The Swarm
Expanded Archival Edition
| # | Track | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Film Score | ||||
| 1. | Main Title (Film Version) | 4:26 | ||
| 2. | Red Two Reporting | 2:23 | ||
| 3. | The Black Mass | 2:33 | ||
| 4. | What Happened? / The Picnic | 2:13 | ||
| 5. | The Bees’ Picnic (Film Version) | 2:20 | ||
| 6. | On Their Way | 0:59 | ||
| 7. | Get Him Out | 2:13 | ||
| 8. | Plastic Hives / Old Friends | 3:14 | ||
| 9. | Don’t Take Him (Film Version) | 4:26 | ||
| 10. | The Boys And The Bees | 2:04 | ||
| 11. | Oh Maureen / We’ll Come Back | 2:26 | ||
| 12. | Bees On Fire | 1:31 | ||
| 13. | Toward Marysville | 0:37 | ||
| 14. | The Lollipop | 0:42 | ||
| 15. | A Gift Of Flowers | 2:01 | ||
| 16. | The Bees Arrive (Film Version) | 4:54 | ||
| 17. | A Boy’s Story | 1:51 | ||
| 18. | The Park | 0:41 | ||
| 19. | Condolences | 0:59 | ||
| 20. | Empty Town | 1:38 | ||
| 21. | Train Attack | 2:26 | ||
| 22. | No Effect | 1:11 | ||
| 23. | Tommy’s Death (Film Version) | 3:24 | ||
| 24. | Exact Instructions (Film Version) | 7:16 | ||
| 25. | Departed Friend | 1:15 | ||
| 26. | The Glasses / Houston Headquarters | 3:48 | ||
| 27. | Burn ‘Em Out | 0:44 | ||
| 28. | Get Reinforcements | 2:29 | ||
| 29. | Bees Inside (Film Version) | 5:23 | ||
| 30. | End Title (Film Version) | 3:07 | ||
| 75:13 |
| # | Track | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Original Soundtrack Album | ||||
| 1. | Main Title | 3:42 | ||
| 2. | A Gift Of Flowers | 2:03 | ||
| 3. | The Bees’ Picnic | 2:20 | ||
| 4. | Tommy’s Death | 4:18 | ||
| 5. | The Bees Arrive | 5:51 | ||
| 6. | Bees Inside | 6:01 | ||
| 7. | Don’t Take Him | 2:30 | ||
| 8. | Exact Instructions | 4:39 | ||
| 9. | A Boy’s Story | 1:51 | ||
| 10. | End Title | 3:13 | ||
| Additional Music | ||||
| 11. | Main Title (Original Version) | 4:29 | ||
| 12. | No Effect (Alternate Take) | 1:10 | ||
| 42:07 |
The Swarm
Added on Wednesday, March 04, 2020
La-La Land Records and Warner Bros. proudly present the remastered and expanded 2-CD reissue of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith’s (Planet Of The Apes, The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Basic Instinct), original motion picture score to the 1978 big-screen bees-gone-amok The Swarm, starring Michael Caine, Katherine Ross and Richard Widmark, and directed and produced by the remarkable Irwin Allen.
La-La Land Records and Warner Bros. proudly present the remastered and expanded 2-CD reissue of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith’s (Planet Of The Apes, The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Basic Instinct), original motion picture score to the 1978 big-screen bees-gone-amok The Swarm, starring Michael Caine, Katherine Ross and Richard Widmark, and directed and produced by the remarkable Irwin Allen.
Giant in scope and sound, Jerry Goldsmith’s rip-roaring action score is an indestructible, hard-charging marvel of orchestration.
This remastered, deluxe “Expanded Archival Collection” presentation showcases the maestro’s film score on Disc One, while Disc Two presents the CD world premiere of the original 1978 LP program, featuring unique edits and takes, and additional bonus cues!
Produced by Bruce Botnick and Neil S. Bulk and entirely re-mixed and mastered in high resolution by Botnick from first generation ½’’ analog studio vault elements, this special release is limited to 3000 units and features exclusive, in depth liner notes by “The Fantasy Film Worlds of Irwin Allen” author Jeff Bond and stingingly sharp art direction by Dan Goldwasser.
This release is MQA encoded. Listeners with an MQA decoder can enjoy this album in high resolution, up to 176.4 kHz/24-bit, from these Compact Discs. For more information please visit https://www.mqa.co.uk/.
The Swarm is a 1978 American disaster film about a killer bee invasion of Texas with Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain.
It was adapted from a novel by Arthur Herzog.
While investigating the bee-sting deaths of Air Force personnel at a missile base near Houston, Texas, an entomologist (Michael Caine) realizes that the dreaded African killer bees—long expected by scientists—have arrived in the United States.
The hallucination-inducing bees derail a commuter train and destroy a nuclear power plant, killing hundreds of people as scientists race against the clock to develop an antitoxin to stop the devastation of The Swarm. From 'master of disaster' Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) …
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