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 Posted:   Dec 24, 2021 - 9:04 AM   
 By:   JB Fan   (Member)

No.
If I remember correctly, MV said that actually they lost money on this box.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2021 - 4:11 PM   
 By:   Larry847   (Member)

No.
If I remember correctly, MV said that actually they lost money on this box.


I don't know much about the economics of these things, but if they sold (it's out of print), then how did they lose money? Was the price point set to low?

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2021 - 4:42 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

They seemed to need to unload all their copies even at low sale prices (and possibly elsewhere). I dunno if it's having to pay for CD rights by the year so there is an incentive to sell existing copies asap? Or paying taxes on unsold goods? Or sales were so low that they didn't print the necessary number of CDs to break even. The losing side of the cost/benefit ratio.

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2021 - 7:15 PM   
 By:   La La Land Records   (Member)

We dumped them at under cost to our distributor. Honestly it was a mistake. We should have waited for the popularity of the Netflix show to hit its peak, but alas...we did not

MV

 
 Posted:   Dec 24, 2021 - 10:07 PM   
 By:   Replicant006   (Member)

Yeah, admittedly, I purchased this through Amazon at an enormous discount about 4 years ago. I was on the fence about whether or not to purchase it but the roughly 40% off the retail price decided for me.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 25, 2021 - 12:24 AM   
 By:   MMM   (Member)

I've spent at least 40% of my last few years trying to find a copy for under $500. Want to hear all of my friend Herman Stein's music. What did the distributor do with the copies? Burn them?

 
 Posted:   Dec 27, 2021 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)


We dumped them at under cost to our distributor. Honestly it was a mistake. We should have waited for the popularity of the Netflix show to hit its peak, but alas...we did not

MV


Shortly after your 12CD box set went out of print, Space Lab 9 Records released a 4-LP compilation of just the John Williams tracks from it

https://spacelab9.com/products/copy-of-doctor-who-the-50th-anniversary-collection-4-lp-box-set-adipose-white-vinyl-variant-1

Would you be interested in releasing this same compilation on the CD format through LLLR?

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 27, 2021 - 2:18 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

I've spent at least 40% of my last few years trying to find a copy for under $500. Want to hear all of my friend Herman Stein's music. What did the distributor do with the copies? Burn them?

"Rosebud..."

MMM, have you posted a Want ad in the trading forum here? It can prod a collector who isn't into the release to weed it from their collection for a fellow collector, rather than for profit. I've seen it happen more than once with rarities here, whilst I'm looking elsewhere for the same title.

 
 Posted:   Dec 27, 2021 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

A note to MMM: all twelve discs of the LLL set are individually available as downloads in the iTunes store (iTunes for Windows is a free app). The albums are $9.99 each. You have to put Lost in Space Volume in the search box and then filter the results with the Albums button, or they won't show up.

As a side note, the LLL Star Trek box used to be for sale on iTunes, but it's been deleted from the catalog. So you might not want to wait too long.

Edit: I just saw that the album downloads are presently a dollar cheaper at Amazon. $8.99 each:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lost+in+space+volume&i=digital-music&crid=27K59KJL3Q3ZQ&sprefix=lost+in+space+volume%2Cdigital-music%2C67&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 28, 2021 - 6:42 AM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Edit: I just saw that the album downloads are presently a dollar cheaper at Amazon. $8.99 each:

MP3

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2022 - 9:03 PM   
 By:   L. Decima Vittima   (Member)

I recently came across an item in the Feb 10 '68 issue of Cashbox magazine which stated, and I quote: "For 20th Century-Fox network television shows currently airing, Joseph Mullendore and Leith Stevens are on segments of "Lost in Space"...

Mullendore, of course, scored the final two episodes of the series, but Leith Stevens didn't work on any of the 3rd Season episodes (though I wish he had.) But is it possible he had been tentatively assigned to score one of the final shows in the series, only for plans to have changed at the last minute? "Fugitives in Space," the third-to-last episode, seems like it might have been a good fit for his style. It's likelier, I suppose, that Stevens was assigned to some other Fox show and the Cashbox writer got some jumbled info from the studio.

Link to the item in question:

https://archive.org/details/cashbox29unse_27/page/48/mode/2up?q=%2220th+Fox+Music+Staff%22

 
 Posted:   Sep 30, 2023 - 5:15 PM   
 By:   L. Decima Vittima   (Member)

I've recently been making my way through Shout Factory's new "Irwin Allen Disasters" blu-ray collection, and - having read up on Richard LaSalle on these boards - was amused, but not surprised, to hear him reusing bits and pieces of his old "Lost In Space" score from the episode "The Derelict" in his scores for both "Cave-In" and "The Night The Bridge Fell Down" (a pair of made-for-TV movies both filmed around 1979, though both sat on the shelf until 1983). I'm pretty sure a couple of bits from one of his "Land Of The Giants" score also got recycled in one or both of those titles.

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2023 - 6:00 PM   
 By:   L. Decima Vittima   (Member)

Now I've started on "Hanging By A Thread," another made-for-TV disaster included in the Shout box, and it didn't take more than a half-hour or so for some of LaSalle's familiar "Derelict" cues to turn up yet again as part of the score. Can't really blame the composer, though; the movie runs three hours and fourteen minutes, so he had an awful lot of time to fill!

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2023 - 7:56 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Now I've started on "Hanging By A Thread," another made-for-TV disaster included in the Shout box, and it didn't take more than a half-hour or so for some of LaSalle's familiar "Derelict" cues to turn up yet again as part of the score. Can't really blame the composer, though; the movie runs three hours and fourteen minutes, so he had an awful lot of time to fill!


I never knew LIS music was used in a movie— only that movie music was used in LIS. This is interesting. I knew Fox had used Williams' LIS music in a little pitch film for Planet of the Apes, which was very striking in itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cufbVNjr8&t=64s

It's funny how different the setup at Fox was compared to how Star Trek was treated. At Fox, it was considered one big music library. Their TV shows even shared recording sessions, where library cues would be a common resource.

By contrast, Star Trek music was its own contained oeuvre, a canonical corpus that was all-and-only Star Trek music. But TAS would get the shared library approach at Filmation.

I can't even say which is better; both approaches have their strong points.

 
 Posted:   Oct 3, 2023 - 4:35 AM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)




I never knew LIS music was used in a movie— only that movie music was used in LIS. This is interesting.


It wasn't that the actual recordings were used, only that LaSalle used his motifs from Lost in Space in the TV movie score. He did same on Buck Rogers and other shows.

 
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