Morricone, Ennio
Crescete E Moltiplicatevi/invito Allo Sport
reissue on CD the OST by Ennio Morricone for the comedy film Crescete e moltiplicatevi, directed in 1973 by Giulio Petroni with a screenplay by Giulio Petroni, Augusto Caminito, and Antonio Troiso, photography by Sandro D'Eva, editing by Tatiana Casini Morigi, music by Ennio Morricone, production by Azalea Interfilm, distribution by Pac -Mitel, and a cast including Hugh Griffith, Rosalba Neri, Gigi Ballista, Raymond Pellegrin, Lionel Stander, Fabrizio Moroni, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Rodolfo Bigotti, Daniela Halbritter, and Silvio Noto. At the time of the film's release, no official LP or single was released. It wasn't until 2002 that GDM Music released this entertaining soundtrack on CD (GDM CD CLUB 7012), and in 2024, Quartet Records of Madrid issued a 45 rpm single (QRSG02) featuring two tracks from the OST. For this CD reissue with a running time of 44:25), we've used the original elements in stereo, and anyone who missed the original CD now has a good chance of owning this beautiful Ennio Morricone score, which oscillates between comedy, lounge, and romantic moods. The main theme, "Brontolone," has a classical flavour, somewhere between sacred and profane, for moog, organ, and a fantastic performance by the Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni, and alternates with a love theme performed by the wonderful voices of Edda Dell'Orso, Gianna Spagnulo, and Giulia De Mutis, with Oscar Valdambrini on flugelhorn (Tr.2,6,11,13). Ennio Morricone musically spices up some scenes of the film with Western-style trumpet and castanets (Tr.4), organ (Tr.7,9), and an abstract piece for celesta, harp, guitar, and organ (Tr.12). Given the brevity of this OST, in agreement with Ennio Morricone, on the previous CD and now on this reissue, we include four romantic pop-flavored tracks from the TV series Invito allo sport, directed in 1978 by Folco Quilici (a 33 rpm was released by General Music label GML 10012 at the time and also contained four repertoire tracks).