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Dec 24, 2014 - 1:05 PM
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litefoot
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I've been reading a couple of FSM threads about Silva's 1992 CD premiere of the 1966 Colgems album The Professionals (Maurice Jarre). I have a couple of questions about quotes made by Ford and Lukas:
Ford A. Thaxton 3/4/05 "I helped make that deal and every attempt was made to locate the masters by myself and James Fitzpatrick. The company we licensed it from just plain couldn't find them at the time (They might well have turned up sometime in the last 10 years) but at the time, NOTHING could be found. It was either what SILVA used or NOTHING!... So if you happen to remember where these tapes are please share that information with us."
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=2&threadID=25829&archive=1
Lukas Kendall 31/12/05 Some time around 1997 I asked Sony about the rights to some of their back catalog, and was told that certain scores released on the Colgems Records LPs did not have masters available, but if I could find them, perhaps a deal could be made. I did end up speaking to a guy at the RCA vaults in Penn. (I think) who said he had the album masters for The Professionals and Interlude (but not Schifrin's Murderer's Row). I told this to Sony but never really formed a relationship with them to release anything, though fortunately Prometheus did (which is when they did Police Story, Contract on Cherry Street, Bite the Bullet, Breakout, etc.). Recently I asked Sony about this again but was told the rights to the Colgems LPs are all with Arista, which might have been the case all along, and might be why RCA had the tapes. So that's the story."
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=31955&forumID=1&archive=1
My question is, in both these quotes, are you referring to the album masters or the OST masters? It reads like the album masters. I'm a little vague on the OST masters for The Professionals. Are they lost? Does the Colgems LP program (which is 38m) contain the meat of the music?
I'd check the liner notes, but I don't have the CD and it fetches a high price on the collectors market so I thought it would be easier to ask you gents.
Colgems and Colpix produced good album programs (both OST and re-recordings) - and it's great to see them getting attention, with FSM having released quite a few in the last decade or so. I wonder if any more will get released in the future.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
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i was once watching an old news clip about john stonehouse, who some of you will recall left his clothes on a beach and vanished.
Oh said my young girlfriend, he did a reggie perrin!!
"...Er...no i said, Reggie Perrin did a john stonehouse."
The Professionals Is the film with Lee marvin.
Bodie and Doyle just came along ten years later and nicked the title.!!
El Bruco should be here.
He just loves this score!!
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This would be the album masters...but I wouldn't trust this info from so long ago!
Lukas
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This would be the album masters...but I wouldn't trust this info from so long ago!
Lukas
Nor would I...
My information was 10 years old when I first posted back in 2005...
It's very possible that someone might have located the masters in the last 10 years...
Anything is possible.
Ford A. Thaxton
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All I remember is I was researching some of the Colgems stuff in the mid to late 1990s and was able to talk my way into talking to a vault guy who said he had an inventory item for the album master to The Professionals in deep storage.
Lukas
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At least the TV show had that network cd set with all the cues.
No it didn't...
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Dec 27, 2014 - 5:57 AM
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CinemaScope
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Sod the god-awful TV show, I never liked it, & don't give a monkeys about the music. The 1966 western on the other hand, is fantastic, with a typically great Jarre score. I had the LP, bought the Silva CD, only to find that it was mastered from an LP, but they did do a great job of it. I'd love a CD from the album masters. I wonder what, deep storage is? It did come under the Arista label. About the same time, Intrada licensed the Jarre album, Night Of The Generals from them, & they were originally told that the album masters were missing, but decided to wait, & the masters were found. If any label out there deals with Arista, this would be a great release.
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if i started a thread about Bodie and Doyle and the T.v show Professionals - do you think people would hijack it and start talking about Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster and self made men? Peace, brother.
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if i started a thread about Bodie and Doyle and the T.v show Professionals - do you think people would hijack it and start talking about Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster and self made men? Peace, brother.
Touche.
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Dec 27, 2014 - 11:46 PM
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Don Norman
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Sod the god-awful TV show, I never liked it, & don't give a monkeys about the music. The 1966 western on the other hand, is fantastic, with a typically great Jarre score. I had the LP, bought the Silva CD, only to find that it was mastered from an LP, but they did do a great job of it. I'd love a CD from the album masters. I wonder what, deep storage is? It did come under the Arista label. About the same time, Intrada licensed the Jarre album, Night Of The Generals from them, & they were originally told that the album masters were missing, but decided to wait, & the masters were found. If any label out there deals with Arista, this would be a great release.
If the album masters can be found, I'm sure that a CD from them would be a big seller. Would it be asking too much for someone to make an effort to verify that they currently exist?
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