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Top music, and appears to be great sound.
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Great news indeed! What a fabulous score!!!
[Qualification: Film music fans opposed to "contemporary-sounding" music need not bother - it was a very modern score for its time, and positive proof that Les Baxter was more, so much more than just a provider of easy listening!)
They should release all the Baxter scores for the Corman Poe series. They were all very imaginative.
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They should release all the Baxter scores for the Corman Poe series. They were all very imaginative.
Considering they have been presumed to be lost all of these years, the release of Usher was not only an ecstatic surprise for many of us, but it now provides new found hope that others may possibly follow. Perhaps the masters are all still missing, but as Usher has shown there may be other sources from which to construct a release. The sound may not be what we would get from a well preserved master or other first or second generation sources, but anything is light years ahead of the nothing we've had!
Usher and Panic in Year Zero were two of the most jolting shocks of delight I received in the last year or two! Assuming that they were long lost, when the releases happened, it was though someone had risen from the grave!
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They should release all the Baxter scores for the Corman Poe series. They were all very imaginative.
Considering they have been presumed to be lost all of these years, the release of Usher was not only an ecstatic surprise for many of us, but it now provides new found hope that others may possibly follow. Perhaps the masters are all still missing, but as Usher has shown there may be other sources from which to construct a release. The sound may not be what we would get from a well preserved master or other first or second generation sources, but anything is light years ahead of the nothing we've had!
Actually, I don't think all the masters are missing. A nephew of Baxter's seemed to have had access to them some years ago.
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Feb 18, 2011 - 2:44 PM
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I think I have NOW learned my lesson: if you want something, DO NOT WAIT to get it!
HOUSE OF USHER was literally the movie that turned me into a lifelong horror fan, and I have loved that score from as far back as I can remember. So when Intrada announced the release, I should've jumped on it with both feet, but I didn't. I decided to "wait until payday." Which was today. Which was when I checked the catalog to see to my shock and amazement that it was SOLD. OUT. :-(
Not willing to give up completely, I Googled to find out if anyone had sealed copies for sale. Sure enough, they do, on every site from eBay to who-knows-where, and of course, NOT for the original $19.99 plus shipping. As a last resort, I checked the Google results again, which led me here, and I read that SAE still had a few copies! OH, JOY! I STILL had a chance! :-)
When I looked for it in the catalog and didn't see it listed, I decided to call, and was told that the guy I needed to speak to wasn't in to check its availability, but could I call back later? NOT. A. PROBLEM.
So I did, and guess what? There were a few copies left! One of which should be on my doorstep within the next week or so...just in time for Texas Frightmare Weekend, when I get to meet the man responsible for making USHER in the first place, MR. ROGER CORMAN, and get him to sign it!
The moral of the story is - if you have the moolah it takes to snag a rare score like this and only two pennies more, DO IT. If and when the PIT AND THE PENDULUM score comes out, I will not make the same mistake twice. I'm not a fan of Baxter's "regular" stuff, but his AIP scores are arguably the best work of the man's career.
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Feb 18, 2011 - 9:32 PM
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filmusicnow
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I think I have NOW learned my lesson: if you want something, DO NOT WAIT to get it!
HOUSE OF USHER was literally the movie that turned me into a lifelong horror fan, and I have loved that score from as far back as I can remember. So when Intrada announced the release, I should've jumped on it with both feet, but I didn't. I decided to "wait until payday." Which was today. Which was when I checked the catalog to see to my shock and amazement that it was SOLD. OUT. :-(
Not willing to give up completely, I Googled to find out if anyone had sealed copies for sale. Sure enough, they do, on every site from eBay to who-knows-where, and of course, NOT for the original $19.99 plus shipping. As a last resort, I checked the Google results again, which led me here, and I read that SAE still had a few copies! OH, JOY! I STILL had a chance! :-)
When I looked for it in the catalog and didn't see it listed, I decided to call, and was told that the guy I needed to speak to wasn't in to check its availability, but could I call back later? NOT. A. PROBLEM.
So I did, and guess what? There were a few copies left! One of which should be on my doorstep within the next week or so...just in time for Texas Frightmare Weekend, when I get to meet the man responsible for making USHER in the first place, MR. ROGER CORMAN, and get him to sign it!
The moral of the story is - if you have the moolah it takes to snag a rare score like this and only two pennies more, DO IT. If and when the PIT AND THE PENDULUM score comes out, I will not make the same mistake twice. I'm not a fan of Baxter's "regular" stuff, but his AIP scores are arguably the best work of the man's career.
I learned my lesson too when I missed out on Goldsmith's "Link" and immediately ordered "House Of Usher" the same day this thread was posted.
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And we meet again, lupo!
I ordered my copy from an on-line store in Spain (handy for me). They had it up as "pre-order" because they were expecting a batch, but now it's "unavailable". I don't know if that means that they're not getting their batch, or that all the "pre-order" quotas have been filled... so I don't know if I'll be eventually receiving this or not. And I don't want to spoil the Christmassy excitement by actually calling them!
HOUSE OF USHER - I've waited about 35 years for this release. If I do get this, plus a (very) hypothetical PIT AND THE PENDULUM, a (HORROR OF) DRACULA, all Basil Kirchin's horror/spy thriller scores, and the entire catalogue of Gil Mellé's pre-1981 work, well I can die fulfilled. Not asking much, is it?
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