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Anybody seen this film? I'm soon going to open the LP I have with the suite on it.
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Friedhofer's score is melodic and the Standard Symphony (Standard Oil Radio Hour) did a nice suite (which is what was released on LP many years ago).
I'm opening this today, for David Raksin's birthday.
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The original shooting title of the picture was THE SON OF ROBIN HOOD.
In the mid-1940s, producer Clifford Sanforth licensed the rights to the title "Son of Robin Hood" to Columbia, but the studio was forced to change the title of the film to "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest" when MGM sued, claiming that they owned the rights to the name "Robin Hood." In 1959, Twentieth Century-Fox and Argo productions produced a film called "The Son of Robin Hood." Sanforth then sued Argo Productions and Twentieth Century-Fox, claiming that he owned the rights to both the character and title "Son of Robin Hood." The outcome of that suit is unknown, but the Fox film retained its title. Interestingly, George Sherman directed both films (with Henry Levin as co-director on "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest.")
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... Friedhofer's score is melodic and the Standard Symphony (Standard Oil Radio Hour) did a nice suite (which is what was released on LP many years ago)...
A nice suite that I played endless times, but, strangely, was disregarded by someone (Friedhofer himself, or I don't remember well?).
Ray, no trace of existing material?
Friedhofer didn't care for the recording, which he bemoaned to Page Cook in one of his letters in Linda Danly's
biography "The Best Years Of His Life".
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Aug 7, 2016 - 11:22 AM
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finder4545
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... Friedhofer's score is melodic and the Standard Symphony (Standard Oil Radio Hour) did a nice suite (which is what was released on LP many years ago)...
A nice suite that I played endless times, but, strangely, was disregarded by someone (Friedhofer himself, or I don't remember well?).
Ray, no trace of existing material?
Friedhofer didn't care for the recording, which he bemoaned to Page Cook in one of his letters in Linda Danly's
autobiography "The Best Years Of His Life".
Oh, yes. Now I remember where this came from. Thank, Filmusicnow. I've revisited page 171 of the book and it's clear that Friedhofer was referring not to the excellent suite but to the poor session "stolen" and utilized to do that bootleg album.
Fajola says "There are about 27 minutes of acetate material... The discs are with the Friedhofer collection". This means that a consistent part of this score exists, along with other materials, for the pleasure of who still retains memory and interest in the Golden Age films and scores. I wonder if Kritzerland, after a rather disappointing campain (Indiegogo), can try to license and release something really matching the Golden Age for which our contribution was intended.
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Fajola says "There are about 27 minutes of acetate material... The discs are with the Friedhofer collection". This means that a consistent part of this score exists, along with other materials, for the pleasure of who still retains memory and interest in the Golden Age films and scores.
The original recordings (transcription discs/acetates) of SO DARK THE NIGHT, A SONG IS BORN (1948 version of BALL OF FIRE) and EDGE OF DOOM apparently are also in the BYU if you look at the Friedhofer papers there:
http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2021.xml
And at least some material for these titles which has also not been released in any way till now:
1. "Eagle-Lion," 16 inch disks, 4
2. Body and Soul, 12 Inch disk, 1
3. Hondo, 10 inch disk, 1
4. Marrying Kind, 12 inch disks, 3
5. Queen for a Day, 16 inch disks, 5
6. Sound of Fury, 12 inch disks, 1
7. Theo Square Productions, 16 inch disk, 1
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That's A SONG IS BORN, not A STAR IS BORN. It's a Goldwyn remake of BALL OF FIRE starring Danny Kaye.
Sorry, that was a typo and my fault 
Of course, I meant the Howard Hawks comedy A SONG IS BORN from 1948. And I even know the film itself.
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I'd love to be able to buy an official release of this, if the acetates can be cleaned up...
Yavar
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