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Back in 1992 I had started dating this girl who was not into film music. I told her that I really wanted Barry's Body Heat LP. On Christmas morning it was waiting under the tree. She had called Footlight in NYC and had them hold it for her. Then she got her friend from the NYC area to pick it up for her when her friend went home before Christmas. I knew this girl was the one (even if she doesn't care about film music) just because of the effort she put into getting Body Heat for me. We've been married for 17 years.
Well, ringedingdongbling, I guess we do have a winner... this story will be hard to beat. :-D
Congratulations.
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A Couple-
Spending my lunch money on the LP of 'Octopussy'. Nearly buying the early CD release of same. Buying a b**t of Octopussy/FYEO. Collecting all the subsequent EMI CDs, and then trading them all in for the 40th Anniversary re-releases.
Ahhh...the collector's life...
Buying my first CD player in Hong Kong (Sony D-5), and buying the Polydor releases of 'Star Wars' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
Then buying 'Cocoon' in Hawaii- the first soundtrack announced as a CD release in the movie's credits.
Several years later buying 'A Fish Called Wanda' and 'Alien' in a Chicago record store I had to walk up a flight of steps to get to. I left Goldsmith's 'Warlock' on the shelf that day. >facepalm<
Joining Fanderson just to buy CDs, then leaving Terrahawks on the table. >another facepalm<
Membership ran out long before they offered their Stingray double-album.
Cashing in jars full of quarters to finance the TOS Box Set, and getting to ask Gerald Fried a question.
Trying to keep up with the absolute flood of releases in the past 8+ yrs while trying to maintain my tastes as a music lover, my sense of movie music history, my bank account, and my sanity.
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TO ADM NAISMITH- You mean THE GERALD FRIED who was born in New York in 1928, who scored a string of United artist genre films in the 50's who went on to score over 70 films and a lot of TV movies in the late 70's and 80's. Who often writes non melodic scores like Jerry Fielding. Is that the Gerald Fried?Oh my I think I gave something away[ha-ha]
Huh? I feel I'm mising something...
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My best memory is discovering the (at that time) pending release of the Superman Blue Box from FSM. I had never heard of FSM or any of the other labels until then. I waited by the computer in sheer excitement as release time came. This was before I understood the limited edition thing and I wanted to grab it the moment it was released so I wouldn't miss out. When it arrived in the mail a few days later...wow! It came at a pretty bad time in my life and it cheered me up a bit.
Another good memory is when Intrada released perhaps what I consider to be in my top 5 of holy grails, The Black Hole.
Not to mention all of the Trek releases, Batman, etc etc etc.
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