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Looking forward to receiving my copy of this. Forgive if it's been mentioned (I couldn't find it) but is there anything from the GNP/Crescendo CD that did not make its way onto this set?
No.
Sweet - thanks.
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Mar 15, 2019 - 3:12 PM
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charles124
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You can say I'm not content with the LAND OF THE GIANTS released four disc soundtrack because I am. But you cannot say I'm discontent with everything because I'm not. I'm content with a lot of things: the LOST IN SPACE and STAR TREK releases, the longevity of DOCTOR WHO, SPACE: 1999 fandom, etc. BUT I just gave another listen to some of the discs on the LAND OF THE GIANTS soundtrack release and while I love ALL of what's there, what's there is not ALL.
For example, the brilliant music of RETURN OF INIDU. I'm up to a part where they flee the giant boys outside and then the next bit should be... the giant bird attack music, which was, for a long time, the only bit of GIANTS I had on audio tape (there were no DVDs back then). The soundtrack release approached that moment but...it's not there. Then, the excellent music as the others gather round to get rid of the new stranger to just before Steve puts the candle out. Not there. And this is not unique to just this episode. RESCUE missed the pre titles chase music as the kids chase Steve and Dan. FRAMED missed...well, almost the whole episode's music. FRAMED is only about four minutes long on the disc.
Okay, so they touched on EVERY episode but that's all they did. Frankly, I would have forgone some of the music to some of the episodes to have had them release ALL of FRAMED, MANHUNT, FLIGHT PLAN, and UNDERGROUND. Those are more representative of GIANTS music.
Episodes I would have waited for or have had lost on this release to have the above include COMEBACK, HOME SWEET HOME, THE GOLDEN CAGE, TARGET: EARTH, the ballerina music from COLLECTOR'S ITEM, PANIC, NIGHTMARE, AND especially the largely inferior and already released unused Courage CRASH reject soundtrack. Courage's unused soundtrack is poor compared to all the rest of GIANTS' music.
Sure, I'd be upset but not have this feeling of almost reached the goal, of incompleteness. As it stands, if they ever do release more GIANTS soundtracks (doubtful), what are they going to do? Say, "Here, we're giving you the stuff we left out?" It's very upsetting.
And yes, I do know the reason is that some of the stuff was damaged but I doubt all that was left out was damaged. Just left out.
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Well, we got what we got. There was no chance of a Star Trek or LIS styled release. So, even the stuff that still exists and was left off was left off because of space reasons. Also cost, I would imagine.
Without a complete release, some fans would be disappointed at what was left out. That's the risk with these highlights albums. Lots of stuff was left off The Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible and later Star Trek series releases.
So, yeah, I get it, but every single post you write is filled with complaints. How about "thank you for bothering with this forgotten series at all?" Ya know?
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The comment I made on March 16 was three days before Charles Thaxton's sad passing. Hope it doesn't lead to any misunderstandings.
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Music by John Williams, Alexander Courage, Leith Stevens, Harry Geller, Artie Kane, Joseph Mullendore, Richard LaSalle, Robert Prince, Irving Gertz and Paul Sawtell
The booklet of notes inside this set includes a photograph on each of the above composers with the exception of Robert Prince.
Was no photo of Mr. Prince available for this edition? Or was it decided by other reasoning that an image of Robert Prince was not crucial for this booklet's publication?
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More Garbage
(from La-La Land's keypunch/data entry staffer  )
You mean typos? I get you're making a joke by using the cue name at the start.
Yep. Typos from some typist in La-La Land.
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Maybe they were using voice-recognition software which got it wrong. If they typed it in, too bad spell checker didn't catch it. Leeth dudn't get no respect.
On TRL they spelled ' native' NAIVE with the two dots over the I.
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Got this set recently after Memorial Day courtesy La-La Land's 25% off sale & I've listened to each of the 4 CDs at least 3 times (with select faves being heard more than 4 times).
I can opine thus far that the music scores which impress me the most were written by guys who did only one segment.
My rankings are:
1) "Nightmare" by Robert Prince
2) "The Crash" by John Williams
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3) "The Creed" by Irving Gertz
After these, the ones I also like are Alexander Courage's unused "Crash" and most of the 7 done by Richard LaSalle.
Neither the output by Harry Geller nor Leith Stevens engages my attention as well as the work done by the above-named ... and the music by Joseph Mullendore is what I'm least sympathetic toward.
Being a long-time fan of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, I'm prone to be receptive to Paul Sawtell. The source music cues by Artie Kane, however, haven't yet registered with me because I tend to skip past those tracks.
Overall, I love these styles of vintage scoring for television - so this box set is a keeper.
Though this thread has a lot of input from forum members, there is very little chat about Gertz's "The Creed". This surprises me since the cues by Gertz exhibit the spirit & characteristics of the pilot music by Williams (and Courage, too).
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