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I watched the film about a year ago for the first time and honestly don't remember much other than the end credits, which, admittedly, were awesome though weirdly out-of-place. I know Goldsmith in full-on horror mode can be an acquired taste but this is one I've just never gotten excited about. Perhaps I need to revisit.
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Goldsmith does have one substantially untapped frontier: television. But as label heads have explained for some time, TV releases are far more complicated, expensive, and time consuming than film scores. Universal TV only just received a hopeful release last year in the Jack Marshall 2CD set (half The Munsters, half other Universal TV scores of his). That included a Wagon Train score, and Goldsmith wrote two complete episode scores for that series while John Williams wrote at least half a dozen... so maybe that is something LLL might tackle as a 4CD set along the lines of their great Wild Wild West release? And speaking of that excellent set, it was licensed from CBS. If CBS is still cooperative, maybe a set of music from Gunsmoke is possible? We know that Goldsmith's six scores for that series survive, and fill a full CD quite nicely on their own. His two Have Gun -- Will Travel scores survive too. These things should happen as commercial releases!
Maybe the easiest Goldsmith TV series release would be his scores to Destry, an hourlong 60s Universal western series which only lasted 13 episodes. Jerry Goldsmith wrote three original scores, Cyril Mockridge wrote one, and Morton Stevens did the pilot. Everything else was tracked. Seems like there wouldn't be a ton of music to transfer, which is the reason TV series tend to have a big expense for the labels up front. Seems like one could fill a full single disc quite easily with the three complete Goldsmith scores, and fill things out with Stevens and Mockridge as space allows.
I think the TV scores set LLL Goldsmith at 20th Vol. V was a good illustration that unsold pilots, TV movies, and very short-lived TV series (like the 13-episode Anna and the King) are more practical to tackle. (Room 222 was the only exception of a longer-lived show, but on that release was just a reprise of the suites released decades earlier on FSM.) I think it's telling that Goldsmith's single scores for the totally-unreleased Fox TV series Bracken's World (2 seasons, 41 episodes total) and The Legend of Jessie James (1 season, 34 episodes total) were not included, because that's a bigger can of worms for people at the studio (to say nothing of the specialty labels) to deal with.
Yavar
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