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In late 1966, soundtrack composer Jerry Goldsmith was asked to write the score for a new movie being developed by APJAC Productions through 20th Century Fox. The movie, based on a French novel, concerned an astronaut stranded on a planet where a native human species was unintelligent, and was dominated by a species of articulate apes.

In adapting the novel for film, screenwriter Rod Serling had added a twist ending which revealed that the alien planet was in fact an unrecognizable Earth of the distant future. Thus, Goldsmith's task was to help create the illusion of a completely unfamiliar alien culture through his soundtrack. Although already well-established thanks to more conventional scores like A Patch of Blue (1965), The Blue Max (1966) and The Sand Pebbles (1966), Goldsmith chose to write the Planet of the Apes project entirely in an avant garde style, using such innovative techniques as looping drums into an echoplex, using the orchestra to imitate the grunting sounds of apes, having horns blown without mouthpieces, and instructing the woodwind players to finger their keys without using any air. He also used steel mixing bowls, among other objects, to create unique percussive sounds.

Legend has it that Goldsmith even wore an ape mask when conducting the score for Planet of The Apes. A few years later he said that he had felt that "it should not be an electronic score, not gimmicky, and I wanted to do it with a normal orchestra. I did not want to do the obvious on this... I was thrilled with it." "It was done with a great deal of love. In fact, the Austrian Ballet is using it in their production of 'Othello'."

1. Main Title (2:09)
2. The Revelation (1:33)
3. The Clothes Snatchers (2:36)
4. New Identity (2:04)
5. The Forbidden Zone (2:50)
6. The Search (4:51)
7. The Cave (1:17)
8. A Bid For Freedom (1:16)
9. A New Mate (1:04)
10. No Escape (5:14)