The Film Music Society is very proud to announce the premiere release on CD of the original tracks to Miklos Rozsa's classic score for THE JUNGLE BOOK. Pristinely remastered from the last surviving transcription discs, this new release contains lengthy and authoritative liner notes by Golden Age expert, Rudy Behlmer.

ORDERING INFO:

Members may pre-order starting today, Friday October 15th, and the disc will ship on or around November 15th. Members may request multiple copies but get your orders in fast, because on Monday November 15th, the CD will be offered for sale to NON-MEMBERS as well.

PRE-ORDER DATE FOR MEMBERS: Friday October 15th 2004

SALE DATE TO NON-MEMBERS: Monday November 15th 2004

THIS CD IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES (WHEN IT'S GONE IT'S GONE!)

[Edit: I found the price on the website: $20 plus $2.50 s&h
http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2004/101504.html ]

If anyone has seen the film or heard the suite that was issued on a German CD (also the cue Gerhardt conducted and the original suite from the 40s narrated by Sabu), you'll know that this is one of Rozsa's most colorful scores. It's not quite in the same league as Thief of Bagadad, but similar, and it has some great themes and action cues and in giving motifs to each of the jungle creatures it becomes a kind of Carnival of the Animals a la Rozsa.

[Rozsa's "orientalism" period covers a fistful of films from the early 40s: Thief of Bagdad, The Jungle Book, Sundown, Jacare, and a few others. Sundown is actually a neat WW2 film with George Sanders & Gene Tierney that can still be found on vhs. Jacare is a Jack Buck documentary set in South America available from Sinister Cinema.]