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zoob! I just noticed (after all these years) that "Dick" is positioned between Natalie's legs.
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zoob! I just noticed (after all these years) that "Dick" is positioned between Natalie's legs.
Ah yes.
Wonder who was the marketing genius that made the decision to do all the names first and last in lower case letters?
Maybe it's zooba himself - with a small "z".
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Anyway, zooba, I truly don't know if film studios receive any profits from album sales.
I rather think that the record labels receive the revenue and pass along residuals to the performing artists.
Once, I heard that the cut-outs are made on albums to circumvent paying residuals to musicians, but whether this is true or not I'm unable to substantiate.
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LPs released concurrently along with their films' exhibitions were deemed nothing more than promotional items.
The music itself (regardless of quality or lack thereof) was subordinate to the marketing of motion pictures.
Even if MGM Records had commissioned Nancy Sinatra to warble "These shoes were made for fishing", most of the public cares not a jot about dramatic incidental music.
Fisherman shoes, Alex North & the Vatican were all ushered by John Q. Public into bargain bins via the fickle finger of fate.
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Nov 18, 2019 - 11:27 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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It would be fascinating to see the business plans and the financial results of the soundtrack divisions of the major studio record labels of the 1950s-1970s. I'm thinking of MGM Records, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Colpix, Dot, Decca, Disney. Did any of them turn a profit on their soundtrack releases, or were they all loss leaders and publicity expenditures for the studios with which they were associated? Few of them ever had a DOCTOR ZHIVAGO to sell. Other big sellers of the era were with non-studio-associated labels (e.g., THE SOUND OF MUSIC with RCA, ROMEO AND JULIET with Capitol). On the other hand, even the studio-associated labels had other non-studio-associated artists recording for them (except maybe for Disney).
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LPs released concurrently along with their films' exhibitions were deemed nothing more than promotional items..
This. We ended up collecting something that was a throwaway, a foyer afterthought !! Who knew it would grow into a niche business so small?! 
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Didn’t Fox also lose money on the soundtrack album for Doctor Dolittle? I seem to recall reading that a lot of the albums went unsold.
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Nov 19, 2019 - 5:33 PM
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Grecchus
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If you count downloads as "releases", I'll wager that a significantly higher proportion of films today have soundtrack releases than in the '60s, when I would guesstimate the percentage of films getting a soundtrack release was 20%.
Furthermore, I'll bet that more soundtracks have been released for '60s films since the '60s than in the '60s.
There is a confounding dynamic where many soundtrack releases for pictures somewhat bigger than average would receive a soundtrack release, but with the original tapes replaced by re-recordings reworked for LP distribution. Now, someone said, some time ago the reason for that was to avoid paying royalties to the original session players so the outlay on the cost of production would apparently be mitigated by sale volume against a smaller orchestra used to produce the "original motion picture soundtrack" LP.
Back then, the profit margins may well have provided realistic returns when set against the GDP and inflation of the day, which, when compared with the stupid money yields provided as earnings to moderately successful artists today bears absolutely no comparison with the relative modesty of yesteryear. That dynamic does not compare well with present day antics, where the expectancy for any capital investment on just about anything can't be short-changed by return of the equivalent of anything less than diamond mine production on steroids.
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