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You refer to the fast instrumental version? I did notice the lack of clarity and phasing, didn't say anything however. Considered at least better effort was producing these Bond reissues.
I have kept my mono LP and specially for that track.
Thanks for bringing it up, however doubt anyone else would care about it.
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You're right, on a wave editor the left and right channels are one-quarter of one-tenth of a second apart... sufficient to cause phase distortion.
Keep in mind that Lukas was in charge of producing only the soundtracks from "Thunderball" to "Live and Let Die." "Goldfinger" was not remixed, but simply used the existing U.S. and U.K. album masters.
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I am off the hook for this one. Those 007 CDs were done very quickly and it was something of a minor miracle that the expanded ones happened at all. I distinctly remember producing the expanded masters and then EMI's business affairs decided they could not use the additional tracks. I went off to lunch, brokenhearted, and thank goodness by the time I got back to the office, MGM had called EMI and worked it out. I remember during that lunch very slowly, sadly dipping my nacho chips in the salsa at the old Sagebrush Cantina in Culver City. But for Goldfinger all I did was explain the different track listings between the U.S. and U.K. LPs and their engineers did it.
I guess it's easy to try to turn this into a war story but I remember the initial meeting I had where I explained what I wanted to do with the expanded editions, and the executive in charge of the product line looking at me like he had a million problems and didn't need to hear about this one, but to his credit he said go ahead...and we did. And who knows, maybe he'll read this post one day? So there's something to be said for karma and putting positive feelings out there instead of complaining. I will forever be grateful that MGM and EMI let me play around with James Bond music; it was out of this world. Yes, in hindsight I wish I had known about the Goldfinger mono track issue, so maybe the one at lunch was me -- literally!
Lukas
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I love these remasters and am so happy they came to be. As many have said before, it is a dream come true.
Does anyone know if they sold well? Were the remasters considered successful?
Mike
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I am off the hook for this one. Those 007 CDs were done very quickly and it was something of a minor miracle that the expanded ones happened at all. I distinctly remember producing the expanded masters and then EMI's business affairs decided they could not use the additional tracks. I went off to lunch, brokenhearted, and thank goodness by the time I got back to the office, MGM had called EMI and worked it out. I remember during that lunch very slowly, sadly dipping my nacho chips in the salsa at the old Sagebrush Cantina in Culver City. But for Goldfinger all I did was explain the different track listings between the U.S. and U.K. LPs and their engineers did it.
I guess it's easy to try to turn this into a war story but I remember the initial meeting I had where I explained what I wanted to do with the expanded editions, and the executive in charge of the product line looking at me like he had a million problems and didn't need to hear about this one, but to his credit he said go ahead...and we did. And who knows, maybe he'll read this post one day? So there's something to be said for karma and putting positive feelings out there instead of complaining. I will forever be grateful that MGM and EMI let me play around with James Bond music; it was out of this world. Yes, in hindsight I wish I had known about the Goldfinger mono track issue, so maybe the one at lunch was me -- literally!
Lukas
Great job on these releases Lukas! I listen to the expanded Bond releases all the time and never had an issue with them. Honestly, we're lucky to have what we got!!
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I love these remasters and am so happy they came to be. As many have said before, it is a dream come true.
Does anyone know if they sold well? Were the remasters considered successful?
Mike
By the time the CDs were released back when we did them, the two people I had coordinated with at EMI had left!
Lukas
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As you said, a minor miracle that they happened at all.
Well, a million thanks to all involved, past and present.
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There were some issues with missing masters. My memory is foggy but the track on the Thunderball LP that's the mono version of the theme -- we had to use Jon Burlingame's copy of the LP!
Lukas
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As far as I'm concerned, the classic-era James Bond scores are film music treasure and I'm so pleased we got expanded editions before the masters were lost or rotted.
What amazes me is how some of the most important (not to mention POPULAR) film music stayed unexpanded for so long.
I'm wondering what it'll take to get the remainder expanded!
Cheers
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I'm wondering what it'll take to get the remainder expanded!
Probably some big Bond Anniversary, I think the 2003 expanded soundtracks were considered part of the 2002 40th Anniversary of the Franchise. So maybe for the 50th? Only 4 years away!
Mike
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