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Hello there Lots of TV show - largely unsuccessfully. Star Trek TOS, Gerry Anderson, Irwin Allen, ITC. Very very frustrating - lots of blank looks from record shop assistants. Which I am sure most people on this board have had at one time or another. At least the lack of the these shows being released has now been largely rectified. Thanks to a lot of very talented and dedicated people at the specialist labels. The only film I can honestly remember rushing out immediately to buy after watching was John Williams' Dracula. Which was not in stock so I came home with Jerry Goldsmith's Alien score instead. Which was certainly better than the usual frustration! Not gone into a record store and purchased a cd for many a long while. Regards CC
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Aug 11, 2014 - 2:27 PM
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Tall Guy
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Bloody 'ell, another Scouse Soundtrack Fan! That's Spymaster, Mark Langdon, Roy Donga, Damian, me and murph above (I'm sure there are a few lurkers too). I think we need to sort our very own Friends Of Film Music Event...no major travel required! Never mind that, Kev - you've got an awesome five-a-side team there (with you as the kit man). I was up in Newcastle at the time, and it was rare that I could go into town with a particular soundtrack in mind and simply buy it, because the supply simply wasn't that good. The main exceptions to this were the Bond scores, although I had to send away for Dr No and Thunderball, which took an age to arrive (from Magpie Records, I believe, in Worcester). The result was that I bought scores as they were available, on impulse, so to speak. I clearly recall buying Battle of Britain, Where Eagles Dare, A Man & A Woman, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Sleuth (no sleeve!) and many others. Happy days.
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I remember it taking forever for the Star Trek II album to actually make it into stores. I would drive all over Houston, going to different malls and hoping to find the record. I'd also go to a store called All Records and kept asking the owner if he knew when the LP would arrive. He finally sold me his promo copy, just to shut me up. Interesting, Neil. I was just about three hundred miles away from you in the summer of '82, yet the STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN LP was at my local TG&Y department store within two weeks of the movie's release. TG&Y was where I got WOK, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE BLACK HOLE, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and a few other must-haves before I got the chance to visit urban malls within a hundred-mile radius, where I picked up LP's the likes of POLTERGEIST, DRACULA (Williams), and SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE. Curiously, my only cut-out bin experience was at a Gibson's Discount Center in Denison, Texas where, believe it or not, 8-track tapes of older soundtracks were available like RICH MAN, POOR MAN and EARTHQUAKE, as well as that stunning soundtrack album from THE FURY. I kept 8-track a-rockin' with those titles and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND well into the mid-'80s.
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John Barry's Goldfinger (and Bassey's singing) blew me away when I first saw the movie back in 1964. I think that was the first time I ever made an express visit to a record store to buy a soundtrack. Had to ask my parents for an advance on my allowance though. I had a couple of soundtracks like West Side Story but they were Christmas gifts.
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I used to buy at Camelot Records as a teen. I recall seeing KINGS ROW in the premium LP section. Oh, my but it looked special, all gate-fold-y and with those 1940's colors. What possessed me to buy it I'll never know because I'd never seen the film, I doubt I'd heard the music. I think Page Cook must have drooled about it. It was all new records for me until I discovered used bins.
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I remember in the late 70's I discovered this new label that was re-releasing some obscure film scores on vinyl. I couldn't believe all the stuff they were putting out, so I made it my business to get 'em all. The label was Varese Sarabande, and I'm happy to report they're still going strong. Yes. Very exciting times they were.
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too many occasions to list, zoob. the ones that stand out early in memory were:- battle of britain (saw at cinema and got next day), Where eagles Dare (cinema), zulu (tv), great escape and 633 squadron (tv). also saw blue max at screening at pontinental resort in majorca and got home and saved pocket money and car washing money to buy it. in those days the big holiday camps in uk ran current movies in their theatres. quite a lot more. my first LPS were the Camden fistful of dollars/ few dollars more and Gbu - that was without seeing the films first - it was on the recommendation of my dad - and my older cousin who could get in to see them - and the fact they knew i loved the montenegro single. in my teenage years - not like the guys these days with CDs in the 1000s - i probably bought 500 LPs based on seeing films first and probably another few hundred of composers i collected without seeing films, including quite a few italian westerns, thrillers and war films.
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Aug 13, 2014 - 5:19 PM
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Ray Worley
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Way too many to recount...I was always rushing right to the stores after seeing a movie. The ones that stand out are the ones that were really difficult to find. When I first got "into" collecting I lived in Cocoa, Florida...a relatively small Atlantic coast town, so no specialty record shops. But it was not unreasonable to make trips to Orlando which even before Disney World was a larger city. IN HARM'S WAY was one I haunted stores for weeks and even tried to special order through Belk-Lindsey or Woolworth's (to no avail). I finally found it in a store in Orlando after a couple of disappointing previous trips. IN LIKE FLINT was also hard to find. Oddly, I stumbled across that one when my uncle, who was in the Army, took me into a local base's PX (which I remember as structured much like a discount department store like a K-Mart or Wal-Mart, but more functional.) And damn if I didn't find IN LIKE FLINT in their record section! For a time back then, I had joined the Columbia Record Club (sort of like the Book of the Month Club for records). I never accepted the monthly selection, but they often had some soundtracks listed in their catalog that I couldn't get locally. The big attraction back then was they promised to be able to get you anything in the Schwann catalog (anybody remember that?). This turned out to not be true, as I had many LPs on constant back-order. (Lots of things listed in the catalog were really out-of-print). I got THE TEN COMMANDMENTS that way but only after re-ordering it several times. (This was years after its initial release...probably '66 or '67). Eventually, the club dropped this promise from their blurbs...probably because I was such a pain in the ass.
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Aug 14, 2014 - 3:25 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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For a time back then, I had joined the Columbia Record Club (sort of like the Book of the Month Club for records). . . . The big attraction back then was they promised to be able to get you anything in the Schwann catalog (anybody remember that?). This turned out to not be true, as I had many LPs on constant back-order. (Lots of things listed in the catalog were really out-of-print). I got THE TEN COMMANDMENTS that way but only after re-ordering it several times. (This was years after its initial release...probably '66 or '67). Eventually, the club dropped this promise from their blurbs...probably because I was such a pain in the ass. Another vendor that made the same promise was King Karol Records in New York City, who also operated a mail order business. I didn't order a lot from them, but they were able to supply anything I did order. In the early 1970's, I was able to get from them the LPs for THE ALAMO and IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD MAD WORLD, which had long since disappeared from most retail store shelves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Karol
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happy days...
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The one LP I remember calling the record store on a nearly daily basis (when I was 16 years old and could drive to the store) was MOONRAKER, in 1979. SCOTT
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