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Kritzerland doesn't seem to be releasing older scores. The latest Samuel Fuller compilation is essentially re-releases. Now he's doing Classical recordings, and has been otherwise concentrating on theatre projects. I wonder if Bruce still has access to older film scores.
Varese has also relaxed their older releases, with not that many announced.
LaLaLand used to have a few, including the recent Waxman double bill, but they are also essentially re-releases of lip's. There'a a rumor that they're planning a new DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, but that seems to be unfounded. So far, they're the only ones actually doing deluxe reissues.
Intrada has a few here and there, but, like the others, has more or less given up on anything from the Golden Age. At one point, they were doing a lot of Disney scores, but that also seems to have dried up. There are dozens of Disney scores that have never been released.
I love Golden Age composers, but it appears now that the market just does not warrant release of their scores. We're all aware of how much A CERTAIN SMILE flopped. Newman is definitely unpopular. And yet, we still get re-releases of various 80's scores, like BLUE MAX and the POLTERGEIST scores. Many of these have been issued several times, in different guises.
Looks to me like interest in film music in general has been declining.
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Sep 26, 2017 - 12:13 PM
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Lokutus
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No?
Hasn't Intrada slowed down and instead of two titles every two weeks they release just one now? Half of those are just reissues of previous releases...
Didn't Varese use to have 3-4 Club batches a year and this year it was only one? They used to release SEVERAL major scores every month or on weekly basis... they just release ton of crap and reissues of reissues of LPs now.
Kritzerland used to release mostly scores with occasional musical etc... this year? How many "NEW" scores were actually released? And I don't mean straight reissues of other label's releases?
Instead of a few exception this has been really weak year.
Every label has a few gems released this year... but still... it has been very slow first 9 months...
Intrada: The Heiress/The Red Pony, Baby's Day Out, Making Love, The Caine Mutiny, Operation Dumbo Drop,
Kritzerland: Two for the Road, Ode to Billy Joe (although just LP reissue)
Quartet: White Buffalo (especially for the far superior unused score by David Shire), Papillon, Lady Jane, The Hustle
LLL: Sons of Katie Elder, The Great Race, Wild Wild West, Peyton Place / Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, WaterWorld, Sky Captain
Caldera: The Italian Key, Wild Geese II
Tadlow: Thriller, Cecil B. De Mille: An American Epic, Ben Hur
Prometheus: Duel in the Sun
Music Box: A Summer Story, Princesse Alexandra, La Conquete/Comme un Chef, Les Cheveaux du Soleil
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Maybe this year isn't that bad after all...
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Two of LLL's last seven releases are older titles - the Waxman double header already mentioned and Thunder Road - The Music of Jack Marshall.
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Hmm, Alhambra and Saimel have released a few great Golden Age scores...
The crucial point here is that for most (US) collectors those Italian Golden Age scores we did for example on Saimel this year don´t count at all because Golden Age scores for them are almost only the ones composed in the USA at the same time. The simple reason is that they don´t have any relation to the scores, the movies or even the composers of these Saimel CDs. There is only one genre exception regarding Italian scores ca. 1960 which is the Peplum which of course will often attract also quite a lot of US people because the movies had been popular in their country.
But in the end it is even much more difficult to sell those Italian Golden Age scores we did on Saimel than any unreleased one for example by Alfred Newman or Victor Young and you will lose quite a lot of money by producing these CDs.
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