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...so are we serious about it being Little Shop then? Because that would be awesome, it's one of my favorite musicals! Certainly if it were to be that title it would not be the musical version, which is, I believe, already out on CD.
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...so are we serious about it being Little Shop then? Because that would be awesome, it's one of my favorite musicals! Certainly if it were to be that title it would not be the musical version, which is, I believe, already out on CD. This is all beside the point, but I think the 1986 musical album is a pretty awful re-recording. The films performances are all far superior. For the album they added a lot of cheesy synth and back-up vocals. By the way, I got my Man Who Would Be King replacement. Plays perfectly.
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The replacement for my flawed disc arrived today, very quickly after I discovered and reported the flaw. This was a professional response from Kritzerland, providing superb customer service, unlike some companies that shall remain nameless here, to avoid another flame war. Aw, come in, name them. We're all friends here.
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Glad to hear replacements are arriving. Interestingly, out of the 1000 copies, thus far they've sent about 220 replacements, so that's not too terrible, but we'll see where it goes from there.
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Oh wow, Fred Katz' LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Great! I have the old LP and made a copy for my car from it some years ago and played it a lot. I noticed the music (or at least parts of it) was also used for Roger Corman's BUCKET OF BLOOD and THE WASP WOMAN (maybe even more films?), so I always wondered if Katz wrote this music for a particular film or if Corman just used Katz' music to accompany his films. I guess it's to early to ask some questions about the forthcoming CD: Will it be a port of the LP or something different? Oh, I'd say it's the music, but very different than the old LP - mono, as it should be, more in film sequence, and no dialogue.
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“WE ARE NOT LITTLE MEN” Kritzerland is very proud to present a new limited edition CD soundtrack release: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING Music Composed and Conducted by Maurice Jarre John Huston’s 1975 film of Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King was a project he’d been longing to do for twenty years. And watching the film you can see why – it’s a brilliant, ripping adventure yarn about larger-than-life men doing larger-than-life things. It’s one of those films where everything just came together in perfect symmetry. It was a project Huston was born to direct, he had two extraordinary stars in Sean Connery and Michael Caine, a great cameraman in Oswald Morris, perfect costume design by the legendary Edith Head, and the brilliant production design of the great Alexander Trauner. And certainly right up there with all those extraordinary artists was the composer Maurice Jarre, who provided the film with a wonderful score, one of his best, despite the score’s brevity. Maurice Jarre and Huston had already done The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and The Mackintosh Man together. Jarre had, by that time, become legendary for his Academy Award-winning scores for two David Lean masterpieces, Lawrence Of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago as well as his classic scores for The Collector, Eyes Without A Face, Sundays and Cybele, Ryan’s Daughter and A Passage To India (also for David Lean), Grand Prix, The Professionals, Resurrection, Shogun, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Fatal Attraction, Dead Poet’s Society, Witness, and Ghost, among many others. In The Man Who Would Be King Jarre delivered exactly the score Huston wanted – understated yet filled with majesty and wonderful orchestral textures. The score is played by the National Philharmonic, along with several of the then-greatest Indian musicians. It is robust, exotic, moving and one of Jarre’s finest achievements in a career filled with fine achievements. The Man Who Would Be King was originally released on a Capitol LP. Its first CD release was on Bay Cites back in the early 1990s. That release went out of print in 1993 and immediately became a pricey collector’s item. Since Kritzerland had its genesis in Bay Cities, it is particularly gratifying to be able to bring back The Man Who Would Be King to CD on Kritzerland. The CD has been completely and lovingly remastered, fixing several problems inherent in the original release. This release is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98 plus shipping. CD will ship by the second week of April – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com. Hello, I wanted to know something about this release , I heard some cds have problems : if I buy this edition on marketplaces like amazon.com or ebay.com and if the CD is defective and if I haven't any bill , will I get a replacement from your company if I request one please? Thanks in advance for your anwer
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Yes. All you have to do is send us an e-mail. I will say, however, that it probably isn't going to go on forever - they've been replacing discs since day one, but we're now at least two months after the fact - I'd say your safe for another month or so.
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Still waiting for my re-pressings Oh really. I know the plant has been great about sending them as soon as I forward them addresses. So, why don't you be specific and let me know when you requested and where you requested. And if you're in Europe, how long you've allowed for it to arrive. A simple e-mail to us would probably be the way to go.
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Yes. All you have to do is send us an e-mail. I will say, however, that it probably isn't going to go on forever - they've been replacing discs since day one, but we're now at least two months after the fact - I'd say your safe for another month or so. Thanks you very much for the information
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Curses. I bought a copy of this second hand not knowing about the defective discs. A pity as I've really become a fan of Maurice Jarre's work over the last year. Back it goes. Only half the run had the problem. 50/50 And some machines even played the problem discs fine.
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