"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." - The Right Stuff (Film), 1983.
When I was born travel to outer space was futuristic science fiction. When I was twenty Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Today his and his fellow astronauts exploits are taught in history class. What an exceptional era in human history to live through. I only hope to be here long enough to see us go to Mars. This soundtrack, this movie are my all time favorite. Peace to us all.
The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen.
Thank you so much for posting this performance. which otherwise would have only lived in the memories of those present at the time. now it can hopefully live on forever,
Awesome time, awesome achievement and awesome music and movie. I was just 9 years old when I started to follow the Apollo program starting with Apollo 8 and the Christmas eve orbit. I feel blessed to have grown up in such a wonderful time. The astronauts inspired me to achieve a career in aviation and just retired as an airline captain and I am now teaching corporate pilots. I have a had a wonderful life thanks in no small part to the inspiration of these exceptional people from the ground up who made the journey to the moon a reality!
Hands down the best performance of this soundtrack ever. Every bit as good as the original. Thank you for a wonderful performance and for your service to our country. Your all awesome.
I rented this movie so many times that the Safeway near my home sold it to me. Always wanted to fly, but astronaut status, eluded me. I did become a commercial pilot, but never crossed the Armstrong Line, so be it. I still love this music and the time in America it signifies, thank you.
Retired commercial pilot here spent almost 10 years as a Co-pilot fighting fire. (DC7/6) my dear wife, called me a "frustrated Spaceman". Per Ardua ad Astra.
@@tgmccoy1556 As someone who was a kid in the 1960s and followed the Space Program and who always wanted to fly or at least work for NASA, but never did: I can assure you that I know what it is like to be a "frustrated Spaceman"!
Yeager also had a bit part as the janitor whose broom is cut in half to give Sam Shepherd a stick to close the cockpit on the X-1. Ironic fact Chuck Yeager outlive Sam Sheperd !
The music makes me think of the challenges they faced. These men were Best of the Best. John Glen wife stuttered didn't want to talk to U.S. President Johnson. John Glen stated I agree with her 100 %
This music always brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat with pride for my country and yearning for the future. Bill Conti's score is truly an inspiration. Almost as inspiring as the rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" sang a-Capella by a Major in the US Marine Corps Band, I witnessed back in 1987 at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, performed on Memorial day. A truly memorable musical moment in my life. The Film, "The Right Stuff" and its music blew me away the first time I saw it in theaters as a kid. One of the great American films of all time, about some of our greatest heroes. Thanks for the share.
I was assigned to the Pentagon out of AAFB then. I made quite a few visits to Arlington National Cemetary and the Tomb in the 1980s and a few in the 1990s-2000s. Some official some as a "tourist" and a number as an attendee in mourning. You're absolutely correct about the emotions stirring and inspirations brought to the fore. Thanks for your comment David.
seven minutes for a great hymn to any tester pilot from the past to the farthest future, i can say that because when i was 3 years old something mysterious stroke my heart and i'm acquired a great passion for aeronautics in general... That piece feed me that passion.
Perhaps better known for his work at the Oscars, this is a fine companion from Mr Conte to the heroics of the test pilots like Yeager who braved the unknown and emerged triumphant to show the way towards space flight.
Mark Newberry: I’d say Mr. Conte is best known for his score for the movie “Rocky”. He won an Oscar for his score for The Right Stuff. I think these works will be remembered much longer than his work conducting the orchestra at the Oscars.
Wow! That was quite impressive! I didn't expect this piece to translate as well to a wind orchestra. Hats off to the performers especially, but also to whomever scored Conti's original march for this instrumentation.
What an excellent rendition of this wonderful music! I am surprised it is not a large number of instruments actually required. And the horns... most beautiful of the wind instruments. Always calling you home...
How do they not mention Cpt Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier and Scott Crossfield and many others that laid the groundwork for the space program that Glenn and the others participated in, and got the notoriety, for
Interesting life, but the movie does get one detail wrong. Ridley was killed in a plane crash in 1957, but he's shown with Yeager at the F-104 crash which happened in 1963. I'd seen the movie several times before I found out that Levon Helm's original claim to fame was as a musician.
@@ericwaldow1890 Pretty sure this was Levon's last acting job before he died ua-cam.com/video/mn60YWO218k/v-deo.html "Still have the shovel..." lol ...the guy was one of a kind .
He flew with the Marines and Air Force www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197699/john-h-glenn-jr-aviator-and-astronaut/
I was 5 years old when a man landed on the moon. My parents and Grandparents stood around in awestuck wonder at what we had done. I wish I still had my plastic Saturn V and Apollo capsule toy as there is NOTHING that will erase that memory from my child brain. WE LANDED A MAN ON THE MOON! We all went out and looked at it that night for what seemed like hours. THIS NATION needs to INSPIRE its future generations to such dangerous endeavors as space travel and pushing knowledge and technological advancement by such boundary pushing adventures such as depicted in this film.
Good on you. Correct info. I recall mentioning this to Bill Conti, who replied tongue-in-cheek, "Good composers borrow, but great composers steal" [quote originally attributed to Arthur Honegger].
John Glenn was a colonel in the Marines, not the USAF. Gordo Cooper and Deke Slayton were the other USAF members of the Mercury 7 besides Gus Grissom. Alan Shepard, Wally Schirra, and Scott Carpenter were Navy.
When it was released in 1983, "the Right Stuff" did not do too well in the theaters. Believe that was because the US was still too close in time to the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate to embrace such a heroic vision of the US. It was only latter after the fall of the Soviet Union and the US victory in Desert Storm over Iraq that the patriotism of the Right Stuff became popular.
It took balls to climb into one of those oversized corrugated tin cans. If you ever saw a Mercury capsule up close, you'd realize how primitive it was. And the Atlas booster was, uh, "temperamental", to put it mildly.
I wonder why the Russians have never made their version of 'The Right Stuff"? After all the Russians put the first satellite in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first woman in space
That's a very interesting idea. One of the things that makes this movie so great is that the astronauts are portrayed as real people, with fears, jealousies, and rivalries, and they still did what they did. I wonder if enough is known about the real people and events of the Soviet space program to make a similar movie about them. Does anyone know what it was really like, or do we just have the propaganda version of events?
@@ericwaldow1890 There are books about the early Soviet manned program. Some of the history is very sad like Bondarenko who caused his own death in a simple isolation assessment; and Gagarin's facial disfigurement in a drunken partying accident after he became famous worldwide for _Vostok 1_ at age 27.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Gargain latter died heroicly in a jet crash. His plane was in trouble over a neighborhood and Gargain flew it till it was over an unhabited area. Unfortunately the jet was too low for Gargain to eject safely.
Mnie tam Top Gun nigdy nie podniecał, wolę Right Stuff, wielkie rzeczy, ale z dystansem, ja tak lubię. Dobranoc Agnieszka, popatrz w nocne niebo i pomyśl co chcesz.
Fritz Reiner moved so little while conducting that one day a musician in The Chicago Symphony brought a small telescope to rehearsal and looked through it while they were playing as a gag. Fritz was not amused, but I think the other players in the band had a good laugh later.
@@Russell_Huston Lived in Chicago during which time Reiner was conductor of the CSO. He moulded that already fine ensemble into a world-class orchestra.
You have to admit, they go fairly different directions musically. If anything, I'd say the comparisons to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto are more apt. Either way, it sucks that he had to be so married to the temp track and I'm happy he had legal protection from all the Holst they had him stealing elsewhere in the soundtrack.
@@jg2904 Oh yes, there are certainly similarities, but mainly in the supporting rhythms, I'd say (here I'm handicapped by not paying enough attention in music theory class, or I could've told you more precisely what I mean).
"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." - The Right Stuff (Film), 1983.
"I know that's you, Glenn! Now knock it off! I'm tryin' to concentrate here."
@@RideAcrossTheRiver 😂😂
@@RideAcrossTheRiver TALK TO ME GOOSE!!
@@markbeames7852 "I don't know, man, I just got here myself!"
Nailed it
When I was born travel to outer space was futuristic science fiction. When I was twenty Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Today his and his fellow astronauts exploits are taught in history class. What an exceptional era in human history to live through. I only hope to be here long enough to see us go to Mars. This soundtrack, this movie are my all time favorite. Peace to us all.
The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen.
Im proud to have lived through that time in history, ILL never forget those men, im a navy veteran, god bless america!!!!!!!!
Amen to that! God bless you for your service and thank you!
Yes!!!
USAF vet here. So fortunate to have lived during Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Shuttle,the ISS, and now Artemis.
Thank you so much for posting this performance. which otherwise would have only lived in the memories of those present at the time. now it can hopefully live on forever,
My son is in the Air Force Reserve - when he got married (in uniform) the first part of this was their wedding march. Set the tone.
Awesome time, awesome achievement and awesome music and movie. I was just 9 years old when I started to follow the Apollo program starting with Apollo 8 and the Christmas eve orbit. I feel blessed to have grown up in such a wonderful time. The astronauts inspired me to achieve a career in aviation and just retired as an airline captain and I am now teaching corporate pilots. I have a had a wonderful life thanks in no small part to the inspiration of these exceptional people from the ground up who made the journey to the moon a reality!
Hands down the best performance of this soundtrack ever. Every bit as good as the original. Thank you for a wonderful performance and for your service to our country. Your all awesome.
God Bless you Bill Conti . Everytime I pray at our holly father and your blessed touch human kind see earth .❤❤
I don't know why, but this always makes me cry.
This movie makes you proud to be an American ! Hooyah !!!!!!
"Who is the best pilot you ever met in your life"? "You are looking at him!" 😂
"Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"
Dennis Quaid said it was his most favorite work until he did Reagan...
I rented this movie so many times that the Safeway near my home sold it to me. Always wanted to fly, but astronaut status, eluded me. I did become a commercial pilot, but never crossed the Armstrong Line, so be it. I still love this music and the time in America it signifies, thank you.
No need to have regrets. You get us safely to our destination so thank you.
Retired commercial pilot here spent almost
10 years as a Co-pilot fighting fire. (DC7/6) my dear wife, called me a "frustrated Spaceman".
Per Ardua ad Astra.
@@tgmccoy1556 As someone who was a kid in the 1960s and followed the Space Program and who always wanted to fly or at least work for NASA, but never did: I can assure you that I know what it is like to be a "frustrated Spaceman"!
@@davidallbaugh6858 yep.
One of the great soundtracks of all time
I once looked for this soundtrack and couldn't find it or that it was released, haven't looked in years however.
same with "Purple Rain."
if you like Gustav Mahler and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They both contributed heavily to this soundtrack.
This movie captured (and satirized) the atmosphere in the USA and its military in my day better than any other.
@@Axgoodofdunemaul you served in the United States military in the 1950s-1965?
I try to watch this movie a few times each year
Great story
Great cast
Great score
That final flight was incredibly shot
Great movie, if not 100% historically accurate.
@@mse3700 close enough for government work...but yes, the book and movie exaggerate to make their points.
me too❣️
Same here. We bought the DVD years ago. It's one of the best space movies ever made.
Greetings from England.
The Right Stuff is my #1 move of all time. Thank you so much.
The late BG Chuck Yeager had a cameo as the bartender @ Pancho’s
Yeager also had a bit part as the janitor whose broom is cut in half to give Sam Shepherd a stick to close the cockpit on the X-1. Ironic fact Chuck Yeager outlive Sam Sheperd !
The music makes me think of the challenges they faced. These men were Best of the Best. John Glen wife stuttered didn't want to talk to U.S. President Johnson. John Glen stated I agree with her 100 %
I just started reading the book by Tom Wolfe for the third or fourth time and it's still a great read... Highly recommended...
Great piece of music even for Pugnockers
This music always brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat with pride for my country and yearning for the future. Bill Conti's score is truly an inspiration. Almost as inspiring as the rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" sang a-Capella by a Major in the US Marine Corps Band, I witnessed back in 1987 at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, performed on Memorial day. A truly memorable musical moment in my life. The Film, "The Right Stuff" and its music blew me away the first time I saw it in theaters as a kid. One of the great American films of all time, about some of our greatest heroes. Thanks for the share.
The Right Stuff was the first movie I saw after graduating Marine boot camp.
It turned the moto wheel up to 11.
I was assigned to the Pentagon out of AAFB then. I made quite a few visits to Arlington National Cemetary and the Tomb in the 1980s and a few in the 1990s-2000s. Some official some as a "tourist" and a number as an attendee in mourning. You're absolutely correct about the emotions stirring and inspirations brought to the fore. Thanks for your comment David.
Oscars based on soundtrack alone are possible, no matter the box office.
Love the movie, love the original score by Bill Conti. Amazing orchestral rendition!
The band does a great job but prefer the full orchestra version. Especially in the last 2 minutes or so.
You should give a listen to Gustav Holz and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They had a bit of an influence on the soundtrack. ;)
Not so original. Pretty much a straight lift from Tchaikovsky
Such a great score... Really powerful... But at 6:11 it really took your breathe away...
seven minutes for a great hymn to any tester pilot from the past to the farthest future, i can say that because when i was 3 years old something mysterious stroke my heart and i'm acquired a great passion for aeronautics in general... That piece feed me that passion.
Incredible. That last beat...
Perhaps better known for his work at the Oscars, this is a fine companion from Mr Conte to the heroics of the
test pilots like Yeager who braved the unknown and emerged triumphant to show the way towards space flight.
Mark Newberry: I’d say Mr. Conte is best known for his score for the movie “Rocky”. He won an Oscar for his score for The Right Stuff. I think these works will be remembered much longer than his work conducting the orchestra at the Oscars.
Chills!!!!
During the introduction, it was stated that John Glen and Virgin Grissom were Air Force Lt. Colonels. John Glen was a US Marine Corp Lt Colonel.
"In John Glenn's long aviation career, he flew with the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Air Force, set a speed record, and shot down enemy aircraft."
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197699/john-h-glenn-jr-aviator-and-astronaut/
@@vpattify To clarify for others, Glenn was on exchange duty, he never was a service member of the USAF.
This theme from Bill Conti stirs up emotions in me.....
Wow! That was quite impressive! I didn't expect this piece to translate as well to a wind orchestra. Hats off to the performers especially, but also to whomever scored Conti's original march for this instrumentation.
Orchestrated
this is the difference between being a good musician and being gifted.
What an excellent rendition of this wonderful music! I am surprised it is not a large number of instruments actually required. And the horns... most beautiful of the wind instruments. Always calling you home...
Music starts at 1:36.
This piece makes even strolling feel like you're about to take off. Tchaikovsky inspired or not.
"Put your spurs to her, Chuck..."
This should be the anthem of the U.S Space Force.
How do they not mention Cpt Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier and Scott Crossfield and many others that laid the groundwork for the space program that Glenn and the others participated in, and got the notoriety, for
Obviously, someone neither read the book nor saw the movie.
And it ain't me.
Ridley, played by Levon Helm. What an adventure his life was.
Hey Ridley, got any Beemans?
@Mark Von I reckon I might got a stick
@@idahorodgersusmc Well, loan me some, would ya? Pay ya back later.
Interesting life, but the movie does get one detail wrong. Ridley was killed in a plane crash in 1957, but he's shown with Yeager at the F-104 crash which happened in 1963.
I'd seen the movie several times before I found out that Levon Helm's original claim to fame was as a musician.
@@ericwaldow1890
Pretty sure this was Levon's last acting job before he died
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"Still have the shovel..." lol
...the guy was one of a kind .
Hey Riddly, you got any Beemans?
Dunno about Yeager… Beemans tasted like chalk to me
A note to the Commentator: Col John Glenn was a Marine aviator, not Air Force.
He flew with the Marines and Air Force
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197699/john-h-glenn-jr-aviator-and-astronaut/
John Glenn was a Marine.
I was 5 years old when a man landed on the moon. My parents and Grandparents stood around in awestuck wonder at what we had done. I wish I still had my plastic Saturn V and Apollo capsule toy as there is NOTHING that will erase that memory from my child brain. WE LANDED A MAN ON THE MOON! We all went out and looked at it that night for what seemed like hours. THIS NATION needs to INSPIRE its future generations to such dangerous endeavors as space travel and pushing knowledge and technological advancement by such boundary pushing adventures such as depicted in this film.
Love the extra flavor in the entrance of the Air Force Song.
1:38 the music
Great Stuff. Inspired by the great. Tchakovsky of course and no less another triumph of your posting. Thank You from London ❤
great film and music but if you listen to Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major Opus 35 you will see where the main theme came from
Good on you. Correct info. I recall mentioning this to Bill Conti, who replied tongue-in-cheek, "Good composers borrow, but great composers steal" [quote originally attributed to Arthur Honegger].
Took me a while to figure this out but I connected this to Tchaikovsky.
😊
John Glenn was a colonel in the Marines, not the USAF. Gordo Cooper and Deke Slayton were the other USAF members of the Mercury 7 besides Gus Grissom. Alan Shepard, Wally Schirra, and Scott Carpenter were Navy.
Great performance. John Glenn was a Marine though. I believe the USAF guys were Grissom, Cooper and Slayton
Quality brass players.
When it was released in 1983, "the Right Stuff" did not do too well in the theaters. Believe that was because the US was still too close in time to the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate to embrace such a heroic vision of the US. It was only latter after the fall of the Soviet Union and the US victory in Desert Storm over Iraq that the patriotism of the Right Stuff became popular.
Shortest three hours I ever spent in a theater...
@@flarrfan I agree
Narrator says "Air Force Colonel John Glenn." Oh no, Marine Corps Col. John Glenn is rolling in his grave.
Look sir...Is that a man? Yeahhhh, Damn right it is!
At 1:00, John Glenn was a Marine...
this is an excellent arrangement - can you please tell me where we can purchase it?
can't find it anywhere . . .
Love the performance... John Glenn was a decorated Marine Corps Pilot, not Air Force.
The guts , the commitment, the sacrifice . Brave Americans battling the Russians for control of the heavens .
It took balls to climb into one of those oversized corrugated tin cans. If you ever saw a Mercury capsule up close, you'd realize how primitive it was. And the Atlas booster was, uh, "temperamental", to put it mildly.
Nobody controls space.
I wonder why the Russians have never made their version of 'The Right Stuff"? After all the Russians put the first satellite in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first woman in space
Because in the USSR, it was all a state secret until the mission was accomplished.
That's a very interesting idea. One of the things that makes this movie so great is that the astronauts are portrayed as real people, with fears, jealousies, and rivalries, and they still did what they did. I wonder if enough is known about the real people and events of the Soviet space program to make a similar movie about them. Does anyone know what it was really like, or do we just have the propaganda version of events?
@@ericwaldow1890 There are books about the early Soviet manned program. Some of the history is very sad like Bondarenko who caused his own death in a simple isolation assessment; and Gagarin's facial disfigurement in a drunken partying accident after he became famous worldwide for _Vostok 1_ at age 27.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Gargain latter died heroicly in a jet crash. His plane was in trouble over a neighborhood and Gargain flew it till it was over an unhabited area. Unfortunately the jet was too low for Gargain to eject safely.
They could call it The Right Stuffski.
I thought this piece was called " Yeager's Triumph"
Go hotdog go
Aim High - Fly Fight and Win
If Phil Kaufman hadn’t like a massive weirdo…To John Barry …We would have John Barry’s Right Stuff.
Wonder why he didn’t mention BrigGen Yeager?
Black sheep even by his own band .
Wasn't an astronaut.
Because he was never in the program, he did not have a college degree
Oh, très bon.
It really needs the missing strings section.
Mnie tam Top Gun nigdy nie podniecał, wolę Right Stuff, wielkie rzeczy, ale z dystansem, ja tak lubię. Dobranoc Agnieszka, popatrz w nocne niebo i pomyśl co chcesz.
1:01 JOHN GLENN WAS A MARINE!!!
He flew with the Marines and Air Force.
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197699/john-h-glenn-jr-aviator-and-astronaut/
@Vesna Patterson He was a Uniformed Marine...Ther is a difference, no matter what plane you're flying
John Glen IS a United States Marine-! , Ther Is a difference, regardless of what plane you are flying.
IS a Marine...once a Marine, always a Marine
What happened to movie music like this?
John Glenn was a Marine Corp Captain not Air Force
John Glenn was a Marine
No He wwas Dudley Do Right LOL
Dead on. Wow!
5:52
1:37 -- You're welcome.
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A perfect example of how to conduct without flailing your arms and jumping all over the podium. Excellent rendition.
Fritz Reiner moved so little while conducting that one day a musician in The Chicago Symphony brought a small telescope to rehearsal and looked through it while they were playing as a gag. Fritz was not amused, but I think the other players in the band had a good laugh later.
@@Russell_Huston Lived in Chicago during which time Reiner was conductor of the CSO. He moulded that already fine ensemble into a world-class orchestra.
Maybe the Air Force is good for something.
06:17 the moment SpaceX DM-2 lifts off
first impression Enough talking play the music
And you think Classical Music is dead? Think again!!
*Cough* ua-cam.com/video/BX8Nu_BWZN8/v-deo.html
You have to admit, they go fairly different directions musically. If anything, I'd say the comparisons to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto are more apt. Either way, it sucks that he had to be so married to the temp track and I'm happy he had legal protection from all the Holst they had him stealing elsewhere in the soundtrack.
@@jg2904 Granted. However, I don't hear much closeness to the Tchaikovsky VC, more to the ballet music (which heavily influenced Glazunov, BTW)
@@bomcabedal Might just be me. Having noticed the comparison once, I just can't un-hear the similarity. ua-cam.com/video/cbJZeNlrYKg/v-deo.html
@@jg2904 Oh yes, there are certainly similarities, but mainly in the supporting rhythms, I'd say (here I'm handicapped by not paying enough attention in music theory class, or I could've told you more precisely what I mean).
John Glenn was a Marine.
1:35 -- You're welcome.