In Cold Blood (soundtrack)

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In Cold Blood
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Soundtrack album by
Released1967
Recorded1967
at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World
Genre Film score
Length31:41
Label Colgems
COM/COS 107
Producer Neely Plumb
Quincy Jones chronology
In the Heat of the Night
(1967)
In Cold Blood
(1967)
For Love of Ivy
(1968)

In Cold Blood is a 1967 film score for the film In Cold Blood , composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The soundtrack album was released on the Colgems label in 1967. [1] [2]

Truman Capote lobbied unsuccessfully to have Jones removed from the film. According to Jones, Capote called director Richard Brooks and said "Richard, I don't understand why you've got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.' And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music". [3] Capote later apologized to Jones.

The Vinyl Factory said "The opening title track, with its galloping drums and corrosive strings, lets you know you are entering a bleak musical terrain. "Perry's Theme", which begins with a beatific Spanish guitar, mutates into something terrifying, as strings rise and fall ominously. With its harrowing organ blasts, "Murder Scene" is a haunting aural crime photo. At the time, this menacing soundtrack was considered a convention breaker not only for Jones, but also for black composers in Hollywood". [4]

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