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Granada, Puppies for Sale -- two more shorts he's credited for at IMDb; anybody know anything about these?
U.S.C.'s Bernstein Collection has one page of sketches for "Puppies for Sale," but nothing for "Granada."
GRANADA : Agua Sin Pausa can be found on Youtube. It is nothing more than a three-and-a-quarter minute travelogue, using Bernstein's Egyptian Dance from THE TEN COMMANDMENTS as background music. Scratch.
- JMM.
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Dec 19, 2013 - 5:15 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Ripley's Believe It Or Not! -- though IMDb doesn't credit him, it mentions Henry Mancini, Robert Prince, Craig Safan, Joseph Weiss, and Morton Stevens. Soundtrack Collector credits Mancini, Prince, Bob Summers, Lee Holdridge (!), Lalo Schifrin (!!), and yes, Bernstein (!!! if true) Even if Bernstein didn't work on it, I'd be curious about a release of music from this series...
The U.S.C. Bernstein collection contains no written score materials for this show.
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I thought we already got a definitive release of the Ghostbusters score? And what are some things MV said to hint at it?
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Dec 20, 2013 - 6:16 AM
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""Five Days One Summer -- another unreleased 80s Bernstein score, and refreshingly not a comedy but a drama, an independent production distributed by Warner Bros. Who knows if tapes survive?""
Yavar, as no reply returned to you on FIVE DAYS, ONE SUMMER, I saw here and found of this, in my library, a block of 26 perfect tracks, untitled but apparently in chronological order, for a total of 48 minutes, which must be, if not the complete session score, a perfect planning for an album release, or so, keeping in mind the film was 1982, still the LP era.
I tried to do a check on the audio film track, but the score is too fragmented, with too many cues and short passages.
In any case, the music IS there, from main title to finale-end credit (this last 4:30 min), and in perfect quality.
As I've been collecting for decades and handled a huge quantity of materials, with a lot of correspondence, I have no exact idea where it came from, but, I repeat, THIS is the score.
And WHAT a score!
Some time, yes, rather repetitive, and with excessive use of Ondes Martenot (Cinthya Millar is a big figure in the world music scene, but I never liked and thought rather intrusive this kind of instrument, as part of the orchestra, alas become a true trademark of the last Bernstein), but in any case a very lovely intimate score, that at times becomes thunderous and retraces the old Bernstein of the '60s, giving a "summa" of his style and mood. The film was rather awkward, dealing with the ambiguous relationship between uncle and niece, and maybe this obscured the interest for the score release.
Thank for reliving the interest in some forgotten or minor titles, but I still keep attention on a handful of works, after the announced COMMANDMENTS and BUCCANEER, and between them I put immediately the original KINGS OF THE SUN and a complete WHERE'S JACK.
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I'd like to point out that composer collections at institutions, like USC, are never complete (at least I have never found one to be, and I've scrolled through a couple dozen (from Courage, Trevor Jones, to the CBS archive), so just because you don't find something on there, it's no indicative of whether or not something was done.
And, as a side note, I'd like to add that I hope the rejected score to "Five Days One Summer" also gets released (Carl Davis).
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Merlin was never recorded, save for one song by me on Unsung Musicals II, sung by original cast member Michelle Nicastro.
Well, apparently someone recorded it illegally, as reflected in Bob DiMucci's mention of a mono bootleg above your post, Bruce...
Yavar
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Merlin was never recorded, save for one song by me on Unsung Musicals II, sung by original cast member Michelle Nicastro.
Well, apparently someone recorded it illegally, as reflected in Bob DiMucci's mention of a mono bootleg above your post, Bruce...
Yavar
I don't talk about illegal stuff, nor do I consider it "recorded." In other words, anyone can record anything and I'm sure many have. Can't put it out, as you might imagine and the quality is horrible.
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Well, I didn't know about the quality, and we've certainly had our share of official releases that have only been able to come out because of "illegal" recordings...anyways it sounds(?) like it wasn't terribly interesting music anyway. Should I just remove it from my list, since it's also not a film score, or leave it on just for the heck of it?
Yavar
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"Casey's Shadow" (rejected score)
"Trust Me" (rejected score; Pray For Rain, replacement score)
"Murder In Mississippi" (rejected score)
"Innocent Blood" (rejected score)
Do you know for sure if these were actually written, or more importantly, recorded?
One episode of "Gunsmoke" ("Hostage!")
Thanks. I'll try to keep that in mind as I go further back.
LLLR's isn't doig "Ghostbusters"; I asked via e-mail about it.
I slightly modified my entry for this. It did *sound* very much like they were looking into doing it, based on things MV had said, about it needing two discs to be done right...thought there was some winking on his part there. I know there's a post from Jim Titus in 2005 where he says he'd really like to design the booklets for both Ghostbusters scores. Maybe MV will give him the chance some day...
I don't have a full composers listing for "Ripley's Believe It or Not", but of what I do have, just one episode by Bernstein. Hell -- there's isn't an episode listing online (or even episode names); I had to go by loose production numbers.
http://tvscoring.150m.com/Ripleys.html
Interesting. I'll modify my entry to reflect one episode score for now, and await further confirmation.
Yavar
P.S. Dorothy Day Story removed, thanks to you and Bob. Thanks for looking into it with the director; now if someone would just correct SoundtrackCollector.
P.P.S. Thanks also to James MacMillan for helping remove Granada from the list.
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"Casey's Shadow" (rejected score)
"Trust Me" (rejected score; Pray For Rain, replacement score)
"Murder In Mississippi" (rejected score)
"Innocent Blood" (rejected score)
Do you know for sure if these were actually written, or more importantly, recorded?
Yes, all those were recorded. There's a tapes issue with the first.
And MIM -- there's one cue still left in the film.
I do what I can, but it's a ton of work:
http://www.RejectedFilmScores.150m.com/list.html
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A Bernstein project left off the list is the 1995 TV documentary "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies." This was produced by Miramax, and so probably now resides with Filmyard Holdings.
Thanks for this, Bob. I'll add it to the list. Sounds interesting! BTW, any idea on why isn't it listed on this TV page of Bernstein's website (or SoundtrackCollector)?
http://elmerbernstein.com/tv/tv.html
I found it now on IMDb but somehow had missed it before. Any idea of how much original score Bernstein wrote for it?
I've also made other updates to the list based on your extremely helpful information.
Yavar
P.S. finder4545, thanks for the info on Five Days One Summer. I hope you don't mind that I added it to the main post.
P.P.S. Justin, I'll add those rejected scores to my original post on my next update.
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Puppies For Sale was a charming little tale, one of the final credits of Jack Lemmon. The film was only nine minutes long. Bernstein wrote an original piano score for it - I would assume he played the piano himself. Because of the brevity and relative obscurity of it, I wouldn't imagine this will come to a CD anytime soon (though, stranger things have happened!)
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