During the 1970s Irwin Allen cemented himself as the “master of disaster” with the widely successful productions of “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972) and “The Towering Inferno” (1974). In 1978 he wanted to get back into the director’s chair, with which everything started during the 50s. However, his new (literally) disastrous project “The Swarm” turned out to be a very hard and frustrating time for him, the studio and in the end, the audience. One of the few collaborators on that project that was spared from the overall criticism, was composer Jerry Goldsmith. In typical Goldsmith-fashion he took his job seriously and gave everything - and that can be heard and appreciated: from rousing action cues (in his unmistakable style), over lovely quieter moments to the exciting end titles. Enjoy!
Thanks for sharing a score I haven't heard in - yikes! - over 40 years. Even at age 12, I knew THE SWARM was a fiasco. But listening to this music, you'd think we were watching a movie filled with suspense, epic scale and scenes of moving tenderness. Bravo, Maestro Goldsmith.
One of my favorite Goldsmith scores. I'll never forget seeing it in the theater when I was 13 in 1978 and being excited because it was by the same composer who had done Capricorn One. I especially loved the end title!
Still feel the loss of this mans work. I used the End Title track as the music for my 2D animated student film. Got me a job right out of school. Thanks for the upload.
@@leifj2009 No, used it for the whole action scene for the story. I also used the somber piece of music from Hoosiers(Town Meeting) for the films opening.
The ultimate "B" movie! I remember watching this on TV and that was how the film was introduced ( ! ) Goldsmith is my favorite and I have this on CD and vinyl. "Oh, Maureen" is wonderfully subtle and romantic. Thanks for posting. Don't worry about the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism. Your cut is pretty good despite the foreshortening.
Thanks Fred❤ Great Jerry Goldsmith👍🏻 I've seen the film often. It's one of the cases where the film is weak, but the music is better! Research: With a cast of great appeal, a plot already widely exploited both in the cinema and in various TV productions is unimaginatively "pumped up". The rudimentary dialogues and ineffective special effects ended up causing it to be a sensational, deserved flop at the box office. PS: My pain is unbearable. I continue to treat myself with analgesics and anti-inflammatories. If they don't work, injections are tried. The hernia is just my impression. But I have more pain from the sciatica between the thigh/knee. I pay less attention to the discomfort at the bottom of the board and the butt.
Fred, Thanks indeed for the movie soundtrack to 'The Swarm'! I actually saw this film recently and contary to prevailing opinion thought it quite good- certainly had a good cast including Michael Caine & Richard Widmark- Widmark in the end falling victim to the film's main 'players'!
John Williams scored Irwin Allen's two previous disaster pics, as well as several of his TV shows of the 60s. But when offered this in his post-Jaws and Star Wars fame, turned it down saying something like "Give it to Jerry, he'll score shit films like this." Fortunately for Allen, Jerry Goldsmith accepted the job and added a rousing polish to an awful turd of a movie. Even as a 13-year old I could tell this movie was trash. But I ran out and bought the soundtrack album, together with the album for Jaws, my first two ever. And I was affirmed that the music was indeed good. Was it possible a film score could be so much better than the movie itself? Realizations began to form in my young teen mind. Bee's Picnic has been a lifelong favorite track. And the End Title is a stunning example of wasted effort: A NEW(!) and rousing theme bringing to a close a movie through which no one would sit for the credits! At least we had the album. Proof that listening to soundtracks is not only an exercise in reliving positive film-viewing experiences. Edit: Grammar (typical)
Hello, Fred! Everyone knows the famous quote attributed to Einstein about bees, excerpt Irwin Allen. If you take a quick look at the movie poster, you'll think it's a sequel of " The Towering Inferno ": the bees gathered together look like the dark toxic smoke of a huge fire! Well... the only one who completely escapes the collection of jokes about " The Swarm " is, no doubt, Goldsmith. He and Art Morton represent the wild nature with woodwinds; the swarm in action is heard through the " scratching" sound of brass winds, and the entire orchestra take care of everything else, grandiloquent or soft, that no one knew how to stage. Surely the bees laughed a lot as much as they applauded Goldsmith/ Morton's exciting score! Thanks and bye!!
This is one of Jerry Goldsmith's finest works, without which, THE SWARM would come off as mostly a comedy. All of Goldsmith's score has been preserved in a splendid 2-CD set from La La Land.
Hello Claudio, it's a great score and a good choice. Some have requested it before and it already sits on the "To-Do" list for a while, so I think we have to get it done, soon. :-) Best! Fred
This is my go-to example for the phenomenon of "bad movie, great soundtrack." :) Of course, there is also "great movie, bad soundtrack," for which my go-to example is Blade Runner. (I'm not a fan of Vangelis or electronica in general, except in certain cases where it is truly fitting like the Tron films.)
FYI, these tracks are badly edited and shortened. It destroys them. If you insist on limiting these to 15 mins as you seem to do, it would be far better to use fewer tracks and leave them whole. You can find the complete versions of "Bees Inside" and the end title elsewhere on UA-cam.
During the 1970s Irwin Allen cemented himself as the “master of disaster” with the widely successful productions of “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972) and “The Towering Inferno” (1974). In 1978 he wanted to get back into the director’s chair, with which everything started during the 50s. However, his new (literally) disastrous project “The Swarm” turned out to be a very hard and frustrating time for him, the studio and in the end, the audience.
One of the few collaborators on that project that was spared from the overall criticism, was composer Jerry Goldsmith. In typical Goldsmith-fashion he took his job seriously and gave everything - and that can be heard and appreciated: from rousing action cues (in his unmistakable style), over lovely quieter moments to the exciting end titles. Enjoy!
Thanks for sharing a score I haven't heard in - yikes! - over 40 years. Even at age 12, I knew THE SWARM was a fiasco. But listening to this music, you'd think we were watching a movie filled with suspense, epic scale and scenes of moving tenderness. Bravo, Maestro Goldsmith.
One of my favorite Goldsmith scores. I'll never forget seeing it in the theater when I was 13 in 1978 and being excited because it was by the same composer who had done Capricorn One. I especially loved the end title!
Love this from '78. Thank you for the upload Mr. Fred!!!!!!
Thanks 😊 🙏🏾
Still feel the loss of this mans work. I used the End Title track as the music for my 2D animated student film. Got me a job right out of school. Thanks for the upload.
As a temp track?
@@leifj2009 No, used it for the whole action scene for the story. I also used the somber piece of music from Hoosiers(Town Meeting) for the films opening.
Epic period for Jerry Goldsmith
The ultimate "B" movie! I remember watching this on TV and that was how the film was introduced ( ! ) Goldsmith is my favorite and I have this on CD and vinyl. "Oh, Maureen" is wonderfully subtle and romantic. Thanks for posting. Don't worry about the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism. Your cut is pretty good despite the foreshortening.
Imagine if he'd been stuck with "When Time Ran Out...".
I still have this LP record from decades ago. I also saw this movie in the theatre when I was 11
Hi Fred,
This reminded me so much of the Rambo soundtrack when it started but the whole Soundtrack is lovely. Thank you for sharing, all the best.
Thanks Fred❤
Great Jerry Goldsmith👍🏻
I've seen the film often. It's one of the cases where the film is weak, but the music is better!
Research: With a cast of great appeal, a plot already widely exploited both in the cinema and in various TV productions is unimaginatively "pumped up". The rudimentary dialogues and ineffective special effects ended up causing it to be a sensational, deserved flop at the box office.
PS: My pain is unbearable.
I continue to treat myself with analgesics and anti-inflammatories. If they don't work, injections are tried.
The hernia is just my impression. But I have more pain from the sciatica between the thigh/knee.
I pay less attention to the discomfort at the bottom of the board and the butt.
Fred,
Thanks indeed for the movie soundtrack to 'The Swarm'! I actually saw this film recently and contary to prevailing opinion thought it quite good- certainly had a good cast including Michael Caine & Richard Widmark- Widmark in the end falling victim to the film's main 'players'!
Personally I thought they all fell victim to the script.
John Williams scored Irwin Allen's two previous disaster pics, as well as several of his TV shows of the 60s. But when offered this in his post-Jaws and Star Wars fame, turned it down saying something like "Give it to Jerry, he'll score shit films like this." Fortunately for Allen, Jerry Goldsmith accepted the job and added a rousing polish to an awful turd of a movie. Even as a 13-year old I could tell this movie was trash. But I ran out and bought the soundtrack album, together with the album for Jaws, my first two ever. And I was affirmed that the music was indeed good. Was it possible a film score could be so much better than the movie itself? Realizations began to form in my young teen mind.
Bee's Picnic has been a lifelong favorite track. And the End Title is a stunning example of wasted effort: A NEW(!) and rousing theme bringing to a close a movie through which no one would sit for the credits! At least we had the album. Proof that listening to soundtracks is not only an exercise in reliving positive film-viewing experiences.
Edit: Grammar (typical)
Hello, Fred! Everyone knows the famous quote attributed to Einstein about bees, excerpt Irwin Allen. If you take a quick look at the movie poster, you'll think it's a sequel of " The Towering Inferno ": the bees gathered together look like the dark toxic smoke of a huge fire! Well... the only one who completely escapes the collection of jokes about " The Swarm " is, no doubt, Goldsmith. He and Art Morton represent the wild nature with woodwinds; the swarm in action is heard through the " scratching" sound of brass winds, and the entire orchestra take care of everything else, grandiloquent or soft, that no one knew how to stage. Surely the bees laughed a lot as much as they applauded Goldsmith/ Morton's exciting score! Thanks and bye!!
This is one of Jerry Goldsmith's finest works, without which, THE SWARM would come off as mostly a comedy. All of Goldsmith's score has been preserved in a splendid 2-CD set from La La Land.
Gracias ❤
Can you do Air Force One, also by Goldsmith?
Hello Claudio,
it's a great score and a good choice. Some have requested it before and it already sits on the "To-Do" list for a while, so I think we have to get it done, soon. :-)
Best!
Fred
@@SoundtrackFred I also wanna hear a suite of Randy Newman’s rejected score of the same movie. Your Troy soundtrack suites videos are amazing.
This is my go-to example for the phenomenon of "bad movie, great soundtrack." :) Of course, there is also "great movie, bad soundtrack," for which my go-to example is Blade Runner. (I'm not a fan of Vangelis or electronica in general, except in certain cases where it is truly fitting like the Tron films.)
FYI, these tracks are badly edited and shortened. It destroys them. If you insist on limiting these to 15 mins as you seem to do, it would be far better to use fewer tracks and leave them whole. You can find the complete versions of "Bees Inside" and the end title elsewhere on UA-cam.