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Ian, I just wanted to say that I am the perfect candidate for the Love Love-in. The right age, the right country, the right childhood, the right hobby.
And yet for some reason I never had any of them. I had friends who had them, and I saw them in the shops all the time. But I never owned any of them. I'm really not sure why I was never really attracted to the idea of listening to them.
I wonder if I should pay for another visit to the psychiatrist, or try to work this one out on my own.
Hope I haven't derailed the thread already (opening the floodgates for posts by those who never had the albums) - so, come on people, who of you out there had the Geoff Love LPs? I'm guessing loads of you. Tall Guy, Bill Carson.... so come on.
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Apr 9, 2016 - 6:16 AM
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MusicMad
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We have, as a group of fans, posted various times about Geoff Love's contributions to our film collecting hobby and I'm sure that I'm repeating myself (not unknown!) when I state:
- my first LP, courtesy of my sister - Christmas 70 - was Big Western Movie Themes ... I loved it! I became a fan of Bernstein and Tiomkin immediately, was amazed when my mother recognised the opening track: Another Day, Another Sunset ... the main theme from The Big Country, and tried to find ways of pronouncing these weird names: Morricone and Cipriani! 
A few months later I used some pocket money to buy Big War Movie Themes and in following years added a few more: Big Love Movie Themes (another great album), Love with Love - some excellent renditions, especially of Cole Porter's So in Love, Big Western Movie Themes, Vol.2, Big Bond Movie Themes ... until, in a sale, I bought Star Wars and Other Space Themes ... and I realised that my tastes had changed ... or, perhaps, Mr. Love's interpretations were less inspired / suffered from lack of orchestral vigour ... or the source material was not that good ...
But in recent years I've looked and bought some CD collections of those original albums originally issued in the 1980's (Melodies That Live Forever and In the Mood for Love) and then, a few years ago Dutton Vocalion started releasing newly mastered versions of the original alums and so I started buying again.
Western and War remain my favourites ... and I also like his Bond interpretations. I'm not so taken with his Themes for Super Heroes - again the source material is largely to blame - whilst his Concerto album is, for me, heavy going.
I would love to see a release of his Big Love Movie Themes album, albeit I have 7/12 of the tracks from the aforementioned collections and I'd probably buy his Big Western Movie Themes, Vol.2 album, too.
But the release of the 2CD set: Star Wars and Other Space Themes coupled with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Other Disco Galactic Themes ... I don't think so. I'll stick to enjoying other releases such as Latin with Love/Dreaming with Love.
Mitch
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My first non-classical LP was Geoff Love's Bond themes album. I picked up most of the others over time but not all.
The Dutton-Vocalian release I've most enjoyed has been the Morricone/Legrand 2-for-1 album, probably because I was never aware of it ever being released in this country so most of the tracks were new to me. The Legrand side fares better: so much of Morricone is down to the sound of his original recordings whereas Legrand's songs are standards that can be performed and interpreted in different ways. Sweet Gingerbread Man in particular is wonderful.
There are still plenty more of Love's LPs to go - I'm surprised Vocalion haven't put out the two LPs of TV themes, or the Hollywood musicals tracks. What I'd also like them to do is pick out the tracks from his Hundred Favourite Instrumentals series that haven't been released already - not necessarily the film themes - and put them together in a set. And then there's that horror album that (I think) was only released in France, which sadly has "scary" sound effects layered over almost every track: a clean release of that would be great....
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Geoff Love was my first introduction to film music
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Yes had a few of these too; Star Wars, big war movies and terror movies. Great intro to film music and some enjoyable arrangements.
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Now, despite being into film music from an early age, I can honestly say I consciously avoided Geoff Love. I decided even at 12 years old, that these were (probably hideous) cover versions of true soundtracks. Basically I'd had my fingers (ears?) burned whilst still at primary school, by an album of Children's TV Themes by Cy Payne. I got it bought for me because it had Star Trek and Doctor Who on it and was horrified at the sounds of these. I also seem to recall it had a jazz version of The Magic Roundabout!
So yes, I knew to avoid anything that didn't have the word 'soundtrack' on it. I did however have a compilation from United Artists: Great Western Film Themes, which I loved at the time, even though Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More were covers by our old friend LeRoy Holmes.
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I was no youngster and no newcomer to film music at the time, but I gladly and gratefully bought the War Movie Themes LP because it was the only way to have a recording of Rozsa's theme from THE GREEN BERETS. Happy as I was when FSM finally put the original OST on CD, it didn't supplant the kick I got from listening to Love's rendition of the main theme, which so often tapers off in the film but which built to a climax on the record.
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Always plenty of room for another Love love in - especially where the same people realise we wrote the same thing last time!! Ha ha 
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And on top of that i had some fab evenings rocking away to Manuel and the music of the mountains - Brazil, peanut vendor, somewhere my love, etc etc. Love ...it.
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Anybody know how many Manuel LPs there were?
Some very good eclectic selections on them.
Geoff Love didnt look spanish did he?!
I wonderwho came up with the name Manuel and the music if the mountains???
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Looks like it must have been somebody who worked at Paramount Pictures.
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Anybody know how many Manuel LPs there were?
Some very good eclectic selections on them.
Geoff Love didnt look spanish did he?!
I'd never even heard of him until y'all mentioned him, and seeing this thread made me google his name, and to ME, he looks like Bernie Kopell... if he were black! The resemblance is kind of eerie!
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