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Topic: Checkmate (Williams) & The Wrong Man (Herrmann) from FSM
Lou Goldberg
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Wow. I never thought I'd see Williams' score to Checkmate wind up on CD. It comes with a non-film score Williams album from the same period that I've only heard of and never seen a copy of. Although episodes of Checkmate are floating around on-line specialty video stores, I've never seen any. I have the LP of course and think it's solid music even if it seems more like Mancini's Peter Gunn than it does Williams. One highlight is the more obviously Williams sounding Main Title.I think it's great that FSM is issuing The Wrong Man even if I've already got a bootleg of it. It's a great, moody Herrmann score and, well, what else needs to be said. I'll probably pick this up just to support them. I'm sure they were a little scared thinking even if it's Hitchcock-Herrmann and there's no prior legit release, there's the bootleg, so we may not get the sales, so they should be commended once again for issuing it.
Now if they'd only go & issue the stereo Marnie score that Varese was too chicken to do.......
posted 05-10-2006 05:32 AM PT (US) Thor
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Yes, as a Williams completist, CHECKMATE/RHYTHM IN MOTION is a must-have for me. Of course, I already had several LP-to-CD versions of the CHECKMATE album and I also had the "Rhythm in Motion" album. But this is the first time either are commercially available on CD, and hopefully they have managed to clean up the sound a bit.Some swingin' stuff there!
NP: FABLE (Shaw/Elfman)
[Message edited by Thor on 05-10-2006]
posted 05-10-2006 09:16 AM PT (US) nuts_score
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quote:
Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
Now if they'd only go & issue the stereo Marnie score that Varese was too chicken to do.......A legit Marnie score? In stereo?! I'm totally there! It was always my favorite Hitchcock/Herrmann score in one of their films, right after Vertigo (my favorite Herrmann score, period). Why did Robert Townson and Varese buck out?
NP> Hans Zimmer's The DaVinci Code (****1/2 /*****) posted 05-10-2006 03:54 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
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Varese backed out because Tsunami had issued a bootleg of the score (in mono) and they didn't think they would get sales.You'd think now that companies are trying limited runs of 1,000 to 1,500 copies someone might try it again but these things are complicated.
Varese issued a 3 disc series of Herrmann at Fox CDs. They had music from Garden of Evil and King of the Khyber Rifles but they didn't issue the scores in their complete form, they only put out a few cues from each film.
So I contacted Lukas Kendall at FSM and asked him why not go and put out complete scores of the films that Varese only put out partial scores of and he said he couldn't do it, that the deal Varese made with Fox gives them first dibs on issuing the scores in complete form or not.
And obviously since we don't have complete CDs of Prince of Players, King of the Khyber Rifles, Garden of Evil, and Tender is the Night, it's obvious Varese won't issue them and we're stuck. I don't know where Marnie lies in relation to all of this but I'd pay $20 for a CD of the tracks in stereo as I would pay $20 for complete scores to all the Herrmann-Fox films but the supply side isn't coming through as they should yet.
In any case, FSM put out complete discs of Blue Denim, Egyptian, and Beneath the 12 Mile Reef so I suppose we should be thankful to have those. FSM also issued The Wrong Man, another great thing to have on CD.
Varese however deserves all the ire you can muster against them on this. They dropped the ball & won't pick it up.
posted 05-10-2006 10:43 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB