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Aug 5, 2013 - 10:40 PM
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PFK
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I would love to have all of these 40's and '50's scores by Max Steiner on CD's, but didn't I read somewhere that Warner Brothers was notorious in not preserving the music elements ?
In many cases, this is true. That's why the re-recordings of Steiner's Warner and RKO scores that we've gotten over the last two decades have been so welcome (even though the producers insisted on re-recording some scores where we had already gotten the original tracks).
1996 Virginia City / The Lost Patrol / The Beast With Five Fingers (Marco Polo)
1997 King Kong (Marco Polo)
1999 They Died With Their Boots On (Marco Polo)
2001 The Son of Kong / The Most Dangerous Game (Marco Polo)
2001 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Marco Polo)
2003 All This and Heaven Too / A Stolen Life (Marco Polo)
2004 The Adventures of Mark Twain (Naxos)
2008 She (Tribute)
2009 The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tribute)
2012 The Adventures of Don Juan / Arsenic and Old Lace (Tribute)
Bob, another great re-recorded cd:
The Flame and the Arrow: Classic Film Music of Max Steiner
Scannan SCF1502 Date: 1998 City of Prague Philharmonic: Kenneth Alwyn
Contains new recordings of: The Flame and the Arrow, Spencer's Mountain, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Mildred Pierce, Ice Palace, Life with Father, Now Voyager, The FBI Story, Sergeant York, The Hanging Tree, Parrish and Johnny Belinda.
It's a great cd and worth seeking out. Wonderful performances of the scores. I still play it often.
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I'm not familiar with the 1999 SAE release Max Steiner and the United States Pictures Scores. What were the 4 film scores presented on this 2 CD recording?
The four films are:
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
My Girl Tisa (1948)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Distant Drums (1951)
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Aug 6, 2013 - 5:03 PM
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manderley
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It's too bad that in reissuing this with a reduced price, BYU didn't consider pulling DISTANT DRUMS out of the package, putting the three other scores on one disc, and making up a new disc of DISTANT DRUMS, this time adding, as a bonus, the several minutes of Alex North's first score for the film which has been floating around the collector market for a few years.
It would have been an interesting and valuable addition to DRUMS, and they could have, instead of $20 for a 4-score 2-disc set, charged $20 for the 3-score CD, and $20 for a revised DRUMS cd, giving them $10 extra profit for film music restoration.
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You can add to the list of newly recorded:
Film Noir ...... on BMG Germany Date: 1996
William Stromberg and John Morgan
It has a fantastic suite from Max Steiner's "White Heat" 1949 film ..... 9:20 minutes.
This excellent cd also has: Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, The Verdict and Dark Passage!
As far as that goes, you can also add the re-recordings of Steiner's "Helen of Troy" and "A Summer Place" from Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Collection, which were released on CD by FSM in 2006.
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Some of those Steiner Society recordings would be great, especially CAGED.
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You can add to the list of newly recorded:
Film Noir ...... on BMG Germany Date: 1996
William Stromberg and John Morgan
It has a fantastic suite from Max Steiner's "White Heat" 1949 film ..... 9:20 minutes.
This excellent cd also has: Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, The Verdict and Dark Passage!
This is a terrific recording, I was playing it today, you'd swear you were listening to the original recordings! William T. Stromberg and John Morgan did a marvelous job on this release, highly recommended, you can usually find innexpensive copies on Amazon.de
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Aug 7, 2013 - 6:35 AM
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Ray Faiola
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It's too bad that in reissuing this with a reduced price, BYU didn't consider pulling DISTANT DRUMS out of the package, putting the three other scores on one disc, and making up a new disc of DISTANT DRUMS, this time adding, as a bonus, the several minutes of Alex North's first score for the film which has been floating around the collector market for a few years.
It would have been an interesting and valuable addition to DRUMS, and they could have, instead of $20 for a 4-score 2-disc set, charged $20 for the 3-score CD, and $20 for a revised DRUMS cd, giving them $10 extra profit for film music restoration.
BYU was not a producing partner in this release. They graciously provided access to the materials and we licensed the scores from Richard Feiner and Co, who own all publishing and ancillary (including soundtrack) rights. We did not "reissue" this album, merely re-presented it with a lower price.
As for "Cloak and Dagger", it is actually a compilation of the main and end titles into a single "overture". BYU has a disc recording of the main title, but that was all. So we took the main and end title from the 35mm composite track to come up with the self-contained cue.
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You can add to the list of newly recorded:
Film Noir ...... on BMG Germany Date: 1996
William Stromberg and John Morgan
It has a fantastic suite from Max Steiner's "White Heat" 1949 film ..... 9:20 minutes.
This excellent cd also has: Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, The Verdict and Dark Passage!
This is a terrific recording, I was playing it today, you'd swear you were listening to the original recordings! William T. Stromberg and John Morgan did a marvelous job on this release, highly recommended, you can usually find innexpensive copies on Amazon.de
Actually, the running time of 9:20 is a misprint. Our suite is 19:20.
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It's too bad that in reissuing this with a reduced price, BYU didn't consider pulling DISTANT DRUMS out of the package, putting the three other scores on one disc, and making up a new disc of DISTANT DRUMS, this time adding, as a bonus, the several minutes of Alex North's first score for the film which has been floating around the collector market for a few years.
It would have been an interesting and valuable addition to DRUMS, and they could have, instead of $20 for a 4-score 2-disc set, charged $20 for the 3-score CD, and $20 for a revised DRUMS cd, giving them $10 extra profit for film music restoration.
BYU was not a producing partner in this release. They graciously provided access to the materials and we licensed the scores from Richard Feiner and Co, who own all publishing and ancillary (including soundtrack) rights. We did not "reissue" this album, merely re-presented it with a lower price.
As for "Cloak and Dagger", it is actually a compilation of the main and end titles into a single "overture". BYU has a disc recording of the main title, but that was all. So we took the main and end title from the 35mm composite track to come up with the self-contained cue.
Do you think you could ever do a legit HELEN OF TROY? Just cannot understand why everyone has been ignoring this score...
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Aug 7, 2013 - 11:32 AM
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Ron Pulliam
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Yes, Helen of Troy is a classic example of a score that not only needs to be released, but rerecorded in modern stereo sound. It is good to see all of the Golden Age scores from Fox, and now Waxman at Paramount, but WB had the best composers of all: not only Steiner, but Waxman and Korngold. How about a complete new recording of The Nun's Story, or at least a well done reissue of the original soundtrack (1959). ABL
Fox had Newman, Friedhofer, Mockridge, Harline, Herrmann, Raksin in the 40s...MGM had Waxman in the 40s.
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Mr. Morgan, are more Max Steiner film scores from Tribute Film Classics a thing of the past? In other words has TFC any plans for the future ?
Only a thing of the past if we don't do anymore, which I always have hope circumstances may change. DON JUAN and ARSENIC wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the generous support of William Waybourn and Craig Spaulding. Both William and Craig are now living under a freeway bridge.
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You can add to the list of newly recorded:
Film Noir ...... on BMG Germany Date: 1996
William Stromberg and John Morgan
It has a fantastic suite from Max Steiner's "White Heat" 1949 film ..... 9:20 minutes.
This excellent cd also has: Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, The Verdict and Dark Passage!
This is a terrific recording, I was playing it today, you'd swear you were listening to the original recordings! William T. Stromberg and John Morgan did a marvelous job on this release, highly recommended, you can usually find innexpensive copies on Amazon.de
Actually, the running time of 9:20 is a misprint. Our suite is 19:20.
My apologies John if I have inadvertantly mislead anyone as regards the running time of the "White Heat" selection. I did realise that PFK had made a mistake in not pointing out the error in the booklet of the running time in his earlier post but I felt it was not in my place to correct his omission(?) i.e. not drawing attention to this fact as I felt sure he would be realising it at some point and would draw attention to it himself. I do really love this recording though, well done once again to your good self and to William T. Stromberg!
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