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Remember the double-LP set from SUPERMAN? I was so new to soundtrack collecting at the time, I didn't even realize how extraordinary it was. Running time 76:15. That was very ample for those days, the kind of thing you think will never be topped.
Can anybody say what was under the track listing sticker they put on the back? I think I remember someone saying once it was all black under there:
Did anybody with a non-U.S. edition have a different back cover?
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.........but they could have at least put the sticker on straight?!!
You'll also notice the notch cut out of the upper corner, meaning it was marked as unsold and destroyed. The record store sold it to me as new; this was in 1981. It didn't matter. I got the album.
My subsequent purchases would sent actual royalties to John Williams:
I had one of those Panasonic trifecta units. LP player. Receiver. Cassette deck on the left side. It made recording from LP to cassette a breeze.
I had a turntable from Sears with the AM/FM radio and cassette deck built in. To this day, my LPs are practically like new because I only had to play them as often as a cassette tape would crap out. The tapes sounded great and you could play them to death.
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You'll also notice the notch cut out of the upper corner, meaning it was marked as unsold and destroyed. The record store sold it to me as new; this was in 1981. It didn't matter. I got the album.
The album was a cut-out, I guess too many were pressed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out_%28recording_industry%29
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Sep 1, 2015 - 6:55 PM
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jenkwombat
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Yep, those double-LPs were great. Unfortunately, the albums that followed ("Superman II", "Return of the Jedi", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" etc.), while containing some really great music, were only single discs, and thus, felt like compromises (at least to me).... 
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Surprise You didn't own the Japanese release of Superman soundtrack that add the two omitted tracks of the US release 
Yeah, well, I don't like a lot of redundancy in my collection. One and Done is the name of the game.
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Sep 2, 2015 - 9:29 PM
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ST-321
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Yep, those double-LPs were great. Unfortunately, the albums that followed ("Superman II", "Return of the Jedi", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" etc.), while containing some really great music, were only single discs, and thus, felt like compromises (at least to me)....
Yes, to me as well.
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This and the Star Wars LP were my introduction to film scores when I was 6.
Pretty good introduction to this world. Still have em, *really* need a good turntable.
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It's unfortunate that CDs (and CD players) started out with a shorter time limit, whereas today they can go almost 80 minutes. It's the same disc. Why couldn't they have figured out the real limit before taking it to market?
The whole SUPERMAN program should have been on that first Warner CD. Of the five albums in my quintuple-dip, that's the only one that really wasn't worth it.
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