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More Music from "SPARTACUS" (Alex North)
More Music from "THUNDERBALL" (John Barry)
All of the tracks from the above were subsequently released in stereo on CD, by Varese and EMI respectively.
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Sep 18, 2015 - 12:03 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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MGM had its LP division, why did the soundtrack to Raintree County go to RCA?
That's a good question, which I hadn't thought about before. Certainly, up until 1957, most of the MGM Records releases had been of the company's musicals. There had been some dramatic score releases, such as MADAME BOVARY, IVANHOE, PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE, and QUO VADIS, a few of which went back to the days of 78s. And there had been a few mainly spoken word albums (JULIUS CAESAR, a second QUO VADIS release). But certainly there weren't the quantity and variety of dramatic score releases that we saw from MGM in the post-BEN-HUR 1960s.
Perhaps MGM Records was unsure of its ability to market a big dramatic score release. Or possibly, since the release was of the original soundtracks and not a re-recording, they did not want to pay the huge re-use fees that would be required for such a release, particularly of a two disc set. With RAINTREE COUNTY scheduled for an October 1957 release, MGM had just issued its financial statements for the fiscal year ending 31 August 1957. They showed that, for the first time in its history, MGM had suffered a loss, of $455,000, as opposed to a profit of $5 million the year prior. Perhaps MGM decided that it was more financially prudent to license out the LP to RCA and let a company with deeper pockets pony up the re-use fees and take the risk of the album's potential failure.
While RAINTREE COUNTY the film made a small profit for MGM on its $6 million production cost, we don't know how well RAINTREE COUNTY the album did for RCA. What we do know is that for its next super-production, BEN-HUR, MGM planned from the outset to issue a re-recorded score rather than an original soundtrack.
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Goldsmith put together a RIO LOBO LP, but I'm not sure of a set planned release that was canned.
SCOTT
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