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I don't know if they are "overlooked", they all have some releases, but their fan-base is likely to be considerably smaller than, say, Jerry Goldsmith's or John Williams'. Add to that that most of the movies they worked on were not as high profile as James Bond or Star Wars, and you come to the point where CD sales will probably not cover the cost for the effort to release some of the music, especially not if they are older mono recordings. I'm sure the labels would release more by them IF there were enough people out there buying the releases.
I do have the recording of Roy Webb music William Stromberg conducted for Marco Polo, and that shows what a great composer Roy Webb was. But I doubt it was a big seller.
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"Underrepresented", yeah, well... maybe... but compared to whom or what? Take Frank Skinner... sure, there are far, far fewer recordings of his music out there than, say, Miklós Rózsa scores, but why is that? Because he is overlooked or ignored by "the labels", or because he is just not as interesting to the collector and therefore a lot of his stuff would just not sell.
Of course there are many more Hans Zimmer releases than there are Frank Skinner releases, but is Frank Skinner therefore "underrepresented"? The Miklós Rózsa scores for "Green Fire/" and "Bhowani Junction" were both released seventeen years ago in an edition of 3000, and they still have not sold out. That is two film scores for the price of one and of all the Golden Age composers, Miklós Rózsa surely is one of the most popular and enduring. I am just not so sure there is enough demand for all that many Frank Skinner releases. Particularly in light of the fact that I consider Miklós Rózsa to be in a completely different league.
That said, I really enjoy the classic Universal horror scores Frank Skinner did (often with composer such as Hans J. Salter). I mostly know them through the recordings William Stromberg and John Morgan did for Marco Polo. But the monster movies are at least remembered to this day.
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Mike Post.
Not a single release of any of his original recordings to television or even film.
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Burwell. Many unreleased scores.
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I do have the recording of Roy Webb music William Stromberg conducted for Marco Polo, and that shows what a great composer Roy Webb was. But I doubt it was a big seller.
I suspect it has outsold at least 90% of all releases by any of our specialist labels.
Maybe, I don't know... Indeed, it came out in the years when the audio compact disc had its sales-zenith and thanks to Marco Polo/Naxos it may have enjoyed a comparatively wide distribution. On the other hand, Val Lewton, while highly esteemed among film fans, is not exactly a household name, and the same is true for Roy Webb.
Ironically, I think our specialty labels, which were really small niche labels in 2000, were less affected by the decline of compact disc sales than overall sales, which have declined by 95% or so. So they still seem to be able to sell 3000 of certain recordings, even though not quite as fast anymore than they used to.
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Stanley Myers
John Dankworth
Richard Rodney Bennett
P.S. I love that a poster mentioned Robert Prince. I heard a jazz ballet he composed and thought it was wonderful.
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