"Genghis Khan" Makes CD Debut Alongside "Casino Royale"

“Genghis Khan” Makes CD Debut Alongside “Casino Royale”

December 21, 2010 By Joe Marchese — 1 Comment

During a time of the year when most labels have wound down their new releases for 2010, Kritzerland has rewarded loyal listeners with a pair of early Christmas gifts. On Monday, the label made available for pre-order its final two releases of the year, and both are doozies. On Friday, we brought you the news of the remastered and expanded Casino Royale soundtrack composed by Burt Bacharach, and yesterday, the label gave official word that Casino will be joined by the first-ever CD release for Dusan Radic’s score to the 1965 film Genghis Khan.

Although the film itself didn’t live up to the lofty heights of Ben Hur, El Cid or the other acknowledged classics in the historical epic genre, it still boasted plenty to offer. The cast included Omar Sharif, James Mason, Telly Savalas, Michael Hordern and the still-active Eli Wallach, the 95-years young actor just rewarded with an Honorary Academy Award. In 1964, Yugoslavian composer Dusan Radic composed the score to Jack Cardiff’s film The Long Ships, and the following year returned with Henry Levin’s Genghis Khan. Radic’s score was appropriately in the grand tradition, with big, sweeping themes. Both of these rare Hollywood excursions by Radic were released on LP, and now Kritzerland brings the long-lost Liberty Records presentation of Genghis Khan back into print with this debut CD. Two additional tracks only heard on an overseas pressing have also been included.

Hit the jump for ordering information and full track listings!

Genghis Khan has been remastered from EMI’s original album master tapes, and is presented in its original mono. It is available for $19.98 plus shipping, and is released the last week of January. However, pre-orders are likely to arrive one to five weeks earlier. It can be ordered here, and is available in a special bundle with Kritzerland’s release of the score to Albert Glasser’s The Boy and the Pirates, as well. Click for details!

Genghis Khan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Liberty 3412, 1965 – reissued Kritzerland KR-200177, 2010)

March of the Mongols (Main Title Theme)
Always Your Hand (Love Theme)
Escape from Slavery
The Long Road to the Great Wall
Bath a la Chinese
Parade of the Mongol Horde
Return to Peking
The Emperor of China
The Great Battle
Death of Genghis Khan
Finale (March of the Mongols)
The Yesugai Battle (Bonus Track)
The Love Theme (Bonus Track)

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.