Hugo Montenegro

Hugo Montenegro was a composer, arranger, and conductor who’s mainly known for his film function in the ’60s, in addition to his adaptations of film ratings like The Great, the Bad as well as the Ugly. Montenegro started his musical profession within the U.S. Navy, where he organized scores for different military rings. After he still left the Navy, he finished college at Manhattan University, then he started a specialist music career. Primarily, Montenegro was the personnel supervisor to André Kostelanetz at Columbia Information in NY, which eventually resulted in a job being a conductor/arranger for many from the label’s performers, especially Harry Belafonte. With the middle-’50s, Montenegro was producing his very own albums of easy hearing orchestral music. Montenegro relocated to California within the middle-’60s and started to create film scores, you start with Otto Preminger’s Be quick Sundown in 1967. That same 12 months, he documented a version from the theme to THE NICE, the Bad as well as the Ugly, that was compiled by Ennio Morricone. Featuring an set up that relied on the chorus, electric devices, and special results, the solitary was a significant hit, reaching number 1 within the U.K. and number 2 within the U.S.; internationally, it offered more than a million copies. An recording entitled Music from “THE NICE, the Bad as well as the Ugly” & “A Fistful of Dollars” & “For a couple Dollars Even more” appeared soon after the single’s launch, and it reached the very best Ten within the springtime 1968. Later on in the entire year, Montenegro released an individual from the theme from Suspend ‘Em High, that was a lesser strike, as was the recording of the same name. Montenegro started to branch out following the Hang up ‘Em High recording, recording a varied selection of albums, which range from display tunes to digital experiments. Through the entire past due ’60s and ’70s, he continuing to score movies, including Woman in Concrete, The Undefeated, The Wrecking Team, Tomorrow, as well as the Ambushers, among numerous others. He continuing composing and documenting until his loss of life in 1981.