Ennio Morricone A Fistful Of Dollars Import 10" Vinyl (Clear Vinyl)

Year 1964. Almost out of nowhere, the little-known and regarded director Sergio Leone transposes into a western key, a film by Akira Kurosawa, and by putting together all the right pieces, and adding a bit of intuition, he laid down new rules for the "spaghetti western" genre, giving way to an endless series of imitations.

A Fistful of Dollars would not have the same impact without the inimitable music written by Ennio Morricone, who had curiously been an old elementary school classmate of Leone. The main soundtrack themes were chosen from two arrangements that Morricone had already drafted two years earlier; once he removed the lyrics and added the unmistakable whistle of Alessandro Alessandroni, the spaghetti-sound was finally complete!

The film was an incredible success, and projected Leone, Morricone, and in particular the actor Clint Eastwood into the Olympus of the Great. The soundtrack was released for the first time the following year (1965), along with Sergio Leone's subsequent work For a Few Dollars More.