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Anyone else out there think the cd graphics on this one sucked?Has anyone made their own with some decent pics from the series?I have done a websearch but can't find too many good color pics of George Reeves,etc.Love the music though...I guess we were blessed to have it out at all.
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My copy of Adventures of Superman arrived today.
It's great, too bad we will never listen the vol. 2 and 3 containing Rozsa's score for Superman.
Thaxton is right about the lack of images but I don't think the packaging is bad; the blue label on CD is just wonderfull!!
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Now, don't get too excited. Rosza never wrote a "score" for 'The Adventures of Superman.' The bottom-of-the-barrel budgets of the show wouldn't have allowed it. They did utilize some stock library cues that he wrote.
As for Volumes 2 and 3, the original producer of the series subsequently left Varese. That, and the release's relatively poor sales don't encourage seeing any further releases.
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Dear Jim:
The Rozsa music in question wasn't "stock library cues"; it was COPYRIGHTED movements from several of his concert works that the cheap-bastard "Superman" producers STOLE for use in their show.
There was a court case involved; Rozsa sued and won a settlement, which probably cost the producers more than if they had licensed music legally.
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I love the Plan 9 from outer space.
I brought it because of the Superman cues included.
It contains, among others, cues by the Video Moods library by Franz Mahl and Ward Sills (Real names George Chase and Wladimir Selinsky)
that where used in Superman.
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Dec 10, 2001 - 3:49 PM
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JohnnyK
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The Paxton library cues have been used recently even by the BBC, as I heard some of the Superman music in an episode of Edward on Edward, broadcast in the USA on PBS.
A website devoted to library music (http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/prodMusHistory.html)
had this to say, mentioning a tantalizing CD:
It is believed that W. Paxton and Company began selling recordings in 1941 from their London headquarters, although the exact origins of the Paxton Library is still being investigated. Early composers included Granville Bantock, Walter Collins, C. King Palmer, Edward Carmer, Frederick Charrosin, Peter Yorke, Ronald Hanmer, Dennis Berry (under various pseudonyms including Peter Dennis), and Dolf van der Linden. During the period when library music was prevented from being recorded in Britain due to a Musician's Union ban, many recordings were made by the Dutch Metropole Orchestra directed by Dolf van der Linden. Latter-day CDs including re-issues appeared on the Atmosphere label owned by the Novellos.
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If you visit
http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/re-post-ma-52-adventures-of-superman.html
you can see the artwork I came up with for a different "Adventures of Superman" collection.
Click on the "MA-55" link directly under the track list and you will be taken to another tab.
Rozsa's "Men of Steel" (actually a variation from his Theme, Variations and Finale) is track 20.
Click on "Here you go" under the tracklist and you can download (click "download" at the right side of the page.)
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