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 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 12:25 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Two that come to mind are Superman: the Movie and Empire Strikes Back. Knowing the film and the music so well, it always threw me off when I heard lengthy sections of music on the OST's not heard in the film. Excluding album arrangements, expansions, and inspired by albums, what other soundtracks had music composed for the film that made it on the OST, but not in the film? What's the earliest example of this?

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 1:15 PM   
 By:   Avatarded   (Member)

Courage Under Fire (1996) had several cues that were not in the film, and many cues in the film were not on the album.

1. Hymn (not in film)
2. Al Bathra / Main Title (missing most of the synthesized effects heard in the film)
3. Friendly Fire / Ilario's Story (not in film)
4. The Elegy (not in film)
5. Courage Under Fire (not in film)
6. Monfriez's Suicide
7. Night Mutiny
8. Betrayal (ending not in film)
9. Playing Back The Tape
10. The Medal of Honor / A Final Resting Place (alternate version, better than what was in the film, actually)

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 1:38 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I don't know what the earliest example is.


"Jaws" dropped some score, including a dramatic cue for Quint's death.


There's two or three Morricone scores that I know of where large portions were not used. I only remember the name of one: "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!".

As I wrote in the Supposedly page on my Rejected Film Scores site (currently down because the host provider went down; having trouble finding another provider) from comments by the director:

"The director stated in an interview he wanted [Miles] Davis (doesn't state if that happened), and only hired Morricone because he was available, and also said all Morricone did was rip his theme off from "Frantic", and mentions he only used half of Morricone's score."

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 1:42 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I would bet that even the earliest soundtrack albums included music not in the films. "Holly" from Breakfast at Tiffany's comes to mind. Lots of Mancini albums also contained full tracks that appeared only for seconds in the films.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 2:18 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

It has been from the beginning.

One I can think of is Addison's 1968 'Charge of the Light Brigade' with massive dial-outs.

If you count early re-recording albums, Rozsa's Spellbound and Ben-Hur albums of course.


 
 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 2:23 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

If you count early re-recording albums, Rozsa's Spellbound and Ben-Hur albums of course.

But a re-recording may or may not be faithful to the score, so I don't think that a re-recording in and of itself gets to the heart of the question.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 2:33 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Williams albums like NOT WITH MY WIFE YOU DON'T and CHECKMATE have music that do not appear in the film/TV show, but that may have been written for them.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 2:52 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

Boy, this list could probably include a thousand soundtracks. It's incredibly common, and has been for as long as I can remember.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 3:19 PM   
 By:   Chris Rimmer   (Member)

Ennio Morricone's Two Mules For Sister Sara, only half the music on the cd is actually from the film,

Main Title, A Time for Miracles, A Swinging Rope, La Cantina, La Cueva, The Battle and End Title are all from the film the rest are just filler.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 4:07 PM   
 By:   other tallguy   (Member)

I thought I posted this:

From Russia With Love.

Also the middle bit of the end titles of Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country.

The last DAA DAAAAA! of Kirk's Explosive Reply from The Wrath of Khan.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 4:17 PM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Boy, this list could probably include a thousand soundtracks. It's incredibly common, and has been for as long as I can remember.

ALIEN anyone?

It's an old topic for sure. I think ALIEN was the first original soundtrack recording album that had me flabbergasted at how much music was missing from the actual film, and how much music from the movie was missing from the album.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 4:18 PM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

DB

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 4:46 PM   
 By:   jurassicmarc   (Member)

Dr. No - The majority of this soundtrack album doesn't appear in the movie at all
Die Hard - A a couple tracks don't appear in the movie
The Man In The Iron Mask - I was matching this up to the film recently to get the proper chronological order and one track just wasn't showing up in the movie, "All Will Be Well". It's weird because the album has a lot of missing songs so it's odd that they'd included an unused track.

 
 Posted:   Sep 19, 2017 - 10:02 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

At least half of the soundtrack album for John Carpenter's The Thing was not used in the film. It actually pleased me immensely when Quentin Tarantino gave cues like "Beastality" a loving home in The Hateful Eight. smile

 
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