I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me that we are living in a Golden Age for film score releases (and bootlegs, too, I suppose). Over the last ten years, I have seen my want list dwindle away to a scant few unreleased scores.

So what would everyone wish for out there? There are bound to be more if I put my mind to it, but offhand, all I can think of are:

Temple of Doom (complete) - Williams

Conan The Barbarian (complete, with decent sound por favor... not that awful boot that's out there) - Basil Poledouris

John Scott: BILLY TWO HATS.
George Duning: THE DEVIL AT 4 O’CLOCK.
David Shire: FAREWELL MY LOVELY.
Michael Small: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
Elmer Bernstein: HEAVY METAL, FIVE DAYS ONE SUMMER.
David Newman: MALONE.
Philippe Sarde: LE CHOC.
Laurence Rosenthal: RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE.
John Barry: THE WHITE BUFFALO.
Lalo Schifrin: THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST, HARRY IN YOUR POCKET, JOE KIDD.
Dominic Frontiere: BRANNIGAN, THE TRAIN ROBBERS, CHISUM.
Jerry Fielding: THE OUTFIT, SUPERCOPS, THE ENFORCER.
Jerry Goldsmith: VON RYAN’S EXPRESS, SHAMUS, FINAL CONFLICT (better sound), THE DETECTIVE, THE SAND PEBBLES (complete), THE CHAIRMAN (complete and better sound), RANSOM (ditto), LOGAN’S RUN (ditto), TV movies like PURSUIT and CROSSCURRENT.
John Williams: TEMPLE OF DOOM (complete), BLACK SUNDAY (with the climactic track and the end titles, please), HEARTBEEPS.
Billy Goldenberg: DUEL, BUSTING, assorted TV movies.
Gil Melle: THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR, FRANKENSTEIN THE TRUE STORY, THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE, assorted TV movies.
Stanley Myers: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, SITTING TARGET.
John Addison: CENTENNIAL.
David Hentschel: OPERATION DAYBREAK.
Francis Lai: HOUSE OF CARDS, THE GAMES.
Michel Legrand: CASTLE KEEP.
Michael J.Lewis: 11 HARROWHOUSE (complete), THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF.

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Originally posted by Big Bear:

[b]Conan The Barbarian (complete, with decent sound por favor... not that awful boot that's out there) - Basil Poledouris

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Originally posted by Stephen Lister:

John Scott: BILLY TWO HATS.
David Newman: MALONE.
Philippe Sarde: LE CHOC.
John Barry: THE WHITE BUFFALO.
Jerry Fielding: THE OUTFIT, SUPERCOPS, THE ENFORCER.
Jerry Goldsmith...
Michel Legrand: CASTLE KEEP.
Michael J.Lewis: 11 HARROWHOUSE (complete), THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF.

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Nice list, Steven. I'm going to run through some of these composers briefly.

John Scott. Never heard of Billy Two Hats. What was it?

David Newman, Malone. This one is around, privately. It definitely needs to get a release. A great score laced with Americana.

Philippe Sarde, Le Choc. I think some of this just turned up on a Rififi compilation from France. Check Intrada's website.

John Barry, White Buffalo. A great score... Not very long, though. I doubt there's more than 20 minutes. I'd love a suite of it. One of his best end credits cues. I keep hoping it will get rerecorded by Silva.

Jerry Fielding. I would love to get Gray Lady Down...

Jerry Goldsmith. I still keep hoping someone will turn up something on The Salamander.

Michel Legrande. How about his music for Wuthering Heights? That would be nice to have on a CD...

Michael J. Lewis. I thought 11 Harrowhouse was complete on the promo. Is there much missing?

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Originally posted by Big Bear:
[b]Temple of Doom (complete) - Williams[/B]

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One of my favorites (more than likely it is my favorite) that I'd love to see get the expanded treatment. THE LAST CRUSADE would be near the top, too.

Another Williams score I'd love to have released is FAMILY PLOT.

Goldsmith's THE ILLUSTRATED MAN would be extremely welcomed.

Those four come to mind right now... but there are many, many more...

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Originally posted by BMikeJ:
I would rather have a new recording of the complete score (to CONAN).

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I agree that the mix / performance on the OST was lacking, but for me there is no substitute for the original tracks.

But I am not putting down the notion of a rerecording... I'd lay down money for that in a second, too.

BILLY TWO HATS is a Western from the 70s, set in New Mexico ... and filmed in Israel! It stars Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz Jr as two outlaws on the run. Peck's character is Scottish (like the writer of the screenplay, Alan Sharp) and Arnaz is a half-breed Indian. Scott's music is very nice, though there's not a lot of it. The main theme (best heard during the end credits) has a very subtle Scottish lilt to it, and is lovely. One of the highlights of the score is a chase sequence shot against the dying sun, and Scott combines acoustic guitar and orchestra to very exciting effect. Generally, the score is introspective, like the movie.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Yes, forgot about this one. Definitely one of Legrand's best. I have the old LP, and would love to hear the music without the snap crackle and pop.

• Young Sherlock Holmes (Broughton)
  
• Spaceballs (Morris - a release with more than 7 minutes of score)
  
• Disney's Robin Hood (?)
  
• Great Train Robbery (Goldsmith, complete)
  
• The Final Conflict (Goldsmith, remastered)
  
• Jurassic Park (Williams, some nice stuff is missing from the existing album)
  
• Phantom Menace (Williams, a truly ultimate edition has still to be done)
  

I wrote to Gil Melle asking him about the possibility of releasing some of these things, but I haven't had an answer as yet. He's maybe too busy with his microscope collection or three-dimensional painting or designing garden fences (he does all of that and more besides).

Seems appropriate now to quote an epigram of Martial, translated loosely from the Latin:

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Originally posted by BMikeJ:

This score was recorded under pretty poor circumstances, if memory serves. I would rather have a new recording of the complete score. I remember reading in an interview with Basil that he wasn't happy with the original recording and that he wanted to rerecord it at some point.

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Haven't most of the original elements been lost anyway? I think somebody mentioned recently in another thread that lost tapes were one of the reasons why the Conan DVD didn't have an isolated score track. I'd love to hear a good re-recording of this. While they're at it, The Wind and the Lion needs a good re-recording, too.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
Haven't most of the original elements been lost anyway?

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That's certainly one of the stories floating around as to why there was no isolated score on the Conan DVD. Honestly, and I have heard this from other people as well, I don't buy this excuse at all. If anyone recalls, there was an old interview with Poledouris in Film Score Monthly where he first talked about the then-upcoming Conan DVD. In the piece, he talked about how he was preparing an isolated score. Now I'm no historian, but I find it suspect that Poledouris would say he was "preparing" the isolated score and then suddenly realize he doesn't have all the masters.

A much more likely reason for no isolated Conan score is a rumor I have heard repeatedly that the one-and-only Ford Thaxton talked Poledouris out of it, instilling in Basil a (perhaps justifiable) fear of the subsequent bootlegging that would most certainly follow such a DVD.

The no-masters theory does not hold up. Basil is holding out, no doubt wanting either a) a rerecording or b) a legitemate release of the whole thing.

I'd love it if anyone else had any more helpful information about this issue. Conan is my favorite score of all time, and no matter how it happens, I'd practically kill to have a complete score release sometime soon!

Hook
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Sugarland Express
Black Sunday
Images
The Swarm
Gremlins
Innerspace
The Final Conflict
Spartacus
King Kong - Barry
The Black Hole
Young Sherlock Holmes
Family Plot
The Illustrated Man
Back To The Future
Predator
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon series

I'm sure there are more but I can't think of any more at this moment.

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Originally posted by John Zimmer:
Hold the phone our some of you implying that you guys have the Temple of Doom complete score?!!

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What piques my curiosity here is the material out there that NO ONE has heard outside a given movie. Something like Temple Of Doom is a great example of this.

Steve Bartek: AN EXTREMELY GOOFY MOVIE and SNOW DAY
Elmer Bernstein: ANIMAL HOUSE and TRADING PLACES
Michael Boddicker: THE ADVENTURES OF MILO & OTIS
George Bruns: THE SWORD IN THE STONE
Carter Burwell: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Alf Clausen: HALF-BAKED
Bill Conti: WRONGFULLY ACCUSED
Stewart Copeland: MEN AT WORK
John Debney: THE ADVENTURES OF ELMO IN GROUCHLAND and HOUSEGUEST
Steve Dorff: DUDLEY DO-RIGHT
John DuPrez: ONCE BITTEN
Randy Edelman: BILLY MADISON, DOWN PERISCOPE and GHOSTBUSTERS 2
George Fenton: MIXED NUTS (complete)
Robert Folk: LOADED WEAPON 1 and this Laurel and Hardy film he did; it has such a long title
Charles Fox: 9 TO 5
John Frizzell: I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and OFFICE SPACE
Richard Gibbs: AMOS AND ANDREW, CLIFFORD, FATAL INSTINCT and LADYBUGS
Jerry Goldsmith: I.Q. and THE SHADOW (complete)
Joel Goldsmith: THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
Harry Gregson-Williams & John Powell: SHREK
Dave Grusin: Murder By Death
Michael Kamen: NOTHING BUT TROUBLE and SPLITTING HEIRS
David Kitay: DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? and PROBLEM CHILD 2
Sylvester Levay: MANNEQUIN
John Morris: THE IN-LAWS and all his Mel Brooks film scores
Mark Mothersbaugh: IT'S PAT
Ira Newborn: MALLRATS and PLANES, TRAINS and AUTOMOBILES
David Newman: Jingle All the Way
Graeme Revell: CHILD'S PLAY 2, GHOST IN THE MACHINE, IDLE HANDS and SPAWN
Lalo Schifrin: WHEN TIME RAN OUT...
David Shire: SHORT CIRCUIT
Howard Shore: GUILTY AS SIN and MOVING
Alan Silvestri: JUDGMENT NIGHT and REINDEER GAMES
Michael Tavera: MR. MAGOO and ROCKETMAN

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Originally posted by SBD:
David Kitay: DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? and PROBLEM CHILD 2
Sylvester Levay: MANNEQUIN
Mark Mothersbaugh: IT'S PAT

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Wow.

Just... wow.

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Originally posted by Big Bear:

A much more likely reason for no isolated Conan score is a rumor I have heard repeatedly that the one-and-only Ford Thaxton talked Poledouris out of it, instilling in Basil a (perhaps justifiable) fear of the subsequent bootlegging that would most certainly follow such a DVD.

The no-masters theory does not hold up. Basil is holding out, no doubt wanting either a) a rerecording or b) a legitemate release of the whole thing.

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Originally posted by Big Bear:
Mark, though I know there is no substitute for a legitemate release, most of the titles you listed have been presented in one form or another (most with pretty decent sound, to say the least).

What piques my curiosity here is the material out there that NO ONE has heard outside a given movie. Something like [b]Temple Of Doom is a great example of this.

Any others?[/B]

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Originally posted by Big Bear:
A much more likely reason for no isolated [b]Conan score is a rumor I have heard repeatedly that the one-and-only Ford Thaxton talked Poledouris out of it, instilling in Basil a (perhaps justifiable) fear of the subsequent bootlegging that would most certainly follow such a DVD.

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Did he also talk them out of remixing the movie soundtrack? The movie soundtrack is terrible low-fi mono, and doesn't allow the score to shine.

The movie's all of 80 minutes long, so doubtless it would fit on a disc. There's a Tsunami CD out with a few cuts (what some might dubiously call "a good representation") of the score and a silly sound effects track - not from the film, but from a Cassio-Keyboard type of thing.

There was a laserdisc release some years ago with an isolated score, but this did not end up being booted. It does show that the music is available though.

This guy has a distinctive sound. It's very, very 50's, but still specific enough that after hearing only this score and two others (very little of his total output), I was able to identify that it was his music backing an old time radio drama (to my complete su'prise - it was a mere passing thought in the head).

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Originally posted by El Cid:
Did he also talk them out of remixing the movie soundtrack? The movie soundtrack is terrible low-fi mono, and doesn't allow the score to shine.

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If the rumors are true, then Poledouris did not deliver his score to Universal at all, in any form. That would preclude them remixing it in 5.1 (as they claimed they were going to do), as it would require good clean stereo masters.

I just read this whole thread, and not once did I see a mention of the greatest score that has the poorest release ever....

THE ROAD WARRIOR BY BRIAN MAY!!!!!!

The Varese album runs 30mins. take away the sound efx reprise of one of the cues.
The sound is pinched and poor,compared to the film tracks. It is also missing SO many incredible pieces.I recorded the unreleased cues off the laserdisc onto a cassette, mixing in the Varese cues when available, and comparing the two, the CD sounds like garbage. They left of so many incredible pieces....I am just amazed at some of the scores mentioned before this. Forgive me for being a bit overzealous, but this is the one that got me into film scores, and after re-watching it this weekend, reminded me how well crafted scores used to be.

Now...if anyone could dub the film tracks(w/sound efx and dialogue if unavoidable)onto a CDR, or better yet a copy of the sessions, I would pay DEARLY for this! I know why people get nuts over unreleased scores, and I don't mean to run down Varese, but compare the film and album and you'll see what I mean. Hell, I'm even thinking a letter campaign to Maestro Townson to get McNeely to re-record this would be great!!!