Born Free – SOUNDTRACK****

Main Title-Born Free/The Hunt/Elsa At Play/The Death Of Pati/Waiting For Joy/Killing At Kiunga/Born Free/ Holiday At Elsa/Flirtation/The Warthog Hunt/Fight Of The Lioness/Reunion- Born Free

The African wildlife film Born Free starred Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. The music was composed and arranged by John Barry. The soundtrack album includes the much covered song Born Free. (US:42) “This is one soundtrack I can listen to from start to finish without troubling my remote. Suffice to say Born Free is so much more than it's theme and is enjoyable and immensely rewarding.”

“This has got to be one of the greatest soundtracks ever written. My favourite tracks are the Main Title, The Hunt, Killing At Kiunga, Flirtation, Fight Of The Lioness with that stratospheric French horn part. There is some great stuff here."

“I remember watching the movie when I was a little girl, how much even then I loved the music. Only as an adult did I know that John Barry composed so much of the movie music I love. If he composes it, its a safe bet it will be wonderful and inspiring.”

“Perhaps one of John Barry's best known compositions, the Born Free soundtrack expresses its African setting very well. The music is very moving, and evokes all emotions from the playful to the tearful.”

“Born Free would cement John Barry’s reputation as one of the most vibrant composers of the 1960s. Barry's main theme became a pop sensation and one of the world's most recognizable movie songs, a veritable cultural landmark. This song has been so successful that it overshadowed the rest of the score, which is a thoroughly satisfying, romantic and dramatic work.”

“The way John Barry wove the themes together, and his orchestrations, are nothing less than genius. Born Free was a breakthrough in film scores; certainly the greatest of its era (which included a number of epics); almost certainly one of the top ten of all time. And it is a personal, sentimental favourite of which I'll never tire. Barry's expressive arrangements and melodies convey the vibrant and dangerous aspects of African wildlife. Like the film itself, the score is lively and moving without becoming forced or saccharine.”