Come Maddalena-Morricone

[Videoskooter]

Recently I came across this beautiful Ennio Morricone track. It sounds very Disco to me but it has all the maestro's ingredients:
the divine voice, the violins the trademark rhythm changes.

I know many of his soundtracks but only this one fits well into a Eurodisco playlist IMO.

Or....am I forgetting or not knowing other tracks by the Italian master?? Anybody?

I know this album exists but I never heard all tracks on it:

"Disco 78"-released in 1977 on Bimbo Records

Jussi???

[JussiK]

There are 2 versions of "Come Maddalena" by Ennio, the original film soundtrack and the disco version ( I might add the story is told in the recently remixed book "Saturday Night Forever - The story Of Disco", just out in England, with a new cover design adorned with a line from a rave Sunday Times review, no less, plus new bits&pieces in the text - but no illustrations whatsoever...) . The original track is there on the Mondo Morricone cd, and comes across as very much like the dance version, only with slightly less pounding 4/4 percussion. I only got the full length disco tune on a compliation lp. I listened to that Ennio "Disco" album in a store when it was new and it seemed to contain only the one title under discussion that I then classified as spinnable in a club. Still, I truly hate myself for not buying the damn thing when I had the change, that album sure don't manifest itself often, never ever seen it since. - Ennio has several other 70's disco tracks available, though. F.ex on the soundtrack to "Autostop Rosso Sangue/Hitch-Hike" (a vicious revenge-for-rape-cum-road movie with Corinne Clery, out on dvd and a naturally a must-have) there's a great instrumental boogie thing, out on the "Mondo Morricone vol 3" cd, or what about the Ethiopian church scene montage of "Exorcist 2 The Heretic" - this contains fab tribal beats and suspenseful chanting.