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We've been having a seemingly never ending flood of wonderful Goldsmith expansions/remasterings/perfectionist tweakings these past few years...far more than for any other composer. And I'm not complaining; he's my favorite film composer. Since I last updated this first post in 2015, Quartet surprised us all at the end of the year with a definitive Total Recall (thought to have been held by Varese in perpetuity, but it was in the same boat as Basic Instinct, for which they also produced a definitive version). So far in 2016, we've had: the new Tadlow recording of the complete score to The Blue Max (plus a whole extra disc of bonus suites), LLL reissues of Link and Take A Hard Ride with greatly improved Jim Titus packaging (and the latter with greatly improved sound to boot), a complete expansion of Powder (as well as an LP release of the complete Warlock) from Intrada, a new realization of the complete score to Planet of the Apes performed by Jack O'Callaghan (who wrote the excellent book on the subject of that groundbreaking score), and finally Varese seems to be continuing their recently renewed efforts to Deluxify their own Goldsmith catalogue with Executive Decision following on the heels of last year's Gremlins 2 and Chain Reaction.
I should also note that Twilight Time has also recently given us complete isolated scores (with some effects) on their Blu-ray releases of The Detective and Lilies of the Field. Though these may not be accompanied by new CD issues, for nutty completist fans like me it's great to at least have the few previously missing cues preserved in some form, even if there are some accompanying effects. (They've also announced The Russia House is coming up in the near future.)
Because of all their fantastic work, at some point soon the labels are going to run out of Goldsmith scores to "definitiveize"...right? So what's left to grab? Here's the list in reverse chronological order (most remaining 90s titles at this point are Varese-controlled so be prepared for an initial concentration of their stuff as you scroll down for a bit):
Timeline (Varese-controlled album, unreleased tracks would have to be licensed from Paramount) -- A wonderfully complex score with both sci-fi and fantasy elements, an official release of the complete "unused" work would be great to get even though Varese's existing album was one of their more successful abbreviated arrangements.
Soarin' Over California (Disney theme park ride) -- While the 5 minute score for the ride itself has been released on a Disneyland CD, more was recorded including at the very least a lengthy cue for waiting in line outside the ride (beautiful with fewer mood changes in the music as compared with the ride itself). Intrada would be our only hope for this; they have said a number of times that they'd like to put out a CD (or more) of music from Disney park rides (their favorite Bruce Broughton has done a lot).
The Kid (Disney) -- I am fairly certain that, as with Babe (the Gallant Pig, not the athlete Jerry scored in the 70s), Jerry substantially wrote but did not record this score. If that's the case, the best we can hope for is a new/premiere recording, based on his original written score, which apparently survives as sketches in the Academy's Herrick library. For a list of all two dozen cues Jerry wrote, go here: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138064&forumID=1&archive=0
The 13th Warrior (Varese / Buena Vista-->Disney) -- I'm not sure of the status of Varese's relationship with Disney, but this is a wonderful score and though perhaps nothing absolutely essential is missing on the fairly generous existing album, all of the unreleased music (about 20 minutes) is quite worthy of release and the complete score would flow just fine. Moreover, a second disc could be filled with the first commercial release of Graeme Revell's excellent (and I'm not usually a fan) rejected score for the film when it was still called Eaters of the Dead.
Mulan (Disney) -- if *anyone* can pull this off, it's Intrada. They have done every other Goldsmith/Disney collaboration, so it'd be fantastic if they could close the book on this for people who don't have the Academy promo...and supply some fantastic liner notes while they're at it. I hear Richard Kraft really pushed Goldsmith for this assignment and I suspect there's an interesting tale to be told about how he got the job.
Two Days in the Valley (Intrada) -- this recently came out as an album assembly and just went out of print. If material exists for the complete score maybe someone else could release a more definitive version, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Here is an official complete cue list, however, if anyone wants to try and match it up with the album assembly (which Intrada released with with fan-made track titles):
http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71303029
Babe (the Gallant Pig) -- The final score by Nigel Westlake (at times channeling Saint-Saens) was released by Varese, and Robert Townson confirmed to me in an interview for The Goldsmith Odyssey that the score was definitely never recorded, which agrees with what we'd heard previously from Dan Goldwasser, who had posted a photo of Goldsmith's written score. This is a ripe opportunity for the someone to do a true Goldsmith *PREMIERE* recording (ie. not just a premiere album release for a score with film tracks that didn't survive). In fact a totally unheard Goldsmith score may be more exciting than any other possibility!: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138063&forumID=1&archive=0
Angie (Varese / Hollywood Pictures —> Disney) -- Since DeputyRiley has put his Complete Score Breakdown series on hiatus, this is one of the scores I plan to eventually tackle myself in order to figure out what good music might be missing from the existing brief Varese album. But until I see the film, I *did* find a complete cue list and indicated which cues appear to be unreleased (more unreleased music than I expected!)
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138083&forumID=1&archive=0
Malice (Varese / Castle Rock-->Warner Bros.) -- This is probably one of the lower priority Varese titles to get an expansion, but being the completist I am, I hope they eventually do it anyway. DeputyRiley did a complete score breakdown and found only 7 minutes of unreleased music in the film, and further down in the thread I posted a complete official cue list for comparison: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=110814&forumID=1&archive=0
Six Degrees of Separation (Elektra --> Warner Bros. Records) -- maybe LLL, assuming there's any more music to release (perhaps some alternates or something)?
Medicine Man (Varese / Cinergi/BV-->Disney?) -- Another 90s fan favorite, there is about 15 minutes of unreleased music in the film, which we know thanks to DeputyRiley's complete score breakdown. I love this score and greedily want every minute! Near the bottom of his thread I posted a complete official cue list which I found: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=109823&forumID=1&archive=0
Mr. Baseball (Varese / Universal) -- One of the most-derided Goldsmith scores, this still has some fans so I'll get around to doing my own complete score breakdown on the film to see if the little bit of missing music is significant. Until then, I found a complete cue list for the score here, which confirms only a handful of very short cues were left off the release: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138082&forumID=1&archive=0
Mom and Dad Save the World (Varese / HBO-->Warner Bros.) -- While a 55 minute footwarmer of this supposedly exists, it is supposed to have very poor sound quality and still not contain the complete score. I hope that Varese expands this with an official Deluxe Edition sooner rather than later as it is an energetic and inventive score, more creative and underrated than many of his 90s efforts.
Brotherhood of the Gun (a.k.a. Hollister) -- Much like Elmer Bernstein did for his son Peter's excellent score to Rough Riders, Jerry contributed a fantastic theme to this western TV movie scored by his son, Joel Goldsmith. An official version would be nice to have...
H.E.L.P. -- similar to the above; Jerry apparently only contributed an exciting main title theme to this show which was scored by Joel. Here it on YouTube (thanks to zooba): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PiEmyrx8rU&feature=youtu.be&t=31s
Leviathan (MGM) -- DeputyRiley did a wonderful complete score breakdown here; I hope this one happens sooner or later, and apparently Varese does NOT maintain perpetuity rights on this title... near the bottom of this thread I appended an official complete cue list: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=110196&forumID=1&archive=0
Criminal Law (Varese) -- would anyone want a new version of this? Varese *probably* doesn't retain the rights as it came out in 1988...but perhaps they made an early exception for a Goldsmith score. There doesn't appear to be much music missing, however. (I'll view the film soon and double check.)
Wall Street (rejected) -- a partially written rejected score; I wonder how much there is.. I guess a new recording of some of the written music could be used to pad out a Tadlow/Prometheus recording of his rejected score to Babe...
Link -- Intrada's straight reissue of this sold out very fast, but LLL recently put it back in print with nicer packaging though sadly limited to the same LP program. As with Legend, there's a foot warmer that's longer, but all of the additional music has very sub-par audio quality so apparently this will be the most recent Goldsmith score that's almost certain to never get a complete release.
Legend -- Music Box Records just did their first Goldsmith release, sub-licensing this from Silva and thanks to Douglass Fake of Intrada adding two previously unreleased cues in great sound (over four minutes) plus a couple of alternates. That said, the complete original session tapes still appear to be lost... How much more music is there still missing?
http://www.figmentfly.com/legend/music4.html
Supergirl -- I could see LLL or Intrada giving this the "Poltergeist treatment"
Under Fire -- complete score is lost...at least for now. Maybe a rerecording? Here is a complete cue list, from the full sketches: http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71303030
The Secret of NIMH -- Intrada recently reissued this in a beautiful remaster, and they were also able to add a single new score cue (thankfully the longest missing one at over three minutes) which was apparently at some point planned to be on the LP. They searched high and low for the session masters however and came up empty, so the remaining unreleased 9-10 minutes are likely lost for eternity, barring some label like Tadlow deciding to include a suite with the unreleased music in some future new recording.
Raggedy Man (Varese) -- Varese controls this in perpetuity but recently reissued it without any extra music. This is probably because the unreleased music is very minimal for the score. Here is a complete cue list for comparison: http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71303004
The Final Conflict (Varese/Masters Film Music) -- I'm almost certain Varese holds this in perpetuity, due to it originally being released by Robert Townson's Masters Film Music and later expanded 15 years ago as a Varese Deluxe Edition. Varese just recently put out a definitive complete The Omen for the film's 40th anniversary. Perhaps there is hope that they will also do new versions of this (with the four previously unreleased cues) and perhaps Damien: Omen II (which was complete on the DE but the sound quality of the film tracks could definitely be improved).
Twilight's Last Gleaming -- I can see this getting a remastered reissue but apparently only a very little bit music is missing.
High Velocity -- I LOVE this unheralded gem! Joel Goldsmith produced the album for Prometheus in the 90s, and it was rearranged and slightly incomplete, but only two minutes or less of score in the film (all low-key suspense music) is missing as compared with the album. I would still love a complete and chronological release of this score, because it plays better (in terms of development) when put into film order. Here is a complete cue list for those interested: http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71302967
Damnation Alley -- Doug Fake of Intrada recently confirmed that the complete orchestral tapes did survive for Intrada's imminent release of the score, but that the synth parts were lost and had to be recreated by Leigh Phillips. Maybe some day they will be discovered and we will get the full film recording at last, but until then it's amazing that Intrada paid for the expense of re-recording this important part of the score so that the entire composition could be released on disc.
Ransom -- Presumably the complete score is lost and the LP tracks as released by Prometheus are all that's available. Not sure if there's a ton of interest in a complete re-recording of this one, but it IS a favorite of Luc's (@ Prometheus) and since he's funding Tadlow recordings now we might see it.
Medical Story -- was the whole of Goldsmith's contribution included on the Prometheus Police Story release?
Indict and Convict (ABC TV, produced by Universal) -- the main and end titles sound very promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lLxFz3qxpQ
so too does this key cue (about two and a half minutes long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eepgx3M9pq0&feature=youtu.be&t=1m55s
The Waltons -- According to Lukas Kendall some years back, none of this material survives aside from the pilot The Homecoming which FSM released. This is very unfortunate as a lot of good material was written for the series, some of it better than the pilot score in my opinion. So far I have done one complete score breakdown -- for The Ceremony, one of the most praised Goldsmith scores of the series: http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=117025&forumID=1&archive=0
Pursuit -- totally unreleased save for one track re-recorded by Silva. Perhaps that bodes well for Mr. Fitzpatrick tackling the rest of the score in a Tadlow re-recording for Prometheus? As noted above for Shamus, the tapes are apparently "kaput" so there would be no competition with an original tracks release and this would make a nice pairing with Shamus. Oh, and if anyone is worried about a re-recording being unable to capture the 70s feel of the originals, Mr. Fitzpatrick has said that wouldn't be a problem. Based on the results of the Hour of the Gun pop theme arrangement, I'm inclined to believe him. And replicating the synthesizers on The Salamander was perfectly well done. I have done "Advance Liner Notes" and a complete score breakdown of this here:
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=117275&forumID=1&archive=0
The Other (Varese / Fox) -- In this mid-90s, Varese put out a 20 minute single track "suite" of this as a bonus on their release of The Mephisto Waltz, but even that was enough for them to control this title in perpetuity, as Bruce Kimmel sadly revealed since he desperately wanted to put out the complete score on Kritzerland. Thankfully, Twilight Time did give us a "complete" isolated score track on their Blu-ray release of the film, bringing the released length of the score above 40 minutes, but, as with the Flint scores, their iso track maintained any film edits to cues so even it isn't truly "complete" as recorded. We need a Deluxe Edition from Varese with every note recorded for this wonderful score!
The Mephisto Waltz (Varese / Fox) -- While Varese's 90s issue of this was "complete", it was in fact missing certain overlays (and possibly alternates). Two decades of new technology could probably also render some great sound improvements in the hands of someone like Michael Mattesino.
The Last Run -- won't happen except as a re-recording; according to Lukas himself the tapes are definitely lost
Crawlspace (CBS) -- I don't believe it's ever been confirmed that the original recording for this is lost, but despite being one of Goldsmith's best unreleased works, no one has put it out yet so that doesn't bode well. I recently finished a full watch of the film and did a complete score breakdown with "advance liner notes" here: http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=116952&forumID=1&archive=0
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (ABC --> Disney?) -- ditto, though I found this score much less interesting: http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=116974&forumID=1&archive=0
Lights Out (NBC) -- I think this was a horror pilot for a show that never went to series. It's something the Goldsmith Odyssey has been searching for on video, for some time now. It would be neat if someone released the score even while the program itself is MIA (as has happened occasionally, like with The Lineup, Archer, or The Going Up of David Lev).
The Ballad of Cable Hogue -- I've heard the Varese Club release is missing a few cues; if so I would expect Intrada to revisit this at some point, but what gives me pause is that this is one of the few Club titles which Varese is continuing to sell digitally, so they may have (unusually for a limited edition release) secured perpetuity rights on it.
The Chairman -- the complete score apparently has not survived the ages (recently confirmed by the Twilight Time Blu-ray isolated score track needing to be filled out by a music & effects source, sadly complete with background chatter in Chinese) ...it seems at this point that a re-recording is the only hope for this amazing score, which is half again as long as the existing album, at least. Check out this thread (lower down) for a rundown on all the missing music, and an official complete cue list: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=84276&forumID=1&archive=0
CBS Playhouse: The People Next Door -- This is essentially a TV movie, and the score's main title foreshadows Chinatown. I will be doing a complete score breakdown on it in the future.
Our Man Flint / In Like Flint (Varese / Fox) -- After years of searching for the master tapes of Goldsmith's original LP recordings, Intrada has just given us the premiere release of them both together on CD! The Varese release of the original film recordings in the mid 90s was very incomplete, but according to the folks at Intrada, Varese still keeps the rights to them which is why Intrada could not put out a definitive Flint set with both the film and unique album recordings of each. Hopefully Varese will follow suit with the film recordings soon, especially since they already underwent restoration by Michael Mattessino for the complete isolated tracks on the Twilight Time Blu-rays (though these were sadly edited to the film, so there is still some music completely unreleased).
In Harm's Way -- in 2015 Intrada reissued this in a beautiful remaster from recently-discovered earlier generation elements, and they were also able to add a single new score cue (and two source cues) which were apparently at some point planned to be on the LP. They once more searched for any source for the complete score and unfortunately came up empty (even though they've found stems at least for other Paramount scores of the era), so the remaining unreleased cues -- including the "Stalking Sub" and "Japanese Armada" sequences, plus a lot of build-up to "One Way Ticket" -- are likely lost for eternity, barring a re-recording. For those interested, I found an official complete cue list and posted it in this thread: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=138084&forumID=1&archive=0
Lilies of the Field -- Twilight Time recently released this with a complete isolated score track (though described as having "some effects" presumably on the previously unreleased material). Roger at Intrada chimed in and said there wasn't much missing, but he highlighted a key missing cue at the end when the main character writes his name on a rock. The complete cue list from the film can be found here: http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71303040
The General with the Cockeyed Id -- anyone know the status of tapes on this? I know it's been booted and there's a rare LP promo. I also recently uncovered an official cue list, which I posted near the bottom of this thread where Lukas shared the film itself from YouTube (unlisted): https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=135412&forumID=1&archive=0
Kraft Mystery Theater: Shadow of a Man -- Jerry scored only this one episode of the series (actually it was a pilot which didn't go to series according to IMDb), but his work sounds wonderful from these extracts collected by zooba (some great early action music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfDXb5OloE
Freud -- while expanded, apparently Varese's "Deluxe Edition" is still missing a few Goldsmith cues, including alternates which were on the original LP (plus there was electronic score written for the film by another composer)
The Expendables -- from a FB conversation I had with Jon Burlingame: "Confirmed! JG scored The Expendables in March 61 for Screen Gems. Discovered in my notes from reviewing his Composers Guild entries (examined when I was writing my book back in the early '90s). Now if only we could find the damn thing."
And now we finally come to all the TV work he did in the 50s. My hope for this was actually Prometheus, because of their wonderful early Jerry Goldsmith television scores release, tantalizingly labeled "Volume One"...but they don't seem to be doing anything besides re-recordings these days so I wonder if someone else will pick up the slack and save more Goldsmith TV gems? I have done a complete score breakdown (with notes) for the earliest Goldsmith score that appears to be extant on video (the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde episode of Climax!) here:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=134694&forumID=1&archive=0
Yavar
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The Mummy
The Mummy was actually released by Decca, not Varese.
Well then somebody better get on it! 
Corrected.
Yavar
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I'm definitely hoping that an expanded score for "The Ghost and the Darkness" isn't too far off.
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Fierce Creatures (don't think there's anything else left to release, anyway)
Yavar
Lacking enough time to process the rest, I am 99% sure that Goldsmith wrote *extra* music for the soundtrack album so that it got to 30 minutes for Fierce Creatures. Therefore, think we can cross this one off as complete!
Of the rest mentioned, Mulan would definitely get my vote. I have a clear memory of getting the original album while either moving in or (more likely) out of uni accommodation and thinking it was quite disappointing. Then I heard the Academy promo and realised it was astounding. Hopefully Intrada would get the rights to that one, as noted.
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"Chinatown": oddly enough, Varèse re-released the album but not the original recording.
"The Chairman"
"Hour of the Gun"
"The Last Run"
I haven't gotten back that far but yes Chinatown still needs to be done right, and the way MV and Bruce were talking it sounded like the tapes *did* exist...and I know the rejected score survives too.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure The Chairman is lost (unless there's some M&E track or up-and-down mix or something). Doug Fake has confirmed on the Intrada board that Hour of the Gun is an album re-recording and the complete score (which has a lot of unreleased highlights) is sadly lost.
And Lukas on this very board has explained that the complete score for The Last Run is lost.
REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD--I thought some people on this forum have declared this score lost?
TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING--I'm fairly sure the existing CD is complete
HOOSIERS--Wasn't this also declared lost?
LINK--Again, I believe Intrada said the session masters are lost when they put out their CD. Not much missing anyway.
CRIMINAL LAW--I think the existing CD is complete
I put Link and Peter Proud on the list because complete foot warmers are purported to exist (but I don't have them myself so I can't confirm for sure).
Hoosiers Intrada has actually confirmed they're working on.
The extremely recent Intrada release is definitive. End of story.
You may consider it definitive, but it isn't complete or chronological apparently.
Caboblanco and Breakout are complete, to the best of my knowledge from watching & taping the music years ago and buying the CD's to compare.
Thanks for the tips -- those didn't feel incomplete to me when listening, but High Velocity did, so here's hoping there's more of that to come!
Yavar
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