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Jun 10, 2016 - 5:12 PM
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Rameau
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One of the greatest scores. Still no release, will this ever happen?
Why no THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY?
Two words: Warner Brothers!
Some say WB is hard to deal with.
Some say WB only wants to issue a couple of Golden Age scores a year.
Some say WB is very nice but they just don't have the personnel to handle a lot of Golden Age
and Silver Age CDs.
For whatever reason, I hope the situation will improve.
I don't think so. The High & The Mighty was made by John Wayne's production company, Batjac, & only distributed by Warner, the DVD's were released by Paramount, who made a deal with Batjac, so...it's either Paramount or whoever owns Batjac. And do the music tapes even exist anymore?
I'd also be interested in the soundtrack of another Batjac production, Frank DeVol's, McLintock!
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Jun 10, 2016 - 8:23 PM
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PFK
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One of the greatest scores. Still no release, will this ever happen?
Why no THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY?
Two words: Warner Brothers!
Some say WB is hard to deal with.
Some say WB only wants to issue a couple of Golden Age scores a year.
Some say WB is very nice but they just don't have the personnel to handle a lot of Golden Age
and Silver Age CDs.
For whatever reason, I hope the situation will improve.
I don't think so. The High & The Mighty was made by John Wayne's production company, Batjac, & only distributed by Warner, the DVD's were released by Paramount, who made a deal with Batjac, so...it's either Paramount or whoever owns Batjac. And do the music tapes even exist anymore?
I'd also be interested in the soundtrack of another Batjac production, Frank DeVol's, McLintock!
You are probably right in this particular case. There appears to be a number of WB scores from the 50s and 60s by Steiner, Waxman, Tiomkin etc. that have yet to see the light of day. I hope the situation will improve with WB.
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It's not WB on this—though they have mono mix downs of the score—it's Batjac.
Lukas
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I can understand Tiomkin's new fans calling for a score as HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, but I wonder why "old timers" doesn't keep mind to other important titles never released, considering that they already have in their collection a boot of HIGH & MIGHTY running over an hour! The same for DUEL IN THE SUN, which sounds to my ear less important than HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE or RETURN TO PARADISE.
As you can read here, for HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE and for RETURN TO PARADISE no tapes or acetates are available anymore. So they can't be released on CD:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=74408&forumID=1&archive=0
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Yes, Stefan, but I also was thinking to new recordings, if the written scores survive. Alas John Morgan remain silent.
As the current situation on the soundtrack market is - and it will certainly not get better anymore -, I have no real hope at all for any new recording of such more obscure older titles. And let's be realistic: Just how many CD copies could be sold of such a recording? Maybe just about 1000 copies or probably even less so it would be a much too expensive venture for the producers who would have to pay quite a lot of money out of their own pockets which they will never get back.
Tribute Film Classics is dead anyway for a few years now and Tadlow will record only much more popular titles as James Fitzpatrick has already written here on this board just a few days ago. Tadlow will not even record Rozsa's FOUR FEATHERS anymore. So why then should they record RETURN TO PARADISE or HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE of which most soundtrack collectors nowadays won't even know the titles anymore?
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Jun 11, 2016 - 11:39 AM
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The Thing
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Why not join some of the classical music forums, and make some "off topic" posts about film music. I've seen people respond to those, but often they tend to only be familiar with the more well-known works, particularly John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders, etc.).
I was listening to Tiomkin's "Fall of the Roman Empire" yesterday (the Tadlow recording), and felt it played like a modern symphony rather than music for a film. I'm not familiar with much of the Golden Age music aside from some of the high-profile titles (mainly the "historicals"), but if any of those old composers had classical backgrounds and influences, it maybe worth highlighting potential crossover interest.
Recruiting more fans would seem to what's needed, but probably not much point trying to convert pop or rock fans.
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