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 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 3:15 PM   
 By:   litefoot   (Member)

A query regarding Bernard Herrmann's OST for Psycho...

I was under the impression the masters were lost, but I just found a listing on soundtrackcollector for a 2011 LP from 'Doxy' in Italy which has:

'The original 1960 strings-only score exactly as heard in the movie - on 180-gram vinyl.'

Can anyone give more details as to this? Is it the original score from the master tapes, or something taken from the mono music stem, or something else? I am completely in the dark.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/2327/Psycho

 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 4:07 PM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

There have been other bootlegs of the OST recording.

I don't know the source except that they all sound pretty crappy.

If Universal had usable originals in their vaults, they wouldn't have had to go through that horrible music/dialogue separation process to create the 5.1 mix.

Of course, the signature edition laser disc had an isolated score so they have something, but presumably it's inferior. (I didn't have the laser disc.)

Of course, it could be this LP is a release of that separation but if it is that will sound horrible too.

Let us know how it sounds.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 4:07 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

It's actually the McNeely recording... if I'm not mistaken, someone posted it to youtube, I listened to it, and I knew immediately it was the McNeely.

 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 4:10 PM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

What's interesting though is that the running time and track lengths on the LP corresponds with the Soundstage bootleg. It doesn't correspond with the McNeely disc.

 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 4:57 PM   
 By:   Josh "Swashbuckler" Gizelt   (Member)

What's interesting though is that the running time and track lengths on the LP corresponds with the Soundstage bootleg. It doesn't correspond with the McNeely disc.

It was probably an assumption based upon what they assumed about the release.

There is an edition of Psycho on iTunes purporting to be the original tracks that is actually just the McNeely recording, as well as one that is Herrmann's Unicorn/Kanchana recording.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 6:01 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

So the Doxy records original soundtrack release is, in fact, the Varese re-recording??? And no one took Doxy to task for this, as in sued them or caused them grief?

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 7:11 PM   
 By:   blue15   (Member)

Doxy is based in Italy, I think, and has done some other "interesting" stuff like a 2-lp of THE GREAT ESCAPE, using the Varese/Intrada 2-CD set as the master. Also an "expanded" WAR OF THE WORLDS taken from the Intrada set, plus music/fx tracks. A 4-lp set of original tracks from THE WRONG MAN, VERTIGO and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (set titled "Alfred Hitchcock's Movie Soundtracks") is also CD sourced.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 22, 2014 - 7:16 PM   
 By:   Smaug   (Member)

Doxy is known to be shady...I did some inquiries when I came across their Vertigo LP

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 5, 2017 - 10:20 PM   
 By:   jonathan_little   (Member)

So the Doxy records original soundtrack release is, in fact, the Varese re-recording??? And no one took Doxy to task for this, as in sued them or caused them grief?

I have heard a Doxy LP of Psycho and it is most definitely the OST recording in mediocre sound quality.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 6, 2017 - 6:42 AM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I have the Doxy LP of Kenyon Hopkins' "The Hustler" and it sounds amazing. Clearly from a pristine tape source.

 
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