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Good!
At least it will give OUT OF AFRICA & DANCES WITH WOLVES a rest! 
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As a big JB fan, I'm entirely onboard with the reverence for this title. I borrowed a copy of the dodgy quality MCA Records LP, and cued it up many times over the course of one summer...and have never listened to it again in the intervening 37 years.
I bought the CD. Never listened to it. Bought the Debney/RSNO album. Listened to it once.
For me, it seems this particular Barry score doesn't have any staying power. And I'm a fan who compulsively puts on JB scores on a regular basis, so I'm not planning on a buy.
If the reviews are ecstatic, I could change my mind.
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Film versions, soundtrack alternates, other alternates, source music, and I'd even take the re-recording … three CD's maybe. IT would be worth it to close the book on the score.
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Clearly it's not going to contain the original album release in addition to the score tracks on a single CD. The original album is still easily available, including lossless download, on Geffen.
Score tracks + alternates/ unused themes would be more than fine.
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Only Lionheart, and that wasn’t even half as many copies as this. I will be shocked if 5000 copies sell out quickly even for a score this beloved. Hell the Harry Potter box was 5000 copies, right? And that’s still not sold out.
Yavar
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By both price and volume of material, the Harry Potter box is still aimed at the film-music niche. But SOMEWHERE IN TIME is one of those few scores embraced by the broader commercial market. Two quick points for comparison:
When the Arista label issued their Fox Classics series of CD premieres in 1993, a friend of mine in retail told me that the label was delighted by Herrmann's DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL far outselling its sister Fox titles, at 5,000 copies.
But I recall that only 12 years earlier, in the early days of cable TV, Variety had published an article reporting that despite SOMEWHERE IN TIME having been a box-office disappointment, sales of Barry's soundtrack LP had taken off soon after the film's cable premiere. The emerging popularity of the picture was first noticed not in ratings from cable households, but from MCA shipping more than 50,000 copies of the LP in response to increased orders from retail stores within just a few months -- but months after the picture's theatrical run.
Surely people here remember Barry's citing SOMEWHERE IN TIME as the score for which he received the most fan mail, even years later. Even with the perceived commercial decline of CDs, this is one score that will sell more heavily than most still do.
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