PERRI (1957) Paul J Smith WHITE WILDERNESS (1958) Oliver Wallace THOSE CALLOWAYS (1965) Max Steiner THE LOVE BUG (1969) George Bruns NAPOLEAN AND SAMANTHA (1972) Buddy Baker THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE (1978) Lalo Schifrin
For me the answer to this question begins and ends with one word:
"CONDORMAN!"
I'm assuming / hoping that the guys over in Spain behind the Mancini CD releases for "Santa Claus : The Movie" and "Curse of the Pink Panther" might have some kind of lead-in / chance here... but the Disney factor might well be a stumbling block
(..as might also be the possibility that no Masters exist containing the music - after all, there was never a cassette or even vinyl soundtrack in the first place...) - ominous, surely?
Lots of classic animated films not having a good soundtrack presentation, right?
Otherwise, I'd really like a more available release of Patrick Doyle's fantastic score to the Norwegian film (but produced by Disney) HÅKON HÅKONSEN aka SHIPWRECKED from 1990 or thereabouts.
I think most of the best animated scores have been released in one format or another. But I wouldn't mind, the rest, (Sword In The Stone, Robin Hood, Rescuers, etc) Just to fill in the collection.
20000 leagues under the sea, Condorman, Love bug, Black cauldron in complete form, Black hole, Island on the top of the world, etc... and complete soundtrack from classics from disney ( I think it was stopped during the 90s with sleeping beauty or another one). Randy Thornton made an incredible job at this time with marvellous cds.
Speaking of The Black Hole, theoretically, is the LP program the only possibility -- I mean that not in a legal/etc sense, but when when it was put up on iTunes there was much discussion about how the original recordings were unreadable as they don't have any machines to read them.
Such a shame, as it's one of the few Barry scores I really really love. Still, a legit CD-quality release of just the LP would be welcome...
I thought Nicholas Pike's score for Mickey's The Prince and the Pauper was great, and deserves a release. Though, since the movie is only 25 minutes, it might need to be joined by something else to fit a CD. Broughton's The Three Musketeers, perhaps? Also, complete scores for most of the Disney animated features, since most of the time only the songs are there, with maybe a couple of cues of actual score. Since Alan Menken won Oscars for the score as well, they deserve better releases.
I am an unabashed fan of THE SNOWBALL EXPRESS by Bob Brunner...breezy, melodic and one of my childhood favorites!
I wish someone could at least do a compilation of suites from that score, plus THE BOATNIKS, another Brunner effort that's just lyrical and fun.
Others I'm particularly fond of -- MIDNIGHT MADNESS, NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS and yes, even SUPERDAD.
Or how about Henry Mancini's CONDORMAN and Maurice Jarre's LAST FLIGHT OF NOAH'S ARK (with a particularly tuneful, Mancini-esque end credits theme).
It would be great if we'd get some of those Ron Miller-era live-action productions represented on CD...even 15 minutes from each would suffice in the event that it'd be unlikely each by themselves would sell on their own.
A Best of Disney 2-CD set featuring tracks from those '70s and early '80s films would be great, particularly since none of them were ever released on their own.