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The fire at Universal is grossly innaccurate and has been proven over and over again that master tapes for film scores were not lost. Please stop fueling the flames of this narrative MV You can therefore say with certainty that not even any Decca soundtrack album masters from the 50s and 60s owned by UMG were lost in that 2008 fire? If you read an article like this - and there are of course several others -, you get a quite different impression: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/what-did-we-lose-universal-music-fire-blazed-through-archives-n1025556 You don't have your facts correct, so here's the story again. Universal cut loose its music group in 2004. What we now call UMG has had zero connection to the studio as a business since then. At the time of the separation, record label assets were kept on the Universal lot in a building that was run by NBC. Instead of moving them off in 2004, UMG rented the space to keep them there. Other assets from their family of labels would come and go but it was all to do with the RECORD LABEL and not the studio that had cut it loose. So yes, many record masters and copies of album tapes were lost, and one of the reasons why no one knows exactly what was there -- and why certain things have later appeared -- is because also in that same building were old paper files that said what was where. Now, in that same building, Universal STUDIOS - not UMG - did keep video masters and prints, and those were lost. BUT no negatives or FILM SCORING MASTERS were kept there. In short, nothing related to original music masters for the STUDIO were in there. Recent example... Universal Music Group has NO tape master elements for their Somewhere in Time soundtrack album. All they have is the 1630 digital master for the first CD release. BUT, Universal STUDIOS had the 3-track 1/2" film scoring masters, kept elsewhere, along with all of their music assets. Hope this makes sense and is clear once and for all. The fire had zero impact on any music elements for Universal STUDIOS... only Universal Music Group, which might have included album masters for soundtrack albums, but not the film scoring originals. That means that Petersen's statement about the "Miami Vice" master tapes is wrong and we can hope for a soundtrack album as well as for "Rockford", "Magnum", "A-Team" and "Airwolf"? (http://celluloidtunes.no/a-conversation-with-miami-vice-and-mtv-composer-john-petersen/ (ninth question from below).
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The trouble is, there's been more than one warehouse fire over the years, and other types of asset destruction. We can't know what vintage tapes exist until somebody finds them and says so. On the other hand, sometimes the composer's personal dubs can make a very decent CD. Joe Harnell, Alexander Courage, and Ron Jones all had examples of that.
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Dear MV, three questions: 1. Any news/plans for a release of "The Rockford Files", "Magnum, p.i.", "The A-Team" and "Airwolf" score CDs? 2. Is your "No on Stargate!" still valid? 3. I've bought your CD-release of the 1966 "Batman"-movie recently. Great music. Any plans for a release of the TV show's music? Thanks, Kaos
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The two points on each side mentioned TV series scores, so it's proper to assume he meant the Stagate TV series.
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@ J & J: I meant the Stargate TV-shows. Because of LLL's super duper "Stargate"-movie score CD I'm still hoping for more music from the shows.
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Dear MV, three questions: 1. Any news/plans for a release of "The Rockford Files", "Magnum, p.i.", "The A-Team" and "Airwolf" score CDs? 2. Is your "No on Stargate!" still valid? 3. I've bought your CD-release of the 1966 "Batman"-movie recently. Great music. Any plans for a release of the TV show's music? Thanks, Kaos 1. Would love to 2. Still valid 3. We wish Mv
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My biggest Holy Grail from LLL would be: KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (Harry Gregson-Williams) I would certainly go bonkers to have a 3CD or a 4CD set of this amazing modern epic score. Didn't MV once say that they tried to do KoH but that it was way too expensive? But with Fox now owned by Disney I guess this will be Intrada territory
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