1. Objective Burma
2. Red River
3-4. the two Skinner/Salters
5. They Died with Their Boots On

And I have several others. I really like those though. Good to have them on CD. Thanks to John and William.

All This and Heaven Too is great too.

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON was the first recording that we feel everything came together to the music's best advantage. Recording, playing, booklet, it was very exciting.

The Salter/Skinner Universal Horror music stands out as childhood memories enshrined on CD without dialog! It was also our first Moscow recording and nobody knew what they were doing (including us). A very exciting time.

KING KONG will always stand out as it is the score that I heard as a youngster that got me into music.

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME was another wonderful experience. It was the earliest score we ever recorded (1932) and I only wish Max was alive to hear it played by the enthusiastic Muscovites.

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE was memorable not only for the music, but the way the Moscow got into their Mexican moods. Hearing those four mandolins was pure joy. I remember on the first day of recording, Steiner had all kinds of Mexican shakers and rattlers notated. Bill and I just felt the sound was not quite right, so that night in the hotel room, we started experimenting with pills we had brought along, and finally came across the sound we wanted by filling a few pills in their bottles and having the players shake these close to the microphone. Thank god for high blood pressure.

Equally, we are happy that we had an opportunity to record some deserving music from composers that are pretty ignored nowadays. I guess Salter and Skinner could fall into this category, but the films had a following, but doing Roy Webb, Adolph Deutsch, Hugo Friedhofer, etc. were very gratifying.

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Originally posted by John Morgan:
With ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, and the soon to be released ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN, I believe we hit a new high in playing and recording. It was the first two in 5.1 sound and both Bill and I were very happy with the detailed sound.

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1. RED RIVER - this recording does Tiomkin the right way.

2. KING KONG - the standard by which all others followed.

3. SON OF KONG/THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME - Steiner again shows what he's made of.

4. MOBY DICK - classic score by someone who is underrepresented and largely unknown by Americans.

THE EGYPTIAN moody, thoughtful and surprisingly spiritual score from Twin Titans Herrmann and Newman;

KING KONG Steiner's classic action-adventure and one of the first full-length musical scores ever;

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD perfection in accuracy and energy from the Moscow Big Band and Korngold's best work for film (IMHO)

And now an appeal to Morgan, Stromberg, et al.