Call up UNIVERSAL and ask for their music dept and ask for the person in charge of Licensing.
Ask them what they want for the rights to release the original soundtrack recording on CD...
When they give you the figure, WRITE A CHECK (that will clear the Bank) and give it to them and you can release it yourself and hope that the elements of said soundtrack recording are in their vaults.
Oh, come on. Be fair. I'm not a record company. That's Bruce Kimmell's job. I was just asking about the original score and then I was put into a position of having to defend the thread. To hell with it all, I'm out of it.
Oh, come on. Be fair. I'm not a record company. That's Bruce Kimmell's job. I was just asking about the original score and then I was put into a position of having to defend the thread. To hell with it all, I'm out of it.
Richard, I just got around to reading this long thread. Not that this matters, but I honestly did not understand what you intended to be the focus of discussion when you started it until almost the last page. You started off with this: "Not interested in the rerecording, thanks anyhow." I took this, as apparently did many others, as a critical dismissal of the Tribute recording in your estimation -- which is, apparently, not what you intended. Like many others about halfway through the thread I was prepared to post a defense of the Tribute recording. But, it now seems, that you just wanted to restrict this to a discussion of the original tracks. Super.
The original tracks are one of my remaining holy grails -- I'm hoping they get a decent release before I kick the bucket. Ditto for "Marnie" and the other missing in action Herrmann titles.
Even if the original tracks are not perfect, I agree with you that they embody a unique artistic document due to the original creator's participation. I have a large classical collection -- and it is utterly amazing that we have recordings of Britten conducted by Britten, Stravinsky conducted by Stravinsky, Copland conducted by Copland, Bernstein by Bernstein, etc. While I don't actually like many of these "originals" they do have a unique "specialness." The sonic limitations on "originals" is also not that important to me. My favorite classical CD is a recording of Bruckner's 5th Symphony conducted by Furtwangler and recorded in Berlin in 1942 during WWII -- the tapes were rescued/taken by the Soviets and eventually released on DG in 1989. The performance has a passion that always transports me. The recording is, of course, extremely compromised -- but the music shines for me with an almost shattering, transcendent force. Forgive me if this is tangential!
