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Mar 15, 2014 - 9:45 PM
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PFK
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Victor Young was undoubtedly the king of the "Reign of Paramount", in music, in the same way Newman, Rozsa and Steiner were the kings of the Three Reigns of Fox, MGM and Warner Bros.
Having been much less celebrated on record than these colleagues, I hope, Bruce, that your effort in resurrecting interest for Young will continue beyond the four releases in the current year and will start a politic of completeness toward this great composer, on Kritzerland, filling the gap.
Young's dramatic and western scores are "first rate" in themes, rhythm, orchestral texture, and I greet with joy this new release, with these first 3 scores.
Nothing to say, about the (unknown) titles that will follow, and anything is welcome. But for westerns, Young spoke in a special way to our ear, and I remain hopeful to see released, along with other interesting works, in one of the next three CDs, at least DRUM BEAT. Is there hope?
Finder 4545, I could not have said it better!
I too always liked Drum Beat. I hope Bruce can get into WB some day, the other labels seem reluctant or unable to issue 1950s WB Max Steiner, Victor Young, Dimitri Tiomkin, David Buttolph etc.
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Not only that, but DRUM BEAT is one of Alan Ladd's JAGUAR productions.
In any case, I wonder if Warners even controls the music rights to these films if they are actually owned by the Ladd family......
If you have a look at this interesting posting by Lukas Kendall from 2006 you will see that Young's score for DRUM BEAT is not owned by Warners at all and that they don't have any masters for it:
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=36149&forumID=1&archive=1
I also suppose therefore that it is the property of Alan Ladd's Jaguar production company.
And the most important question is: Have they preserved anything at all regarding this score or is it lost forever?
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Mar 19, 2014 - 5:44 PM
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JEC
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Victor Young was undoubtedly the king of the "Reign of Paramount", in music, in the same way Newman, Rozsa and Steiner were the kings of the Three Reigns of Fox, MGM and Warner Bros.
Having been much less celebrated on record than these colleagues, I hope, Bruce, that your effort in resurrecting interest for Young will continue beyond the four releases in the current year and will start a politic of completeness toward this great composer, on Kritzerland, filling the gap.
Young's dramatic and western scores are "first rate" in themes, rhythm, orchestral texture, and I greet with joy this new release, with these first 3 scores.
Nothing to say, about the (unknown) titles that will follow, and anything is welcome. But for westerns, Young spoke in a special way to our ear, and I remain hopeful to see released, along with other interesting works, in one of the next three CDs, at least DRUM BEAT. Is there hope?
Finder 4545, I could not have said it better!
I too always liked Drum Beat. I hope Bruce can get into WB some day, the other labels seem reluctant or unable to issue 1950s WB Max Steiner, Victor Young, Dimitri Tiomkin, David Buttolph etc.
I thought nothing existed from WB from the 1950s. I asked once about JOHN PAUL JONES and someone said all that stuff was purged.
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Ordering this one soon. Keep up the great work Bruce.
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Hello Bruce, I know you are not ready for guessing your next release, but I wanted to move this thread up and at the same time ask you a question. At the present time are there any Franz Waxman scores from his Paramount days in the Kritzerland pipeline ? I won't press you beyond a yes or no answer. Thanks for all that you have given us.
We are trying to do another Waxman at Paramount. Fingers crossed.
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Bruce, any further word on when the Victor Young CD will be ready to order?
Are the sales for the CD going well?
I'm greatly looking forward to this CD and future Victor Young CDs! 
Sales are fine - printer is way behind on stuff so not for another couple of weeks - it will still be ahead of the official ship date - but they can only move so fast and are very backed up because of one of their presses going down.
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Here's the clew for tomorrow morning's release:
An Encore Edition of one of our most requested previous titles - an immediate sellout and one I get many e-mails a week for.
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I suspect it might be Taras Bulba.
Nope and the other two guesses are no, too. It's a bit older than Heaven Can Wait.
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One-Eyed Jacks?
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One-Eyed Jacks?
Wouldn't THAT be great for those who missed out?
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