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Don't forget the original two "Witch Mountain" pictures - the first one scored by Johnny Mandel, and the second by Lalo Schifrin (who also scored 1978's "The Cat From Outer Space")
Perhaps Disney was trying to build a new stable of composers in the 70s - and by bringing in people like Mandel and Schifrin - and Elmer Bernstein to do "The Black Cauldron," - they were hoping to continue to use their services?
Certainly, in terms of a "Disney constant," one can't ignore the work of the great Buddy Baker, who provided scores of effortlessly charming scores for all manner of Disney film, tv show, and short subject - from the 50s through to the mid-late 80s. It'd be great to see releases of his "Winnie-the-Pooh" scores (with the Sherman Brothers typically wonderful songs included, naturally).
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There were also some scores by beloved British composers who weren't necessarily Disney-only guys (ie. like the talented Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith). Many of them are equally renowned in the concert hall. I'm thinking specifically of
Swiss Family Robinson -- great score by William Alwyn
Rob Roy, Kidnapped -- both by Cedric Thorpe Davie
Treasure Island, The Sword and the Rose, and most of all his score to the vastly underrated (in my opinion the best film on the subject) The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men -- Clifton Parker
Can others here think of more?
Yavar
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I forgot to mention that even though we haven't gotten the original tracks to any of the Clifton Parker Disney scores, there was a very good re-recording on Chandos spotlighting his Treasure Island work in particular (no Robin Hood, unfortunately, but there is a lot of his other good film work on there):
http://www.amazon.com/Film-Music-Clifton-Parker/dp/B0006SGF0A/
Yavar
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Me too, he died quietly in bed in 1967 i believe, he said goodnight to his wife when into the bedroom and he died, Fine talent.
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