This soap opera film from Jacqueline Susann's novel has a typically lush Henry Mancini score, which has never had a release. The 1975 score is at the tail end of the "missing Paramount decade" of scores (approx. 1965-75). The music appears only as a single theme on Mancini's album "The Theme Scene." Here is the film version of that theme:
Kritzerland has been plundering the Paramount vaults recently so it's not an impossibility that Mancini's Once Is Not Enough will eventually see a soundtrack release!
This soap opera film from Jacqueline Susann's novel has a typically lush Henry Mancini score, which has never had a release. The 1975 score is at the tail end of the "missing Paramount decade" of scores (approx. 1965-75). The music appears only as a single theme on Mancini's album "The Theme Scene." Here is the film version of that theme:
And here's the LP version:
Thanks for these excellent clips Bob! I'd buy a release too if a CD ever comes out. Incidentally, does Lukas Kendall or anyone else have any theory as to what ever happened to those missing Paramount scores? Seems to be a huge amount of material to just go missing, too big really to just be 'lost'? If they were just dumped perhaps there is a paper trail, a mention in some dusty ledger? I'm sure a lot of other folks here are also wondering...as usual!
Where did you originally read about the "missing" Paramount scores? Or is it just a theory being bandied about because so little of those scores have been released?
BTW - yes, Mancini was the perfect composer for "Once is Not Enough" & it's a great score - I liked the movie too (better than "Valley of the Dolls" and "The Love Machine," both of which I also enjoy in that wonderful 60s/70s soapy, trashy, glamorous way).
Where did you originally read about the "missing" Paramount scores? Or is it just a theory being bandied about because so little of those scores have been released?
For whatever reason there are very few if any recordings of Paramount scores available from roughly 1965-1974. White Dawn and True Grit have been sourced from the mono tapes given to Mancini and Bernstein, respectively, to take home. That's the truth!
Just got my copy and popped it into the player. It's a very good Mancini score.
I have to admit that the beginning of the "Opening Scene" music (to my ears) may well be the most shimmering, glittering, glitzy, star-struck piece of music that I can recall ever hearing. It sure got my attention.
