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Best Years Of Our Lives, The

 

 

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946)



Motion Picture Composer(s):
Hugo Friedhofer

Released in:
1946

Country:
United States

Genre:
Drama, History

Also known as:
  • Home Again (1945, United States, working title)
  • Glory For Me (1945, United States, working title)

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Collection: 153
Wish list: 13



There are 4 labels for this title.
There is 1 bootleg for this title.
There are 2 compilation albums for this title.



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Entr Image supplied by
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Entr'acte EDP 8101  

 
Country
United States 
Format
LP 
Release Date
1978 
Album contains an 8 page booklet with excellent score analyses by Louis Applebaum and Royal S. Brown. Included is also a 45 rpm single (side A: Hugo Friedhofer, A 50th Anniversary tribute; side B: The Homecoming, reel 1, part 2a).


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  Track listing

1.  Main Title (01:26)
2.  Homecoming (06:17)
3.  Elevator - Boone City - Peggy (04:12)
4.  Fred and Peggy (02:27)
5.  The Nightmare (06:12)
6.  Fred Asleep (02:19)
7.  Neighbors - Wilma - Homer's Anger (07:31)
8.  Homer Goes Upstairs (05:49)
9.  The Citation - Graveyard and Bombers (04:21)
10.  End Title (01:58)
11.  Exit Music (01:54)
Orchestra conducted by Frank Collura

Total Duration: 00:44:26
Track listing contributed by Sexton Blix

Label X LXCD 14 Image supplied by
Thomas Kiefner

Label X LXCD 14  

 
Country
Australia 
Format
CD 
Release Date
2000 
UPN
5-035135-100146 

Super Bit Mapping


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  Track listing

1.  Main Title (01:26)
2.  Homecoming (06:17)
3.  The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy (04:12)
4.  Fred and Peggy (02:22)
5.  The Nightmare (06:12)
6.  Fred Asleep (02:19)
7.  Neighbours; Wilma; Homer's Anger (07:31)
8.  Homer Goes Upstairs (05:49)
9.  The Citation; Graveyard and Bombers (04:21)
10.  End Title and End Cast [Wilma] (01:58)
11.  Exit Music (01:54)
First time I have ever heard this kind of music on a soundtrack. Interesting idea

Total Duration: 00:44:21
Track listing contributed by Thomas Kiefner

MCSA Entertainment 221851-207  

 
Country
 
Format
CD 
Release Date
2004 
UPN
4-011222-218513 




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Wish list: 0



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Preamble PRCD 1779 Image supplied by

Preamble PRCD 1779  

 
Country
Australia 
Format
CD 
Release Date
1988 




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  Track listing

1.  Main Title (01:26)
2.  Homecoming (06:17)
3.  The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy (04:12)
4.  Fred & Peggy (02:22)
5.  The Nightmare (06:12)
6.  Fred Asleep (02:19)
7.  Neighbours; Wilma; Homer's Anger (07:31)
8.  Homer Goes Upstairs (05:49)
9.  The Citation; Graveyard & Bombers (04:21)
10.  End Title & End Cast (Wilma) (01:58)
11.  Exit Music (01:54)

Total Duration: 00:44:21
Track listing contributed by Piet van de Merwe

Bootlegs

Membran International GmbH 221851-207  

 
Country
Germany 
Format
CD 
Release Date
Mar-2004 
UPN
4-011222-218513 

London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Franco Collura.


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Compilation Albums

Decca DL 5413 Image supplied by
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Decca DL 5413  

 
Country
United States 
Format
LP 
Release Date
1954 
Played by Victor Young and his orchestra.

Also contains music from:
 Spellbound
 Place In The Sun, A
 Gone With The Wind
 Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex, The
 Invitation
 My Foolish Heart
 Wuthering Heights

This label refers to the following compilation album:
 Love Themes From The Motion Pictures



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Label X ATM CD 2007  

 
Country
Australia 
Format
CD 
Release Date
1996 
UPN
0-9177-22007-2-9 



Also contains music from:
 Birth Of A Nation, The
 Cardinal, The
 Down To The Sea In Ships
 Kentuckian, The
 Sunrise At Campobello
 Trial
 Williamsburg: The Story Of A Patriot

This label refers to the following compilation album:
 America At The Movies



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  Track listing

1.  Stoneman Library; Lydia Brown
Tracks 1-3 from The Birth Of A Nation (Breil)
2.  Starting The Ferment
3.  Rhapsodies Of Love
4.  Main Title
Tracks 4-7 from The Best Years Of Our Lives (Friedhofer)
5.  Homecoming
6.  The Citation, Graveyard & Bombers
7.  Exit Music
8.  Stonebury
Tracks 8-10 from The Cardinal (Moross)
9.  Dixieland; Tango
10.  Way Down South
11.  Main Title & New Bedford Harbor, Hornpipe; Jed; End Title
Track 11 from Down To The Sea In Ships (A. Newman)
12.  Prelude; The Steamboat; The Stagecoach; Victory; The Forest Nocturne; Night Sounds; Scherzo; Miss Susie; The Rope; Finale
Track 12 from The Kentuckian (Herrmann)
13.  Main Title; Hyde Park; Ten Years Wiser; End Cast
Track 13 from Sunrise At Campobello (Waxman)
14.  Main Title; Courtroom Montage; End Titles
Track 14 from Trial (Amfitheatrof)
15.  Overture
Track 15 from Williamsburg (Herrmann)

Track listing contributed by Chris


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