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and this isn't a joke? why is it available to north americans only? i needs this.
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Sony had this remastered for us. It's in mono (it's a 1963 film) but it sounds excellent.
Was the "stereo" version of the original Epic LP (catalog no. BN-26094) actually mono or in fake stereo? Or was the stereo album master not found?
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and this isn't a joke? why is it available to north americans only? i needs this.
Buy it from sae or intrada soon i hope.
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Happy enough anyway with the existent CD (I think on the PEG label - I don't have it to hand to check). Not really one of my favourite Goldsmith scores, and the Amen song is to my mind unlistenable.
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Yes, Poitier had been a star for some time before this picture. This is the one that began the process of embalming him in sactity. He was a far more compelling screen presence in the 50s. Defiant Ones would have been a much better Oscar choice for Poiter than this godawful thing. I don't know a black person who'd be caught dead watching it. MY family certainly couldn't sit through it.
And for what it's worth, it might also be Jerry Goldsmith's least interesting effort of the 60s. They paired to much better effect on Patch of Blue.
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I've just given the PEG another spin in goodness knows how long, and I like it more than I thought I did. Maybe when I bought it I was more in the mood for the later, fully orchestral Goldsmith rather than the FLIM-FLAM MAN smaller ensemble sound.
Still can't stand the song, though. I don't know its relevance to the movie - I've never seen it - but it's jarringly out of place on the CD.
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Still no answer to the question regarding geographical restriction. Perseverance have been happy enough to accept my money in the past (from UK)
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I don't quite get it myself Peter (maybe it's cheaper for them to only license it for sale in the USA and Canada?).
However, it doesn't stop anyone from buying their CD's from the UK and elsewhere.
SAE, Intrada and MovieMusic will take your money and send you the discs, like they have before (David Newman's ANIMALS UNITED was marked the same way but I have a copy, and bloody great it is too!).
I might pick this one up. I've only ever had the LP, having missed the earlier CD releases and the score has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Hell, I even like the prayer. It's damned catchy! (I know, all them cuss words in praising a PRAYER!!! - LORD STRIKE ME DOWN! 
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Holdridge is a very talented composer, and if PASTIME is half as good as LILIES OF THE FIELD I must get it.
This was Opus One for Goldsmith as far as LP's were concerned. I'd fallen in love with his music on the THRILLER TV series, I loved his music when I saw LILIES, and for month after month I kept hoping for a soundtrack album, was overjoyed when it finally appeared. To this day, I get an uplift every time I play the CD.
Maybe I'd see the film differently if I saw it for the first time today, but back in the early sixties when I was still a youngster I found it lovely and uplifting, like the score, and clearly a labor of love for all concerned. Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but personally I think the condescending comment above does a disservice to the film and to audiences of any race. In retrospect, I've come to feel -- and I had the privilege of sharing this thought with Mr. Poitier the one time I met him -- that the film has never gotten its due for its role in helping a traumatized country heal itself in the time of mourning after the JFK assassination.
I'm very glad that the album is being reissued and will be reaching new fans.
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It's a score that kind of grows to your liking. I'll leave this release to those who don't have it, unless it really sounds better than the PEG.
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