together with the track “Una diligenza a Tombstone”. Franco Bixio retakes the main theme with several instrumental versions, occasionally slow and fast, alternating it with a delicate love theme that stands in tense and violent atmospheres. Also, Saloon music figures both in instrumental and sung versions. For this CD of ours we were able to use the original Recording Session’s mono masters as well as the original single’s mono master. Unfortunately though, the opening credits, instrumental version of “Just a coward”, were beyond repair lost. So, for historical and artistic reasons, we decided to take them from the audio of the film, which had a mix of gunfires and horses.

DIRECTOR AND CAST

Directed by Demofilo Fidani in 1968 and starring Jeff Cameron, Fabio Testi, Custer Gail, Franca Itors, Ettore Manni, Christel Penz, William Reed, Giovanni Querel, Gualtiero Rispoli, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Anthony Stewens, Luciano Doria, Virginia Darval, Paolo Figlia, Armando Visconti.

PLOT

During a trip to Denver City a stage coach is attacked by a group of bandits. On the coach there are the passengers Stanley, a man heading back to the city to take back the inheritance stolen by a relative who formely killed his parents and Steve, longing to find the gold earned during a five-years-long hard work, which was robbed by unknown bandits of whom he still remembers the voices. After the intervention of a cowboy named Sanders, who saves them, the three men become friends and promise to help each other. After several adventures Steve manages to find and punish the bandits that robbed him, while Stanley kills the naughty relative.

TRACK LIST

01. JUST A COWARD  2:38

02. UNA DILIGENZA A TOMBSTONE (versione fast) 3:24

03. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (pallottole e codardi) 2:38

04. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (la ragazza del saloon – strum.) 2:11

05. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (idillio nel west) 2:38

06. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (caccia sanguinaria) 2:29

07. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (attimi  nostalgici) 1:03

08. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (piano saloon) 5:12

09. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (tensione) 3:29

10. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (agguato) 3:50

11. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (racconti del west) 2:13

12. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (caccia sanguinaria alt.) 2:34

13. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (la ragazza del saloon – vocal) 2:13

14. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (gli spietati) 1:47

15. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (cavalcata) 1.00

16. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (vendetta) 3:27

17. ED ORA… RACCOMANDA L’ANIMA A DIO! (frontiera finale) 4:03

18. UNA DILIGENZA A TOMBSTONE (versione slow) 2:24

Bonus track

19. JUST A COWARD (Titoli di testa con SFX) 2:46