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Is this a one-off, or does this open the door to other expanded RCA LP releases of this vintage?
As will be explained in this thing I'll post on our site tomorrow - it's hit and miss. In this particular case, what we ultimately found out was that the RCA license expired in 1969. That was the best kind of news, obviously, but most of those deals were "perpetuity" which becomes problematic. In this case, the only thing that was problematic was getting RCA to return the tapes - that took quite a while because they had to review everything and they were very slow to do so - but in the end, everything came back and we had the best possible source to go from - the original three-track masters.
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The Prelude track is now its proper length. Go listen - it's the main theme and one that has haunted me since I was thirteen years old - before I got the soundtrack album for some reason I bought an RCA 45 rpm record of the theme as played by Peter Nero. I played that damn record (which I still have) every day for heaven knows how many years. It's a beautiful cover of that theme - but the Elmer soundtrack puts all else to shame.
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I knew this was coming and anticipated it with some relish. As a huge fan of Elmer Bernstein, I can't believe the explosion of treasures these past few months!
It was ordered without even hearing the sound samples. It's Elmer, it's Kritzerland, I already know it's going to sound great.
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Tell you one thing - if this had been 1200 copies we'd be done  Very pleased with the sales - in fact, it has now outsold Thelma & Louise in terms of orders at Kritzerland and that makes me very happy indeed.
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Just posted an article about the entire process of doing Summer and Smoke - for those who are interested in such things, it's under the "News" section of the Kritzerland site. But, here's a handy-dandy link directly to the article:
http://kritzerland.com/news.htm
And for those who are into musicals, or even those who aren't, you might want to check out our teaser trailer for Kritzerland's first web series, which premieres November 6th on You Tube. These are fully-produced episodes with some major theater and film actors and they're really fun. And just so you know we at least have a TV composer tie-in, the Outside The Box theme at the end of the trailer was written by Grant Geissman, composer of Two and a Half Men and Mike and Molly. The songs are by little ol' me and I write and direct the episodes. So, check out the teaser at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07wOp5XNxU&feature=feedbul
Click on "subscribe" to subscribe to the official Outside The Box channel.
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Bruce,
by the way,
given your affinity for Elmer and musicals...any possiblities to release stuff like "Merlin" or "How Now, Dow Jones" ?
GOOD question.
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