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Wasn't MASTER OF THE WORLD one of the first soundtrack LPs issued by Varese?
Yes. I was there. 1978 I want to say.
I bought this and 36 HOURS at a record store in Westwood, by UCLA. I can't remember the name of it, but I spent a lot of money there. Maybe haineshisway knows the name. It's where Tom Null worked.
Vogue Records to be exact. Where Tom Null invited me to own a third of Varese for $2500. At that time they were only going to do obscure classical stuff. I didn't do it. Stupidest mistake EVER. I then got them into soundtracks - yes ME - and the rest is history.
I don't mean to chuckle at your misfortune, but it reminds me of the McDonald's brothers and how they sold off their small franchise to Ray Kroc for a mere $2 million.
Then again, there would be no Kritzerland if you went to Varese back in the day. All us soundtrack collector's are thankful for that.
MV
Hypothetical question. If Screen Archives Entertainment offered to buy Lalaland out, would you sell?
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Wasn't MASTER OF THE WORLD one of the first soundtrack LPs issued by Varese?
Yes. I was there. 1978 I want to say.
I bought this and 36 HOURS at a record store in Westwood, by UCLA. I can't remember the name of it, but I spent a lot of money there. Maybe haineshisway knows the name. It's where Tom Null worked.
Vogue Records to be exact. Where Tom Null invited me to own a third of Varese for $2500. At that time they were only going to do obscure classical stuff. I didn't do it. Stupidest mistake EVER. I then got them into soundtracks - yes ME - and the rest is history.
I don't mean to chuckle at your misfortune, but it reminds me of the McDonald's brothers and how they sold off their small franchise to Ray Kroc for a mere $2 million.
Then again, there would be no Kritzerland if you went to Varese back in the day. All us soundtrack collector's are thankful for that.
MV
Hypothetical question. If Screen Archives Entertainment offered to buy Lalaland out, would you sell?
If a monkey was part of the over all deal I may consider. . .
MV
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LOL!
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Jumped on this one.
SAE is offering it "one to a customer."
Grab this one, guys, it's going to be gone by morning....
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Incidentally, in all modesty, it was I who first predicted that Baxter's "Master of the World" would be released on CD. I predicted it December 13, 2007, 5:37 pm. . . . Only, I thought it was going to be part of the FSM "Blue Box" set.
Return with me, friends, to those golden days of speculation yesteryear. It all started with a seemingly harmless post by Basll Wrathbone:
Posted: Dec 13, 2007 - 12:50 AM
By: Basll Wrathbone (Member)
An advertising client of mine visited a printer to proof his brochure on the presses and SAW the Blue Box in production! What a superb set! I tremble in anticipation of playing these gems. If only I could share the secret! The only clue I'll give is this:
As the ANT army treks across the forest, and the ESKIMO sleeps in his igloo, so does the ALBATROSS fly and the COW moo.
Saying any more would give it away.
Seizing upon the "ALBATROSS" clue, I remembered that "Albatross" was the name of Vincent Price's airship in "Master of the World."
Posted: Dec 13, 2007 - 5:37 PM
By: Sigerson Holmes (Member)
. . . so does the ALBATROSS fly . . .
Hey, wait a minute. Does the ALBATROSS fly like THIS by any chance?
The ALBATROSS?!
(Oh, boyohboyohboyohboyohboy . . .)
I believe it later turned out that Basll was quoting, apparently from memory, a passage he (merely thought) he recalled from George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman," and that was meant to tip off those "in the know" to the fact that the Blue Box would contain Superman music.
I went to the local library and sifted through "Man and Superman," and the closest-sounding passage to Basll's clue I could find in the text was:
DON JUAN. [somewhat impatiently] My point, you marbleheaded old masterpiece, is only a step ahead of you. Are we agreed that Life is a force which has made innumerable experiments in organizing itself; that the MAMMOTH and the MAN, the MOUSE and the MEGATHERIUM, the FLIES and the FLEAS and the Fathers of the Church, are all more or less successful attempts to build up that raw force into higher and higher individuals, the ideal individual being omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and withal completely, unilludedly self-conscious: in short, a god?
. . . In other words, to be "in the know," you not only had to know Shaw's "Man and Superman," but you also had to know exactly how Basll would misremember and misquote it.
--An extremely clever and cryptic clue, to be sure.
I can't wait to recieve Baxter's score, to listen intently, and to think back fondly on those halcyon days (weeks? months?) carelessly wasted, aimlessly flailing in vain.
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And who said Les Baxter doesn't sell?
I think that any title from Intrada at 1000 to 1500 copies will sell-out quickly.
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Ordered