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I wonder who owns the rights to these. Surely there must be some demand for them.
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Indeed. The best thing about these "Story of..." albums were the music cues (like "Attacking a Star Destroyer" from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK story album) that hadn't made it onto the LP's.
And let's give a shout out to some of the great (and I do mean great) voice talent that narrated these, such as: Roscoe Lee Browne (THE STORY OF STAR WARS), Malachi Throne (THE ADVENTURES OF LUKE SKYWALKER: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK), and Percy Rodrigues (THE STORY OF THE BLACK HOLE).
I love the fact that both Throne and Rodrigues were in original Star Trek episodes: Throne in THE MENAGERIE, and Rodrigues in COURT-MARTIAL.
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Indeed. The best thing about these "Story of..." albums were the music cues (like "Attacking a Star Destroyer" from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK story album) that hadn't made it onto the LP's.
And let's give a shout out to some of the great (and I do mean great) voice talent that narrated these, such as: Roscoe Lee Browne (THE STORY OF STAR WARS), Malachi Throne (THE ADVENTURES OF LUKE SKYWALKER: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK), and Percy Rodrigues (THE STORY OF THE BLACK HOLE).
I love the fact that both Throne and Rodrigues were in the original Star Trek episode, COURT-MARTIAL.
I haven’t ever listened to The Black Hole. I had The Rescuers, Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Raiders, and Tron.
Empire not only had music not on the LP, it had music not in the movie! For example some of the music that Williams scored the Hoth base with is on that Story record. I’d have to check, but I think the Vader / Luke duel is scored as well.
The one that was TERRIBLE was Return of the Jedi. Someone apparently figured out the whole “music not on the soundtrack” thing. Because Jedi ONLY used music from the LP. Imagine trying to score Jedi with only that music? The narrator was also pretty bland.
By 1989 you had Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Little Mermaid where they learned another new trick: Edit the dialogue so there were fewer pauses. Yikes.
Raiders was pretty amazing sounding. When I was a kid I was annoyed at the lack of narration. But a few years later I realized that this was Ben Burtt for the living room! Ahhhh.
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Jul 14, 2014 - 1:16 PM
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I had a chance to talk to Ben Burtt a few years ago, and I mentioned how much I loved that Raiders album. He was surprised I remembered it, but also pleased -- he seemed rather proud of it.
- Mark
Very cool to learn that Ben Burtt had a hand in the "Raiders" on record album. I know his name was on the record sleeve, with sound effects guy Gary Summers, but I always thought that was just a carry-over from their film credits. I do recall some of the storytelling edits were quite creative. It was also a thrill, of course, because this album had more music. This was way before DCC release. I just pulled out my old vinyl, and here is how they listed album credits:
Produced for records by Tom Voegeli
Script adaptation and liner notes by Sally Gordon and Norman W. Merrill
Sound design: Ben Burtt
Sound effects technician: Gary Summers
Front cover illustration: Drew Struzan
Engineer: Tom Voegeli
Assistant Engineer: Tom Mudge
Adaptation and remixing at: Studio M, Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Mastering Engineer: Bernie Grundman, A & M Records
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I love the fact that both Throne and Rodrigues were in the original Star Trek episode, COURT-MARTIAL.
Throne and Rodrigues were both in original-series Star Trek episodes which had to do with court martials, but it was Rodrigues who appeared in "Court Martial." Throne played Commodore Mendez in the two-parter "The Menagerie." Funny how the mind plays tricks.
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