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GOING APE!
Composed and Conducted by ELMER BERNSTEIN
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 308

The 1981 Paramount Pictures film Going Ape!'’s most prestigious contributor was veteran composer Elmer Bernstein, who was in the midst of his comedy cycle that began with Animal House in 1978 and Airplane! in 1980. In spite of being a goofball comedy, Going Ape! required music from Bernstein that was deceptively complicated—with a great deal of thematic material—and saw the composer collaborating with the filmmaker on enough songs to nearly qualify the movie as a musical. Bernstein’s score (sourced here from 2” 24-track masters) is full of the engagingly good-natured comic writing that made the composer such a perfect fit for the genre. He even adapted Nino Rota’s theme from The Godfather to play as muzak in two restaurant scenes, not-so-subtly reminding the audience of actor Frank Sivero’s connection to the classic gangster films.

The story of Going Ape! focuses on Foster Sabatini (Tony Danza), the son of circus impresario Max Sabatini, who inherits three orangutans, along with five million dollars, after his father dies. There’s just one catch—if he gives the simians away or any of the orangutans die over the next three years, all the money will go to the zoo. Stuffy zoological society president Gridley (Joseph Maher) is determined to make just that happen, and he encourages his dimwitted associate Brandon (Rick Hurst) to work on the problem. Brandon hires two equally dimwitted former mafia hit men, Joey (Art Metrano) and “Bad Habit” (Frank Sivero) to arrange for some “accidents” to befall Foster and his new orangutan family.

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This soundtrack is as fun as I remembered it. Elmer was pretty much always on target with my tastes, no matter the content for which the music was made.

I would never refuse an Elmer Bernstein score, never heard this one before so should be great. Ordered!

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Robert M Eastman

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Robert M Eastman

Yes, while not top-drawer, it's a very fun listen with a killer lengthy chase cue. It's also nice to have another good song-centric album as we don't get many of those from the specialist labels.

Well worth the 20 bucks.