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I have two grails left: Gilligan's Island - Johnny Williams, Gerald Fried The New Adventures of Superman (Filmation) - John Marion Honorable shout-out to: Young Frankenstein - John Morris
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May 23, 2020 - 8:50 AM
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ScottDS
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Oh wow, I haven't thought about this question in a while! Aside from the usual suspects (more Trek, more Varese Club titles, definitive Star Wars and Indy)... After getting into their films just last year, I'd love a re-recording of music from the films of Powell and Pressburger, specifically the work of Allan Gray: http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Gray/Gleason.html A collection of Irving Szathmary's music from Get Smart could be fun, assuming anything still exists Randy Edelman's Ghostbusters II Planes, Trains & Automobiles given the Ferris Bueller treatment with Ira Newborn's score and whatever songs can be licensed Ira Newborn's Innocent Blood (along with whatever Elmer Bernstein might've done for it) And speaking of Newborn, I'd love to see a collection of his Universal comedy scores (Dragnet, Mallrats, and his collaborations with John Hughes and John Landis) And speaking of Bernstein, the complete Animal House score could conceivably be paired on CD with his brief score for An American Werewolf in London (and the "God music" from The Blues Brothers) James Horner's complete remastered Sneakers David Shire's complete remastered 2010 John Williams' complete remastered JFK (I think this was on LLL's radar at one point but it'd be a chore to put together!) The definitive Brazil by Michael Kamen, sans film dialogue Robert Folk's scores for the rest of the Police Academy films
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May 23, 2020 - 8:50 AM
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Rameau
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* I'm thinking these will never happen now. Why? Well 23 Paces To Baker Street & White Feather are mid-fifties Fox titles that if they were available I'd think they'd have been released by now, maybe the tapes are no good, after all they are over 60 years old. The Rozsa albums, there must be some problems there, there are a few record companies that are now licensing titles from UMG, & still no sign of them after all these years. And as for Ulzana's Raid, Intrada did release some Universal first time soundtracks like, Tobruk & The War Wagon, but that petered out, maybe Universal lost interest or they didn't sell as well as Intrada thought. I'd love to be wrong, but you have to be realistic. That was Nov. 2017. Well I got Ulzana's Raid (well I will have soon). I'd think there are no tapes for 23 Paces To Baker Street & White Feather (oh well, you can't have everything). You never know with the Rozsa LPs, the legal stuff could be resolved sometime soon. And I'd add Hello-Goodbye (Francis Lai), the soundtrack album, fingers crossed for that one.
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My "Grails" have mostly been released... and some of the grails mentioned here in this thread have also been released. For example, as much as I love scores like ALIEN3, I don't know if there is actually such an amount of worthwhile music missing from the existing release that I would re-purchase the score (maybe there is, haven't seen the movie in a long time). Same for quite a few others mentioned here. Off hand I can think of only a few "grails" of mine that probably won't ever see the light of day: Maurice Jarre: 5 Card Stud William Lava: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Jerry Goldsmith: Damnation Alley But many of my other grails have been released over the years... SCORPIO, LAWMAN, ALIEN, WOLFEN, etc... Now that's me re-posting me... this I posted in this thread in 2014... and voila, DAMNATION ALLEY is now released. So that makes the number one grail score I can think of for me Maurice Jarre's 5 CARD STUD. Can't think for my life why this one has never ever been released in any format (not even vinyl back in the day), when so many other, lesser scores have been released. It is probably that no mastertapes exist, otherwise I think one specialty label might have released this by now. It is Maurice Jarre and a western starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum and Roddy McDowell, and Yaphett Kotto and Inger Stevens, so it is not THAT low in profile. This is not to say I don't want any other scores, but to consider something a "grail", the score has to be "above all others" in my book. So of all the unreleased scores I can think of right now that I would most like to see released, it is 5 CARD STUD, followed by THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS. But William Lava is certainly not as well known as Maurice Jarre, so I think the chances of that are even slimmer.
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So that makes the number one grail score I can think of for me Maurice Jarre's 5 CARD STUD. Can't think for my life why this one has never ever been released in any format (not even vinyl back in the day). It is probably that no mastertapes exist, otherwise I think one specialty label might have released this by now. Do you not have the Universal France 4 CD set "Le Cinéma de Maurice Jarre" which was released in 2010? On the fIrst disc of this set altogether about 8 minutes from 5 CARD STUD can be found: At first the title song sung by Dean Martin which had formerly been released on a 45rpm single in 1968 and then a 6-minute long instrumental Jarre track - kind of a suite - with the title "The Investigation". So it´s obvious that master tapes must exist of this score - even though it is possible that they are available only in the Jarre estate and not at Paramount. If you don´t know that excellent Jarre set, here it is: https://www.discogs.com/Maurice-Jarre-Le-Cin%C3%A9ma-De-Maurice-Jarre/release/9916320
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Still waiting for a good Conan the Destroyer complete score mix The TADLOW recording is complete and features a much better performance then the orchestra did on the OST. Ford A. Thaxton
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