“How The West Was Won” by Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops

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How The West Was Won was a 1962 movie with a great musical score.  The legendary Alfred Newman wrote the music. 

HTWWW starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Andy Devine, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Robert Preston, Richard Widmark, Carrol Baker, Harry Morgan, Raymond Massey, Agnes Morehead, and Debby Reynolds among one of the great all-star casts ever assembled.  Spencer Tracy was the film’s narrator. 

And the musical score for How The West Was Won was nominated for an Academy Award (it lost to Tom Jones).  HTWWW was the first film (and one of only two, ever) to be presented in Cinerama.   HL