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The question is what else remains in EMI's vaults from this period. While some tracks seem to be missing (and had to be transferred from 45s), a good wealth of unreleased tracks has survived...
I always thought that "Unchained Melody" was just the backing track for the Johnny De Little vocal - here released for the first time without the vocal...
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Oct 22, 2016 - 2:12 PM
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Geoffers
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Thanks again for your input, Geoff. Among those other unreleased tracks, "Iron Horse" certainly deserved a release as well. It's a very effective, catchy piece that still holds up remarkably well today, unlike many of the other JB7 material. Regarding "The Party's Over", it's ironic that only that minor cue survives and yet the more important main title song doesn't.
Alex
My theory about "The Party's Over" cue, which was recorded in November '62 when the film was still in production, is that it was a demo made by JB for the film's producer/director. He may well have intended it as the main theme, but when he got the gig and saw the finished film, he probably had further thoughts. Or Guy Hamilton did!
Vic Flick told me years ago that JB was notorious for booking studio time at EMI ostensibly for recording the JB7/Orchestra, when he was actually doing a demo for a film.
It's a shame about the unavailability of the rest of the score, which wouldn't have been recorded at EMI/Abbey Road, though I've a feeling quite a portion of it was not composed by JB.
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Dupe post
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I once asked Alan Haven about Barry's connection with the flip side of Jolly Bad Fellow 45rpm (Jee Bee's) and I had to end up sending him a cdr of the thing to remind him of both tracks as he couldn't remember them at the time, but doubted very much that Barry was involved with the flip side. Hence to say I never did get a reply about it again after sending it to him. Age plays a funny thing with our brains, hope I don't get like that, what is this thread about again?
Well, gentlemen of a certain age do tend to suffer three problems...
1. Failing memory
2. Loss of hair
3. Failing memory
Cheers
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It's a shame about the unavailability of the rest of the score, which wouldn't have been recorded at EMI/Abbey Road, though I've a feeling quite a portion of it was not composed by JB.
Why do you feel that, Geoff?
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