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I would love to, but I don't see copies of LIS flying out the door. Shame too. I thought this was a knockout. C'est la vie! We'll be announcing a few more new titles very soon. Keep watching the site!
MV
That surprises me, when I spoke to Ford T. regarding an order several weeks ago, he indicated LIS was doing quite well; I think it ought to be a steady seller. Hopefully board members passing the word to SF and Irwin Allen sites will do the trick. It's a marvelous package.
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And unlike Intrada's 1000 unit sets, and Varese's mini-printings, the LIS album is "limited" to 5000 units. Obviously, nobody's expecting it to sell out in a few weeks (I hope), but I would like to think it would sell briskly enough to justify the expense on LLL's part. I really hope so, it's such a great album.
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Just got my copy of the 2-CD set, and it's a marvelous release, offering new John Williams cues as well as a wide variety of selections from a host of other composers we rarely hear much about, but who obviously knew their craft. If you have any albums of television music from this era and like it, you can't go wrong with this terrific offering. And the price can't be beat either. If you don't have any albums of TV music from this era, this is as good a place as any to start.
And any CD that offers new selections from Herman Stein is ALWAYS welcome, even if I could hear traces of some of his Universal-International cues in a few of the selections. In fact, that only adds to the fun!
Great release La-La folks, and I hope word-of-mouth spreads on this, because you deserve the success. You obviously put a lot of work into this release.
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Thanks to LaLa Land for this great release.
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LaLaLand,I echo the sentiments of other posters on this thread regarding your LIS
release,which I finally got around to playing the other day. Only two words to
say: Indescribably delicious! And now, what can you do for an encore,why, bring forth lots more offerings from Voyage,Time
Tunnel,LIS, and Giants. You know we want them; oh how we want them. I say, bring em' on; bring em' all on! Thanking you in
advance.
I would love to, but I don't see copies of LIS flying out the door. Shame too. I thought this was a knockout. C'est la vie! We'll be announcing a few more new titles very soon. Keep watching the site!
MV
Maybe this would sell better if it weren't so expensive on Amazon. It's $12 more than La La Land's actual price. I wonder where Amazon got that "list price" from.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GJTHL8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
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So what? There's over a dozen sellers on Amazon who are listing it around $22!
So what? So, used sales do nothing for La La Land's incentive to create another volume. Used sales are irrelevant. Amazon's exorbitant retail price hurts new sales. That's what I'm talking about. I would guess that for every person who shops at Intrada or La La Land's own site, a hundred thousand people shop at Amazon.
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I don't have this 40th anniv. set, but I have the 6CD-Irwin Allen box and the LIS, Vol. 3 CD. Personally, I don't think this is BORING music at all. It's far too "present" for that. But I would certainly admit that it's some of the most challenging things he's written. Lots of sturm-und-drang. You definitely have to be in the mood for it, and even then in small doses.
I think Thor hears this material in an abstract way and engages in music appreciation. I hear it as a trip down memory lane. It's a chicken and egg thing: I watched the episodes so many times as a boy mainly because the music was so good, but I listen to the CDs now and get transported back the childhood enjoyment of the shows themselves.
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And not just the Williams scores are grand, but the suites Fred Steiner's "Space Circus" and Stevens' "Blast Off Into Space" are marvelous, wonderfully mixing moody textures, indelible melodies and propulsive action music.
