John Williams

Remember those five little musical notes the aliens used to communicate with the humans in this 1977 film (whose thunder was upstaged by all things Star Wars)? Well, that song, along with the entire John Williams score, will make you want to sculpt your mashed potatoes or build a muddy mountain in your living room.

John Williams' film scores splendidly resurrect the quasihighbrow style of the movie music
that was superseded in the Sixties by a cooler pop functionalism, scaled for television.
Though Williams' music harks back stylistically to oldtime Hollywood-cum-Vienna models,
its Sensurround aural opulence bursts with the force of rock. This music is rock only in the
sense that it was created for high fidelity as well as films, but in theaters with so... More >