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INTRADA Announces:



HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Composed and Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 330

Intrada's latest installment of music from the Disney catalog is an expanded re-issue from the 1993 film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, more than doubling the length of the original release that just ran 30 minutes. Composer Bruce Broughton’s skill at underscoring action and emotion are on display throughout the film’s lengthy score, a particular challenge in this case since the main characters are household pets. He introduces these protagonists with his opening, comic flourishes, and underscores their relationship with the family and their contrasting points of view.

Homeward Bound is comprised of four basic themes, three of which are introduced in the main title. The opening guitar represents the narrating pup, Chance, and is followed almost immediately by a sweet sustained theme in the strings which is associated with the human family the animals live with. After a brief (and typical) interruption by Chance’s theme, the violins briefly play Sassy the Cat’s theme. It is not until “The Journey Begins” that we hear the broad and heroic main theme associated with Shadow, the older dog, and with the adventure itself.

Homeward Bound is a remake of Disney's earlier The Incredible Journey. This time the story is set near the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and features voiceovers from Sally Fields, Michael J. Fox, and Don Ameche. After the pets are dropped off at a friend's ranch while their family vacations, the animals think they've been left for good and escape the ranch into the wild wilderness in search of their family.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 330
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Bruce Broughton
Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 330
Date: 1993
Time: 70:51
Tracks: 31
Price: $19.99

One of Intrada's earliest Bruce Broughton soundtracks gets a complete makeover! More than twice the music now! Broughton scores this Walt Disney Pictures classic, Duwayne Dunham directs, Robert Hays, Kim Greist star, Michael J. Fox, Don Ameche, Sally Field provide voices for two dogs and one cat. Warmhearted 1993 tale is a remake of Disney's own 1963 live-action adaptation of Sheila Burnford's novel chronicling the incredible journey three house pets make to reunite with their owners. Broughton anchors outdoor tale with expansive, diatonic main theme, but judiciously holds back on it until perilous journey gets underway. Ideas both humorous, dramatic play first and throughout.

Initial 30-minute CD release captured several highlights but necessarily omitted many sequences. Amongst new material is powerful "Sassy In The River", dramatic "Shadow's A Hero", complete dog pound escape sequence with rousing interpolation of Lalo Schifrin's "Mission: Impossible" theme, intense "Shadow's Fall", wild "Birdzilla", many others. Entire CD presented from two-track digital stereo session masters made by Armin Steiner at 20th Century Fox Studios Scoring Stage in November 1992, vaulted in pristine condition courtesy Disney.

Informative liner notes by Jeff Bond plus flipper-style booklet design and colorful graphics from Joe Sikoryak. Bruce Broughton conducts. Intrada Special Collection release available while quantities and interest remain!

01. My Name Is Chance (4:45)
02. Sassy’s Shrimp (1:09)
03. The Cake (0:45)
04. Flying Pussy (2:05)
05. Left Alone (1:32)
06. Shadow’s Confusion No. 1 (0:28)
07. Birdzilla (0:56)
08. The Note (0:38)
09. The Journey Begins (2:59)
10. Where’s The House? (2:23)
11. Gives Me The Creeps (1:48)
12. Breakfasting With Bears (1:12)
13. Fording The Stream/Sassy In The River (5:21)
14. Shadow’s Confusion No. 2 (0:27)
15. Breakfast (0:58)
16. The Kids Find Out (1:09)
17. Sassy Wakes Up (0:43)
18. The Cougar! (Original) (4:17)
19. Reunion (1:56)
20. You Got My Lip!! (0:33)
21. Who Made These? (2:52)
22. Shadow’s A Hero (1:54)
23. We Found Them (0:56)
24. Mission: Impossible+ (3:42)
25. A Funny Feeling (0:52)
26. We Made It (1:11)
27. Shadow’s Fall (3:18)
28. Reunited (4:23)
29. Homeward Bound (Revised) (5:03)
Total Time: 61:21

The Extras
30. The Cougar! (Revised)* (4:17)
31. Homeward Bound (Original)* (5:03)
Total Extras Time: 9:23

*Not Featured In Film
+Contains “Theme From Mission: Impossible” written by Lalo Schifrin

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They didn't like it. Katzenberg didn't like it. I worked with the director on that picture for three months like I did with Walter Murch on RETURN TO OZ. I came up with all the themes, one by one--he loved them all and as we got to work on them I met with him every Monday for week after week. I went to Germany to record the score, but the orchestra there was not good enough, so we scrapped those sessions and then I re-recorded them in LA. Then Katzenberg wanted to hear a cut of the picture with the score on it and the voices for the animals--and I remember going over to his house and we sat there while he watched it. He smiled and shook my hand and said, "Fine, fine," and by the time I got home there was a call from my agent saying he scrapped my score and wanted a new one. He also fired the three people who were the principal voices of the animals and he almost fired the director. But he brought someone else in to work with him. So it was just a totally disappointing experience because that was the last score I thought was going to get me back in the loop. It was a big, romantic, fun picture with the Disney stamp on it and that was a huge disappointment. Since then I've hardly gotten called for a picture.

JF: Have you ever considered making that music available in some way--as a promo maybe?

DS: No, I haven't thought about it much. Frankly, it was so painful I never went back and even listened to it. But we'd have to get the master tapes and mix it because we never finished it. I have a tape of it somewhere. If somebody wanted to put it out and thought it was good enough to put out, I'd have no objections

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