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A couple of questions, Ray:
1. The previous version of THE SEARCHERS had 37 tracks but this has only 36 AND one of those is an extra track. Is there any music on the previous version that has not been included in the new version?
2. If all the music is included and an additional track added, have some of the previous tracks then been combined? If so, do they segue or are they broken exactly as on the previous release?
3. Why the renaming of all the tracks? Were more accurate cue sheets found?
Looking forward to this, Ray. Just want to know what it is I'm getting. 
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Jul 27, 2015 - 6:42 AM
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Ray Faiola
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All the music from the previous release is included, plus the previously unreleased track. I think the old release had one of the bugle calls as a solo track, I really don't remember. And the old release did not have any of the guitar solo strums nor the Ken Curtis vocal on "Skip to My Lou". There was a bootleg of the original release that, I believe, added the RCA Victor recording of "The Searchers" at the end.
There was no alternate mixing involved vis a vis overlapping cue parts. The original release was severely butt-edited with very little breathing room between tracks. I did not produce that first BYU soundtrack release. I came on board for the second CD, THE FLAME AND THE ARROW.
This CD is produced in the same mode as all my previous ones in that the ambience is sustained throughout with musically-judged pauses between tracks. I do not go to dead track for three seconds between cues.
I think this release is an improvement over the original CD but that is just my personal opinion. There are some slight mixing differences - I did not repeat the bugle charge within the body of the Indian Attack climax primarily because of the sharp difference in acoustics. I don't recall how the original CD handled it, but in the buffalo stampede I brought the bugle call in gradually under the tympani rumble. I think the original may have been a butt-edit.
But they're the same acetates. I managed to mitigate some of the otherwise unalterable groove damage by substituting a bar here and there from an alternate cue. This is pretty routine for what I have to deal with when restoring and assembling the Steiner and Tiomkin discs.
I always name my own tracks, except in some of the Fox releases where there were actual descriptive titles on the cue sheets.
Finally, the booklet and notes are entirely new.
With all the money folks toss around for every new video format release of a film, I think taking a chance on this new SEARCHERS soundtrack is a pretty safe investment.
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I managed to mitigate some of the otherwise unalterable groove damage by substituting a bar here and there from an alternate cue. This is pretty routine for what I have to deal with when restoring and assembling the Steiner and Tiomkin discs.
Thanks for the great, detailed info! Just to clarify, a bar here and there would be taken from a different part and used instead of a part that was damaged. Is there one example you can point to on the previous CD where this damage would be? Thanks!
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