The credit probably should have been deleted, but basically it stays there for all releases.
I checked out the M&E track and discovered that it was not a true one, but what is called "filled." This means that it was created later on by the studio for foreign track use; it was not done at the time. Generally what happens when they do that is that dialogue-free sections of music are taken from the English mix and then tracked and looped as is possible. Sometimes library music unrelated to the picture is inserted. It's also not uncommon for music to be dropped altogether in some sections. Many sound effects are also completely replaced.
So in the absence of a real M&E and ANY usable scoring elements, there was simply nothing worthwhile to present. The location featurette uses the Varese rerecording and says so in the credits.
Have heard thee is problem with the element for Waxman films,ncluding Peyton Place and Adventures of a Young Man. has anyone checked the original tapes RCA got from Fox, to see if the complete score was sent, a la Summer and Smoke.
Hey, Joe, remember that ancient article you wrote for "The Perfect Vision" over twenty-five years ago where you went through what was stereo and not stereo and what was lost or missing from the vaults at Fox? I wish I'd saved it. Did you mention anything about PEYTON PLACE in it?
I indeed checked with Sony Music and all they have in their vaults on both of those Waxman scores are the finished re-recorded album tapes. Fox does have an M&E track on Hemingway that I think is original, but the quality is very poor.
Looks like the best that we will do on the original tracks for either score is a remastering of the LP masters. The RCA Spain CD for PEYTON PLACE dates from 1999, and the Label X CD of HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN goes back to 1985.
