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Apr 25, 2025 - 2:29 AM
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Amer Zahid
(Member)
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Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presents the premiere release of Elmer Bernstein’s charming score for the bittersweet high-school comedy CLASS (1983), directed by Lewis John Carlino and starring Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack and Cliff Robertson.
The film is about Jonathan (McCarthy) who goes to college and befriends Skip (Lowe), his roommate. The relationship with Skip proves very useful in matters of love, an area where the young student is lacking. His first attempts are a resounding failure, but then he meets Ellen (Bisset), a woman twenty years his senior. At first everything goes very well, but one day she disappears. When he finds her again, he discovers that she’s Skip’s mom.
Elmer Bernstein was no stranger to student comedies in the early 1980s, thanks to his collaborations with John Landis and Ivan Reitman, although CLASS is, rather, a romantic comedy. His score is a sheer delight, providing a sophisticated component to the film. The music is descriptive, romantic and funny, with a powerful main theme that is pure Bernstein.
With the elements long gone, assembling this album was a challenge, but working from recently located original mono ¼? tapes and an incomplete set of 24 multi-track stereo elements, the music is finally being released—forty-two years after its recording. The CD contains the main score presentation and additional source music and alternates, all from surviving stereo and mono tracks. This collection has been produced, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone. The full color package includes an essay by film music writer Jeff Bond.
Limited edition: 1000 units
Tracklist
1. Theme From Class 2:50
2. Main Title* 1:37
3. The Boys* 1:49
4. Truth* 0:59
5. Committee* 1:05
6. Chicago* 1:03
7. The Animal* 0:40
8. Flowers* 1:58
9. New York* 1:53
10. Split 1:39
11. Attempt 0:56
12. Reconciliation / End Titles 4:22
Source Music
13. Car Radio 1:39
14. Eats Parsley 2:39
15. Flight Of The Bumblebee And Can-Can 1:56
16. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Martin Luther)* 0:49
17. Second Bar Piece* 3:48
Bonus Tracks
18. Committee (Alternate 1) 1:11
19. Reconciliation (Alternate 1) 1:08
20. Reconciliation (Alternate 2) 0:39
21. Meeting Mrs. Burroughs 0:38
22. Behave Like A Burroughs 1:01
23. Special Investigator 1:56
24. Drug Flush 0:56
25. Commitee (Alternate 2) 1:30
26. Main Title (Alternate) 1:53
All tracks stereo, except * mono
https://quartetrecords.com/product/class/
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I'm with you.
Loved this score since first hearing it with the (charming little) film back in the 80s.
Always felt its brevity might hold a release back on CD, but this looks perfect and with Chris Malone administering the love, it should be cool.
Can't wait.
These were exactly my thoughts on the score. So glad it is getting released..
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This might have been the film that 'inspired' me to chase after 'older women' and leave those young girls behind 
I thought it was coz they can't run that fast or aren't as fussy.
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I remember being disappointed in this film, not because it wasn't good, but it seemed a step down from Carlino's previous film, The Great Santini, which he also adapted from Pat Conroy's novel. One of my favorite films of that era. Thankfully, he continued using Bernstein, so another class release from Quartet.
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What fantastic news to start the day with! This will be a new Elmer score for me. Well done, Quartet!
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It's in my basket at Intrada, waiting for the right amount of titles to top it up, before I hit the pay/send button (although that usually has further delays while certain other titles need re-stocking and whatnot).
I've waited this long, so some extra weeks won't be a problem.
I doubt it will sell-out any time soon (or ever) as 1000 copies is quite generous these days, it's a comedy score, relatively short run time, largely unknown/seen film and that stuff matters to some of the lunatics around here 
Now, if it was James Bond or the 200th re-issue of some Jerry Goldsmith score...(winks)
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I received my copy of Class from Quartet Records yesterday. A lovely Bernstein score. It was a decade in the works at Quartet, all the details are in the booklet. Big thanks to Josè M. Benitez and all the team for this fine release.
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