THE CHALLENGE
This will be a 3000 unit numbered limited edtion release of the complete Jerry Goldsmith score for the 1982 film TTHE CHALLENGE,

starring Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifume and directed by John Frankenheimer.

The score combines the lyricism heard in MULAN with the energy and vigor of the RAMBO trilogy.

For More information,real audio samples and ordering details go to:

http://www.soundtrackmag.com/

Enjoy

Mr. Thaxton is being modest about what the album actually includes, but following the link I see it's a solid hour's worth of music, and let me tell you, this is one of the VERY BEST uncollected Goldsmith scores. I CANNOT WAIT. Well, I'll have to, but you know what I mean.

NP: NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (quite different score by the same fellow)

'It's The Challenge!'

'I kid you not!!'

nyah,nyah,na,na!!

timmer,tim,tim'ster,the Enchanter.....may I add oracle of correct predictions?!!

Just call me Legion!

What's perhaps even creepier is how much he's done that STILL isn't available, although the market is shrinking day by day (who even remembered A GIRL NAMED SOONER?)

Hey, Ware, THE SALAMANDER was supposed to come out from a German label back in the mid-eighties, but it fell through. I BELIEVE that that one was done in Rome, hence no re-use rights, and I'd love to hear it (I preserved the main title and end sequence on video, was too lazy to tape the whole thing off broadcast I guess, but lucked into those particular moments. Actually it's splendid stuff, in that particular spiky action vein he was fond of at the time, also with a slightly overblown love theme a la CASSANDRA CROSSING. There's one little synth motif in the main title, hearable at DECONSTRUCTING GOLDSMITH, that seems to me suggestive of TOTAL RECALL, written just ten years later, and was it really just ten years ago that TOTAL RECALL came out? We're gettin' old ... )

(oh, now that I think of it, THE SALAMANDER actually was first shown in US theaters in the late spring of 1983, but I think it was completed as many as three years before that. But probably more like 1981, so my ten-years comparison breaks down, but it's close enough.)

NP: PAPILLON (Michael Hennigan)

P.S. Tim the Enchanter ("Tim, you're a busy man"), back then I even told you to your virtual face that you were probably wrong about it being THE CHALLENGE ... well, it was me who was wrong, and I'M VERY GLAD! (Although I was right about one thing, it turns out to be recorded in Los Angeles, as I presumed ... what kind of deal have they made, I wonder. I don't much CARE, I just wonder.)

Shaun

(in lieu of the picture-me-shrugging icon we STILL don't have)

Yep. There's tons and tons.

...as I get totally off topic

This is something I could only reveal to this group -- my fingers were actually trembling as I filled out the order form for "The Challenge."

This has been one of several movie scores I have searched for for many years.
It's has been a Grail-like quest.

I believe I will probably get misty-eyed when I send in my order for "The Omega Man."

Now, if only someone would release the score to "Mystery Alaska."

teach me, Master!

NP -- Revolution, Corigliano

quote:

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Originally posted by Andre Lux:

Jerry's answer to your requests:

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LOL. Very funny. All I can say is, Wow! I definitely wouldn't want to stand behind him, or I might get hurt.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

The boot exists, so "the tapes are out there" ... but of what kind or quality, I don't know. You might wonder why Intrada didn't try to issue an OST in the first place, so either (A) it was physically impossible or (B) at the time, financially improbable. But there ARE boots of this score, so SOME kind of tape is accessible. We'll have to see.

I'm resurrecting this thread in part to hear what people who've actually received the album of THE CHALLENGE think of it. I adore this music, and I think it's a pretty good movie, too, but that's a separate issue (most of you who will buy the album probably never saw the movie, which has all but vanished since its original run on Fox Video.) Anyway: Thoughts, people?