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Not available on CD. The score for this 1986 film is by Herbie Hancock, but the released LP/cassette only has 3 Hancock tracks. The rest is Motown and blues songs, and snatches of dialogue.
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Man, do I want that.
Had a great time jamming out on "Ghost and the Darkness" (Intrada)!
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That's my favorite Zimmer after Man of Steel.
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It's unclear whether this 1978 film got any U.S. theatrical release. Dick Halligan provided what background score there was. He also wrote four songs with Carol Connors for the film, with England Dan and John Ford Coley providing the rest of the songs.
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My second listen to the amazing Ghost and the Darkness (Goldsmith) Intrada. I appreciate very much the really imaginative use of vocals in this score...but I could have done without so MUCH vocals. Granted, they all ultimately seem to fit, so I doubt my opinion is anywhere universal. It's just that I found myself wishing for a horn and/or woodwind ensemble to replace certain vocals...but then I'm a bit of orchestral purist outside of my love for the synthesizer.
In any event, a score of this scope is pretty amazing to take in, and I've been playing it straight through. I'd say this is one of the most interesting scores I've heard from JG, and it's obviously going to take repeated listens to fully absorb such. The percussion instrumentation is truly fascinating, and all the orchestral sections I'm greatly savoring.
Even more depth than I'd imagined when I bought it. This seems to get right everything I thought went wrong on 13th Warrior, sorry but that's the best way I can explain it.
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Mar 7, 2018 - 12:48 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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You've been playing a lot of cassettes recently, Bob? From where does this urge stem? Or are you just posting cassette covers, but actually playing the music in other formats?
C'mon Thor. Asked and answered last year:
Posted: Aug 27, 2017 - 4:59 AM
By: Thor (Member)
Bob, what's up with all the cassette covers? Are you really listening to cassettes?
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Posted: Aug 27, 2017 - 2:10 PM Edit Post
By: Bob DiMucci (Member)
I bought a lot of cassettes in the pre-CD era. I had a cassette deck in my car during that time as well, and would listen to them on longer trips. Quite a few of them are the song-track albums (like THE BIG TOWN, above) that have never been issued on CD, and that I wouldn't buy even if they were, but for which I was willing to lay down one dollar to get them from the bargain bins back in the day as they went out of print.
As for the score cassettes,one group was bought (also at discounted prices) either to preserve wear and tear on my LPs or as an "upgrade" from the lousy vinyl pressings that the major labels were putting out in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Who knew then that so many of these albums would eventually appear on CD?
The final group of cassettes, all from MCA, came after that outfit obtained rights in the mid-1980s to re-release soundtrack albums that had originally appeared on the MGM and United Artist labels. I bought most of these because they came from a time (1950s and early 1960s) before I became an avid soundtrack collector. The LPs for these scores and musicals were mostly long out of print and going for big bucks, so to get them on an inexpensive cassette seemed like a good deal.
I still have them all, and am currently going through them to see which ones still play. All of the score cassettes contain those original unexpanded LP programs with which you are so enamored, Thor. 
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Posted: Aug 29, 2017 - 3:56 PM
By: Thor (Member)
Oh yes, I know. I became musically aware just as LPs were on the wane and before CDs were the norm. So I'm very much of the cassette age (had about 150 of them, mostly taped, but also some originals). But they're now all stored in my parents' attic. It's just rare that you see people play cassettes these days, unless you're a hipster!
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This may be my last run-through for most of my cassettes. I once had 3 cassette decks. Two of them have gone to the electronic graveyard. So, when the last one bites the dust, my cassette playing days will likely be over. I should focus on transferring to CD the last few ones worth preserving that haven't yet made it to that newer (and now dying) format.
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Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. I actually once watched it in a theater in 3-D.
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