Hello All. I have the Turner/TCM/Rhino "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Gone With The Wind" 2 CD Deluxe Edition Book style release sets. Each measured 6" x 10" and came with and incredible book and the two Cd's where housed in a double digipak like holder on the inside back covers. Does anyone know if there were more releases of other soundtracks like these, or were these two the only ones packaged and released this way? Thanks in advance for any information on these great releases and possible others.
Hello All. I have the Turner/TCM/Rhino "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Gone With The Wind" 2 CD Deluxe Edition Book style release sets. Each measured 6" x 10" and came with and incredible book and the two Cd's where housed in a double digipak like holder on the inside back covers. Does anyone know if there were more releases of other soundtracks like these, or were these two the only ones packaged and released this way? Thanks in advance for any information on these great releases and possible others.
There were also two different releases of the THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT film soundtracks, each containing 6 CDs. I'm not sure whether the first (1995) release was in a box, or a digipack. But the second (2006) release is definitely in digipack style, with a full-length bound booklet tucked into a sleeve on the left, and three plastic disc "pages" with two discs each on the right.
There is also the set "Mickey & Judy" which contains four CDs with the soundtracks to the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland films "Babes In Arms." "Strike Up The Band," "Babes On Broadway," and "Girl Crazy."
And there is the 1998 set "Warner Bros. - 75 Years Entertaining The World: Film Music" (Rhino Records R2 75287) which has 4 CDs, consisting of one CD of orchestral scores and 3 CDs of songs from Warner films.
It should be noted that (perhaps aside from the nice booklet, which is why I'm still keeping my copy) the Rhino Ben-Hur has been made completely obsolete by FSM's definitive five disc set.
It should be noted that (perhaps aside from the nice booklet, which is why I'm still keeping my copy) the Rhino Ben-Hur has been made completely obsolete by FSM's definitive five disc set.
Yavar
Yeah, I have both the Rhino and FSM versions and the FSM clearly has the upper hand. However, I'm also holding on to my Rhino edition, not only because of the book, but also because it contains an alternate version of "The Prince of Peace" with a soft ending that seemingly got overlooked in the extensive search for all surviving music.
It should be noted that (perhaps aside from the nice booklet, which is why I'm still keeping my copy) the Rhino Ben-Hur has been made completely obsolete by FSM's definitive five disc set.
Yavar
No for me. I didn't like the re-recorded LP's that were released at the time, so didn't want a CD of them, & the original score just blows them away anyway. I do like the Ben-Hur recording that Rozsa did in the seventies for Decca, but that's not in the FSM set (& you can buy the set in a normal case for £8 from Amazon, a LOT cheaper that the FSM set - I work it out as seven times as much with p&p to the UK!). I was tempted to buy the six disc That's Entertainment set when I saw it in HMV, but it was bloody expensive at the time.
One technical problem with all these releases is that the inner sections become unglued, and fall out. My GWTW and the Mickey and Judy one have to be re-glued, which I haven't got around to doing yet.
all of the turner releases are missing two pieces of music. One - peter chasing the goose for Christmas dinner. two - an alternate version of Geralds Death followed by unused music of scarlett deciding to use the curtains for a dress. These were on the old tapes from the Max steiner Society.
