I have lost or misfiled my Arista LP and am trying to match its contents to the expanded CD.
Using track titles and timings, I have been able to do this for every tune except for the "Theme from Taxi Driver" appearing on the Herrmann side of the LP.
As I recall, this was simply the full reading the main theme ballad, as opposed to the main title that starts with the snare drum buildup before alternating between the ballad and disturbing percussive mayhem.
Did the LP simply lift the complete theme from one of the longer tracks that now appears on the CD?
Onya, not sure I understand your question, but if I recall correctly, the opening track ("Theme From Taxi Driver") on Side A of the original LP ("the Herrmann side") was actually a Dave Blume arrangement - whose further interpretatations made up Side 2.
Side one of the album is the five David Blume tracks.
Side two has five Herrmann tracks. Four are easily identified on the CD:
Diary of a Taxi Driver (DeNiro narration) .44 Magnum is a Monster Sport and Iris God's Lonely Man (album version)
But then there is also "Theme from Taxi Driver" clocking in at 3:35. I remember that it is not the film's main title. I am assuming it is simply the full reading of the ballad that shows up in longer cues on the CD, referred to as "R12" on the CD (with different takes clocking it at 3:37 or 3:38.)
I'm sure there's another version of this coming out, and when it does hope it includes the much more spare film version of "Cleaning The Cab," one of my favorite cues, for some completely non-sexual reason. I like the one on the 1998 CD, too, just want both!
Found the LP! It was filed under "Herrmann" in the 70s urban grooves section. All my other Herrmann LPs are filed in the sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural/gothic macabre section.
To recreate the original album program from the Arista expanded disk:
Side One 1. Theme From Taxi Driver = CD track 14 2. I Work The Whole City = CD track 15 3. Betsy In A White Dress = CD track 16 4. The Days Do Not End = CD track 17 5. Theme From Taxi Driver (reprise) = CD track 18
Side Two 1. Diary Of A Taxi Driver = CD track 12 2. Theme From Taxi Driver = CD track 4 cropped (00:52—End)* 3. The .44 Magnum Is A Monster = CD track 6 4. Sport and Iris = CD track 8 5. God's Lonely Man = CD track 12
* Basically the "They Cannot Touch Her" part of the track.
