Henry Mancini, The Thorn Birds - 60m 27s

Tracks & Durations

1. Meggie Leaves Drogheda	1:21
2. Arrival At Queensland	2:12
3. Beginning Of The End	2:28
4. Welcome To Himmelhock	1:52
5. New Kid In Town	1:22
6. Matlock Island	3:23
7. Beach Walk	2:29
8. Forbidden Love	1:39
9. Ralph And Meggie	1:56
10. Paradise Lost	3:10
11. Vacation's End	3:30
12. Meggie Leaves The Himmelhocks	1:43
13. Meggie Goes Home	2:46
14. Photographs	2:17
15. Together	1:10
16. Good-Bye, Dane	2:06
17. Justine Visits Drogheda	1:30
18. The Greek Tragedy	1:34
19. Bye Bye Dane	1:45
20. Loss Of A Son	2:53
21. Meggie Reveals The Truth	5:06
22. Be Happy	5:12
23. Ralph Dies	3:37
24. End Title	0:44
25. Anywhere The Heart Goes	2:28

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Review

The 10th anniversary of American film and television scoring titan Henry Mancini's passing was marked by the US Postal Service issuing a commemorative stamp in conjunction with a gala tribute concert hosted by Julie Andrews and astronaut-senator John Glenn. But for Mancini buffs, this previously unreleased double-disc soundtrack for the massively successful 1983 ABC-TV miniseries (second in viewership only to Roots) will seem a more gratifying tribute to the American pop music icon's enduring legacy. Novelist Colleen McCullough's grand soap opera about a priest caught up in a forbidden Australian outback-rooted romance eventually sprawls over five decades and half the globe, but Mancini skillfully keeps its emotional core focused via some of the most subtly romantic and elegantly understated writing of his career. His sublime melodic gifts yield the memorable Drogheda and Maggie themes, the former's portrayal of the vast Australian wilderness ingeniously carried at first by but a lone dulcimer, while the latter perfectly underpins the story's budding romance with tinges of bittersweet melancholy. -- Jerry McCulley

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The Thorn Birds

Tracks: 23 (-2 tracks), Disk length: 56m 58s (-4m 31s)

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