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"Roy Budd's "Soldier Blue" film recording "exists"."
It does not.
I wrote that article you are quoting from several years ago. Back then I did not do my due diligence as an investigative reporter and simply believed what the Budd Estate told me.
Several years later we went through all the tapes together and catalogued them. "Soldier Blue" is lost, as are "The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins", "The Man Who Came to Dinner", Welcome to Blood City", "The Missing Link", "The Big Bang," etc etc etc.
You name it. Either lost or damaged beyond repair by vinegar syndrome. We were about to sign a contract for "The Big Bang" when we discovered that some tapes were labeled wrongly, others were blank, others moldy, others affected by vinegar syndrome.
It's a sad story. Don't remind me. Ah, you already did. Pity.
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Well, you recently put out a fine release of Man at the Top, so it’s not *entirely* a tragic story, is it? You must have found some surviving material. (Was this the only score of his that did survive?)
Bummer about Soldier Blue though.
Yavar
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Couple of questions: The Man at the Top credits only list Budd as the composer, with no mention of conductor. Did he conduct? Also, with some fine jazzy piano playing, do we know if Budd is the soloist?
Yes, Roy did conduct and is also the soloist heard on the piano 
zeppelin. Zeppelin. ZEPPELIN !!
Lost.
Are the original film tracks for Wild Geese also lost?
Lost in space.
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No!!! Not Zeppelin too? One of my faves. 
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Couple of questions: The Man at the Top credits only list Budd as the composer, with no mention of conductor. Did he conduct? Also, with some fine jazzy piano playing, do we know if Budd is the soloist?
Yes, Roy did conduct and is also the soloist heard on the piano
zeppelin. Zeppelin. ZEPPELIN !!
Lost.
Are the original film tracks for Wild Geese also lost?
Lost in space.
Thanks for your reply's to everyone's Questions.
So very sad so many of his scores are lost even something like ' Wild Geese ' that was recorded at CTS Wembley. If anything else does become available please release it . Man at the Top CD is very good indeed...
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