FSM with Mutiny of the Bounty and The Thing From Another World--well, I didn't think they could top these treasures but the great stuff just keeps coming. Green Mansions is one of those scores I had always hoped I'd be able to hear someday and that day is finally here (well, after my next paycheck).

FSM is in a bad way financially, but I hope they survive even if it means less of an output just so we can have gems like these keep emerging.

I already have a recording of Villa-Lobos's Forest of the Amazon, the suite he created out of the music he intially wrote for the film, but as colorful as it is, it doesn't quite compare with the original music Kaper wrote and the music he adapted from the Villa-Lobos for the film's soundtrack.

FSM has been doing a lot of MGM scores and Kaper was under contract to MGM and so they've issued a far amount of Kaper as a result and this has been just fine as far as I'm concerned.