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Lovely Art Work on this release , wonderful , Lukas your the best , well next to Edo at SAE yes i agree, the art work for this set is very impressive, great job guys ,like it very much.
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It doesn't get any better than this. Thank you ! Immediately ordered.
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Happily ordered! Soundtrack release of the year so far!
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I'm staggered as to how they found all the previously assumed unrecorded pieces, of which there are quite a few. That must be an epic story in itself. Very well done, FSM.
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I'd been putting off rooting through my boxes of CDs to find the rather splendid Rhino boxed set so I could import the score to iTunes (a happy memory of buying it at a superb little CD shop in Caen in France which had the odd distinction of stocking every one of Randy Newman's song album and most of his soundtracks as the owner was an American ex-pat who loved Randy Newman). Also, wanted to display it in the growing display area surrounding my Elfman/Burton boxed set. Looks like I'll have another version of a great score to add to the collection. Seem to recall the Rhino version sounded pretty great, but look forward to hearing what about decade and whatever of technological improvement can do. Ordered. Of course.
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Lukas, is it possible that if this sells out rapidly, you'll press more than 2,000 - maybe another batch?
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Feb 16, 2012 - 12:09 PM
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manderley
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I'm sorry that some who want this are not able to purchase it right away. It is certainly a "Special Event" release in soundtrack collecting history, and a major achievement in assembly and research---more than 50 years after the film it celebrates. Still, for all of this, I don't believe anyone has yet commented on what a great deal this non-box-set BEN-HUR actually is---5 very full discs for only $12 apiece! If we were buying these discs separately from FSM, it would be $100. Back in the '50s-'60s, the price for the 3 albums together was about $14---just for LPs, with a fraction of the material on this set. With today's inflation, $14 in 1960 would be about $106.39 today. So.....in buying this today, I've paid far less (in relative terms), for far more material, than I did originally. And it's a much better production. I also don't think anyone has commented on the "other" MGM LP of BEN-HUR---the one on the Metro label. It's buried deep in my holdings and I can't put my hands on it at this moment, but it also had a gorgeous purple cover and the BEN-HUR stone edifice logo (though this one was the stacked, angled version, not the single-height curved one). I always thought this cover was the most beautiful of them all. It was on the cheaper Metro label, the successor to the Lion label, and it was, of course, a reissue. It was also slightly cut down in running time from the original album it replaced as I recall. But I can't remember which of the original albums it replaced. Was it Savina, Kloss 1, or Kloss 2??? Does anyone else remember this album? Over the years, the various BEN-HUR albums must have been the most exploited soundtrack in the MGM Records inventory.
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