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| | Ride the High Country / Mail Order Bride - Music from the Movies |
 | | It is, therefore, unsurprising that the reason we don’t hear as much about George Bassman as, say, Herrmann or Rozsa, is because he is nowhere near as good as them. |
 | | Indeed, apart from the fine, nostalgic main theme for Ride the High Country, which falsely promises so much, there is absolutely nothing about Bassman’s work that can be described as anything more than routine. |
 | | Bassman’s background in jazz and as an arranger for musicals is strikingly similar to that of fellow-MGM composer Andre Previn who also, despite all his other talents, never seemed to find his own voice as a composer. |
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