I'm actually pretty jazzed FSM kept the Disco Theme for their release. It's a product of the time and part of an authentic recreation of the LP/CD. It's also a guilty pleasure, like the Logan's Run disco love theme, Close Encounters, and The Incredible Hulk.
Well Logan's Run came out during the height of the disco craze. Wasn't disco dead by the 80's? I never understood why there was a disco arrangement on Search For Spock to begin with.
Bill Hunt over at The Digital Bits (www.thedigitalbits.com) has given a shout-out to this CD (I think he did the same for Trek II). Bill and compnay run my favourite DVD/Blu-ray site and Bill himself is a giant Trek fan. Here's the item (linking is weird because the link always changes):
In other news today, those of you who are soundtrack fans will be pleased to know that Film Score Monthly and Screen Archives Entertainment are releasing an expanded, 2-disc version of James Horner's complete score for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/14037/STAR-TREK-III-THE-SEARCH-FOR-SPOCK-PRE-ORDER/). It streets on 6/1 (SRP $24.95) and includes a 20-page booklet of liner notes. Disc One is the complete score, while Disc Two recreates the original LP release track order, complete with the Group 87 "pop" version of The Search for Spock. Pretty cool. I'll tell you, between FSM (http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/daily/index.cfm) and LaLaLand Records (http://www.lalalandrecords.com/), it's a good time to be a soundtrack fan.
I'm actually pretty jazzed FSM kept the Disco Theme for their release. It's a product of the time and part of an authentic recreation of the LP/CD. It's also a guilty pleasure, like the Logan's Run disco love theme, Close Encounters, and The Incredible Hulk.
Well Logan's Run came out during the height of the disco craze. Wasn't disco dead by the 80's? I never understood why there was a disco arrangement on Search For Spock to begin with.
I don't know if we have any disco experts here, but the arrangement in question certainly doesn't sound like disco to me. I'm pretty sure "Disco Theme" is being used here colloquially, or for lack of a better term, not literally.
Notice, that's NOT what it's called in the CDs track listing.
Well Logan's Run came out during the height of the disco craze. Wasn't disco dead by the 80's? I never understood why there was a disco arrangement on Search For Spock to begin with.
Ha, me neither. When I bought the LP, not only was I perplexed at the whole disco version, I was bummed the second record had only that and nothing more of the score.
But "The Search for Spock: Theme From Star Trek III (Performed by Group 87)" is NOT Star Trek disco.
Well I only vaguely remember the track. Its long been cut out of my cassette edit and CD edit. And I wish to not remember it. :-P So perhaps that was the wrong description for the track.
But "The Search for Spock: Theme From Star Trek III (Performed by Group 87)" is NOT Star Trek disco.
Well I only vaguely remember the track. Its long been cut out of my cassette edit and CD edit. And I wish to not remember it. :-P So perhaps that was the wrong description for the track.
It was listed as "The Search For Spock", track 9 on the GNP Crescendo CD, and nothing on the disk even mentions Group 87.
It was left off of the Silva Screen Records release in the UK.
I love me some kitsch music. The disco version of the STIII music doesn't do it for me, but I do love the 80s cuts from STIV a lot. "Market Street" is one of those tracks that makes me smile no matter my mood.
Well, if Group 87 and The Yellowjackets and (probably) Hiroshima can appear on Star Trek soundtrack re-issues, would it be so much more to ask . . . dare we hope . . . someday . . .
