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There's a suite of Shrinking Man on the old Intrada Salter CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON disc. For some reason the nice Shrinking Man conclusion music isn't on there and they used the conclusion from THIS ISLAND EARTH instead(was this a mistake?)
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Apr 19, 2006 - 12:33 AM
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The Tony Thomas and then Intrada release of SM was just from Hans Salter's acetates/reels. No Gertz or Stein on there. If somebody can use the search function and find my previous post about THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, I described the history of the ending music in that post. It was written by Herman Stein. I think the "End Title" from THIS ISLAND EARTH just happened to be on Salter's SM reel -- probably edited onto it for some reason -- and nobody noticed it when they released the Salter cues. Yes, if we decide to do more of these MMM releases, SHRINKING MAN is at the top of the list, especially as Gertz and Stein are still around. We have all the sketches, and it's some of Gertz's finest music, and the score he's most proud of out of the nearly-200 that he wrote. Lots of great atmospheric stuff, and that wonderful spider music! I have a copy of the original tracks for Stein's End Music, and I wish I could give you folks a taste, but copyright issues prevent it. It is a glorious piece of music, every bit as good as the poetic narration closing the movie.
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Thanks everyone for helping. While still searching for that particular track i ended up at Barnes & Noble. They have a Ray Anthony album titled "Plymouth Show" released in 2005 featuring the track "Incredible Shrinking Man" which last 2:05 minutes. There is also a short 30sec-clip available. The recording informations at CD Universe say that this recording is from 1956 arranged by Don Simpson. http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=722141102824&ITM=1 Just listened to it and this looks worth grabbing- say, some nice standards and other film material on there, too. Thanks for the plug.
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The end music IS wonderful, whomever it was written by! bruce marshall
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A PAL dvd was recently released but I don't think it has a music-only track. Hopefully the UK release means we USA'ers will at least get to SEE it soon.
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Apr 20, 2006 - 5:13 PM
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It was written by the talented Herman Stein, who also wrote much music for TARANTULA, THIS ISLAND EARTH, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK, NO NAME ON THE BULLET, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, BACKLASH, BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH, THE INTRUDER, LOST IN SPACE, THE LAWLESS BREED, and on and on and on.
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This is one case where i prefer having the ost, i.e the words AND the music. I taped it off a laser disc years ago. Other great examples of words and music: WALKABOUT BLADE RUNNER PATTON BRUCE MARSHALL
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Have just watched this DVD again this afternoon - seem to enjoy it more every time..! I love the music, especially the famous "spider" music, and as there's little in the way of dialogue for the second half of the picture, apart from a few tarantula hisses and giant nail scrapings, a direct transfer from the film soundtrack onto CD is probably the only way we're going to hear this great score for the time being. The music's almost continuous for the second half and is a real tour de force.. I'm hoping too for a release of somekind..
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I believe the Capitol 45 was also reissued on the (probably unliscened) LP, GREAT SCIENCE FICTION FILM MUSIC, back in the 1978 (Poo Records LP104). It was collection of themes; some were original soundtrrack selections, but there a few obscure commercial (easy listening) re-recordings too (INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, the love theme from FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, and Filby's Theme from THE TIME MACHINE). It was quite a thrilling LP when it first came out, as there was so little out there at the time in the way of older sci-fi music.
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