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According to this video, the Universal Heritage line is being rebranded as "Universal Classics"
https://youtu.be/kmsAQCQZ-VU?t=5984
The first title released under the new name will be Munster, Go Home! by Jack Marshall
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According to this video, the Universal Heritage line is being rebranded as "Universal Classics"
https://youtu.be/kmsAQCQZ-VU?t=5984
The first title released under the new name will be Munster, Go Home! by Jack Marshall
Heritage, Go Home!
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Universal what ? Classic ! Give me a break .
You’re complaining about the Jack Marshall score from 1966 being called “classic”? I thought you wanted more film music releases from that era, and this is a premiere!
Yavar
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What's important is not the era or whether it is a premiere. I am sorry some people cannot get that through their cranium. What I am referring to is the use of the term "classic" used for a very minor film in the Universal vault. Most likely the bottom part of a double bill in those days.
That's a PR term and a different conversation entirely separate from film music. And probably moot in 2020. Most people won't care what was a B title in 1966. It's all classic now.
Unless, of course, this is entirely your point.
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Steven Spielberg saw “Lonely Are the Brave” as the bottom part of a double bill in the 60s...and it’s a truly superb film. But yes in this context I think “classic” refers to era, just like FSM had their “Golden Age Classics” and “Silver Age Classics” lines... don’t remember you complaining about those labels, when they’d put out something like Land of the Pharaohs or John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. (But maybe you did and I don’t remember.)
Yavar
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Most likely the bottom part of a double bill in those days.
'Twas a double bill ... but looks like the bottom part was The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
Imagine Malcolm Arnold's The Heroes of Telemark & Harry Sukman's Around the World Under the Sea being cleared off stage to make room for Jack Marshall & Vic Mizzy!
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Seems odd to change the name already. Did they explain why Universal changed it?
I've detected 6 potential suspects:
Alexia Baum
Andy Kalyvas
Mike Knobloch
Tanya Perara
Eric Polin
Nikki Walsh
Now ... who done it?
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MV said on the other post: "Lots of Universal stuff coming out -- expanded editions and never before released titles."
So high hopes to see soon (finally) releases of some of these:
The Jackal (Carter Burwell)
The Flintstones (David Newman)
Mystery Men (Warbeck, Walker)
Bird on a Wire (Hans Zimmer)
The Jackal - Having enjoyed the music on the...thingy, an official release of one of Burwell's finest scores would give me no end of joy.
The Flintstones - There are other Newman scores I'd rather see released first (and it's pretty damn busy in that 'Brian Levant live-action cartoon' way), but hey, Newman is Newman.
Mystery Men - Underrated movie with a neat score. The Warbeck bits are good, but, man, to have Shirley Walker's cues...
Bird on a Wire - I saw the film a while ago and I remember nothing of the music, but as a Zimmer-Walker collaboration, I should give it a chance.
Shirley Walker didn't work with Zimmer on Bird On A Wire and the theme for that score is loosely based on the Age of Aquarius by The Fifth Dimension which opens the film and there are uses of it throughout the score. Also, there's the song by The Neville Brothers aptly titled "Bird On A Wire" which came out as both a single and the album they released that year with the song by them the name of it escapes me right now which Zimmer also uses as part of the score and prominent in the flashback scene that Goldie Hawn is daydreaming of in the board room about her younger self with Mel Gibson.
I'd love a complete Flintstones but I could imagine there's reuse issues on that one probably which have held it up over 25 years now.
The Jackal I love myself and I'd love to see a legal release of this complete with every remix by Danny Saber. Carter Burwell was not happy with this one which he's discussed on his website mainly for a few reasons:
He hated the film and felt that they should've never remade "Day of the Jackal" to begin with and felt Michael Canton-Jones direction was way off the mark, the script was constantly being rewritten on set and this is one of the reasons they have not worked together again.
The other reason was because Danny Saber was brought in to beef up Burwell's score because Canton-Jones felt his music was missing something. Burwell actually supervised Saber's remixes in LA where the score was recorded and completely walked off in disgust after a few cues. He (Burwell) had samples posted on his site but are long gone now I believe.
Hopefully, National Lampoon's Animal House, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Midnight Run (expanded), Iceman by Bruce Smeaton (which he wrote lot more than was released), The Great Outdoors and Weird Science would be considered as part of this series. hopefully.
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I've said this before, and I know it's a pipe dream as the original acetates are at UCLA, and not Universal... but I hope one day we can hear the complete Hans Salter score to GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, and any other of the classic horror scores. I know some of the 1941 MAN MADE MONSTER score was used as late as 1962 in GODZILLA VS KING KONG. Bits from MAN MADE MONSTER and THE MUMMY'S HAND have also been released on an LP/CS titled Horror Rhapsody. But it would be nice to have these classics be given the LLL treatment.
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The latest release is this collection is out now
https://lalalandrecords.com/tremors-limited-edition/
TREMORS: LIMITED EDITION LLLCD 1551
Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection
Music by Ernest Troost
Additional Music by Robert Folk
Limited Edition of 3000 Units
RETAIL PRICE: $24.98
STARTS SHIPPING DEC 2
La-La Land Records and Universal Studios proudly present the eleventh title within the acclaimed Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection – TREMORS: LIMITED EDITION, music by Ernest Troost (DEAD HEAT, ONE MAN’S HERO) and additional music by Robert Folk (POLICE ACADEMY, CAN’T BUY ME LOVE, TOY SOLDIERS). This limited edition CD release of the original motion picture score to 1990’s beloved, big-screen, horror-sci-fi-comedy hit TREMORS, starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward and Michael Gross, and directed by Ron Underwood, marks the film’s 30th Anniversary and is the first official debut of the score in any format!
Composers Troost and Folk unleash a wildly playful and thrilling musical assault, weaving orchestra, blues and synth into an irresistible soundscape of scares, chills, action, heart and even Americana to propel this tale of a courageous band of dusty locals forced to defend themselves against an onslaught of deadly subterranean creatures. The score, much like the film, itself is “Perfection.”
Produced and mastered by Mike Matessino, the work of Ernest Troost is presented on DISC 1, while Robert Folk’s music is showcased on DISC 2. The exclusive, in-depth liner notes are by writer Zach Tow, including new comments from the composers and a note from director Ron Underwood. The rollicking art design is by Dan Goldwasser. TREMORS is limited to 3000 units, so grab yours before the Graboids grab you!
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Here's an updated list of everything released in this collection so far (the first 10 were branded "UNIVERSAL HERITAGE COLLECTION", the rest are "UNIVERSAL CLASSICS COLLECTION")
June 2018: Colossus: The Forbin Project by Michel Colombier (La-La Land)
Aug 2018: The Prisoner of Zenda by Henry Mancini (La-La Land)
Nov 2018: Airport '77 by John Cacavas / The Concorde: Airport '79 by Lalo Schifrin (La-La Land)
May 2019: The Sentinel by Gil Melle (La-La Land)
June 2019: Fletch Lives by Harold Faltermeyer (La-La Land)
Sep 2019: Child's Play 2 by Graeme Revell (La-La Land)
Sep 2019: Rooster Cogburn by Laurence Rosenthal (Varese Sarabande)
Oct 2019: Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman (La-La Land)
April 2020: Mystery Men by Stephen Warbeck & Shirley Walker (La-La Land)
July 2020: Two Mules for Sister Sara by Ennio Morricone (La-La Land)
Sep 2020: Munster, Go Home! by Jack Marshall (La-La Land)
Dec 2020: Tremors by Ernest Troost & Robert Folk (La-La Land)
Hmmm. Twelve titles. But La-La Land says that TREMORS is the eleventh title in the series.
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