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When I was growing up, I learned at an early age to discover. I was all about it. I discovered jazz on the radio one day and that opened up a whole new world to me - I even called the radio station and spoke to the disc jockey.
And because lots of older films were in early TV packages, I discovered the 30s and 40s in film music and loved that stuff. It wasn't the same as the late 50s and certainly not the 60s, but love it I did. And as each new era arrived - 60s, 70s, and even into the early 80s, I found much to discover and love. That stopped in the later 80s when everything became a lot less interesting to me. But even now I find delightful discoveries because - wait for it - I have an open mind. I do like what I like, but in the last decade I've come to love Phillippe Rombi, Jeremy Sams, and several other contemporary composers - especially the ones who aren't forced to ape temp tracks and are allowed to actually compose music.
But I understand all points of view. I have never liked Mozart or mostly any music of that era. It just doesn't speak to me harmonically - I can admire it, I can listen to it, but it doesn't "get" to me like late 19th Century or 20th Century classical music does - my loves there are Rachmaninov, Mahler, Debussy, Ravel, the entirety of Les Group des Six, and most of the Brits.
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Thanks for this wonderful release!!! Marvellous films and music!!!!!!!!!
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I totally agree- another fantastic release!!! I also agree that Kritzerland is THE label of 2013. It seems Intrada has totally forgotten about golden age fans- unfortunate. !
While I too wish that Intrada did more Golden Age releases, I'm not sure it's fair to say they've "forgotten" us...in the last year we've had an amazing George Pal four-fer with War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, The Naked Jungle, and Conquest of Space. We've had a great reissue of Herrmann's classic North by Northwest (fixing huge sound issues with the Rhino). Jerome Moross's The Jayhawkers was amazing. How about the 40s Friedhofer at Paramount two-fer? Plus a couple Les Baxter scores and Max Steiner's penultimate film score to Those Calloways (yes, composed in the 60s but Golden Age all the way). And to cap it all off Intrada did a new complete re-recording of Miklos Rozsa's The Red House, which I'm sure in true James Fitzpatrick fashion they are really losing a bunch of money on. As a Golden Age fan did none of these titles impress you?
Yavar
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I agree, Yavar. It's unfortunate when internet hyperbole changes "doesn't release as many as I'd like" into "totally forgotten."
I got news for you - they're running out of eighties stuff (not just Intrada, everyone), the 90s stuff isn't really doing it, and the sixth reissue of some Star Trek score is topping out - so I think they'll all come running back to whatever they can get their hands on - mark my words, and as I've mentioned before one label has already made the attempt, but the titles they asked for were already spoken for  .
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but the titles they asked for were already spoken for...
...Mr. K.?
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but the titles they asked for were already spoken for...
...Mr. K.?
Many wonderful titles.
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I did a little interview yesterday about niche labels and talked about this eighties mania and that generation - the real eighties mania stuff from the people who came of age in that generation is really a little later in the decade as the first couple of years of the 80s we were still in holdover from the 70s. The 80s is the last decade where I feel there are truly great scores - maybe there's one or two in the 90s and the same for the 2000s, but at least in the 80s there are several authentic masterpieces - Body Heat, Once Upon a Time in America (my favorite from the entire decade), ET, Poltergeist, as well as some great scores like The Last Emperor, Ran, Gremlins, and some good scores like Back to the Future. And even some good scores from movies I consider awful, like The Goonies.
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You'll let us know when the interview's posted, right Bruce?
It's unfortunate your recent releases haven't grabbed me. I picked up Strange Love of Martha Ivers, but nothing since - and I really want more from this period to catch me off-guard! Hopefully something upcoming will do the trick. Either way, it's great you've found this groove. Please keep them coming.
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You'll let us know when the interview's posted, right Bruce?
It's unfortunate your recent releases haven't grabbed me. I picked up Strange Love of Martha Ivers, but nothing since - and I really want more from this period to catch me off-guard! Hopefully something upcoming will do the trick. Either way, it's great you've found this groove. Please keep them coming.
If Laura, A Place in the Sun, the Waxman set, Suzie Wong, and the others we've done since Martha haven't grabbed you, I don't know that we'll have anything that will I mean, we've only done some of the greatest film music ever written so I'm not sure what it takes to grab you - maybe we'll get lucky, though
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Less than 175 left. Yay!
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There's a lot of stuff I'd love to get from Warner's.
Especially a complete, legit HELEN OF TROY.
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