Can anyone recall in a film score hearing a performance mistake- like a musician dropping their instrument, coughing, fidgeting, whispering, scraping their chair forward, tapping a mike, etc?
Have you ever heard an error on an album that has been removed from the film final mix? Or vice versa?
THIS could be a REALLY REALLY interesting topic!!!
Can anyone recall in a film score hearing a performance mistake- like a musician dropping their instrument, coughing, fidgeting, whispering, scraping their chair forward, tapping a mike, etc?
Have you ever heard an error on an album that has been removed from the film final mix? Or vice versa?
THIS could be a REALLY REALLY interesting topic!!!
John Barry's Out Of Africa - track 7: Flying Over Africa. It sounds as though someone drops his/her tambourine - shortly before the magnificent choral sound starts. I haven't watched the movie for some time - though I used the sequence when I was testing out speakers for my combined hi-fi/home cinema set-up - and can't recall it in the movie soundtrack. Then again, was this a re-recording for the album?
I remember first getting the LP of Dimitri Tiomkin's THE ALAMO. When I got to the stirring finale the chorus was singing a cappela. What happened to that fantastic background instrumental? Something was definitely lost. The Varese CD came out with exactly the same material. Finally the Legacy label released the "expanded" version and there it was, short but glorious. Why had it been left out? Then I put earphones on. There was orchestra "noise" that could be discerned. No one notices it. But that, I surmise ,was the reason for years of hearing it without the instrumental flourishes. Another example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Many of Dimitri Tiomkin's soundtrack albums have extraneous noise on them, bowstrings knocking against stands,etc. It's almost like a trademark, and you find yourself listening out for them.
I believe there was a bad problem with the soundtrack of "Friendly Persuasion" which compromised one of the channels on the original LP. This was later amended for the CD release.
We've had several threads on this topic, ahem. I just can't remember what we called them right now.
Anyway, one that immediately comes to mind is the glaring flute miss in Rozsa' EL CID (his own recording). I believe it is track 6, around the 1:00 mark.
A digital watch alarm can be heard in 'My First Bus Ride' from 'The Mummy Returns'. There's also a rather obvious trumpet flub when O'Connell's heroic fanfare is first stated. That error *was* corrected in the film version, but then drowned out by sound effects.
One of the most noticable musician flubs I can think of is in one cue in Jerry Goldsmith's The River Wild, where you can hear a session player coughing or sneezing no less than three times!
Not that much of a blooper, but in the opening of the OUTLAND track The Message, I always seem to notice what sounds like a reed clicking on the oboist's teeth.
