Sounds Of Kung Fu: Old School Movie Scores

[goldenarm]

10 hours ago, Killer Meteor said:

It's likely a De Wolfe library cue.

I was thinking the same thing, I wish I could find the title for it... Sounds almost like it's from one of those Hammer horror films.

[sifu iron perm]

can anyone ID the funky melody featured in The hitman in the hand of buddha?

 

 

[DragonClaws]

On 10/3/2020 at 1:01 AM, sifu iron perm said:

can anyone ID the funky melody featured in The hitman in the hand of buddha?

 

Which scene feature this track?.

[Killer Meteor]

On 10/3/2020 at 9:01 AM, sifu iron perm said:

can anyone ID the funky melody featured in The hitman in the hand of buddha?

 

 

Most of the music in that film is from James Horner's score to BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS. The menacing cue for the villain is from NAVAJO JOE, by Ennio Morricone, and was later used in KILL BILL VOL. 2.

[sifu iron perm]

On 10/4/2020 at 6:59 PM, DragonClaws said:

 

Which scene feature this track?.

09:29 mark

 

[goldenarm]

On 2/14/2020 at 12:01 PM, DragonClaws said:

 

Here's are a few of Kung Fu movie soundtrack questions, I've been unable to find the answer's to.

 

Can anyone identify the song that starts around 1-minute 12-secs mark, in the following promotional trailer for Bolo(1979). I'm not sure who sings's the song?, or if it's in Cantonese or Manderin?. The song appears a lot in the movie, it's pretty much Bolo's characters theme song. Are the lyrics related to the characters in the movie?. Was it written and performed by the movies composer Stanley Chow Fook-Leung?. I would be very grateful to anyone who can help me out?. .

 

 

 

This is definitely a Cantonese song and I think it's sung by Sam Hui.  

[DragonClaws]

22 hours ago, goldenarm said:

This is definitely a Cantonese song and I think it's sung by Sam Hui.  

 

Thanks for the feedback @goldenarm.

[DragonClaws]

 

(N.T)

Edited October 12, 2020 by DragonClaws

[DragonClaws]

 

 

@sifu iron perm, I got the following Hitman in The Hand of Buddha soundtrack information from the Grindhouse Cinema Databse.

 

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Hit Man in the Hand of Buddha: Cues from the film White Lightning. Music by Charles Bernstein. A Silouette of Doom from the film Navajo Joe. Music by Ennio Morricone.

 

Here's a link to their A-Z list that some fans might find useful.

Martial Arts Music Madness!

Link- https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Martial_Arts_Music_Madness!

 

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In this section of The GCDb we will be listing the various scores from kung fu/martial arts films that have been taken from other films, pop music & TV. During the 1970s and early 80s it was common practice for lower budget Asian genre films to steal scores from other popular films of the day. For instance you could be watching a Shaw Brothers kung fu film and hear the theme from a Blaxploitation film or a Spaghetti Western pop up in a sequence. This is just another reason why watching exploitation cinema is so fun. We hope you enjoy discovering...or re-discovering this memorable film music with us!

 

Edited October 12, 2020 by DragonClaws

[sifu iron perm]

5 hours ago, DragonClaws said:

 

 

@sifu iron perm, I got the following Hitman in The Hand of Buddha soundtrack information from the Grindhouse Cinema Databse.

 

 

Here's a link to their A-Z list that some fans might find useful.

Martial Arts Music Madness!

Link- https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Martial_Arts_Music_Madness!

 

 

Thank you good man!!

 

[goldenarm]

On 10/11/2020 at 3:52 PM, goldenarm said:

This is definitely a Cantonese song and I think it's sung by Sam Hui.  

Here it is:

[Omni Dragon]

Ambush from Ten Sides aka Ambush from All Sides is in countless movies:

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"Ambush from Ten Sides" (Chinese: 十面埋伏; pinyin: shí miàn mái fú) is a classical piece written for the pipa. "Ambush" is written in the "Wu" or martial style, and is about the Battle of Gaixia in 202 BC during which General Xiang Yu was defeated by Liu Bang. This is the same subject matter as "The King Doffs His Armor" (霸王卸甲), but is written from a different perspective.

(Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush_from_Ten_Sides)

 

[Killer Meteor]

 

[Killer Meteor]

 

[Killer Meteor]

Theme from THE REAL BRUCE LEE and KUNG FU FEVER

 

 

[DragonClaws]

 

Anvil of Crom - Basil Poledouris featured in Fight Among the Supers(1984) and maybe other's?.

 

 

 

Tension Trip by Reg Tisley and used in Five Superfighters(1979), Dirty Ho(1979) and other's?.

 

 

[DragonClaws]

 

Two Ennio Morricone tracks found in the Billy Chong film Kung Fu Zombie(1981).

 

 

 

[DragonClaws]

 

Ernest Gold - Cross of Iron soundtrack, samples of the Captain Stranksy theme. Along with some sections taken from The Bridge House theme, can be heard in Knockabout(1979). The Bridge House theme can also be spotted in Hellz Windstaff(1979) and The Magnificent Butcher(1979).

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by DragonClaws

[DragonClaws]

 

Bitter Lemons - by Frank Rothman, can be heard in My Young Auntie(1981), Shaolin & Wu Tang(1983), The Flag of Iron(1980), Martial Club(1981). I'm sure there are other Asian Kung Fu movies from the same era, that have used this track also?.

(1983)

 

Edited December 22, 2020 by DragonClaws

[DragonClaws]

 

Masters of Kung-Funk - The Grooviest Disco-Funk Songs from Kung-Fu Exploitation Movies

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Some of the featured films include 'Bamboo Gods & Iron Men' (1974), 'That Man Bolt' (1973), 'Tattoo Connection' a.k.a. 'Black Belt Jones 2' (1978), 'The Dynamite Brothers' (1974), 'Way of the Dragon' (1972), 'Dynamo' (1978), 'Bons Baisers de Hong Kong' (1976), 'The True Game of Death' (14981), 'Dynamite Johnson' (1979), 'Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth' (1976), 'Black Belt Jones' (1974), 'Magnificent Ruffians' (1979), 'The Big Boss' (1971), 'Goodbye, Bruce Lee' (1975), 'Dolemite' (1975), 'Thunderfist' (1973), 'Fury of the Dragon' (1976), 'Experts' (1979), 'Paris Killers' (1974) and 'Karate Cop' (1974).

 

 

[DragonClaws]

 

Bucket of Blood by Pino Donaggio, can be heard in The Eight Escorts, Fearless Dragons & The Bone Crushing Kid.

 

 

[Killer Meteor]

On 12/11/2014 at 3:42 PM, ThunderScore said:

BRUCE AND SHAOLIN KUNG FU Title theme:

IIRC, it was to be used for a never completed feature...

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/08516f4a7129edae7c59cc9f0336d0edaaf2a9b4.jpg

 

[Cognoscente]

The soundtrack of Planet of the Apes was used for Born Invincible and Dragon Fist.

[Cognoscente]

The theme for Spiritual Kung Fu came from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

When the monk bestows upon Hsu Feng the the Burmese swords in Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue, there is a cue used from Laurence Rosenthal's score for The Return of a Man Called Horse.

The music for the rooftop fight in Exit The Dragon, Enter The Tiger is Flashback by Keith Mansfield and Alan Hawkshaw.

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by Cognoscente

[Killer Meteor]

A lot of those awesome library cues for EXIT THE DRAGON were only on the US version, put in to spice up the fights, which mostly play sans music in the Chinese version.