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I've been trying to spot the difference between track one (Main Title) and track seventeen (Alternate Main Title). No success so far.
It was just on the tape with an alternate M number.
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What a fun CD! Many film score fans dismiss Glasser as a lesser composer, probably because of the amount of B-pictures he scored. This CD is a testament to his abilities as a composer. THE GAY AMIGO is filled with great action cues as well as lilting romantic themes. It sounds very much like the exciting scores heard in Republic serials of the 1940s. The bonus tracks (suites from THE BUCKSKIN LADY, TOP OF THE WORLD and the BIG TOWN television series, all previously available on the old Starlog LP THE FANTASTIC FILM MUSIC OF ALBERT GLASSER) only help to bolster his reputation as a truly capable composer. The man deserves more recognition. Thank you, Bruce, for being THE person to issue more Albert Glasser scores than anyone else in history.
You mention in the booklet notes about the idea of reprinting Glasser's self-published autobiography. OH, I HOPE YOU DO! I have of one those original Xeroxed copies that Glasser had printed up. Good Lord, it is loaded with misspellings, grammatical errors and excessive use of CAPITAL LETTERS to emphasize certain points, but it is just a fascinating read, a real inside look at the life of a film composer. If you do reprint it, I hope you issue exactly as written. It would lose so much of its charm if all the idiosyncrasies were corrected or removed.
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I've been trying to spot the difference between track one (Main Title) and track seventeen (Alternate Main Title). No success so far.
It was just on the tape with an alternate M number.
I'm still trying to find track 37! 
As I mentioned on the A MAN CALLED PETER thread, I'm really enjoying this CD. THE GAY AMIGO is a dashing and colorful score, very enjoyable listening. The 3 bonus scores are excellent! Great packaging and very interesting booklet notes. Thanks Bruce!
Were you "dashing and colourful" in your hey-dqy (almost said "hay-day") Peter, lol? Anyway, I hope my copy arrives during the coming week!
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"The Cisco Kid" was not only the first television series filmed in color, but was also Ziv Television's first hit series. Like "The Adventures Of Superman"'s final two seasons and "The Lone Ranger"'s final season which were both filmed in color, they were not all seen that way until the mid '60s.
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I've been trying to spot the difference between track one (Main Title) and track seventeen (Alternate Main Title). No success so far.
We decided to include two different takes of the main theme to bookend the Cisco material.
There are some subtle differences. For example, the guitar solo in the middle is a little more prominent in take 2. We used this take at the end of the programme as it also has a trumpet clam. Take 3 opens the disc.
Chris
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Here are the sleeve notes for the three suites, from the original Starlog LP release "The Fantastic Film World of Albert Glasser Vol. 1 (1978):
BIG TOWN
Glasser produced a broad spectrum of music cues for this popular television series. The composing started in 1951 and went into the beginning of the next year – working from scripts only, prior to any filming. The library of music finally totaled around 50 cues from which we have selected six delightful representatives: a dramatic buildup, the Main Title, a gentle interlude, a sequence of city music, one of many action/danger cues, and the closing title.
THE BUCKSKIN LADY
There probably isn't a roomful of moviegoers who even remember this film, but the expansive vistas of the great outdoors, along with the strong, bold personalities who lived amid that scenery are captured in this suite. First, a complex montage of musical arrangements followed by the straightforward thematic statement of the main title. It seems like a natural for a Frankie Laine song and in fact lyrics were written, but the producers nixed the plan for budget reasons.It's easily one of Glasser's most hummable tunes.
TOP OF THE WORLD
Built from eight cues (including the End Cast walk-out music) this selection includes the Main Title, the beautiful Love Theme, and several moments of power, grandeur, icy chords and aerial shimmers. The upward surge of this orchestral suite is an appropriate finale to our program of music by Albert Glasser.
(Notes by Kerry O'Quinn)
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I've been trying to spot the difference between track one (Main Title) and track seventeen (Alternate Main Title). No success so far.
We decided to include two different takes of the main theme to bookend the Cisco material.
There are some subtle differences. For example, the guitar solo in the middle is a little more prominent in take 2. We used this take at the end of the programme as it also has a trumpet clam. Take 3 opens the disc.
Chris
As a fellow audio engineer, I rank your work right up there with the great Mark Obert-Thorn. I rank your restoration/remastering work at the top of the chart. Thanks for the skill you have demonstrated on so many CDs.
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This board... Trying to post our new release and getting nothing but error messages. Crazy. So, here it is and hopefully we'll be able to do its own thread whenever someone bothers to fix the problem.
Kritzerland is proud to present a new classic soundtrack CD release:
THE CARDINAL
Composed and Conducted by Jerome Moross
Based on the 1950 novel by Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal was perfect fodder for filmmaker Otto Preminger, who loved controversial themes. The Cardinal was filled with them: interfaith marriage, sex before marriage, abortion, bigotry, and the rise of fascism. The large cast included Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Dorothy Gish (her final screen appearance), Maggie McNamara (who’d starred in Preminger’s The Moon is Blue), Bill Hayes, Romy Schneider, veteran character actor Cecil Kellaway, Ossie Davis, John Saxon, Burgess Meredith, Jill Haworth (from Preminger’s film of Exodus), Raf Vallone, Robert Morse, billed as Bobby and his Adora-Belles, and veteran director, John Huston.
Otto Preminger has always had a keen ear for music, and his choice of composers has always been interesting and spot on, not to mention eclectic, and included scores from David Raksin (Laura and several other Preminger films), Elmer Bernstein (The Man With the Golden Arm), Mischa Spoliansky (Saint Joan), Georges Auric (Bonjour Tristesse), Duke Ellington (Anatomy of a Murder), Ernest Gold (Exodus), Jerry Fielding (Advise and Consent), Jerry Goldsmith (In Harm’s Way), and, on The Cardinal, the great Jerome Moross.
Jerome Moross had already created one of the greatest western film scores ever written, The Big Country. He’d also written scores for Seven Wonders of the World, The Proud Rebel, The Jayhawkers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Five Finger Exercise, among others. For The Cardinal, he came up with a stunningly gorgeous main theme, and the other scoring is just perfection, music on a vast canvas, filled with many majestic and emotional moments. The theme was so beautiful, in fact, that the great lyricist Carolyn Leigh (Broadway’s Wildcat and Little Me and the songs “Witchcraft” and “The Best Is Yet to Come,” all written with Cy Coleman) put words to music, titling the song “Stay with Me.” It was recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1963 and more recently by none other than Bob Dylan on his 2015 Shadows of the Night album.
For this release, the original two-track album masters were used, as well as the three-track masters for several tracks, including a bonus track not included on the original LP, a more pop-sounding version of the title theme. The tapes were in great condition and Moross’s amazing score sparkles and gleams as never before, rendering any previous releases superfluous.
THE CARDINAL is limited to 1000 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the third week of March, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. (NOTE: This is a licensed title from Sony, who is pressing the CD – therefore we are not in control and while we hope everything goes according to plan, there is a chance it could be a week later. But the hope is to have it before the actual ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Regarding the CISCO cd, have all the overseas orders (from Europe) been processed ?
I haven't received mine yet and I'm not even certain that it has been shipped! Ordered on 11 December 2018.
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Regarding the CISCO cd, have all the overseas orders (from Europe) been processed ?
I haven't received mine yet and I'm not even certain that it has been shipped! Ordered on 11 December 2018.
Kind of a relief, somehow... Overseas orders from Europe may have not been processed yet...
Bruce told me last week that there was some "kind of screw up" on my order and that he would mention it to his shipping guy. That's ok, once I knew what was happening I felt a sense of relief. But I've heard nothing since and I don't know whether it has been shipped or not, and that's not a nice feeling. You can't beat the old message of confirmation that your order has been fulfilled.
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