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This is something i posted with concern not so long ago.
In one way, great that so much is being rescued and saved forever on digital however - like so many things the italians do, they drown in something till no one wants it anymore. My fear is there have been so many releases that collectors simply switch off to it and cant possibly get them all. Equally its already a busy market in what is still a world recession albeit shoots of recovery on horizon. I suppose my fear is instead of a steady flow we get boom and bust, then no one releases anything.
There just seems so many labels swamping the market. Ok most ital westerns sell a decent number - as Bob points out, what was routinely 1000 with sometimes extra pressing has cut to 500, sometimes even less. , giallo and epics sell up to a point, but non morricone comedies are the kiss of death and sex films fair not much better.
You also have to remember the demographics and age range of italian music collectors. Most italian western collectors are at a pinch 55, but more likely 60-70 or older. So a dwindling number unlikely to be replaced by no more than a handful of younger people- when you attended a film fair in London in the early 80s there would be a dozen keen western nuts who would pay through the nose for what they wanted. Nowadays you would be lucky to find 2 attending. And they would be discerning and picky about what they bought.
Maybe the labels think milk the market dry while the few numbers are still there.
Its a sad reality though. A once thriving interest has already lost a lot of its customers!
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Does this mean that the Master Tapes for all these obscure movies from the 1960's and 70's have been SAVED -- while classic American & British score Masters are routinely listed as lost or missing? WHASSUP?!!
Yes, that is precisely the situation.
Those master tapes of recording sessions done in Italy have been in vaults for 50+ years.
A lot of the soundtrack CDs that come from the Italian labels contain music which, for whatever reason, wasn't issued during their composers lifetimes.
Carlo Rustichelli tried for years to get this music for Mario Bava's WHIP AND THE BODY released from the C.A.M. vaults and not until after his death in 2004 did this one surface onto CD.
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