Just listened to Frank Wilson’s What’s the Score podcast with Goodbye Lover screenwriter Ron Peer. They played some demos from John Barry’s rejected score. Sooooo Barry and fantastic. We. Need. This!!!!! Please!!!! Who can get this released?
Yes it’s the same demo cue that’s been floating around youtube for years. I’d love to hear the other six demo tunes, and hopefully the full score in the future.
It's a shame to find out the surprise is something that's been on Youtube for years that I've already heard and certainly others have. A good surprise would have been all the demo cues.
They're all variations of the same theme in different styles and tempo.
Interestingly, round about the time he was funding the Prague recording of MISTER MOSES, Luc Van De Ven told me he was looking into funding a recording of the rejected GOODBYE LOVER score. Obviously it never happened, but he also told me a lot of the music had been recycled into something else, but didn't say what.
Bearing in mind part of the GOODBYE LOVER theme sounds a lot like one of the secondary themes in ENIGMA, I'm guessing the score Luc was referring to is ENIGMA.
How much was recycled, I wouldn't know. Maybe not even that much. Who knows.
I've been going on about this score for years. It was recorded, it exists. Director and Barry fan, Wayne Kramer has listened to it and yet it remains unreleased. Assumption has to be it is trapped in rights and legal hell. A real pity....
Brad Fiedel replaced him. The copy above still has Fiedel's name on it, but it's clearly Barry's score, down to the "Dances With Wolves"-esque end credits music.
Well, this rejected Barry score isn't happening any time soon. Posted by Roger (Intrada Records) in another thread this Valentine's Day, when somebody brought up Sunchaser (Jarre):
Been trying for years to get a license on this one. As well as Barry's Goodbye Lover. Production company just not interested in licensing either out.
I just don't understand the reason why they wouldn't want to license it out. Do they hate free money? Because if you own the product and have to do nothing but grant the license, why the hell not?
Is there more to it than that? I understand the hardships of trying to GET the license. I do not understand if you own the product why you wouldn't want it out there for consumption instead of making zero money on bootlegs and Youtube videos of the stuff that is already out there.???
