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Oh my. Do I have to? It's kinda proprietary stuff. I hope you understand. Sorry to disappoint.
Lukas
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Thanks!
None of us will give away any secrets, I can assure you. But sometimes it can happen very quickly, i.e. our Taras Bulba where, from the initial suggestion on this board, to my deciding to do it, make the deal, get the tapes, do the remastering and prepare the booklet took all of four weeks. Some things take a lot longer to do many factors, some of which have to do with the various studios, some of which have to do with how many CDs the label has in the pipeline. All I'll say is it can be easy as pie and it can be filled with annoyances - I prefer the former to the latter, frankly.
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Well...we started "Madame Bovary" for the Rozsa box in 2004, I think!
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I had a project I wanted to do in 1995. Originally wanted to do a re-recording, but there were no scores to be found anywhere. When I considered doing a release of the original tracks, I was up against the same situation -- no tapes existed either. No leads where anything might be. Nothing. About five years ago I inherited a huge collection of unidentified and unidentifiable reel-to-reel tapes from a film music library that went under, and they were just stored in my closet, and whenever I got a little time free I transferred one to digital. Still no sign of the score I was looking for as I scoured archives around the country where it might be located. Two years ago I'm transferring one of the tapes, and all of a sudden blaring from my speakers I hear the very music I've been searching for all these years! The entire soundtrack was there -- every last stitch of music, including music not used in the film, and it'll be released in early 2010, along with lots of other recently-discovered treasures. You would be amazed to know some of the titles on those reels -- apparently the library was using music from every possible source they could find -- and they obviously had a lot of sources. So now, whenever there's a score I'm looking for, I always wonder whether it might not be halfway across the United States, but perhaps it is in my closet somewhere? So in this case, it will have taken 15 years from the time I first wanted to do the project for it to see the light of day.
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I had a project I wanted to do in 1995. Originally wanted to do a re-recording, but there were no scores to be found anywhere. When I considered doing a release of the original tracks, I was up against the same situation -- no tapes existed either. No leads where anything might be. Nothing. About five years ago I inherited a huge collection of unidentified and unidentifiable reel-to-reel tapes from a film music library that went under, and they were just stored in my closet, and whenever I got a little time free I transferred one to digital. Still no sign of the score I was looking for as I scoured archives around the country where it might be located. Two years ago I'm transferring one of the tapes, and all of a sudden blaring from my speakers I hear the very music I've been searching for all these years! The entire soundtrack was there -- every last stitch of music, including music not used in the film, and it'll be released in early 2010, along with lots of other recently-discovered treasures. You would be amazed to know some of the titles on those reels -- apparently the library was using music from every possible source they could find -- and they obviously had a lot of sources. So now, whenever there's a score I'm looking for, I always wonder whether it might not be halfway across the United States, but perhaps it is in my closet somewhere? So in this case, it will have taken 15 years from the time I first wanted to do the project for it to see the light of day.
Life---- can be beautiful! 
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Well...we started "Madame Bovary" for the Rozsa box in 2004, I think!
Yes, that sounds about right. I think INSIDE DAISY CLOVER took almost as long to see the light of day, didn't it?
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Inside Daisy Clover we started shortly after the LP came out in 1966.
Lukas
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Inside Daisy Clover we started shortly after the LP came out in 1966.
Lukas
I remember! You were working on it before you were born - you were tireless. Back then it was going to be a limited edition cassette, then a limited edition 8 track.
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You don't "own" the rights. You license them from the copyright owner, who remains the copyright owner. Buying rights costs more money, and if you're talking about buying a studio property, the odds of them selling you anything are about "zero." You can sometimes buy rights for a small project, but they're usually not worth it, because if somebody's willing to sell you something at an affordable cost, that's probably because the property isn't worth anything. I don't know any soundtrack labels (other than ours in a couple of small instances) that has bought any rights, but I might be mistaken. And I know that our label is nuts, so that explains our behavior. 99.99% of the time, labels are strictly licensing things.
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I had a project I wanted to do in 1995. Originally wanted to do a re-recording, but there were no scores to be found anywhere. When I considered doing a release of the original tracks, I was up against the same situation -- no tapes existed either. No leads where anything might be. Nothing. About five years ago I inherited a huge collection of unidentified and unidentifiable reel-to-reel tapes from a film music library that went under, and they were just stored in my closet, and whenever I got a little time free I transferred one to digital. Still no sign of the score I was looking for as I scoured archives around the country where it might be located. Two years ago I'm transferring one of the tapes, and all of a sudden blaring from my speakers I hear the very music I've been searching for all these years! The entire soundtrack was there -- every last stitch of music, including music not used in the film, and it'll be released in early 2010, along with lots of other recently-discovered treasures. You would be amazed to know some of the titles on those reels ...
I wonder if these other recently-discovered treasures are still coming out?
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