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Aug 30, 2017 - 9:30 PM
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It's kind of buried in Bruce's looooong post above ( ), so I wanted to call out what I think is the key point for all of us to remember:
"I know it's wonderfully easy to always instruct us as to what we "should" have done, but we did what was, you know, POSSIBLE." (emphasis mine, since it seems to need it).
It's kind of ridiculous to say what "I" would have done if "I" have no idea the circumstances of what is available, what can go with what, etc. Doesn't seem to stop anyone, but doesn't make it less ridiculous.
Well, someone gets it. 
I did this because a) I'm a huge Sam Fuller, Alfred Newman, and Leigh Harline FAN. b) because House of Bamboo and, more importantly, Hell and High Water are on Twilight Time Blu-rays and being purchased and watched by many people who might like to have this set (yes, Virginia, believe it or not, there is life beyond this message board), and Pickup on South Street is out in the UK (ditto). And some of these releases are over a decade old and have been OOP many years, and c) there is no C, other than clearly people missed out on some of these releases because, well, orders are coming in steadily. And at THIS time, no it wasn't possible to include anything that was never on CD because some things take a lot of time to prepare and we're not even sure what the result will be.
"because House of Bamboo and, more importantly, Hell and High Water are on Twilight Time Blu-rays and being purchased and watched by many people who might like to have this set (yes, Virginia, believe it or not, there is life beyond this message board)"
I'm really glad to hear this Bruce! At last, a chink of light that there is (possibly) a market to be further explored and developed, resulting in a (possible) 'spin-off' of increased sales of our beloved Golden Age scores! This is most positive news indeed, and gives us older collectors great hope and encouragement! Thank you for this most welcome revelation.
Long ago I discovered that only marketing to this board was rather silly. In old days it was enough - now, never enough. So, I find the Fuller fans, the Newman fans, the music fans who don't frequent this board at all. That is the challenge but I've become very good at it. When we did the Sun Valley Serenade, The Gang's All Here, Stormy Weather, and other musical CDs, I knew we'd get complaints and eye rolling here from people who refuse to broaden their musical horizons, so what did I do? I went to the musicals groups, I went to the Glenn Miller and big band fanatics (and they are huge), I went everywhere I could where I knew there would be not only interest but happiness that we'd done the in such an amazing way. And while none of those have sold out yet, the sales come in every single day and that always makes me happy. I put them on Amazon for that reason, which is where a lot of it comes from.
I like the idea of these director sets, but when people come here and say "it's not working" then I just want to smile enigmatically and say, "Well, then we'll just forget about Mankiewicz at Fox, Henry King at Fox, etc." (BTW, that is an enigmatically smiling smiley face)
" Mankiewicz at Fox " " Henry King at Fox " ........ ORDERED!
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Aug 30, 2017 - 10:31 PM
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It's kind of buried in Bruce's looooong post above (), so I wanted to call out what I think is the key point for all of us to remember:
"I know it's wonderfully easy to always instruct us as to what we "should" have done, but we did what was, you know, POSSIBLE." (emphasis mine, since it seems to need it).
It's kind of ridiculous to say what "I" would have done if "I" have no idea the circumstances of what is available, what can go with what, etc. Doesn't seem to stop anyone, but doesn't make it less ridiculous.
Well, someone gets it.
I did this because a) I'm a huge Sam Fuller, Alfred Newman, and Leigh Harline FAN. b) because House of Bamboo and, more importantly, Hell and High Water are on Twilight Time Blu-rays and being purchased and watched by many people who might like to have this set (yes, Virginia, believe it or not, there is life beyond this message board), and Pickup on South Street is out in the UK (ditto). And some of these releases are over a decade old and have been OOP many years, and c) there is no C, other than clearly people missed out on some of these releases because, well, orders are coming in steadily. And at THIS time, no it wasn't possible to include anything that was never on CD because some things take a lot of time to prepare and we're not even sure what the result will be.
"because House of Bamboo and, more importantly, Hell and High Water are on Twilight Time Blu-rays and being purchased and watched by many people who might like to have this set (yes, Virginia, believe it or not, there is life beyond this message board)"
I'm really glad to hear this Bruce! At last, a chink of light that there is (possibly) a market to be further explored and developed, resulting in a (possible) 'spin-off' of increased sales of our beloved Golden Age scores! This is most positive news indeed, and gives us older collectors great hope and encouragement! Thank you for this most welcome revelation.
Long ago I discovered that only marketing to this board was rather silly. In old days it was enough - now, never enough. So, I find the Fuller fans, the Newman fans, the music fans who don't frequent this board at all. That is the challenge but I've become very good at it. When we did the Sun Valley Serenade, The Gang's All Here, Stormy Weather, and other musical CDs, I knew we'd get complaints and eye rolling here from people who refuse to broaden their musical horizons, so what did I do? I went to the musicals groups, I went to the Glenn Miller and big band fanatics (and they are huge), I went everywhere I could where I knew there would be not only interest but happiness that we'd done the in such an amazing way. And while none of those have sold out yet, the sales come in every single day and that always makes me happy. I put them on Amazon for that reason, which is where a lot of it comes from.
I like the idea of these director sets, but when people come here and say "it's not working" then I just want to smile enigmatically and say, "Well, then we'll just forget about Mankiewicz at Fox, Henry King at Fox, etc." (BTW, that is an enigmatically smiling smiley face)
" Mankiewicz at Fox " " Henry King at Fox " ........ ORDERED!
Henry King at Fox with Alfred Newman's short score to THE GUNFIGHTER and I will buy 5 copies. No smiley face. I am totally serious.
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Currently the number two selling CD at SAE. Whew!
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Just waiting for the E.T. pre-order link
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Just letting everyone know this shipped today, a month early We should have the Rachmaninov CD pretty early, too, perhaps even next week at some point.
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Received my copy yesterday. Enjoying the music of Newman and Harline. Hope to see more 20CF releases of the same nature in the future; perhaps with some never before scores released on CD. By the way,is the CISCO KID still in Kritzerland's plans ?
Yes, Cisco is in the future. It's actually done, but I'm just pursuing one avenue that might yield a bit more music.
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The music and sound quality are very pleasing.
Regarding the bonus tracks for "Bamboo":
Any idea what the "Song" and "Instrumental" are? Do they appear (or were intended to be) in the film (as possible source music?), or are they maybe recordings for a single, or whatever? Who is the singer? What is "Be Still Little Voice" and who is singing that? Was it recorded for use in the film or is it an entirely separate piece of source material (maybe)? Is that Lionel Newman issuing instructions at the start of "Yakuza Tea Party"? At the end of the track titled "Instrumental", there's a gap of 10 seconds and then a section of singing. Is that from the film, or an unused item? Did Harline write the music and lyrics for Be Still Little Voice? And the House of Bamboo lyrics?
Any klews?
According to Mike, not a lot of info on this and the fact is I wanted to remove it all - because it really had nothing to do with anything. But we both knew if we couldn't remove too much that had appeared on a previous release because the bitching and moaning and castigating would have been loud and clear and never-ending. But that's what happens when previous releases want to do anything to pad out running times. From Mike:
"Yes, it is Lionel.
I think the “Song” and “Instrumental” are basically other demos, but not called that because there is already a “Demo” track."
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