Oscar winner Ennio Morricone's disco style

Morricone received a well deserved and long overdue honorary Oscar for his outstanding contribution to movie scores at the Kodak Theatre February 25th.

Let's look briefly to disco gems bearing his name...

Pictured here is "Disco '78" 12 inch EP, with the disco version of Come Maddalena arranged by Ennio himself and produced by Laurent Rossi, a gem in mellow orchestra disco. It is also amongts Jussi Kantonen's top 100 classics of all time -mentionned here- in 7 inch 45 version.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef- received the disco treatment by Jurgen Gordulestch (Gaz) on the oh-so-famous Salsoul label in 1979. Its extended break is a delight to savour, arrangements were provided by Thor Baldursson, orchestral and super groovy to boost. If that wasn't enough, the B-Side is the disco breaky Sing, Sing, in which parts have been sampled countless times in early hip-hop and rap classics from the late 70s well into the early 90s. It was pressed in "marbled" lilac vinyl laced with pink and blue streaks, it's been in our disco records section since 2002 here.

There are a few other disco interpretations of Ennio Morricone's songs around. Black Light Orchestra had "A man and his harmonica" discofied beautifully, again, orchestral and soothing, it is also mentioned on the site here.


Thank you Ennio for your music.