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So, not given it much thought then, Yavar.
Hehe. To be honest I could have written several more paragraphs of ideas of what I want. I've conceived multiple future albums for Leigh as follow ups to his great work on General Electric Theater... but I figure I should try and be cagey about those for now. (Okay, I've publicly mentioned several times that a disc of Jerry's three known Civil War scores would be super cool...)
Having had chance to read through your choices, Yavar, I’d be interested in seeing the 87th Precinct series.. I’ve read many of the novels down the years and revisited some quite recently - Ax (or in English  , Axe) is a favourite. Didn’t know JG had provided some of the music for the series.
Check yer email. 
Regardless, I hope you get some of what you’d like in the coming years.
Excitingly, I've progressed to the point where I'm actually helping make some of it happen, which is super cool.
When you have it all, what’re you going to do then?!
I honestly think it's pretty optimistic to think one day Jerry Goldsmith's complete works will be recorded. We are still recovering scores he wrote and I have my doubts we will even eventually find it all. Some is probably lost to time. But if somehow I got all the Jerry Goldsmith I wanted, including new recordings of things that just cry out for better sound quality like 100 Rifles and Inchon... there are many other composers I love almost as much, such as Alfred Newman/Miklos Rozsa/Hugo Friedhofer/Elmer Bernstein/Basil Poledouris. Plenty of wants to still pursue. And my #1 Holy Grail is a complete release (probably requiring a new recording) for Roy Webb's Sinbad the Sailor.
Oh, and I'm also really into classical music. So I have wants like the remaining unrecorded operas by Camille Saint-Saens all being recorded, or any of Joseph Joachim Raff's operas for that matter...
Yavar
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You're right; hopefully I'll be retired by then and can just do that.
But I'm quite regularly enjoying Goldsmith already of course...
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Why?
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Well, waiting for a music release I might find interesting or would want isn't really a thing to do. It either happens or it doesn't.
I really enjoy my music collection, listening to music is what it's about for me.
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Well, Jerry also did intriguing demos for other films like Reindeer Games and The Game of Their Lives... but these are cases of him just doing one or two demo cues of themes... maybe three or four, sometimes. What makes Babe and The Kid unique is that full written scores/sketches for them exist, and though the scores are not complete they are quite substantial, as the cue titles indicate:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138063&forumID=1&archive=0
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138064&forumID=1&archive=0
I don't know of any other scores of Goldsmith's which were substantially composed like these two, but canceled before the orchestral sessions occurred.
If you have a source that says Jerry actually wrote a full score (or even the majority of one) for Domestic Disturbance, I'd love to know more.
Yavar
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Fair enough!
And there are definitely people who know more than me. Until this past year I had no idea there was any version of The Kid that could be listened to, but I was wrong. So I’m always open to people with new information.
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