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    1977 reacted to Luke Skywalker in How obsessed are you with editing expanded SW Prequel scores   
    you dont have to purchase SWTOR, its free play for regular users (no premium content).
     
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    1977 reacted to Nemesis in Stanley and Iris - Twilight Time Blu Ray coming January 2017 features isolated score track   
    Some years ago I re-watched the film again and realised that there are some short little gems missing from the OST...looking forward to these pieces.
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    1977 got a reaction from Cerebral Cortex in Before the internet, how did you find out which films were scored by John Williams?   
    In my case, I used to visit my local public library and trawl through books such as Halliwell's Film Guide, Tony Thomas's Film Score A View From the Podium and a book the title of which escapes me that listed all the Oscar nominees by year.
     
    I also used to write away for catalogues sent out by specialist soundtrack retailers, advertised in the film magazines of the day.
     
    Sometimes a JW score would catch me completely unawares. I vividly remember watching the opening titles of Dracula on TV in the late '80s and thinking to myself, "this music sounds just like John Williams"! Needless to says when the Maestro's name appeared on screen I was quite in my element. The same thing happened with "The Mission" from Amazing Stories, except that I had to wait until the end of the episode to confirm my suspicions.
     
    I also fondly recall turning the VHS covers in my local video rental shop around to check the credits boxes for that wondrous bit of text: "Music by John Williams". That's how I found out about Midway (titled The Battle of Midway in my country).
     
    Compilation albums were also a good source. Imagine my surprise on getting a dodgy faxed copy of the back cover of Kunzel's Star Tracks II (thanks to a music retailer in another city that I had phoned and asked about soundtracks), and discovering that JW had scored something called SpaceCamp!
     
    Ah, the days before the world was hardwired into itself...
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    1977 got a reaction from Will in Before the internet, how did you find out which films were scored by John Williams?   
    In my case, I used to visit my local public library and trawl through books such as Halliwell's Film Guide, Tony Thomas's Film Score A View From the Podium and a book the title of which escapes me that listed all the Oscar nominees by year.
     
    I also used to write away for catalogues sent out by specialist soundtrack retailers, advertised in the film magazines of the day.
     
    Sometimes a JW score would catch me completely unawares. I vividly remember watching the opening titles of Dracula on TV in the late '80s and thinking to myself, "this music sounds just like John Williams"! Needless to says when the Maestro's name appeared on screen I was quite in my element. The same thing happened with "The Mission" from Amazing Stories, except that I had to wait until the end of the episode to confirm my suspicions.
     
    I also fondly recall turning the VHS covers in my local video rental shop around to check the credits boxes for that wondrous bit of text: "Music by John Williams". That's how I found out about Midway (titled The Battle of Midway in my country).
     
    Compilation albums were also a good source. Imagine my surprise on getting a dodgy faxed copy of the back cover of Kunzel's Star Tracks II (thanks to a music retailer in another city that I had phoned and asked about soundtracks), and discovering that JW had scored something called SpaceCamp!
     
    Ah, the days before the world was hardwired into itself...
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    1977 reacted to #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal in Before the internet, how did you find out which films were scored by John Williams?   
    There's something rather romantic about that now.
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    1977 reacted to #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal in Before the internet, how did you find out which films were scored by John Williams?   
    Film posters and adverts, CD's that had just come out. The credits on a VHS casette box. It was actually quite hard to find things like a complete filmopgraphy back than. 
     
    It really wasnt that long ago. But you had to find information by going through library books etc.
     
    For younglings like Will that must seem like the middle ages.
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    1977 reacted to Jay in Lights, Camera... Music! Six Decades of John Williams -- Keith Lockhart conducted CD of rarities   
    Hopefully soon - I imagine they want to have it come our near Williams' birthday, but who knows!
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    1977 reacted to Jay in Stanley and Iris - Twilight Time Blu Ray coming January 2017 features isolated score track   
    The isolated music track contains music that wasn't included on the original album.
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    1977 got a reaction from aj_vader in Which Would You Want More: The John Williams Star Wars prequels or Harry Potter Collection?   
    Most definitely the prequels first. I don't own any SW video games so the only music I have access to is the OSTs and the UE of TPM.
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    1977 reacted to Jay in Stanley and Iris - Twilight Time Blu Ray coming January 2017 features isolated score track   
    I'm going to watch the film for the first time when my blu ray arrives in the mail!
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    1977 reacted to Jay in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One - Disney FYC site contains 26 1/2 minutes of additional music   
    Not my work; Source: http://imgur.com/ZlmowX9
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    1977 reacted to thx99 in List of John Williams FYCs and Promos   
    Artwork:
    Call of the Champions (radio edit) and "The Mission Theme" (2-track promo; Sony Music SSK55975, slimline jewel case with artwork)  
    FYI, the label on the disc indicates that the "Call of the Champions" track is 3:45, but it is actually 4:07 as the artwork above reads.
     
     
    1988 Summer Olympics Album - Special CD Sampler (5-track promo including Williams' "Olympic Spirit"; Arista Records ASCD-9745)  
     
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (4-track promo from Poland, "Harry's Wondrous World", "Platform Nine-And-Three-Quaters [sic] And The Journey to Hogwarts", "Hogwarts Forever! And The Moving Stairs", & "Hedwig's Theme"; Warner Music Poland; cardboard sleeve with film artwork) [2001]  
     
    Schindler's List (1-track promo from Spain, "Theme from Schindler's List"; MCA Music Entertainment MCS 004; cardboard sleeve with film artwork)  
     
    Schindler's List (2-track promo, "Theme from Schindler's List" and "Theme from Schindler's List (reprise)"; MCA Records MCA5P-3042) [1993]  
     
    Jurassic Park (2-track promo, "Theme from Jurassic Park" and "End Credits"; MCA Records MCD 30797; slimline jewel case with color film artwork) [1993]  
     
    Jurassic Park (1-track promo, "Theme from Jurassic Park"; MCA Records MCA5P-2738; regular jewel case with grayscale film artwork) [1993]  
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    1977 reacted to thx99 in List of John Williams FYCs and Promos   
    Artwork:
    Call of the Champions (radio edits) and Williams interview clips (black text on white; Sony Classical)  
     
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    1977 reacted to Jay in List of John Williams FYCs and Promos   
    I can't remember if I even own a physical copy of this one yet.  I can check my collection when I'm at home
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    1977 reacted to thx99 in List of John Williams FYCs and Promos   
    A few comments/corrections...
     
    Mine came in a cardboard sleeve.
     
    I have two different Call of the Champions promos:
    Call of the Champions (radio edit) and "The Mission Theme" (2-track promo; Sony Music SSK55975, slimline jewel case with artwork) Call of the Champions (radio edits) and Williams interview clips (black text on white; Sony Classical)  
    Cardboard sleeve.
     
    Not a cardboard sleeve.  Regular jewel case with no cover artwork but does have an inlay card with tracklist.
     
    ADDITIONS:
    1988 Summer Olympics Album - Special CD Sampler (5-track promo including Williams' "Olympic Spirit"; Arista Records ASCD-9745) [1988] Jurassic Park (1-track promo, "Theme from Jurassic Park"; MCA Records MCA5P-2738; regular jewel case with grayscale film artwork) [1993] Jurassic Park (2-track promo, "Theme from Jurassic Park" and "End Credits"; MCA Records MCD 30797; slimline jewel case with color film artwork) [1993] Schindler's List (2-track promo, "Theme from Schindler's List" and "Theme from Schindler's List (reprise)"; MCA Records MCA5P-3042) [1993] Schindler's List (1-track promo from Spain, "Theme from Schindler's List"; MCA Music Entertainment MCS 004; cardboard sleeve with film artwork) [1993] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (4-track promo from Poland, "Harry's Wondrous World", "Platform Nine-And-Three-Quaters [sic] And The Journey to Hogwarts", "Hogwarts Forever! And The Moving Stairs", & "Hedwig's Theme"; Warner Music Poland; cardboard sleeve with film artwork) [2001] Call of the Champions (radio edit) and "The Mission Theme" (2-track promo; Sony Music SSK55975, slimline jewel case with artwork) [2002] [SAME AS ABOVE]
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    1977 reacted to Thor in List of John Williams FYCs and Promos   
    It was a FYC promo -- the same one they used when they issues the CD a few years ago. I'm sure Bespin can chime in with the details.
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    1977 got a reaction from oierem in William's least restrained, most over-scored film ever?   
    Well I must be honest, if it weren't for Williams' dense, busy scoring or so-called showboating, grand-standing, etc. I would probably never have become interested in film music (see Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters, Empire, Raiders, E.T., Jedi, Temple of Doom and the list goes on). If some of his music is, as some critics put it, pushy and insistent, then I'm a sucker for pushy, insistent music (War Horse included). All of the scores cited as candidates for most over-scored are among my favorites in Williams' oeuvre. I do however also love his more low-key efforts, such as Stanley and Iris and The Accidental Tourist. In fact, I can't think of a single Williams composition that I dislike (Heartbeeps included), and if Williams were to start composing radio jingles and cereal ads I'd most likely lap that up too. But then my alias says it all...
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    1977 got a reaction from Marcus in William's least restrained, most over-scored film ever?   
    Well I must be honest, if it weren't for Williams' dense, busy scoring or so-called showboating, grand-standing, etc. I would probably never have become interested in film music (see Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters, Empire, Raiders, E.T., Jedi, Temple of Doom and the list goes on). If some of his music is, as some critics put it, pushy and insistent, then I'm a sucker for pushy, insistent music (War Horse included). All of the scores cited as candidates for most over-scored are among my favorites in Williams' oeuvre. I do however also love his more low-key efforts, such as Stanley and Iris and The Accidental Tourist. In fact, I can't think of a single Williams composition that I dislike (Heartbeeps included), and if Williams were to start composing radio jingles and cereal ads I'd most likely lap that up too. But then my alias says it all...
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    1977 got a reaction from Joni Wiljami in William's least restrained, most over-scored film ever?   
    Well I must be honest, if it weren't for Williams' dense, busy scoring or so-called showboating, grand-standing, etc. I would probably never have become interested in film music (see Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters, Empire, Raiders, E.T., Jedi, Temple of Doom and the list goes on). If some of his music is, as some critics put it, pushy and insistent, then I'm a sucker for pushy, insistent music (War Horse included). All of the scores cited as candidates for most over-scored are among my favorites in Williams' oeuvre. I do however also love his more low-key efforts, such as Stanley and Iris and The Accidental Tourist. In fact, I can't think of a single Williams composition that I dislike (Heartbeeps included), and if Williams were to start composing radio jingles and cereal ads I'd most likely lap that up too. But then my alias says it all...
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    1977 got a reaction from Pieter Boelen in William's least restrained, most over-scored film ever?   
    Well I must be honest, if it weren't for Williams' dense, busy scoring or so-called showboating, grand-standing, etc. I would probably never have become interested in film music (see Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters, Empire, Raiders, E.T., Jedi, Temple of Doom and the list goes on). If some of his music is, as some critics put it, pushy and insistent, then I'm a sucker for pushy, insistent music (War Horse included). All of the scores cited as candidates for most over-scored are among my favorites in Williams' oeuvre. I do however also love his more low-key efforts, such as Stanley and Iris and The Accidental Tourist. In fact, I can't think of a single Williams composition that I dislike (Heartbeeps included), and if Williams were to start composing radio jingles and cereal ads I'd most likely lap that up too. But then my alias says it all...
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    1977 got a reaction from Bespin in Which original album do you find the least representative of the score?   
    To get back to the OP's question, for me it's the original Arista album of CE3K. My first exposure to this score was by way of Charles Gerhardt's magnificent suite of the last reel(s) music, and it became my go-to rendition right up to the release of the expanded set in 1998. There's a ton of fine music missing from the original album, and I really missed the military march apart from the brief quote in one of the album cues. I also hate the edits in the finale, after the beatiful denoument is about to reach its peak, the music jarringly cuts away to repeat part of the travelling music from earlier in the album.
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