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Timmer Oscar® Winner	...In particular Matt, Stephen, Gae and Graham. According to Music from the movies website GDI are releasing David Whitaker's Dr.Jekyll and Sister Hyde (which I believe I mentioned elsewhere) AND Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, an excellent score by Laurie Johnson! This is damn good news and I can't wait
posted 05-23-2001 05:39 PM PT (US)

Stephen Lister Oscar® Winner	Yes, my credit cards are already trembling at the prospect. Personally I can't wait for John Cacavas' Satanic Rites of Dracula because, as you may have surmised, I'm well into that groovy 70s stuff.
posted 05-23-2001 08:11 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	Is it a complete Capt. Kronos???? Even if not, it's more Laurie Johnson!!!!!!!!!This is fantastic news. Long live GDI.
posted 05-23-2001 10:25 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Stephen, I think 'Satanic Rites' also uses an old hippy album called 'White Noise'? (I shall have to check this info with a friend who knows!), either way Cacavas score is good fun though I would still have personally prefered James Bernard on duty Lou, The GDI albums have been pretty much complete so far, so I think this bodes well for 'Kronos', Johnson is still woefully underpresented on album, to those of you who have never heard Laurie Johnson's film music I urge you to pick up the Varese release of The Avengers which includes music from Dr.Strangelove, First Men In The Moon, the gorgeous Hedda and even a couple of tracks from Captain Kronos, all rerecorded by the composer himself, some of this sounds very VERY Bernard Herrmann like, and it comes as no surprise that Johnson was good friends with the irrascible composer (well maybe it does come as some suprise that Herrmann did have a few friends )
posted 05-24-2001 05:29 AM PT (US)

Matt Perkins Oscar® Winner	Can't wait, Timmer - any idea of the release date for SISTER HYDE? My bank balance cannot keep up with this influx of GDI releases of the consistently superb Hammer scores - I've still to get their VAMPIRE COLLECTION with Whitaker's excellent VAMPIRE CIRCUS and James Bernard's equally superb KISS OF THE VAMPIRE and LEGEND OF 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES, not to mention Harry Robinson's LUST FOR A VAMPIRE - anybody have this CD? Shoot me if you like but I really like the insanely camp song Strange Love! (the accompanying visuals in the movie certainly give this an added, er, frisson). Is this on the CD? Speaking of the excellent Whitaker, I'm fairly certain that he is the same David Sinclair Whitaker you mentioned on the FSM board recently. Had a trawl through the net and came across an interview with him (sadly it was in French which I don't understand but never mind! There was a photo of him (grey-haired and sixty-odd). Perhaps a viewing (or listen to the CD) of the recent French thriller HARRY HE'S HERE TO HELP would confirm our suspicions - the score is by David Sinclair Whitaker! If it is our longlost Hammer man, then I'm sure we'd recognise his style instantly. If not, then I will stand corrected and shut the hell up! Getting back to the Hammer releases, I agree with everyone who highly rates Laurie Johnson - his galloping Herrmann-esque main title to CAPTAIN KRONOS is superb (must confess I can't remember too much about the rest of the score - haven't seen this nutty but interesting movie in quite some time). And I can play THE AVENGERS music till the cows come home! Like Stephen, I am a sucker for these cheesy-but-cool 'seventies groovy soundtracks - SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA is the closest Hammer music ever got to Roy Budd! Love that main theme, better than Mike Vickers' efforts on DRACULA AD 1972 (which is still fun). Like Timmer though, I would love to have heard what Jimmy Bernard would have come up with for the two modern Draculas - I am sure he would have tried a modern spin on his familiar brassy gothic sound. I really hope GDI releases Harry Robinson's exquisitely haunting DEMONS OF THE MIND - great score for possibly Hammer's artiest (and certainly weirdest) gothic horrors. Well done GDI, and best wishes to my fellow Hammer-heads! Matt
posted 05-24-2001 07:08 AM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Unfortunately at the moment I'm totally skint so I cant buy any new scores much as I'd love to have all the Hammer scores. Laurie Johnson is indeed a great lesser known composer. I've always wanted to get a copy of Tiger Bay which has got a gourgeously emotive theme, but it doesn't seem to be available. Strange Love is one of those cringe making songs that's quite enjoyable in a comical/camp way. I suppose I got to know it pretty well in my teens hitting the rewind button to get another view of Yutte Stensgard's amazing buxom body on view!! Gae P.S. For those of you interested I found a great website dedicated to Hammer Horror films. Check it out here [Message edited by Gae on 05-24-2001]
posted 05-24-2001 02:05 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Check out www.hammerfilms.com for another good site, if you haven't already done so. That's great news about the release of Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde. There was a short, and splendid, snippet done by Philip Martell years back (I've got it on the "Hammer Presents Dracula" release, my very first LP). That was a re-recording, though as it was done by Martell it was authentically Hammer-sounding. In the film itself, some of the score was terribly butchered, especially during the climactic rooftop scenes, fading in and out, and barely audible at the best of times. It'll be nice to hear it in all its glory. I haven't actually got that many of the GDI releases (though I want them all!). So far, my favourite must be Franz Reizenstein's wonderful score for The Mummy. I love James Bernard and all the rest, but this music is really sublime, almost Tiomkinesque in its grandeur. Can anyone recommend other GDI releases? I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb for example. You know, this company seems to be putting EVERYTHING out! But with each new release my hopes for a full, original Jimmy Bernard (Horror Of) Dracula are crushed. It makes me think that maybe it cannot be done. And it's such a brilliant score, maybe THE best for a Hammer film, for certainly THE best Hammer film (now I'm sounding like Christopher Lee's introduction to The Mummy CD). May our heads be forever shaped like hammers!
posted 05-25-2001 01:34 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Gae, I see that through the site you mention there's an amazing Links section. Lon Chaney? Scream Queens? I could go goggle-eyed into the wee small hours!
posted 05-25-2001 02:22 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Graham, Hey, I only give you the best!! Gae
posted 05-26-2001 03:14 AM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Great news about the new GDI releases... I'm waiting for the vampire collection now. Also they will make a release of She (Bernard)/The Vengeance of She (Nascimbene). Oh boy GDI is a dream come true. A longuwer releases from the Frankenstein movies would be nice, specially Franklenstein Created Woman. Somebody mentioned that the scores are probably lost. I hope not.
posted 06-03-2001 09:26 PM PT (US)

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