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Just curious and what are your thoughts on it. Was it worth it? What did you pay for it? What was the Original Price when it was first sold?
Thanks.
I own the set, and I am very glad to have it. I technically paid nothing for the set, as I got it when FSM was doing a promotion where you got the omnibus as a bonus gift if you bought $100+ of FSM cds. As for the original price, it is still in print, and being sold for $59.95. I am pretty sure that is what it was offered for when it was first released.
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The highlight of this set IMHO is ASSIGNMENT VIENNA full lenght CD by Dave Grusin, an absolute top 70ies spy adventure funky score with great cymbalum featured...
I badly miss a highly expected TV OMNIBUS VOL 2 box set that never came....
That was my favourite bit of the set too, although some of the tracks sounded a bit too 'samey'. I'm afraid the other TV shows didn't really grab me at all.
The great thing about the set was that it was possibly the first really good look at a TV score compilation on CD. The pity for me though was that most of it was unfamiliar territory to me to start with. And anyway, most of my favourite American TV music was from Universal shows, which was a no-no at the time for any of the labels, let alone FSM...
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I did, and it's great (if a bit of a mixed bag, by design: something for everyone). My favorite work by far was the Dave Grusin Assignment: Vienna. In fact it's probably my favorite work by Grusin! So catchy, and I'm a sucker for the cimbalom. Next favorite would be the Duning and Melle music for Then Came Bronson. The other half of the set is interesting too (sometimes I'm surprised how much I like something like Shirts/Skins) though I listen to it less often.
Yavar
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Just curious and what are your thoughts on it. Was it worth it? What did you pay for it? What was the Original Price when it was first sold?
Thanks.
I own the set, and I am very glad to have it. I technically paid nothing for the set, as I got it when FSM was doing a promotion where you got the omnibus as a bonus gift if you bought $100+ of FSM cds. As for the original price, it is still in print, and being sold for $59.95. I am pretty sure that is what it was offered for when it was first released.
Same here. I had my wife originally place the order and we got the set. I just finally broke the seal on mine and I've been enjoying the Duning, Then Came Bronson score.
Greg Espinoza
Why did your wife place the order?
More importantly, why do you feel the need to tell us ?
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By the time of this album, we had dived pretty deep into the M-G-M library and I thought that doing some larger collections might be a good way to release what was mostly obscure material—hence the David Raksin and Lalo Schifrin multi-disc sets, and this one.
In the end, the price point was so high on 5CD sets—and the albums took so much work to produce—that nothing really came together to do any further volumes of the TV material, from M-G-M or anyplace else.
I seem to remember that Then Came Bronson had all been transferred as part of a WB preservation project, so I had it all on hand, and brought the later album to Intrada. I really like that music.
Assignment: Vienna by Grusin on this collection is terrific!
Lukas
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It's a great set, with so much variety. 
