Craig Safan - Courage (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2022

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       Dragon’s Domain Records presents COURAGE featuring music from the
original score composed by Craig Safan for the 1986 television movie directed by
Jeremy Kagan, written by E. Jack Neuman and Michael Daly, starring Sophia Loren,
Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo, Val Avery, Ron Rifkin, José Perez, Marry
McDonnell, Richard Portnow, Gerry Bamman and Dan Hedaya.

COURAGE made its CBS broadcast debut on September 24, 1986. Based on a true
story, the plot revolves around a concerned wife and mother from Queens, New
York, named Marianna (Loren) who, upon discovering her eldest son is addicted to
illegal drugs, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA. With Miraldo’s
assistance, the agency busts a $3.5 billion cocaine ring, the largest since the
famed French Connection arrests of 1968. A flamboyant detective named Bobby Jay
(Williams) acts as Miraldo’s liaison while her concerned husband Nick
(Elizondo) does what he can to support his wife.

The music for COURAGE was composed by Los Angeles native Craig Safan who was
well-known in Hollywood for whipping up eclectic scores for film and television
including THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE, THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING
TRAINING, FADE TO BLACK, ANGEL, THE LAST STARFIGHTER, THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN,
REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS and CHEERS. In the early 1980s Safan was an
acquaintance of director Jeremy Kagan who had previously helmed THE JOURNEY OF
NATTY GANN for Disney. The pair expressed their mutual interest in working
together so when Kagan landed the directorship on COURAGE, he seized the
opportunity to bring Safan aboard.

Safan’s music for COURAGE features an ensemble of flutes, oboe, piano,
guitars, three keyboards/synths, three percussionists, four cellos (no violins
or violas), a contrabass, and a handful of South American instruments including
a clay vessel flute called the ocarina, a stringed ukulele-like instrument
called the charango, and a six-hole cane flute from the Andes Mountains called
the quena.

Emmy-nominated and eight-time ASCAP award-winning composer Craig Safan has
scored more than one hundred feature films, television and documentaries, has
had more than 50 soundtrack albums of his music produced, as well as having
three original albums of his own impressionistic music released. He’s
been commissioned to compose for ballet as well as for live performance of
silent films and was given the Poledouris Film Music Legend Award at the 2014
International Film Music Festival in Cordoba, Spain.

Tracklist:
1 01. Craig Safan - Main Title (01:42)
1 02. Craig Safan - Marianna / Marianna & Nick / Death (03:06)
1 03. Craig Safan - South American Connection (02:53)
1 04. Craig Safan - Coke At Work (02:39)
1 05. Craig Safan - Eppy in Trouble / Marianna's Choice (02:23)
1 06. Craig Safan - Apprehension / First Encounter / Playoff (04:17)
1 07. Craig Safan - The Adventure Begins / Leaving Eppy At Jail / Offering Her
Services (03:14)
1 08. Craig Safan - I'll Do It / I Know Your Address (02:01)
1 09. Craig Safan - Boat Ride / Fosh (02:41)
1 10. Craig Safan - Her First Success / Business Card (03:13)
1 11. Craig Safan - Nice Flight / Tony's Involved (03:20)
1 12. Craig Safan - Nick, Joey, Marianna / Tension On The Bridge (05:30)
1 13. Craig Safan - Fosh's Rolls / Onward (01:34)
1 14. Craig Safan - Lobby / In Danger (05:23)
1 15. Craig Safan - She's In Trouble / Clock Watching (03:34)
1 16. Craig Safan - The Getaway (aka Escape) (02:19)
1 17. Craig Safan - Arrests / End Credit (03:34)
1 18. Craig Safan - Bumpers #1 & #2 (00:16) 

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