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Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981 Film) | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Williams
Label: Paramount Pictures
Category: Music
Buy Used: $40.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 11623
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 010963009026
EAN: 0010963009026
ASIN: B0000001AE
Release Date: November 30, 1995
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Condition: This is a former library copy. It contains all the normal library stamps and stickers. It is in good playing condition. The artwork shows shelf wear. Very fast shipping.
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| Tracks:
| • | The Raiders March | | • | Main Title: South America | | • | In The Idol's Temple | | • | Flight From Peru | | • | Journey To Nepal | | • | The Medallion | | • | To Cairo | | • | The Basket Game | | • | The Map Room: Dawn | | • | Reunion And The Dig Begins | | • | The Well Of The Souls | | • | Airplane Fight | | • | Desert Chase | | • | Marion's Theme | | • | The German Sub/To The Nazi Hideout | | • | Ark Trek | | • | The Miracle Of The Ark | | • | The Warehouse | | • | End Credits |
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In the '80s and '90s, John Williams has come to occupy roughly the same towering place in filmdom occupied by Henry Mancini for much of the '60s and '70s. Williams (who played piano on some early Mancini scores) carved out that distinction with exciting, full-blooded scores like George Lucas's Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones cycle, Steven Spielberg's blockbuster tributes to the cheesy film serials of his youth. The first in that series, Raiders wears its retro-symphonic sensibilities like a badge of honor and indeed, DGG's expanded deluxe release plays like a more economic Mahler opus. A true film music classic, even if its sensibilities are 40 years misplaced. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
1995 reissue. 30 additional minutes have been interwoven which were deleted from the original 1981 release, totaling 74 minutes of pure listening pleasure. Re-mastered including a special 24 page booklet containing an interview with John Williams, as well as liner notes, rare photos and sketchesnot included with the original release. Standard jewel case housed in a slipcase.
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A Rousing and Memorable Soundtrack! May 25, 2008
John Williams' score for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK may be the second most memorable score of all time, second only to Williams' score for the original STAR WARS film. The music is engaging and moving, and browses its way through many different styles and genres. You can see the scenes playing in your head as you listen. Great CD. Highly recommended.
Awsome June 10, 2007
This is truly one of John Williams greatest works.
The only thing is that Marion's Theme. It is a nice track but it doesn't really fit her in my opinion. I loved the Desert Chase and Miracle of the Ark.
A must have soundtrack!
TRACKS: March 9, 2007
Tracks:
1.Raiders Of The Lost Art / Kool Moe Dee & Treacherous Three -- Kool Moe Dee & The Treacherous Three
2.Sun Don't Shine In The Hood / The Furious Five -- Furious 5
3.Do It Again -- Whodini
4.Somebody Else / Da Original -- The Originals
5.Keep On Rockin / Fearless Four -- The Fearless Four
6.G-Party / Kurtis Blow -- Kurtis Blow
7.Mic Slayer / The Furious Five -- Furious 5
8.Real / Busy Bee -- Busy Bee
9.Keep It Real -- Kool Moe Dee
10.The Cooley -- Afrika Bambaataa
Williams has done it again July 20, 2006
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones began a search for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Death lurked everywhere - in the form of Egyptian Cobras (Asps) that guarded the Ark, Nazi agents & thugs that wanted the Ark for Hitler, and traitorous guides in the jungles of Peru. Indiana Jones, however, was too smart and too fast for these adversaries, and the Ark was safely returned to the United States. This adventurous archaeologist could not have done it without the help of composer John Williams, whose music captured Indy's feats, escapes, and misadventures with a terrific score.
Conspicuous by their presence here are several tracks that were not featured on the 1981 LP release. Most notable are 'In The Idol's Temple', which used trumpets to portray Indy's narrow escape from the Peruvian temple with a giant boulder close behind, as well as 'Airplane Fight', in which Indy takes on a giant Nazi thug while trying to hijack the plane intended to transport the Ark in. One of the finest tracks, however, remains the 'Desert Chase', which chronicles Indy's pursuit of the Ark on horseback after the plane is blown up, as he takes control of the truck carrying the Ark & takes out the convoy's vehicles one at a time. Highly recommended for fans of Williams', Spielberg's, or Lucas's work.
The Map Room: Dawn - William's FINEST moment!!! February 23, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The sequence in which Indy uses the medallion to find the ark is one of the most hair-raising, chill inducing, powerful, moving, fantastically awesome pieces of classical music in AND OUT of the cinema!!
The rest of the soundtrack is, of course, fantastic as well. But no single piece of music (save perhaps for the Stokowski orchestration of Debussy's SUNKEN CATHEDRAL) gets me as much as this one track from the Raiders soundtrack - it's worth any price! Sadly, you cannot hear the climatic moment in this Amazon clip - but trust me, it'll knock you down! The ark theme - three simple notes repeated - yet SO fantastic . . . Williams is pure genius!!
I think Williams has become so much the voice of both Spielberg and Lucas at the movies that, once he retires or dies, these two directors may as well throw in the towell as well!
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