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They exist, problem is that Sony would have be involved in the release (due to the 1950s "A Tribute To James Dean" album).
"East of Eden" is out there (have a look on discogs and soundtrackcollector), but RWAC isn't.
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One hopes we FSMers are all acquainted with Leonard Rosenman's 1977 re-visit of these two scores in the album from 9-30-55. Lack of discussion on 9-30-55, though, causes me to wonder just how many of us like (or dislike) this disc?
There are plenty of other early Rosenman titles from the late-1950s and early-1960s which are absent on discs, too, besides East of Eden & Rebel Without a Cause. What we have is The Cobweb, Edge of the City, Hell Is For Heroes & The Chapman Report - and this is about it along with Lenny's TWILIGHT ZONE episode and his 2 segments of HITCHCOCK.
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Nice to know they exist even if a label isn't interested.
Maybe LLL would have produced both scores if their GIANT double CD hadn´t been such a commercial failure several years ago. That one was a huge disappointment for them.
It is certainly not the case that no US label is interested in doing these two James Dean scores, but if you consider how complicated (and expensive) it has become in the meantime to license older scores in general from Warners, then it is no wonder that nothing happens anymore with these two scores. Add to that the fact that such licensing will be probably even more costly if also Sony is involved.
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I think one of the problems is that Sony required a minimum number of copies back then - too much for vintage soundtrack releases - plus most of the production happened in-house. I'm not sure how this would have been for a soundtrack release like this. In some cases it worked out (like the ill-fated releases of "My Fair Lady" and "The Alamo"), but the James Dean album never seems to have been priority for Sony. The first CD release of the album has been in Japan in 1992 and it was not available (officially) on the US and EU market until 2003. I was happy about that release back then, but from today's point of view, a release of the full tracks should have happened (it would have been a one-of-a-kind possibility). It remains a pity that they used Warner's tracks for "A Star Is Born" and yet left these two iconic scores at LP length. A full-length release probably would have required two disks. The expanded "Dances With Wolves" released at the same time also was limited to just one disk.
I'm perhaps a little biased here, but in my opinion, the album should have been in the CD catalog from hour zero (like the CBS "My Fair Lady" disk in the mid-1980s). Problem is, however, that the general audience will be happier with a rock'n'roll sampler than the modernistic Rosenman scores. Nonetheless, it's odd that just about every bargain bin album/single related to James Dean has been re-issued (including Warner's own dialog snippet album) whereas the original tracks remain unissued. The same goes for Leonard Rosenman's own Imperial album which has never been re-issued by EMI/UMG.
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Nice to know they exist even if a label isn't interested.
Maybe LLL would have produced both scores if their GIANT double CD hadn´t been such a commercial failure several years ago. That one was a huge disappointment for them.
Was that so? That's a shame. I'd have expected Tiomkin's GIANT to be among the more popular and successful titles.
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Maybe LLL would have produced both scores if their GIANT double CD hadn´t been such a commercial failure several years ago. That one was a huge disappointment for them.
Was that so? That's a shame.
The commercal failure of GIANT at least during the first few months after it had been released was certainly a decisive factor that the number of Golden Age releases on LLL dwindled down that much after 2015.
Just read MV Gerhard´s comment from April 2016 when asked whether a few Golden Age titles would be planned in 2016 on LLL:
"Nope. Maybe one GA title this year. After the turd the very very expensive GIANT laid last year I figured why bother spending all that time and money on GA titles that no one buys?"
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=63&threadID=67395&archive=0
And additionally this comment from August 2016:
"Guys, lets face it -- Golden Age scores are a niche of a niche of a niche.
If 1000 units of something like Giant or the Virgin Queen can't even sell then what's the point? It's a business and breaking even on a project doesn't help keep the lights on or even supply toliet paper."
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=116233&archive=0
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