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Many corrections concerning the Labels and this new entry, as this is the original release of the Memoirs of a Geisha Suite :

Collaborations and other appearances

2009

Yo-Yo Ma - 30 Years Outside The Box

Includes previously unreleased material, such as the Memoirs of a Geisha Suite recorded live in 2008, with Yo-Yo Ma and The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Williams; Sony, Compilation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Collaborations_and_other_appearances

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3 new singles :

1960

Theme from "Checkmate"

Columbia

Plays at 33 RPM.

1960

Theme from "Checkmate" –
The Black Knight

Columbia

1960

The Black Knight –
Augie's Great Piano

Columbia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Singles

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Few singles added...

"Amazing Stories" moved to "Collaborations and other appearances" Section :
2006
Amazing Stories - Anthology 1
Various Artists
Some tracks Composed & Conducted by John Williams; Intrada.
2006
Amazing Stories - Anthology 2
Various Artists
Some tracks Composed & Conducted by John Williams; Intrada.
2007
Amazing Stories - Anthology 3
Various Artists
Some tracks Composed & Conducted by John Williams; Intrada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Collaborations_and_other_appearances

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I'm sorry but the reasoning behind that structure is odd to say the least...

That's the way they organize discography on Wikipedia.

Argue as you want, this way of structuring a discography is not so odd.

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Yes, it is very odd, cause it's not a collaboration with other artists. It's is music taken from various episodes composed by different composers.

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I was just checking the discography again, and while I'm not sure if this has been pointed out before, Williams was not the pianist on the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" LP release. Williams did play of the film sessions, but those remain unreleased, as the LP program was a re-recording (correct me if I am wrong, Jimmy Rowles was the session pianist on that).

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I was just checking the discography again, and while I'm not sure if this has been pointed out before, Williams was not the pianist on the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" LP release. Williams did play of the film sessions, but those remain unreleased, as the LP program was a re-recording (correct me if I am wrong, Jimmy Rowles was the session pianist on that).

This website was my source for this entry.

http://www.jwfan.com/?page_id=3928

But effectively, all the web pages I found about the original LP talks about Jimmy Rowles for the piano part.

Entry removed.

Thanks Miguel.

Yes, it is very odd, cause it's not a collaboration with other artists. It's is music taken from various episodes composed by different composers.

If you are saying that it would be a good idea to compile these bits of music recorded by JW into one big compilation on which we would see "John Williams" in big letters on the cover, you are right.

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A new entry :

Collaborations and other appearances

2013

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Music from the Motion Picture

Henry Mancini

Piano: John Williams; Previously unreleased score; Intrada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Collaborations_and_other_appearances

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I love the internet :)

It should be noted that this particular piece was only arranged and conducted by John Williams. The composed of that one was one P. Knauer.

Note added in the disco, thanks.

Regarding JW's singles output: there was a picture-disc single from "Superman II" issued in the U.K., in April, 1981, just ahead of the film's release, here.

As the Main Theme on that one is not performed by Williams (at least I think), the single can't appear in his discography. Thanks!

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As far as I am aware, very little of the music that JW composes is performed by him (!). It's still his music, but I see your point.

Did JW conduct the Arista single "Theme From CE3K"? Since he didn't conduct "Heidi", why is that in his discography?

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As far as I am aware, very little of the music that JW composes is performed by him (!). It's still his music, but I see your point.

Did JW conduct the Arista single "Theme From CE3K"? Since he didn't conduct "Heidi", why is that in his discography?

Good point, for CE3K, this single is referring to the horrible disco tune? Can someone confirm John Williams' participation on that one?

For the Quartet Records issue of Heidi, it's written on the cover "Composed and conducted by John Williams".

Thanks!

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The original CD release says that JW didn't conduct "Heidi". Curiouser, and curisouser...

I am referring to the disco tune, and it's not that horrible.. Perhaps Rick Chertoff can tell us who played on it.

It's small, but it's written composed and conducted by John Williams.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=823262

Another version here : http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=684497

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I must confess, I hate the Singles section of a discography... ;)

A new bonus section (again, this is a discography, only discs appears in that section) : Soundtracks using John Williams' Themes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Soundtracks_using_John_Williams.27_Themes

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You can add the following albums:

"Airplane" by Elmer Bernstein (contains Theme from Jaws)

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/26560/

"Ewoks: Caravan of Courage/The Battle for Endor" by Peter Bernstein (contains Parade of the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi)

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/28789/

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There are tons of films and tv series that have used Williams themes (who can forget "Superman" in SEINFELD, for example), but thankfully many aren't released on albums.

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You can add the following albums:

"Airplane" by Elmer Bernstein (contains Theme from Jaws)

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/26560/

"Ewoks: Caravan of Courage/The Battle for Endor" by Peter Bernstein (contains Parade of the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi)

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/28789/

And also "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which is absent from the list

Thanks, Added.

I am a little discouraged from noticing that it is the section which seems to arouse most interest, it is not so important for me...

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Not that interesting to me either, but there are LOADS of examples, as I mentioned, so people will always come up with other ones.

I see that you miss the recording of the recent "For the President's Own" by that marine band whose name escapes me at the moment.

You also need to include WAGON TRAIN (within your definition, that probably belongs in the collaborations section).

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I see that you miss the recording of the recent "For the President's Own" by that marine band whose name escapes me at the moment.

You also need to include WAGON TRAIN (within your definition, that probably belongs in the collaborations section).

For "Wagon Train", he's only composer. That's not a place I wanted to go originally in the disco, because this entry should instead be added to the "List of Compositions" page, but I don't post on this article for now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_John_Williams

But, now that I've created a sub-section for "Soundtracks using JW's Themes", i guess I opened a door... But that's not my priority, if I start that, think of all the LPs and Singles I will have to dig... Pfff.... It represent a lot of work.

Same thing for the other CD you talk about, every band and orchestra in the world (and usually not good ones) try to increase their CD sales by recording John Williams works. That's a list that will never come to and end, impossible to list all of them.

The difference between the true disco of John Williams and his discography as a composer, is that the second will never be "finished".

Nobody makes the discography of Mozart as a composer, do you know what I mean? We list his compositions instead.

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Not that interesting to me either, but there are LOADS of examples, as I mentioned, so people will always come up with other ones.

No there aren't. The page lists soundtrack releases using Williams' themes, not scores or movies.

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I see that you miss the recording of the recent "For the President's Own" by that marine band whose name escapes me at the moment.

You also need to include WAGON TRAIN (within your definition, that probably belongs in the collaborations section).

For "Wagon Train", he's only composer. That's not a place I wanted to go originally in the disco, because this entry should instead be added to the "List of Compositions" page, but I don't post on this article for now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_John_Williams

You ARE aware that there is an LP release of WAGON TRAIN, right (which includes three tracks by Williams)?

I'm curious why you won't include the recording of "For the President's Own" when you do include the similar marine band recording of "Prelude and Fugue"?

Not that interesting to me either, but there are LOADS of examples, as I mentioned, so people will always come up with other ones.

No there aren't. The page lists soundtrack releases using Williams' themes, not scores or movies.

Fair enough. That limits things quite a bit.

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You can put it the same place as you put, say, M SQUAD. That was also a TV series soundtrack LP (since reissued on CD) with various composers that has 3 tracks by Williams.

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You can put it the same place as you put, say, M SQUAD. That was also a TV series soundtrack LP (since reissued on CD) with various composers that has 3 tracks by Williams.

Entries in the disco means that John williams conducts or perform on the record.

If he is only composer, it should be moved to the "discography as composer" section.

My entry said that on M SQUAD, JW conducts. Is it true?

I Don't think he conducts on "Wagon Train", That's the difference.

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No, Stanley Wilson conducts on WAGON TRAIN. I don't think I will ever properly understand your logic and categorization in this project of yours, as much as I try! :)But you can do with the info as you wish. If you find room for it in your system, that's great. I would think that a mention of the WAGON TRAIN LP would find a place in a John Williams discography somewhere.


He may play piano on it, though, as he did on M SQUAD. The sleeve doesn't say.

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Yeah, he did a little bit of "double duty" on M SQUAD (pianist and composer). I'm sure he did that on several other tv shows too, including WAGON TRAIN. Although -- as Miguel points out -- conducting duties were usually handed to Wilson or someone else.

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Right, after verification M SQUAD is in the main disco because John Williams is on the piano.

Music Composed & Arranged by Benny Carter, Pete Carpenter and John Williams; Music Conducted by Stanley Wilson; Piano: John Williams; Phantom Records (England).

This week-end I will do a pass to add all the missing entries in the "Soundtracks conducted by others" section.

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New entry in Collaborations and other appearances section :

2013

We'll Paint You a Rainbow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Collaborations_and_other_appearances

New entries in the Concert Works section :

2009
Escapades, concerto for alto saxophone & orchestra
American Spectrum (Branford Marsalis and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grant Llewellyn, Digital Release)

2013

Elegy for Cello and Piano

We'll Paint You a Rainbow (Angeli Ensemble conducted by Michael Nowak, featuring Lynn Harrell on cello)

2013

Three Pieces for Solo Cello

Composing Without The Picture (Richard Harwood, Solo Cello)

2013

American Journey
American Journeys (Kenneth W. Megan Jr./U.s. Coast Guard Band)
2013
Escapades, concerto for alto saxophone & orchestra
Intrinsic Versatility (Miles Osland, Clarinet; Miles Osland, Flute; Vince DiMartino, Flugelhorn;
Vince DiMartino, Trumpet); Raleigh Dailey, Piano); Miles Osland, Saxophone)
Escapades, concerto for alto saxophone & orchestra
2013
Escapades, concerto for alto saxophone & orchestra
Catch me If You Can (Amy Dickson, Saxophone)
2013
Escapades, concerto for alto saxophone & orchestra
Escapades (Jan Schulte-Bunert, Saxophone)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Concert_works

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New entries in the "Soundtracks conducted by others" section, including "Wagon Train".

There maybe others, but I will need you help on that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography#Soundtracks_conducted_by_others

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