Just finally got some relatively new Victor Young. Victor Young at Paraqmount Volume 2 ( keep em coming Bruce) And the Intrada Film Noir set including yet another Young score. What a great time listening to these. A bic surprise - Pround and the Profane on Volume 2 is stereo and the Main Theme has long been one of my favorite Young themes.
Of course this leads to the following - How about a complete Uninvited and Love Letters - the complete original tracks are in the hands of the film society.
Does paramount have a complete For Whom the Bell Tolls and Samson and Delilah?
Yoiung also recorded for Decca a Sam son and Delilah Volume 2 and eight selections from the Conqueror. Samson 2 was never released but the tapes for both scores were still vaulted at mce as late as the late nineties.
I share your enthusiasm for Victor Young Joe. In the 1950s he had a lot of Decca records issued and was even known to the general public to some degree. He had a huge gift for melody but could also write dark and dramatic music scores too. It's a shame he died so young at age 56, he could have scored many more films and given us more beautiful melodies. I hope Kritzerland and others will issue more Victor Young!
Victor Young music is great and I love working on his scores.
Regrettably, restoration of music from his era can take considerable effort. A lightning pace is just not possible to do the job effectively, in my experience.
That said, I’m sure Bruce, in particular, would release more. If he saw me posting in this thread he’d no doubt politely nudge by saying, “Great, now get back to it!”
He had a huge gift for melody but could also write dark and dramatic music scores too.
case in point: just a couple days ago I saw on DVD "The Big Clock", a somewhat obscure, very quirky and original late noir movie with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton..and the score attracted my attention since the first notes of the Main Titles. Very different from what, say, Miklos Rozsa could have done in those years for that kind of movie, less angular and more melodically sweeping, but very dark and stormy nonetheless. It was Victor Young's.