Our fifth and final release of 2024 is an Oscar-winner, a 2-CD set, and one of the last albums produced by our late founder Douglass Fake. It goes on sale with the rest of the batch on Tuesday, December 3.
Our fifth and final release of 2024 is an Oscar-winner, a 2-CD set, and one of the last albums produced by our late founder Douglass Fake. It goes on sale with the rest of the batch on Tuesday, December 3.
Oh my gosh, really? I can't keep up with all this JB tsunami of music. This surely must be the best Christmas ever for us fans. Thank you, thank you Intrada and LLL.
Wonderful news from Intrada!! This is one of John Barry’s best scores but I am wondering about the source material they used for this new release. It will be interesting to know how this reissue came together.
Wonderful news from Intrada!! This is one of John Barry’s best scores but I am wondering about the source material they used for this new release. Weren’t the tapes burned from the Universal fire in 2008? It will be interesting to know how this reissue came together.
No. They were stored with the missing Moonraker tapes.
(I kid. I have to qualify that as a joke or else some moron is going to run with it as the gospel.)
Our fifth and final release of 2024 is an Oscar-winner, a 2-CD set, and one of the last albums produced by our late founder Douglass Fake. It goes on sale with the rest of the batch on Tuesday, December 3.
Wonderful news from Intrada!! This is one of John Barry’s best scores but I am wondering about the source material they used for this new release. Weren’t the tapes burned from the Universal fire in 2008? It will be interesting to know how this reissue came together.
Flash Poll - which myth is more enduring:
--The Moonraker tapes were lost --Universal Studios music masters were destroyed in a fire.
My apologies if I offended anyone as I thought this release would be based on the “film mix.” Since this reissue uses Dan Wallin’s original mix then that is what I prefer. Again, I did not intend to offend or spread any rumor.
I will also stop talking technical here about the audio as the music is the most important aspect of this release. I may have spread a lot of misconfusion because Dan Wallin may have done both the film and the album mix.
From liner notes author Jon Burlingame at the John Barry Appreciation Society on Facebook: “This has been in the works for a long time. I wrote the essay a year and a half ago and was proud to do this for Doug and Roger. OOA is a masterpiece, pure and simple, and to have it all at last is a dream come true.”
I remember an interview in FSM where Doug talked about John Barry calling him to order several of his scores on LP. The scores were sent to Africa to a certain.... Sydney Pollack. Barry was sort of auditioning for Pollack in a way and I can’t imagine a better way to do so. A fitting final release for the Poobah. RIP.
