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Been reflecting lately as my interests in life, including soundtracks are shifting. Where did it all begin? I was rummaging through my grandfather's LP collection when I was 4 or 5 years old. I came across Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia. I was sucked in by the partially blackened face on the cover, revealing the chiseled edges of a nose, lips and chin. "What's THIS!" I thought. I took it in as my own. My mother told me (but unfortunately have no memory of myself) that I used to "act" to the music. Even created my own costume for it. Runner up: I was an extra in the film Reds around the same time. I'm amused (based on my quarterly social security record) that out of all the money I made on that shoot, I was handed a mere $10. I spent it on an LP copy of Harry Nilsson's Popeye at the old Disc-O-Mat that once lived next to the Criterion Theater on 44th Street and Broadway. But I wasn't quite HOOKED just yet. The following Christmas changed me forever. Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still remember the power of the trackter beam "Marion's Theme" had on me as the LP spun on my old Fisher Price turntable. A Soundtrack Junkie for life! :-) How about you?
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How about you? My First soundtrack is Title song of "You Only LIve Twice" by Nancy Sinatra. When I was 7 years old boy, I went to see "You Only Live Twice" with my father. And I liked this song very much, so my father bought me EP soundtrack record. I have listened to tihis song many times. Thanks!
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I'm not exactly sure whether my first album (then vinyl) was THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK or a collection of themes by Henry Mancini, headlined by his then-popular THORN BIRDS theme. But one of the two it certainly was. The first film music I ever taped off the telly came much earlier, it was Ron Goodwin's MURDER, AHOY! when I was 10.
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I briefly flirted with soundtracks - on vinyl - after STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE and collected about a dozen afterwards but it was finding unsealed FSM soundtracks of the LOGAN'S RUN movie and TV series in a secondhand shop in Manchester (England) that rekindled my interest. Got a few hundred since then but Jerry's still my favourite.
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American Tail, on cassette, that's what started all this sillyness that continues today and what pushed me to do that silly event last year.
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the vinyl of Psycho 3 I think was my first soundtrack
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