LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Raintree County: Johnny Shawnessy
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Raintree County was the major landmark work as a composer of Johnny Green (1908-1989), a significant 20th century American music figure who was a gifted songwriter, conductor and music director. He was, at the time, the head of music at M-G-M, and responsible for the studio's legendary music quality both in its underscoring and movie musicals. Unlike Alfred Newman, who held the equivalent position at Twentieth Century-Fox, Green seldom exercised his prerogative to score pictures from the studio of his choosing, but he did so on Raintree County, and created one of the most memorable film scores of all time, with a legion of fans.
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Raintree, cabin 2, is named after the legendary tree from the book, Raintree County, where it is said Johnny Appleseed planted it from a single, exotic seed. Legend has it that those who find the Raintree discover the realization of all dreams.
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As impressive as FSM’s monumental restoration of Kaper’s Mutiny On The Bounty is this equally impressive reconstruction of John (aka Johnny) Green’s classic score for MGM’s Civil War epic, Raintree County. Green’s score was the first to be issued in two commercial releases, a single LP version, and an expanded two-disc set that still did not include all the music from this very major score. RCA Victor released both versions, and since Nat “King” Cole (who performs the title song) was under contract to Capitol Records, his haunting vocal was not included in the RCA releases either. Drawing from a number of sources this two-CD restoration includes virtually all the music in the 182-minute version of the film, plus bonus tracks. It ... reunites the Cole vocal with the rest of the score for the first time in Raintree’s considerable musical history.
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