(I've updated and added the BLACK SUNDAY promo below)
I remember seeing this puppy at a used L.A. Record Store and thinking it was a cool different release of Goldsmith's DAMIEN OMEN II Soundtrack. I was wrong, but bought it anyway. I'll post a link to some of the audio later for you to hear.
I think I have a similar one for the movie BLACK SUNDAY in storage. I remember when seeing that one in the stores, back in the day, I jumped for joy thinking it was the Williams Score. And yes, it wasn't. I think it was some Radio Spots advertising the movie, but I believe it had no music at all on it.
Anyone else see or have any of this kind of stuff in your collections? Please share.
Here's the Front:
And the Back:
The Label:
It also included 4 pages of script for the Interviews:
Whoa! That looks like quite a collector's item you have there, a piece of movie memorabilia that's usually hard to come by. Aren't those radio station interview records often meant to be scrapped once they're no longer in use? I'm not absolutely sure about that, but it's still a cool item you've got!!
I've acquired a few of these radio station interview albums over the years, including the ones for O Lucky Man!, A Wedding, and Paint Your Wagon. One of my favorites is the boxed set for Psycho II that includes two LPs and a complete press kit. Another rarity in my collection that I ran across the other day is a promo disc from the Newhart TV series that apparently was made up for the cast and crew and features bits from various cast members. The cover is a great parody of the Sgt. Pepper album cover.
In a related vein are albums that have no connection at all to films but sometimes got filed in the soundtrack section because they used the phrase Original Soundtrack as the title or part of the packaging, such as an album by 10CC that had the title "The Original Soundtrack".
I have a HUGE amount of Disney "radio spots" LPs for its films, many on colored vinyl and including scripts so as the radio announcer could pretend he was speaking with the stars. There is a special section on them in my book on Disney records: "The Golden Age of Walt Disney Records 1933-1988." (out of print but you can find it on eBay etc.)
I have the radio-interviews LP for FINIAN'S RAINBOW. Sort of like "Music Minus One," (if any of you old-timers remember those albums, which invited you to play or sing along with the record to fill in the left-off part.)
Coincidentally, Verve a few years ago released "Steppin' Out," titled to cash in on Tony Bennett's Fred Astaire tribute CD, featuring highlights from Fred's 4-LP 1952 set with Oscar Peterson & other jazz greats. As a bonus, they've included a contemporaneous pre-recorded promo interview with Fred and the proprietors of a notable Hollywood record store. They keep introducing song selections which lead to blank spots that were presumably to be filled by selections from the LP set.
I used to work for a radio station and acquired a bunch of 45's and lp's with radio ads and interviews. My favorite lp was an interview with Rex Harrison to coincide with the release of "My Fair Lady" -- I remember reading the provided script and playing the segments -- imagining that he was in the room with me. It was a hoot!
In a related vein are albums that have no connection at all to films but sometimes got filed in the soundtrack section because they used the phrase Original Soundtrack as the title or part of the packaging, such as an album by 10CC that had the title "The Original Soundtrack".
I have that album! Good stuff.
In a similar vein is Moby's album I LIKE TO SCORE and Brian Eno's MUSIC FOR FILMS, neither of which are soundtracks (although the music in both has appeared in various films).
Then there's GIVE DADDY THE KNIFE CINDY on Big Beat Records, with music by Naz Nomad and the Nightmares, which indicates on the cover that it contains music from the original motion picture soundtrack and has credits for the film on the front cover and what appear to be stills on the back, but I cannot find any indication that such a film exists. So I don't know if this is a film that never got released but a soundtrack was pressed, a film that got released under a different title, or some kind of elaborate put-on.
zooba: GOOD FOR YOU! I'm really glad you have that record!
Doch Loch: I envy your PSYCHO set. The only Herrmann-connected thing I have in this vein is the FAHRENHEIT 451 radio promo disc which has open-ended interviews with Julie Christie, Oscar Werner and Ray Bradbury (such as the ones you describe, where the answers are provided, but the local announcer had to pretend to ask the questions). The other side side has "complete" interviews with an "interviewer" already included in the track.
Here are some audio selections from the Damien Interview LP. Interesting how Holden doesn't really talk about the movie at all and more just about Hollywood film making in general and Lee Grant talks about how important it was for her to make this movie. Harvey Bernhard's Interview is more about the first Omen movie and a hotel experience he shared with Richard Donner. Kind of scattered stuff all around, but interesting to hear. Enjoy!
William Holden Audio from LP (2 short segments 20 second silence in between):
Jim -- This thread inspired me to dig out the Psycho II Radio News Kit (as it's called). It looks like the second LP has six music cues, as well as an interview with Hitchcock done around the time Psycho was released, and the audio from the long Psycho theatrical trailer. I'll have to give this a spin on the ol' turntable tomorrow to see what it sounds like.
My all time favorite was the LP promo and press kit for TRADING PLACES in a box. Yeah there were interview snippets but there were a handful of Elmer Bernstein cues to be used as radio background. Pretty rare to find unreleased score cues that way.
Here's the one I have of BLACK SUNDAY The Frankenheimer Film with the Awesome Johnny W. Score! This Radio Interview LP features Interview clips with Actors Robert Shaw and Marthe Keller and producer Bob Evans and director John Frankenheimer. Great stuff!
Frankenheimer talks about music in film and John Williams. He also mentions working with Maurice Jarre and Michel Legrand. I like how he says he thinks it's John Williams Best Score. Here's that clip:
