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Sometimes I get nostalgic for the days when we had less film music and prized it more.
Before FSM, LLL, and Intrada ever existed, there was this one series of related labels that kept coming out with great albums. They were apparently based in Australia: Entr'Acte, Label X, Preamble, Southern Cross. They might all have been owned by a holding company called Fifth Continent.
My big ones:
- THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: Pre-Internet, I had to get a local store to order this for me. And what a treat. Very moving. I remember actually welling up during "Homer Goes Upstairs."
- KING KONG: Fred Steiner's 1976 album is still what I'd call the best-ever recording of Max Steiner's score. I guess we can't know what the OST sounded like when it was new in theaters, and that original performance is terrific, but the surviving elements suffer for sound quality. Thus the Entr'Acte/Southern Cross album hits the sweet spot for sound and performance.
- TIME AFTER TIME: FSM's OST is tops, but the Southern Cross CD (Rozsa's own re-recording) still has value. For instance, I prefer the SCCD version of "Redwoods." The same thing happened with JAWS: the composer's album is an enduring treat and not to be junked when the OST came along.
- STAR TREK Volumes 1 and 2: Obsoleted by the OST box set? Not entirely. I play "The Paradise Syndrome" suite as an encore to the LLL program. It's surprisingly effective.
The following catalog was originally compiled by Bob DiMucci. Got any favorites?
Entr’Acte - LPs
The Awakening
Band of Angels
The Best Years of Our Lives
Battle of Neretva
The Cardinal
Crime In the Streets
The Eagle Has Landed / The Four Musketeers
Enchanted Cottage / Jungle Book /The Paradine Case
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
King Kong
Peyton Place
Raintree County
Sayonara
Sisters
The Spirit of St. Louis
Summer and Smoke
Time After Time
Voyage of the Damned
Max Steiner Conducts (Includes music from: The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Four Wives, The Searchers, A Stolen Life, Death of a Scoundrel)
The Kentuckian (also contains music from: Down To the Sea In Ships; , In Love And War, Sunrise At Campobello)
Label X - CDs
Azzurro
Band of Angels (also contains music from: Death Of A Scoundrel; The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Four Wives; The Searchers, A Stolen Life)
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Birth of a Nation
Body Heat
Bounty (CD single)
Cheyenne Autumn (also LP)
The Eagle Has Landed / The Four Musketeers / Voyage of the Damned
Frances
Grey Owl
Heidi
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (also LP)
King Kong
Krull
The Last Starfighter
Night Digger
The Quiet Earth / Iris
Raintree County
South Seas Adventure
Star Trek – Volume I
Star Trek - Volume II
This Is Cinerama
The Trap
Utu
Valhalla
Voyage of the Damned (Also includes Continuum & Journeys)
Alex North at the Movies (Dragonslayer; Cheyenne Autumn, South Seas Adventure)
America at the Movies (Birth of a Nation; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Cardinal; Down To the Sea In Ships; The Kentuckian; Sunrise at Campobello; Trial; Williamsburg: Story of a Patriot)
Bernard Herrmann at the Movies (Battle of Neretva; The Night Digger; Sisters)
Bruce Smeaton at the Movies (Iceman / A Town Like Alice)
The Daniele Amfitheatrof Project, Vol. 1 (The Beginning or the End)
Max Steiner at the Movies (Includes music from King Kong; This Is Cinerama; Death of a Scoundrel)
The Miss Marple Films / Ron Goodwin (Murder She Said; Murder At The Gallop; Murder must Foul; Murder Ahoy; Lancelot and Guinevere; Force 10 From Navarone)
Orson Welles at the Movies (Citizen Kane; Magnificent Ambersons)
Sci-Fi at the Movies (Includes music from Time After Time; The Day The Earth Stood Still, Krull; The Quiet Earth, Yor, The Hunter From The Future; Battlestar Galactica)
The Theremin (Includes music from Spellbound; Rocketship X-M; The Red House)
Preamble - CDs
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Cardinal
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Night Digger
Raintree County
The Razor’s Edge [1984]
Summer and Smoke [?]
The Inquirer and Other Film Music of Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Kentuckian, Williamsburg: The Story Of A Patriot, The Night Digger, The Battle of Neretva, Sisters, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
The Kentuckian (Also contains music from: Down To the Sea In Ships; The Day The Earth Stood Still, In Love And War, Sunrise At Campobello)
Southern Cross – LPs
Anastasia: The Mystery Of Anna
Battle of Neretva
Birth of a Nation
Body Heat
Dragonslayer
Frances
High Road To China
Iceman
King Kong
Krull
The Last Starfighter
The Razor’s Edge [1984]
Sisters
Sophie’s Choice
Utu
Warning Sign
Yor: Hunter From the Future
Southern Cross – CDs
Anastasia: The Mystery Of Anna
Battle of Neretva
The Blue Lagoon
The Everlasting Secret Family
Heart of the Stag
Iceman
King Kong
Krull
The Last Starfighter
Peter the Great
The Quest / The Wild Duck
The Razor’s Edge [1984]
Sisters
Sophie’s Choice
Teen Wolf [?]
A Town Like Alice
Time After Time
Warning Sign
Yor: Hunter From the Future
SCSE (Soundtrack Collector’s Special Edition) - CDs
Body Heat
Dragonslayer
Frances
High Road To China
Krull
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Some of the Label X CDs were Label X Germany and had nothing to do with Lasher. They were produced by Richard Kummerfeld.
The greatest album IMHO that Lasher released was RAINTREE COUNTY, one of the finest of all film scores.
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jkannry:
I know label x and southern cross have iTunes releases and I for one are glad to see them on there.
I know what you mean. It's good to see any of these titles preserved for new customers in a world where old, OOP CDs get scarcer every year. Someday, I hope the whole history of recorded music is available for download purchase. Nothing should disappear, even if no one is currently buying it.
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Doug Raynes:
John Lasher produced some excellent recordings of classic film scores at a time when few others were doing so. I interviewed him last year but for arcane reasons it wasn't published. He's retired and lives in Australia.
Lasher said that none of his recordings made a profit with the sole exception of SOPHIE'S CHOICE. He subsidised his record labels with earnings from employment at TWA and Amtrak.
He claimed that he got on famously with Bernard Herrmann and never saw much of his cantankerous personality although the mere mention of Andre Previn would send him into a rage!
I was curious as to why he set up so many different labels but he wan't forthcoming about that.
That's really interesting, Doug. Imagine passing by some worker in a train station and never knowing he's a film music hero.
Maybe you can put your interview online in some form. I'd want to read it.
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Jul 15, 2015 - 10:50 AM
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I still have a ton of these.... Specifically:
Preamble - CDs
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Cardinal
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Night Digger
The Razor’s Edge [1984]
The Inquirer and Other Film Music of Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Kentuckian, Williamsburg: The Story Of A Patriot, The Night Digger, The Battle of Neretva, Sisters, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
The Kentuckian (Also contains music from: Down To the Sea In Ships; The Day The Earth Stood Still, In Love And War, Sunrise At Campobello)
Southern Cross – CDs
Anastasia: The Mystery Of Anna
Battle of Neretva
The Blue Lagoon
Iceman
King Kong
The Last Starfighter
Peter the Great
The Quest / The Wild Duck
The Razor’s Edge [1984]
Sisters
Sophie’s Choice
A Town Like Alice
Time After Time
SCSE (Soundtrack Collector’s Special Edition) - CDs
Body Heat
Frances
High Road To China
Krull
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