Collector's Countdown

Compiled by Joe Sikoryak & Lukas Kendall

Back by popular demand!

It's been a banner year for soundtrack releases, reissues and re-recordings. And 1998 is only half over: here's some of the exciting stuff that we can look forward to over the next season (start saving those pennies, bottlecaps and green stamps!)

NOW AVAILABLE

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie [William Stromberg, John Morgan]

---VCE

JULY

7/7: The Mask of Zorro (James Horner)

---Sony

7/14: Equus (Richard Rodney Bennett, 1977)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Stephen Sondheim, 1966)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Frank Loesser, 1967)

Irma la Douce (Andre Previn, 1963)

Man of La Mancha (Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, 1972).

---Rykodisc

7/14: Small Soldiers (Jerry Goldsmith score)

Scream 1 and 2 (Marco Beltrami score album).

---Varese Sarabande

7/14: What¹s Up Tiger Lily? and You¹re a Big Boy Now (1966, The Loving Spoonful, on one CD)

---Razor & Tie

7/21: Saving Private Ryan (John Williams)

---Dreamworks

7/28: Lolita (1997, Ennio Morricone)

---Milan

7/28: The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965, Alex North, cond. Jerry Goldsmith)

Body Heat (1981, John Barry, London Symphony Orchestra cond. Joel McNeely)

---Varese Sarabande

AUGUST

8/11: Vampires (John Carpenter)

---Milan

8/11 A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Ennio Morricone)

8/25: Blacula (1972, Gene Page)

---Razor & Tie

8/25: Elmer Gantry (Andre Previn, 1960, with extra music)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (Alfred Newman, 1965---a 3CD set, with the original album on disc one, and the score as heard in the film on discs two and three)

---Rykodisc

Che! (1969, Lalo Schifrin,plus newly recorded guitar pieces).

---Aleph Records, by mail only from www.schifrin.com.

SEPTEMBER

9/1: Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons (Alf Clausen plus songs and dialogue)

---Rhino

9/15: The Misfits (Alex North, 1961), with 45 min. unreleased music

Taras Bulba (Franz Waxman, 1962), with original, unused Franz Waxman liner notes

9/29: The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein, original 1960 soundtrack, in mono)

---Rykodisc

9/8: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1957, Bernard Herrmann, cond. John Debney)

Somewhere in Time (1983, John Barry, cond. John Debney, featuring Lynda Cochrane, piano).

9/22: The Towering Inferno: Great Disaster Classics (cond. Joel McNeely and John Debney),

---Varese Sarabande

The Exorcist (1973) including a suite of the rejected score by Lalo Schifrin

---Warner Home Video (part of 25th anniversary video release, not sold separately)

Get Carter (1971, Roy Budd)

---Castle Communications

All dates are subject to change without notice. Don't blame us, we're just the messenger boy! Any questions? MailBag@filmscoremonthly.com

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