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For some reason I got very emotional reading that list of titles that have been released over the years. Brought back the early days of collecting soundtrack CDs. I vividly recall getting the very first 3 titles in the mail -- and how excited I was for the future. And what a future it was!
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We all know it's going to be:
My Left Foot: Best Foot Forward Edition
Da: Daluxe Edition
Delerue: The London Sessions (with the bonus tracks)
Hahaha!
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Robert's list of Club titles is certainly impressive and nostalgic!
Barry - Year Of The Comet (rejected score)
Goldsmith - The Public Eye (rejected score)
Let's be positively surprised by Robert Townson one last time ...
Either of those would indeed be an amazing surprise, since we know they were recorded and I think Varese controls the rights to those just because they released the final scores. It would also be a pleasant surprise for me if Varese released Deluxe Editions of Brainstorm, Eye of the Needle, or even Pee-Wee's Big Adventure... premiering the complete film recordings of those scores alongside their full album re-recordings which also granted them perpetuity rights that prevent any other labels from releasing the film tracks (the Elfman/Burton box set being an exception, but it mixed both film and album recordings of Pee-Wee together and had both incomplete).
It kinda depends on whether Robert knew this was going to be his final batch...if he did, he might've tried harder to ensure something historic is included...maybe even some final box set of some kind. But if he only found out he was leaving Varese after starting on the batch, it may be the usual two standard expansions and an Encore Edition. Of course even a standard batch like that could include some wonderful titles. I'm personally hoping for at least a couple of these:
MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD: The Deluxe Edition
THE OTHER: The Deluxe Edition (there's gotta be a Goldsmith in this final batch, and these two are more overlooked)
MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN: The Deluxe Edition (yeah I heard there's only like 10 minutes missing but I'm a Walker obsessive)
CARLITO'S WAY: The Deluxe Edition (one of my very favorite Doyle scores and apparently the key one that Varese still controls in perpetuity)
HOT SHOTS: PART DEUX: The Deluxe Edition (since they've been on a roll with Poledouris expansions)
FOREVER AMBER: The Deluxe Edition (too much to hope for a final Golden Age title from Robert? This is Raksin's magnum opus and though recently released on a Twilight Time iso score track, that included some major film truncations of cues)
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE DISCOVERY: The Deluxe Edition (Cliff Eidelman's magnum opus; he told me he'd suggest it to Robert many months ago when I interviewed him for The Goldsmith Odyssey...fingers crossed that that was somehow in time for Robert's final Club batch!)
EDIT: I forgot the Goldsmith title I want most of all from Varese... LOVE FIELD: The Deluxe Edition. Read this Intrada thread if you don't know why I'd want it:
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7704
I'd be happy if a slot wasn't taken up by a mere Encore, but assuming it is, Encores I would buy include the Masada album recording (yes I know that's an MCA album but Varese premiered it on CD and it's never been re-released since) and the Varese re-recording of The Last Embrace (they didn't control the film recording on that so Intrada already released it complete).
Yavar
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For Townsens last batch: I would love an release of Rosza`s THE LAST EMBRACE with the original recording of the score.
The LP with the re-recording was one of Varese`s very early releases.
So it would be VERY nice, if the "last" Club Batch would include the original score :-)!
Are you possibly confusing THE LAST EMBRACE with EYE OF THE NEEDLE? Varese did early re-recordings of both of these late Rozsa scores, but only their licensing agreement for the latter gave them perpetuity rights on any release of the original recording as well. THE LAST EMBRACE film recording was released complete by Intrada years ago:
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6273/.f
The superior Royal Philharmonic film recording of EYE OF THE NEEDLE, on the other hand, has only been released as an isolated score track (complete with any film edits) on a Twilight Time Blu-ray...never CD.
Yavar
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Robert's list of Club titles is certainly impressive and nostalgic!
Barry - Year Of The Comet (rejected score)
Goldsmith - The Public Eye (rejected score)
Let's be positively surprised by Robert Townson one last time ...
Yavar
Just so you know, no recording of a rejected score to Public Eye has surfaced anywhere.
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Just so you know, no recording of a rejected score to Public Eye has surfaced anywhere.
I know the recording has apparently been lost, but Mike Ross-Trevor (who recorded it) has confirmed that the score was indeed recorded at The Hit Factory (aka CBS Studios) Whitfield Street London... and we know things apparently lost have turned up from time to time (see: Dracula, Alien3, and Murder by Death just this past year).
Apparently Ross-Trevor originally stated this in a Music from the Movies article, according to someone's memory in this thread (also Ford Thaxton chimes in saying the score was definitely recorded...)
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=47174&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=125#bottom
Yavar
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Sorry if this was mentioned already. But after his final batch will that release series continue?
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