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Les Pétroleuses
1	La Ballade De Frenchie King Vocals – Little Sammy Gaha
2	Les Pétroleuses (Générique)
3	La Fête Au Village
4	La Chevauchée Corse
5	Bougival Junction
6	Les Soeurs Miller Rencontrent Les Sarrazin
7	La Vie Parisienne Vocals – Micheline Presle
8	Merry Making
9	Séduction
10	Prairie Woman (La Fille De La Prairie) Vocals – Claudia Cardinale
11	Piano Saloon
12	L’Attaque Du Train
13	Le Noël Des Sarrazin
14	Final
15	Prairie Woman (Play-Back)
16	Un Accordéon Au Far-West
17	La Ballade De Frenchie King (Alternate Version)
18	Les Pétroleuses (Demo / Maquette)
19	La Vie Parisienne (Play-Back)
20	Feu de Camp
Dans La Poussière Du Soleil
21	Dans La Poussière Du Soleil
22	San Angelo
23	Les Meurtriers (Version 1)
24	L’Appel De L’Ouest
25	Colt
26	Old Piano
27	L’Affrontement
28	Solitude Et Grands Espaces
29	Les Meurtriers (Version 2)
30	Final

Credits

• Art Direction – Nacho B. Govantes
• Composed By – Francis Lai
• Liner Notes – Stéphane Lerouge
• Liner Notes [Translation] – Martin Davies
• Orchestrated By, Conductor – Christian Gaubert
• Producer – Jose M. Benitez*

Notes

Quartet Records and FGL Productions present the premiere complete edition of two western scores by classic French composer Francis Lai (A Man and a Woman, Love Story, The Bobo, Le Baby-sitter, Bilitis), one of the greatest creators of melodies in film music history.

Les Pétroleuses (aka Frenchie King) is a curious and iconic Spanish-French coproduction directed by Christian-Jacque in 1971, in which women assumed the traditional roles of hard men in the Old West. It starred Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot as outlaw sisters who inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with a neighboring family that includes many brothers. The film was a success, particularly because of the two actresses, and Francis Lai’s music was also very successful. The composer, an accordionist born in Nice and musical director for Edith Piaf’s last tours, emerged victorious with this western assignment. Lai provides lovely melodies, action music, three beautiful songs and lots of fun!

Dans la poussière du soleil (aka Dust in the Sun) directed by Richard Balducci and starring Maria Schell and Bob Cunningham, is an unknown and unusual spaghetti western based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet(!). Francis Lai’s score, dark yet always tuneful and melodious, features a remarkable main theme.

The soundtrack album of Les pétroleuses was released on LP concurrently with the film and reissued on CD only in Japan in 1995, making it now a very hard-to-find collector’s item. For this new release supervised by the composer, we offer the newly mastered album sourced from first-generation master tapes, and have also included six bonus tracks. Dans la poussière du soleil was only released in digital format some years ago, so this is the premiere physical edition in any form.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 8436560842453