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Roger on FB for Intrada:
We will have one last batch of releases in Dec, featuring the likes of Dimitri Tiomkin, Charles Fox, Corey Wallace, John Barry and Frank Ilfman.
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I believe this is the title that was originally teased for 2023, then was teased again for early 2024, but kept getting delayed.
Perseverence pays off!
I'm hearing nightmare stories from insiders about how ridiculously long it's taking to get approvals on certain titles. Literally years, in some cases. Seems to apply here.
I look forward to it, and hope to see it soon, but given those nightmare stories, I'll be understanding if it doesn't make it.
Fingers crossed, Stefan!
Cheers
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Wonder what it could be. Hope for something like Year of the Comet (rejected).
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Anyone said the Specialist yet?
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Anyone said the Specialist yet?
There's no hope of that one coming out any time soon, I'm afraid. It's buried. Warners.
Cheers
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What's wrong with the already released THE SPECIALIST?
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What's wrong with the already released THE SPECIALIST?
Nuttin!
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How awesome would it be if the Legend Of The Lone Ranger masters were found!
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I can think of no John Barry album I would rather have than the lost but fully recorded score for Sinful Davey from 1969, the same year as OHMSS and Midnight Cowboy.
A period film about a rogue, John Huston asked JB to compose a contemporary score.
Then Walter Mirisch tossed it.
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Also: There was more of his Cotton Club music than has ever been released. The original album was originally going to be a 2 LP set. Sure, lots of Duke Ellington (and that's just alright with me) but probably more Barry.
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Mercury Rising, with Carter Burwell's additional cues as well
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Anyone said the Specialist yet?
There's no hope of that one coming out any time soon, I'm afraid. It's buried. Warners.
Cheers
It's not exactly "buried"; it's available for streaming and digital download.
https://www.qobuz.com/be-nl/album/the-specialist-original-motion-picture-score-john-barry/0884977323320
That's The original 1994 CD, Nic. I presume the question was in reference to a possible complete, remastered edition.
A complete and remastered edition is definitely buried for the time being. It nearly came out for the film's 20th anniversary in 2014, but got delayed. Then there was the changing of the guard at Warners, and that buried it completely. Nobody is going to be doing an expanded remaster of that title any time soon, I'm afraid.
That said, the original 1994 CD doesn't sound as bad as the other poorly mastered Epic CDs of the 1990s, and there's not that much music missing. There's maybe 10 minutes of score in the film, plus source music and whatever alternate versions there might be. So, the 1994 album should suffice for people in the interim.
Cheers
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Ref: PETULIA.
There are indeed about three unreleased cues, each quite short. It would be very nice to get them, because they have some nice touches not represented by other tracks on the album, but we're talking literally two or three minutes of music.
PETULIA is one of those instances where there's more music on the album than there is in the film, thanks to the inclusion of the unused cue Highway 101.
However, again, as a Warners property, even if the original scoring masters existed—and I doubt it, because hardly any John Barry scoring masters from that era still exist—I am confident that Warners would not answer the door on that one.
Three John Barry scores I'd particularly love to see reduxed are:
THE COTTON CLUB.
Only two tracks of John Barry's score have been released, and it's one of his most remarkable achievements. Plus, there is the famous / infamous matter of the score being completely re-done with a different size orchestra, so there's an alternative recording for a different orchestra set-up out there somewhere.
FRANCES.
Like PETULIA, there's literally only a few minutes of unreleased score, but one of those pieces is simply the most magical piece of John Barry and I ache to have it. The cue I'm thinking of was heavily used in the trailer.
NIGHT GAMES.
Silva Screen could have done the complete one-hour score back in 1992, but they chose instead to take only 24 minutes of it to make it a CD filler for GAME OF DEATH. NIGHT GAMES is a dreadful film, but it's one of John Barry's most interesting scores from that period. It's deliciously romantic, mysterious, sensual, and dark, with some serious dramatic bite in some of the unreleased cues.
I don't think we'll ever get The Cotton Club, due to licencing complications. Frances could surely be done if anyone was motivated to do it. Same with Night Games. I was hoping Silva Screen might redux that title.
Of the completely unreleased scores, I'd especially like to see TOUCHED BY LOVE and MY SISTER'S KEEPER come out. Silva Screen nearly did MY SISTER'S KEEPER back in 1986/1987. They had the tapes to do it, but it fell through.
None of these titles is what I'm expecting to see from Intrada in December.
Cheers
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