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IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD:
LIMITED EDITION (2CD-SET)
LLLCD 1167
Music by Ernest Gold
Limited Edition of 2000 Units
STARTS SHIPPING MARCH 18th
SPECIAL SALE PRICE $19.98 (Regular price $24.98)
ORDER "IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD: LIMITED EDITION (2CD-SET)" MARCH 15th at www.lalalandrecords.com and get it at a special sale price of only $19.98 each. For a limited time.
Presenting the world premiere release of the original Film Version of composer Ernest Gold's (ON THE BEACH, EXODUS, CROSS OF IRON) rousing orchestral score to the 1963 United Artists epic comedy classic IT'S A MAD MAD MAD WORLD, directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney and just about every other comic legend of the era. For the first time, Gold's original soundtrack cues from the film are presented here on disc one, along with the original soundtrack LP release on disc 2 (with the songs moved to the end to make for a better listening experience). Produced by Ford A. Thaxton and Ray Faiola, and digitally edited and mastered by Ray Faiola at Chelsea Rialto Studios, this special 2-CD Set also features in-depth liner notes by film music writer Jeff Bond. This is a limited edition of 2000 Units. And here's producer Ray Faiola to tell you more… !
Producing the Original Soundtrack
by Ray Faiola, Chelsea Rialto Studios
"As one of those die-hard fans of IAMMMMW (my 16mm IB/Scope print is one of my most prized possessions), it has long been a wish of mine to have a recording of the complete original soundtrack score. For some time it was believed that the dubbing stems survived, but this turned out not to be the case. So, we've taken an extreme step and used the limited range rear recording angles from the original six-track composite soundtrack. This presented us with both positive and negative aspects of the materials. The positive was that, for the most part, the tracks were music-only. Only one cue had a major sound effect that commandeered the tracks, necessitating a portion of re-modulating and replacing those few bars of music. The negative was that while many of the cues were overt and took primary occupation of the track space, many others were dubbed far beneath dialogue sequences. This resulted in several cues having a noise-to-signal ratio of nearly 70 per cent. In bringing the music level to acceptable volume, the radically increased noise had to be suppressed as best as possible. Thus, some cues are of significantly lesser fidelity than others. Also, the entire soundtrack had to be corrected for audio-dipping during dialogue portions that lasted from moments to many seconds. All-in-all, many hundreds of edits, adjustments, transitions, and, yes, even a few artistic choices had to be made. The rear channels were, in fact, a single "split" signal, similar to the early Re-Channeled-for-Stereo LP's had been. Rather than have two channels each with partial information, they have been recombined into two pure mono channels. Since all the "program" music (Overture, entr'acte, exit music) as well as the chorals from the main, intermission and end titles are in full stereo, the mono score channels have been separated by a third of a frame to give expansion and create graceful segues into the stereo chorals and program tracks. It should be noted that the harmonica solo at the beginning of "Exit Smiler Grogan" did not appear on the surround channels and is irrevocably combined with dialogue. Nor did the Shirelles' "31 Flavors" appear on the surrounds. Finally, none of the rear surround music from the so-called "restored" sequences were available and our soundtrack represents the general release print of the film. The resulting disc is certainly not an optimum recording of the soundtrack score. But, given that these are the materials that survived we have made our best effort create a complete symphonic presentation."
TRACK LISTING:
DISC ONE
1. Overture (Stereo) (2:26)
2. Main Title (4:11)
3. Smiler Fades Out /Follow the Leader / Stealthy Pike (5:01)
4. Schwartz Swings #1 / Culpepper Flips His Lid (0:49)
5. Away We Go! / Banjo Eyes / Kareening Kooks (5:17)
6. Pike Pedals / Meyer Approaches / Gullible Meyer / Pike Piqued (2:34)
7. Ill-Fated Dream / Pike Scuffles Along (1:53)
8. Old Fitzgerald / Truck on Down (3:33)
9. Benny / Up-Sa-Daisy / Musical Cars (1:31)
10. Mired Meyer / Meyer Still Mired / Down There? (2:16)
11. Dinkler Dood It / Whole Tone Blues (1:35)
12. Wheeling Along / Mixed Up Melange / The Living End - End of Part 1 (3:57)
13. Intermission / Entr'acte (Stereo) (3:41)
14. Fizzled Fuse / Three Chords (1:12)
15. No More Calls / The Plot Thickens / Good Old X-27 (2:49)
16. Instant Chase(2:21)
17. A Lone Hand / Adios Santa Rosita (1:17)
18. Unhappy Landing(1:05)
19. Cab Ballet / Rots of Ruck (2:20)
20. The Big "W" / Who's He? / The Marcus March / Emmeline Knows (6:06)
21. Eureka / Equal Shares / Culp Plays Hand! (1:24)
22. Turnabout / Get Going / Still Going / Auto Mania (6:03)
23. Loose Loot / Mad Chase Ends / Retribution (6:30)
24. Pratfall & End Title (Stereo) (0:52)
25. Exit Music (Stereo) (2:17)
Total Time - Disc One: 73:00
DISC TWO (LP Reissue)
Performed by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra
1. Overture (2:20)
2. Main Title (3:16)
3. Follow the Leader( 3:35)
4. Away We Go (3:33)
5. Gullible Otto Meyer (2:06)
6. The Living End (Act 1) (3:05)
7. Adios Santa Rosita (2:05)
8. Instant Chase (2:05)
9. The Big "W" (4:40)
10. The Great Pursuit (3:12)
11. Retribution (2:41)
12. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(2:16)
Music published by Ole Grand Filmsc/o EMI April Music Inc. c/o EMI Music Publishing ASCAP
13. You Satisfy My Soul (2:00) (Ernest Gold, Mack David)
Performed by The Shirelles
Published By EMI U Catalog c/o EMI Music Publishing ASCAP
14. Thirty-One Flavors (2:14) (Ernest Gold, Mack David)
Performed by The Shirelles
Published By EMI U Catalog c/o EMI Music Publishing ASCAP
Total Time - Disc Two: 39:08
Total Time - Both Discs:112:08
LA-LA LAND.COM SPECIALS
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD SALE!!! We have gone quite MAD in La-La Land and to celebrate the loss of our minds the following titles are on sale for only $2.98 each Sale starts 3/15/11 at 1pm (PST) and runs thru 4/11/11:
CELLULAR, AQUAMARINE, EUREKA, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, LIBRARIAN: CURSE OF THE JUDAS CHALICE, HEROES, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, ALLAN QUATERMAIN: LOST CITY OF GOLD, ZATOICHI, TAKING WOODSTOCK, BOOK OF BLOOD, LEVERAGE, LEGION, LOVE HAPPENS, TRICK 'R TREAT, ARMORED
Only at www.lalalandrecords.com
GOING OUT OF PRINT – APRIL 30, 2011
SPECIAL www.lalalandrecords.com SALE PRICE: $2.98 EACH
THE TRIANGLE
BASIC INSTINCT 2
ROCK 'N ROLL NIGHTMARE
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
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"LA-LA LAND.COM SPECIALS
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD SALE!!! We have gone quite MAD in La-La Land and to celebrate the loss of our minds the following titles are on sale for only $2.98 each Sale starts 3/15/11 at 1pm (PST) and runs thru 4/11/11:
CELLULAR, AQUAMARINE, EUREKA, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, LIBRARIAN: CURSE OF THE JUDAS CHALICE, HEROES, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, ALLAN QUATERMAIN: LOST CITY OF GOLD, ZATOICHI, TAKING WOODSTOCK, BOOK OF BLOOD, LEVERAGE, LEGION, LOVE HAPPENS, TRICK 'R TREAT, ARMORED"
wholly sheet! I just ordered Trick'r treat for 9,95 bucks , oh well 
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Mar 15, 2011 - 8:37 AM
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LA-LA LAND.COM SPECIALS
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD SALE!!! We have gone quite MAD in La-La Land and to celebrate the loss of our minds the following titles are on sale for only $2.98 each Sale starts 3/15/11 at 1pm (PST) and runs thru 4/11/11:
CELLULAR, AQUAMARINE, EUREKA, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, LIBRARIAN: CURSE OF THE JUDAS CHALICE, HEROES, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, ALLAN QUATERMAIN: LOST CITY OF GOLD, ZATOICHI, TAKING WOODSTOCK, BOOK OF BLOOD, LEVERAGE, LEGION, LOVE HAPPENS, TRICK 'R TREAT, ARMORED
Only at www.lalalandrecords.com
GOING OUT OF PRINT – APRIL 30, 2011
SPECIAL www.lalalandrecords.com SALE PRICE: $2.98 EACH
THE TRIANGLE
BASIC INSTINCT 2
ROCK 'N ROLL NIGHTMARE
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
Oh, for pete's sake... now I have to spend more money. Thank you for keeping me broke, guys! 
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Here is a small close up shot example. Sorry for the angle. You can see that Winters and Berle are more cartoony. Its the same with some others. Tracy's head is an intricate paste-on
I happen to represent Jack Davis, and most of his work is done in watercolor on illustration board or heavy paper. Judging from the white impasto background, I suspect that someone in an art studio or production department manually silhouetted Jack's original (or a reproduction) for paste-up/editing purposes. He never does that kind of precision retouching himself.
Thank you for clarifying the process. Regardless of how it was done, It's a Mag, Mag, Mag, Magnificent Work.
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YAAAA, just got this back. Since I can't get Gold to sign for obvious reasons, he's on an extending vacation, Jonathon Winters was available!
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