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Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	I was wandering how many Sylva screen releases are of Hammer music. Here are the ones I have: THE HORROR OF DRACULA FILM CD 708 Main Title-Dracula Inside The Castle Dracule, etc.. (Suite) Introduction (Narrated by Bill Mitchell) The Horror Of Dracula (Suite) Funeral At Carpathia (Dracula Prince Of Darkness) Taste The Blood Of Dracula (3 cues) THE DEVIL RIDES OUT SSD 1059 Kiss Of The Vampire (Rhapsody) She (Suite) Frankenstein Created Woman (Christina) The Devil Rides Out (Suite) The Scars Of Dracula (Love Theme) Quatermass Suite DRACULA FILM CD 714 Dracula Suite (Same as Horror of Dracula CD) Hands Of The Riper (Suite) Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (Finale) Vampire Circus (Prologue) Taste The Blood Of Dracula (5 Cues) VAMPIRE CIRCUS FILM CD 127 Include from Hammer: Vampire Circus(Prologe)(Same as Dracula CD)
posted 10-24-2001 11:15 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	I think that's all of them, Marcelo, but I could be wrong. By the way, I was disappointed in these. Nobody has been able to capture the Hammer sound really authentically in re-recordings. Go for the originals on GDI I would say!
posted 10-25-2001 02:10 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Indeed Graham, I have the GDI releases. The Devil Rides Out disk has the cue Christina from Frankenstein Created Woman, with a second part not used in the movie, and I think never released before. I think they should release ann frankenstein movies in diferent CD's instead of one CD compilation. Also, Brides of Dracula and The Gorgon would make a great release. I'm a Hammercholic I guess...
posted 10-25-2001 04:12 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Yes Marcelo, but the one we would all give our eye-teeth or right legs or left eyes for would be (Horror Of) Dracula, the original tracks. But it seems that's not possible.
posted 10-26-2001 02:39 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	You mean that the masters are lost?
posted 10-26-2001 07:20 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	I have the following suites on various compilation albums:- SUITES (Horror of)Dracula Dracula has Risen from the Grave Taste the Blood of Dracula Hands of the Ripper Vampire Circus Fear in the Night She Dr. Jekyl and Sister Hide The Vampire Lovers Complete CD: Frankenstein (includes 'Curse of...' 'Revenge..''Evil of...' 'Frankenstein Must be Destroyed' 'Horror of...' etc Most of the 'suites' are on LP so I'm just in the process of transferring them to CD. I'll have to buy more of these GDI releases. I'd love to get David Whittaker's 'Twins of Evil'. Its a film and score I have fond memories of watching as a teenager (noyhing to do with the two gorgeous scantilly clad leads of course ) Gae
posted 10-27-2001 05:34 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Gae, David Whitaker's Twins Of Evil? And Marcelo, I haven't heard officially that the master tapes for Horror Of Dracula are lost, I was just assuming that this is the case since it hasn't been released yet. And that's the granddaddy of them all!
posted 10-27-2001 02:39 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	I just discovered that another Silva Screen with hammer music exist. Is included in the discography of the Randall Larson book The Music Of Hammer. But I never saw this one. This is: "50 Years of Horror Music", and Includes 4 suites from Hammer film scores: The Vampire Lovers Fear In The Night Dr Jeckill and Sister Hyde She
posted 10-27-2001 03:17 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Marcelo...yes, thats the one that I've got. Its also called "The Omen and other themes" and was first published in 1988 by SILVA SCREEN Records. Graham...just keeping you on your toes Of course it was Harry Robinson..or is it Harry Robertson?? Gae NP Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (suite by David Whitaker) [Message edited by Gae on 10-27-2001]
posted 10-27-2001 04:21 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	The only Silva CD of Hammer music that I have is called "Music From The Hammer Films". Conducted by Neil Richardson and supervised by Philip Martell, it features "The Dracula Suite" (James Bernard, 12:34), "Hands Of The Ripper" (Christopher Gunning, 10:33), "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" (James Bernard, 5:24), "Vampire Circus" (David Whitaker, 9:15), and "Taste The Blood Of Dracula" (James Bernard, 17:15).
posted 10-27-2001 07:55 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	That CD which includes suites from Fear In The Night, The Vampire Lovers, She, and Doc Jekyll And Sister Hyde was originally the B side of the first LP I ever bought, back in about 1974 or something. Side A had Christopher Lee doing a Draculaesque story, with a score culled mostly (I think) from Scars Of Dracula. The four suites are brilliant. They are "re-recordings" (compare the differences between The Vampire Lovers here and GDI's original), but under the baton of Philip Martell. Perfection, something that can't be said for the other Hammer re-recordings, unfortunately. All in my humble opinion, of course.
posted 10-28-2001 02:00 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Gae, Graham, Marcelo, Chris?...so where are those other 'Hammer Heads' Stephen and Matt? OOOhhh you take me back Graham, I remember listening to that and wishing that side A was just music (though it is enjoyable ). Speaking of the GDI label, Just where is all those juicy items still mentioned on 'music from the movies' web site, I don't think anything has been released by them since their beautiful SHE by James Bernard (which includes the lesser effort by Mario Nascimbene which to be fair does have some nice moments!)...when are these happening? NP : Jesus Of Nazerath - Jarre
posted 10-28-2001 05:31 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Thanks Gae, I'll try to get that CD. ------------ Harry Robertson AKA Harry Robertson. The master itself speacks!!!: -"I'd done a few things for Decca and when the check finally arrived it was made out to Harry Robinson rather than Robertson. Because I was living more or less from hand-to-mouth at that time funds where very short. I decided rather than send the check back and explain to the record company that they had got it wrong I would become aka Robinson. I'm glad I did because Decca has also credited me as Harry Robinson on the actual record"-
posted 10-29-2001 06:10 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Chris!!! That CD You have is coincidentally the first Hammer CD I had. Hammer music is great Indeed. I'm slowly buyng the videos too. Sadly they never show up on TV this day to taped. I remember when I was a kid (I was born in 62)they show almost every week some Hammer on TV. Not to mention the Universal Horrors too. Now only in halloween they show some, if they do...
posted 10-29-2001 06:14 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Thanks to American Movie Classics I'm getting to see some of the old Hammer flicks once more. I always loved 'em!
posted 10-29-2001 08:05 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Chris, Shouldn't that be "British Movie Classics"? Gae
posted 10-30-2001 02:49 PM PT (US)

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