Enio Morricone -harmonica/ Man With A Harmonica/ Death Rattle 1968

-From, "C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST" (Italy, 1968)
-"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" (USA)
-"IL ETAIT UNE FOIS DANS L'OUEST" (Canada (French title) / France (dubbed version))
-"SPIEL MIR DAS LIED VOM TOD" (Austria/ West Germany, '68)
-"ERASE UNA VEZ EN EL OESTE" (Argentina)
-"ACONTECEU NO OESTE" (Portugal)
-"BATIDA KAN VAR" (Turkey (Turkish title))
-"BILO JEDNOM NA DIVLJEM ZAPADU" (Serbia)
-"ERA UMA VEZ NO OESTE" (Brazil)
-"FINS QUE LI VA ARRIBAR L'HORA" (Spain (Catalan title))
-"HASTA QUE LLEGÓ SU HORA" (Spain)
-"HET GEBEURDE IN HET WESTEN" (Netherlands)
-"HARMONICA -EN HAMNARE" (Sweden)
-"HUULIHARPPUKOSTAJA" (Finland)
-"KAPOTE STI DYSI" (Greece)
-"PEWNEGO RAZU NA DZIKIM ZACHODZIE" (Poland)
-"VESTENS HÅRDE HALSE" (Denmark)
-"VOLT EGYSZER EGY VADNYUGAT" (Hungary)
-"Однажды на Диком Западе" (Russia)

Sergio Leone's landmark epic about well-deserved revenge. It was the inspiration for ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, and KILL BILL (which is dedicated to the memory of Charles Bronson). Starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, and Claudia Cardinale.

see also:
ENNIO MORRICONE - "Once Upon a Time In the West" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_MT9...

ENNIO MORRICONE -"As A Judgement" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2-Ck...

ENNIO MORRICONE -"Jill" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=712AJD...

ENNIO MORRICONE -"Jill's America" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienaYD...

ENNIO MORRICONE -"Frank" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPo_W...


Ennio had so much clout at this point that he conceived the music first and Leone had to arrange his edits around the embarassment of riches.
The most haunting and diseased harmonica in history duels in tense space with a barbed guitar; the Cantori Moderni bears witness with an elegaic and then operatic chorus; then finally the harmonica staggers through its last corroded wheeze.
Franco De Gemini was Ennio's brilliant harpist, adding ranges of texture to many great scores. Reportedly, Ennio got the proper sound and labored rhythm he wanted on "Death Rattle" by holding the neck of De Gemini and carefully squeezing it for the cues!