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Most impressive collection.
No LPs of superman II & III ?
The only two CDs missing, if I am not mistaken, are the Varèse Sarabande CD of Supergirl and the Japanese CD of Superman II/Superman III
Once again a very nice collection !
Thank you! I am indeed missing the sequels' original releases. Superman: The Ultimate Collection (the red CD, a Bruce Kimmel production) has some re-recorded tracks from them, and then the Blue Box comes along with everything. I never picked up the Varese Supergirl, either. That's the one with the left-handed Miss Liberty, if I recall.
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jonnyquest: Re: "I mean, really, what are there? Like 100 of us who would laugh and nod in agreement? I wish we could all get together, I'd buy the first round of drinks. I know I'd love you all.
Merry Christmas!"
I also feel a kinship to many here, which is probably why I have this thing about members posting absolutely NOTHING about themselves on their profiles. And I'm afraid to have to include YOU among those. As I've written elsewhere, I respect members' rights to keep any details about themselves hidden -- some don't even post so much as their sex! (You DO give your sex and city, so yours isn't a total blank!) I like to think that it would be nice to know each members' favorite composers and soundtracks. Is that asking too much? They can leave the rest blank … even their sex, if they aren't willing to share that either!
I'll admit to just being too damn lazy to write anything. I should change that. New Year's resolution??
I, too, often wondered what was up with the sticker. I assumed something incorrect was under it, but like many of you have said, the track list was probably not ready in time to print the sleeve.
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I still have mine!
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Dec 19, 2013 - 9:10 PM
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jonnyquest: Re: "I mean, really, what are there? Like 100 of us who would laugh and nod in agreement? I wish we could all get together, I'd buy the first round of drinks. I know I'd love you all.
Merry Christmas!"
I also feel a kinship to many here, which is probably why I have this thing about members posting absolutely NOTHING about themselves on their profiles. And I'm afraid to have to include YOU among those. As I've written elsewhere, I respect members' rights to keep any details about themselves hidden -- some don't even post so much as their sex! (You DO give your sex and city, so yours isn't a total blank!) I like to think that it would be nice to know each members' favorite composers and soundtracks. Is that asking too much? They can leave the rest blank … even their sex, if they aren't willing to share that either!
Hey Ron, nice that you're interested in more information about members. I am too, but I tend to formulate my impressions of others around here through their posts. I often forget to even click on profiles! I haven't avoided filling a profile out because I'm secretive. It's just not a big deal to me to talk about my life on the FSM board. I guess I don't tend to think of a forum like this as a "social site" like facebook or similar. Anyhow, maybe over the holidays I'll throw a little more info in there about myself.
Meanwhile, I'm a fifty year old guy living in Louisville, from Pittsburgh originally. Moved here for a first job after art school and stayed. I'm a Creative Director. Film music spoke to me as long as I can remember, it was always the most powerful aspect of movie-going to me. The Disney films, the Big Musicals that would come on TV at the holidays...but like many of my generation, it was Williams who really opened the door. Star Wars wasn't the first though. The Irwin Allen music blew my mind - Lost In Space especially - and it was one of those things I was taping off the tv!  Then I was obsessed by the theme to The Poseidon Adventure. My little brother and I would be floating plastic boats in the backyard pool and I'd flip mine over and start humming the theme! LOL
I've cited this little story before, which supports why I'm more grateful and less gripey than some around here. After seeing The Towering Inferno, my dad was driving us home and I wouldn't talk about it because I was trying to keep the main title theme "fresh" in my head, so I could race to my room and WHISTLE IT into my tape recorder so I wouldn't ever forget it. I knew soundtrack LPs were out there but most visits to the record bins were full of primarily "show tunes" and stuff like 400 copies of "Love Story." I honestly never dreamed that some of this music I was loving would ever be available to me. So when everyone starts their CC vs. album release stuff, or being greedy, or criticizing everything, I tend to shut down. I am so happy for all of it, seriously. By the time Jaws and Star Wars rolled around, I followed the same progression as many others. Apes and Logan and Patton brought me to Jerry, Bond to Barry, on and on.
Other music passions of mine include an obsession with every note and word ever written by Stephen Sondheim, the beauty and complexity of Radiohead, and about a million things in between. My favorite artist/band of the past few years is Tame Impala (Kevin Parker).
Other trivia includes the fact that I missed out on a ticket to see John Williams next month here in Louisville because I was having a little surgery when they were put on sale and quickly sold out! Painful for me because I was the one who announced the concert to this forum! I have not given up, so maybe some of you will meet me there.
Hope that was the sort of thing you were looking for. Enjoyed your profile! Merry Christmas. Mike (yeah, it's not Jonny!)
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Thanks, Jonnyquest. And thanks to Afn, Alex Cremers, and Soundtracksi for the hard facts. When I posted the original question, I thought maybe no one would have the answer. But now we know what lies beneath. Crowd-sourcing works.
On my copy of the LP, the sticker doesn't cover the S emblem, but of course it's on there crooked and the letters are faint and thinly printed. They should have printed a loose insert sheet like the one that came with the STAR WARS LP. That would have been neater and more informative.
Incidentally, if it weren't for Sigerson Holmes and Governor, I wouldn't know that Toni Tennille had recorded the song. I see the Maureen McGovern version on iTunes. Was the Tennille ever released?
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I just checked my copy of the 2-LP set, and the track listing is printed on the actual sleeve, not on a sticker.
Would you folks say it's safe to assume that the 2-LP I have might have been from a later pressing and the ones with the sticker were probably from the first or, if not, at least an early pressing?
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See my post above but yes, that's almost certainly the case.
Whoops. Moving on...
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I'd also forgotten about the gorgeous black sleeve covers, with colour stills from the film all over them, which protected the LP's.
It really is a thing of beauty and it gave me hours upon hours of love and good times all those years ago.
I believed a man could fly!
I'm so there. This was the kind of LP that foreshadowed our modern expanded editions, missing the liner notes of course but delivering twice the music we might have expected.
And the score itself is thunderously pleasing. Is it me, or was there a burst of brilliance in late 1970s film music when the Silver Age took a back seat to nobody's age?
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Dec 26, 2013 - 6:12 AM
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"Is it me, or was there a burst of brilliance in late 1970s film music when the Silver Age took a back seat to nobody's age?"
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It's certainly not just you Zap.
I would say there are a lot of us, aged anywhere between, say 45 to 55 now, who would count scores like Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, CE3K, The Fury, Dracula, 1941, TESB (Williams), The Omen trilogy, Boys From Brazil, Star Trek TMP, The Swarm (Goldsmith) and King Kong, The Black Hole and the Bond scores (Barry) to be amongst the best of the best.
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Mike (jq):
It's easy for replies to slip past us -- I just saw your lengthy one about yourself from before Christmas and was quite impressed by what you shared. Frankly, you could save the following and paste it in your profile:
Someone asked me about myself and I answered with this: I'm a fifty year old guy living in Louisville, from Pittsburgh originally. Moved here for a first job after art school and stayed. I'm a Creative Director. Film music spoke to me as long as I can remember, it was always the most powerful aspect of movie-going to me. The Disney films, the Big Musicals that would come on TV at the holidays...but like many of my generation, it was Williams who really opened the door. Star Wars wasn't the first though. The Irwin Allen music blew my mind - Lost In Space especially - and it was one of those things I was taping off the tv! Then I was obsessed by the theme to The Poseidon Adventure. My little brother and I would be floating plastic boats in the backyard pool and I'd flip mine over and start humming the theme! LOL
I've cited this little story before, which supports why I'm more grateful and less gripey than some around here. After seeing The Towering Inferno, my dad was driving us home and I wouldn't talk about it because I was trying to keep the main title theme "fresh" in my head, so I could race to my room and WHISTLE IT into my tape recorder so I wouldn't ever forget it. I knew soundtrack LPs were out there but most visits to the record bins were full of primarily "show tunes" and stuff like 400 copies of "Love Story." I honestly never dreamed that some of this music I was loving would ever be available to me. So when everyone starts their CC vs. album release stuff, or being greedy, or criticizing everything, I tend to shut down. I am so happy for all of it, seriously. By the time Jaws and Star Wars rolled around, I followed the same progression as many others. Apes and Logan and Patton brought me to Jerry, Bond to Barry, on and on.
Other music passions of mine include an obsession with every note and word ever written by Stephen Sondheim, the beauty and complexity of Radiohead, and about a million things in between. My favorite artist/band of the past few years is Tame Impala (Kevin Parker).
Just a thought!
Nice story about wanting to remember the music from that film and not wanting to speak to your father lest you forgot the melody before you could hum it into your recorder. Loved it. As for Sondheim, I've been a huge fan of his for many decades, although about the time of "Assassins" and "Passion" I grew a bit weary of some of his shows. Have you seen the James Lapine-directed documentary ("Six By Sondheim") that's been on HBO over the past few weeks? Very good -- not perfect, but still well worth seeing.
Ron
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. . . After seeing The Towering Inferno, my dad was driving us home and I wouldn't talk about it because I was trying to keep the main title theme "fresh" in my head, so I could race to my room and WHISTLE IT into my tape recorder so I wouldn't ever forget it . . .
Whoa!
Here's my chance to repeat the news from the other recent "Superman" thread:
I wanted to tell you all as soon as I found out!
http://www.bowtiecinemas.com/special-programs/?program=movies-mimosas&location=mm
"Superman" is coming back to the big screen in New York for two nights only, 02/08 & 02/09!
I requested my favorite movie at the theater's website a couple of months ago, and . . . "voila!"
I'll definitely be there, I just don't know which night. Maybe both? I'm just nutty enough. Perhaps we can turn it into an informal FSM-NY get-together? Who else is going, and which night?
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Just LIke Empire Strikes Back, Superman, here in Brasil was released as a single LP, not double set. Maybe this can be a clue...
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Jan 17, 2014 - 7:47 AM
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jonnyquest
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Mike (jq):
It's easy for replies to slip past us -- I just saw your lengthy one about yourself from before Christmas and was quite impressed by what you shared. Frankly, you could save the following and paste it in your profile...
...Nice story about wanting to remember the music from that film and not wanting to speak to your father lest you forgot the melody before you could hum it into your recorder. Loved it. As for Sondheim, I've been a huge fan of his for many decades, although about the time of "Assassins" and "Passion" I grew a bit weary of some of his shows. Have you seen the James Lapine-directed documentary ("Six By Sondheim") that's been on HBO over the past few weeks? Very good -- not perfect, but still well worth seeing.
Ron
No worries Ron, I know how frequently you appear in threads so I figured you'd find my reply to your request eventually. And you did. Thanks for the complimentary profile edit. For some reason I didn't mind sharing all that in direct reply to your request to learn more about me, yet I hesitate to paste all that garbage into a profile! LOL. I suppose I just feel that's a lot to expect anyone to read if clicking on it. I promise one day when I'm in the mood I'll do a little mini-version. I hear what you're saying about later Sondheim, but personally, a few artists are just so heroic to me that their entire body of work - every note, word or frame - fascinates me. Kubrick, Hitchcock, Williams, Sondheim, Radiohead blah blah blah. There's always something I like more and something I like less, but I cherish every bit of it because eventually they'll be gone and that body of work is all we have. LOVED the Lapine/Sondheim HBO documentary, was counting the minutes til its premiere. It may have had some flaws, but still a very wonderful addition to the documentation of this artist's life and legacy. My favorite aspect was the way a single story or anecdote was compiled by dozens of interview clips from throughout the man's life. Just brilliant. It reminded me how many of the fictions of our life become fact just through the way we retell the same stories about ourselves through the years. In my case, though, as fanciful and silly as it sounds, the Towering Inferno story was no fiction! hee hee Best wishes and I now return control of this thread to the OP!
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