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CD and LP - Varese Sarabande - October 12, 2018
Available for the first time ever on CD, and long out of print on LP, the soundtrack to FLETCH features music by 80's stalwarts including; Stephanie Mills ("Bit By Bit," the infectious theme song), Dan Hartman, The Fixx, Kim Wilde and the score composed by composer Harold Faltermeyer. Fletch is the classic 1985 comedy starring Chevy Chase as the dogged and chameleon-like reporter, Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher. The movie was a hit at the box office and spawned a sequel.
1. Bit By Bit (Theme From “Fletch”) (Stephanie Mills) 3:38
2. Fletch, Get Outta Town (Dan Hartman) 4:11
3. Running For Love (John Farnham) 2:54
4. Name Of The Game (Dan Hartman) 6:02
5. Fletch Theme (Harold Faltermeyer) 3:48
6. A Letter To Both Sides (The Fixx) 3:20
7. Is It Over (Kim Wilde) 3:52
8. Diggin' In (Harold Faltermeyer) 2:44
9. Exotic Skates (Harold Faltermeyer) 3:00
10. Running For Love (Instrumental) (Harold Faltermeyer) 2:44
Total time - 36:13
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Aug 29, 2018 - 6:40 AM
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Marcato
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CD and LP - Varese Sarabande - October 12, 2018
Available for the first time ever on CD, and long out of print on LP, the soundtrack to FLETCH features music by 80's stalwarts including; Stephanie Mills ("Bit By Bit," the infectious theme song), Dan Hartman, The Fixx, Kim Wilde and the score composed by composer Harold Faltermeyer. Fletch is the classic 1985 comedy starring Chevy Chase as the dogged and chameleon-like reporter, Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher. The movie was a hit at the box office and spawned a sequel.
1. Bit By Bit (Theme From “Fletch”) (Stephanie Mills) 3:38
2. Fletch, Get Outta Town (Dan Hartman) 4:11
3. Running For Love (John Farnham) 2:54
4. Name Of The Game (Dan Hartman) 6:02
5. Fletch Theme (Harold Faltermeyer) 3:48
6. A Letter To Both Sides (The Fixx) 3:20
7. Is It Over (Kim Wilde) 3:52
8. Diggin' In (Harold Faltermeyer) 2:44
9. Exotic Skates (Harold Faltermeyer) 3:00
10. Running For Love (Instrumental) (Harold Faltermeyer) 2:44
Total time - 36:13
What A waste of World resources just to give us 36 minutes
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This was already posted.
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But how much unreleased score-music is there?
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The chase music alone should have been included, even on this new version. Faltermeyer did one iconic score after another for a while there, year after year in the 80s. Then POOF. Then Kuffs. Then POOF again.
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This was already posted.
But not in its own thread.
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The original Fletch OST has been available for many years at a very reasonable, digital listening quality. This is a bit too late for Faltermeyer fans to care much about. Unless you're a completest and need that CD spine in your collection there isn't much point. Not sure what the hangup is with an expanded Fletch, plenty of unreleased music from the film as well as remixes. It's also curious that we're getting Fletch Lives first.
An official Fletch CD has not been available. Personally, I'm looking forward to it.
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It's also a huge mystery to me (as well as for SCARFACE, TOP GUN and other classic synth scores that still remain unreleased in 'score only' format). It's not like there's a huge amount of orchestral reuse fees to be paid. And why would the film companies be so difficult?
Good question. Maybe La La Land can chime in?
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Is Intrada's Sept 4 release all the score tracks from Fletch?
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It's also a huge mystery to me (as well as for SCARFACE, TOP GUN and other classic synth scores that still remain unreleased in 'score only' format). It's not like there's a huge amount of orchestral reuse fees to be paid. And why would the film companies be so difficult?
Good question. Maybe La La Land can chime in?
These were massively complex soundtrack album deals with big deal talent at the time. You forget, these kind of albums sold in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Big money. Big business. A different time before the internet. Some of these contracts are very complex and often times not worth the hassle for studio or music executives to revisit and unravel.
We made BHC 1 and 2 happen. Fletch was supposed to. Top Gun is waiting in the wings...and Mr. MORODER likes us...so, you never know. It's just those pesky song soundtrack contracts that make things difficult sometimes.
MV
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