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Anvil
High Velocity (recorded in 1974)
The Omen
Alien
If you have the time and willingness, you can click on each title on his IMDb resume and scroll down to the Other Companies section at the end blow Production Companies, and look for the recording studio if added to IMDb.
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Alien: February '79, Anvil Studios
Star Trek TMP - October-December '79
Players -???
The Great Train Robbery - ???
And so on
For ages I thought THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY was recorded in Spring 1979, as the liner notes in Intrada's release of ALIEN say that Goldsmith stayed in England after recording ALIEN to record THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. However, this is incorrect as THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY was first released (as THE FIRST GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY) in the West End of London in December 1978. I believe the liner notes for Intrada's release of that score do say 1978 but aren't more specific.
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I don't know why but recently I've had an interest in when composers wrote and recorded scores, and where. Not all albums give recording info so I was hoping you guys might be able to give some input!
Starting from the very beginning of Goldsmith's career would be quite a challenge so can anyone help me piece together a chronology of Goldsmith's career past, say, 1979? Any info is welcome, doesn't have to be in particular order.
I created an Excel spreadsheet in 2011 to capture information such as this from all the Goldsmith albums that I own.
It is in no way complete - far from it! - but it certainly has more years than 1979. 
My interest in the dates of recording sessions has been around for much longer than 2011, though - and for hundreds of composers, too, not just for Goldsmith.
I've been curious about a Goldsmith chronology since Varese Sarabande issued volume 2 of LIONHEART on LP in 1987.
I don't have the data with me as of this post, but here's some input on 1964 Goldsmith (which was deposited in this FSM thread on RIO CONCHOS):
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=20&threadID=106145&archive=0
"Gleaning such info from CD notes can be rather hit-or-miss, but here's my reconstruction (thus far) of Goldsmith data for 1964:
•SEVEN DAYS IN MAY: recorded on October 21, 1963; film released February 12, 1964
•SHOCK TREATMENT: recorded December 10 & 17, 1963; released July 22,1964
•"The Vulcan Affair" episode of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.: recorded January 7, 1964; broadcast September 22, 1964
•FATE IS THE HUNTER: recorded March 4 & June 8, 1964; released October 16, 1964
•THE SATAN BUG: recorded May 26 & 27, 1964; released March 26, 1965
•RIO CONCHOS: recorded July 23 & 24, 1964 (thanks to RoryR); released October 28, 1964
•"The King Of Knaves Affair" from MFU: recorded August 12, 1964; broadcast December 22, 1964
•"The Deadly Games Affair" from MFU: recorded September 8, 1964; broadcast October 20, 1964
•IN HARM'S WAY: recorded December 16 & 17 & 18, 1964 (plus 1/25/65); released April 6, 1965"
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...say, 1979? Any info is welcome, doesn't have to be in particular order. From what I know:
Alien: February '79, Anvil Studios
Star Trek TMP - October-December '79
Players -???
The Great Train Robbery - ???
My attempt at a 1979 chronology includes some guesswork, but the info on PLAYERS is definitely available:
The Great Train Robbery 1978?
Alien February 20th, 1979 through March 1st, 1979
Players April 18, 1979 through May 25, 1979
travelling to Israel for preliminary work on the TV-miniseries Masada
Caboblanco Sept '79?
Star Trek: The Motion Picture September 25, 1979 through November 29, 1979
If Goldsmith remained in England after Alien, then perhaps it was to prepare an LP album for United Artists (which was released in 1979) from the sessions material he recorded earlier (it had to have been sometime in late '78)?
By April, Goldsmith was back in the states to work on Players.
What little understanding I have on Goldsmith's trip to Israel was that the initial intention was to have his eventual music for Masada performed by an Israeli orchestra. This did not work out as intended and Goldsmith worked much more on Masada during April of 1980. [the series was not shown until April of 1981 - a year later!]
My speculation about Caboblanco being recorded simultaneous with - or prior to - Star Trek is based upon the release of Caboblanco in January of 1980 (one month after Star Trek).
As we all probably know, Goldsmith worked on ST up through the last week of November and a mere week before its premiere. Because of this, Goldsmith's music for Caboblanco was likely already in the can and in post-production either just prior to - or during - Goldsmith's sessions for ST.
[Who knows, though? Maybe Goldsmith stayed in the U.K. in March of '79 to record Caboblanco right after Alien?]
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bump! Anyone else wanna chime in?
The Prometheus CD of "The Challenge" lists November 1981 as the time of the recording sessions, so this means "The Challenge" was the assignment Goldsmith worked on prior to commencing writing for "Poltergeist".
My listing of my Goldsmith chronology is forthcoming.
Since the FSM threads do not display fields of data with spaces or tabs for easier reading, I re-typed the data from my Excel spreadsheet into a list by year in Word (so I can simply copy-n-paste the Word contents into this thread).
[I was not aware that "Night Crossing" was done in June of '81 because I own the earlier disc on this title and not the most recent edition. I'll edit my post with this, thanks.]
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1958
City Of Fear (August)
1961
• Degrees Of Guilt (February 24 & 27) for CAIN'S HUNDRED
• Twenty-Four Hours (March 8) for DR. KILDARE
• Crime And Commitment (July 21) for CAIN'S HUNDRED
• Lonely Ones, The (August 10) for DR. KILDARE
• Rules Of Evidence (September 6) for CAIN'S HUNDRED
• Markdown A Man (September 6) for CAIN'S HUNDRED
• Immunity (September 15) for DR. KILDARE
• Shining Image (September 25) for DR. KILDARE
• Million Dollar Property, A (October 9) for DR. KILDARE
• Lonely Are The Brave (November 9 through 28)
1962
• Spiral Road, The (January 17 through February 10)
• Freud (June or July?; recorded in Italy)
• Stripper, The (November 12?)
1963
• Prize, The (October 1 & 2)
• Seven Days In May (October 21)
• Shock Treatment (December 10 & 17)
1964
• Vulcan Affair, The (January 7) for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
• Fate Is The Hunter (March 4 & June 8)
• Satan Bug, The (May 26 & 27)
• Rio Conchos (July 23 & 24)
• King Of Knaves Affair, The (August 12) for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
• Deadly Games Affair, The (September 8) for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
• In Harm's Way (December 16 through 18)
1965
• Von Ryan's Express (January 14 & 18)
• In Harm's Way (January 25)
• Patch Of Blue, A (May or June?)
• Echo Of Bugles, An (July ?) for THE LONER
• One Of The Wounded (July ?) for THE LONER
• Jonah And The Whale (August 9 & 10) for VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
1966
• Blue Max, The (April?)
• Warning Shot (July 22 & 25)
• Jug Of Wine, A Loaf Of Bread, And Pow!, A (August 16) for JERICHO
1967
Planet Of The Apes (December 20 & 21)
1968
• Planet Of The Apes (January 3)
• Nick Quarry (January 17)
• Detective, The (April 16 & 17)
• Illustrated Man, The (August 19 & 20)
1969
• Justine (June 16, 17 & 24)
• Patton (October 31 & November 3 through 5)
1970
• Ballad Of Cable Hogue, The (January ? & 23)
• Traveling Executioner, The (August 12 & 14)
• Rio Lobo (October)
1971
• Crosscurrent (February 24)
• Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (April 8 & 9)
• Wild Rovers, The (April 21 & 22 plus May 5 & 20)
• Homecoming, The (December 7)
1972
• Ace Eli And Rodger Of The Skies (May 1, 2 & 5)
• Anna And The King (August 16 plus September 12 plus October 17)
• Red Pony, The (December 20, 21 & 22)
1973
• Hawkins On Murder (February 20 & 22)
• Ace Eli And Rodger Of The Skies (February 23 plus March 6)
• Going Up Of David Lev, The (March?)
• One Little Indian (April 12 & 13)
1974
Winter Kill (March 27 & 28)
1975
Babe (July 17 & 18)
1976
• Logan's Run (January 19 plus February 4 plus March 8, 9 & 10)
• Islands In The Stream (June 14, 15 & 16)
1977
• Capricorn One (August 8, 9 & 10)
• Coma (December 5 through 13)
1978
Boys From Brazil, The (June 30 plus Juy 1, 2 & 3)
1979
• Alien (February 20 through March 10)
• Players (April 18 & 30 plus May 1, 2 & 25)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (September 25 plus October 24 & 25 plus November 1 through 29)
1980
• Masada (April 15 through 21)
• Inchon (July; recorded in Italy)
• Final Conflict (September)
1981
• Outland (February 25 through 28 plus March 1 & 5 plus April 22)
• Night Crossing (June)
• Challenge, The (November)
1982
• Poltergeist (January 25 & 26 plus February 8 & 9)
• Secret Of NIMH, The (May 4 through 7)
• Psycho II (December 13 through 19)
1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie (February 28 plus March 2 & 3)
1985
• Legend (January?)
• Explorers (June 3 through June 19)
• Boo! (December 20) for AMAZING STORIES
1986
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (March?)
1988
• Alien Nation (May ?)
• Warlock (August ?)
1989
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (March 27 & 28 plus April 10 through 15)
1990
Total Recall (February 6, 7 & 8 plus April 30 plus May 1)
1993
Vanishing, The (January 9 through 15)
1996
Star Trek: First Contact (October 14 through 18)
1998
Star Trek: Insurrection (October 19 through 23)
2002
• Star Trek: Nemesis (August 13, 14, 15 & 28)
• Timeline (December 16, 17 & 18)
2003
Timeline (March 5 through 8)
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Other FSM members, please feel free to fill in the gaps.
If you own an album that's not listed above, look inside the liner notes (or the reverse side of the disc) to see if there exists data on the recording dates.
(I haven't been buying a lot of the Goldsmith expansions over the past 3 years, so if you got "The River Wild" or "The Ghost And The Darkness" or "Gremlins 2" let us know these session dates if the data is available).
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I remember Goldsmith saying that ALIEN was the perhaps the worst experience of his career because he was looking at "truck drivers in space" all day along and there was a garbage strike in London at the time.
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I also remember Horner saying something similar about ALIENS.
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Added to:
1969
THE CHAIRMAN (March 15, 16 & 17)
• Justine (June 16, 17 & 24)
• Patton (October 31 & November 3 through 5)
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