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So Alex North didn't retain rights to the written music for Unchained *including* the theme, but only retained rights to the theme/melody itself, which was originally written just for this score and used throughout it? That seems odd...
Yavar
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So Alex North didn't retain rights to the written music for Unchained *including* the theme, but only retained rights to the theme/melody itself, which was originally written just for this score and used throughout it? That seems odd..
Yes, if the infos on the websites of the performing societies are correct, then exactly this should be the case. Just look up the ASCAP Repertory website for yourself and you will find there only Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. as publisher for all the orchestral cues of UNCHAINED.
Only on our German GEMA website I can find the additional info that for the "Unchained Melody" song the publisher is indeed North Melody Publishing. And of course GEMA also mentions Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. as publisher for the UNCHAINED orchestral cues, but not North Melody Publishing.
This would mean that there are two different publishers for the orchestral tracks and for the song itself.
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I would totally be interested in an expanded edition of Rich Man, Poor Man. The original album was not Varese Sarabande, but MCA Records (owned by Universal Music):
https://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/25193/Rich+Man%2C+Poor+Man
Varese simply sublicensed it for a CD release just as they did for the MCA album recording of Goldsmith's Masada, MacArthur, etc. Plenty of MCA albums have been revisited and expanded by other film music labels over the years. Presumably, LLL or Intrada (or maybe even Quartet Records) could license the original MCA album rights, and tackle an expanded edition of Rich Man, Poor Man... IF (and this is a big IF) Universal Television is willing to play ball.
While Universal Pictures has been cooperating with the labels really well of late, that appears to be only on film projects. We haven't gotten Columbo or Six Million Dollar Man or any other Universal TV projects, unless there's something I forgot/missed. I know that's a *hope* with the new Universal Classics series, but so far it's been only theatrical films released under that branding. MV of La-La Land has said it's not impossible to get into Universal TV titles, but it is more complicated and it just hasn't happened... yet.
Yavar
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