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We talk about this kind of thing a lot, but the best thing about Big Screen Records was the composer pictures, my first look at James Horner (still the best picture ever taken of the guy), James Newton Howard and others. Just before the internet opened up my world beyond the poorly-stocked shelves of my small town.
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shauns right, weve had this before.
i had a battered cover for Victors with the pic of sol kaplan - that was gona be my first mention but bob beat me to it.
for sure there was a couple Goldsmith on old LPs, coz i didnt have those that zoob mentions.
was it The Chairman? coz i remember cover notes talking about rice on drums.
plenty of morricone ones to choose from, inc that foldout LP that had him sitting on his sofa. i thnk it was Un film una musica.
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Sep 27, 2015 - 6:12 PM
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alexp
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My first soundtrack album that had a picture-of-the-composer on it was EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
That album I got when I was 10 years old in 1980. It was my second album that I’ve owned, with the first being another Williams soundtrack, SUPERMAN.
I burrowed the ALIEN soundtrack LP from my local library a year later and I was floored by the inventiveness of the music. Of course, there were no photos on the album cover, other then the iconic film’s advertising artwork, so, I wanted to know what Jerry Goldsmith looked like. This is before the internet or even the affordability of home video, so, I couldn’t look these things up that easily. My wanting to know the composer’s likeness became an obsession for a decade and it grow more intense when I heard Goldsmith’s music from POLTERGEIST and PSYCHO II. During that decade the best I can come up with is getting a likeness of ALIEN’s orchestra conductor Lionel Newman from the 1979 book, THE FILMS OF 20TH CENTURY FOX: A PICTORIAL HISTORY. My obsession ended when I visited this specialty record shop in NYC and I found the soundtrack to RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2 and I saw Goldsmith gray-haired mug on the album's back cover.
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Sep 27, 2015 - 6:30 PM
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joec
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Alfred Newman is pictured on the back of THE ROBE Decca soundtrack LP:
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Sep 27, 2015 - 6:35 PM
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joec
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Another Newman LP:
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Sep 27, 2015 - 6:40 PM
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joec
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How about this one:
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