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FA6610 Sette donne per i MacGregor / 7 Women for the MacGregors
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 4-46

SETTE PISTOLE PER I MACGREGOR [SEVEN GUNS FOR THE MACGREGORS] (1966)

Seven Guns for the MacGregors is an Italian spaghetti western directed by Franco Giraldi, who was Sergio Leone’s assistant director on A Fistful of Dollars. The film stars Robert Woods as Gregor MacGregor, the patriarch of a family of horse ranchers who have emigrated from Scotland to Texas to start a new life in the wild west. However, when they are robbed of their horses by a gang under the control of a corrupt local sheriff, the MacGregors hatch a plan to get them back and dole out some revenge – which they begin by trying to infiltrate the gang via the eldest son Peter (Nazzareno Zamperla).

The complete score for Seven Guns for the MacGregors has never been released but the main title piece, “Marcia dei MacGregor,” has been included in numerous Morricone spaghetti western compilations over the years, including the 1995 album Spaghetti Western from BMG Ariola, volume 2 of the 1992 French compilation album ‘Il Etait Une Fois Morricone’ from BMG, the 1999 album ‘Spaghetti Westerns Vol.3’ from DRG Records, and the 1988 2-CD set ‘I Western – The Italian Western’ from RCA Records.

I for one would be ecstatic if a longer release were ever to materialize, because the “Marcia dei MacGregor” is superb – it begins with a raucous drinking song in English which somehow blends traditional Scottish reels with marching, insistent percussion and electronic whooshes; after 30 seconds or so the brass section picks up the vocal line to terrific effect. Then the music transitions into a brief highland jig, before a whistled version of the main march theme, a bagpipe skirl transposed to flutes, and then a second reprise of the song to finish with a flourish. What an insane, brilliant piece! You can listen to “Marcia dei MacGregor,” on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5aUuE6Bdgs.
July 18, 2020
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Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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