John Takis

The sample for "Feelings of Adventure" seems to be broken at Screen Archives. Here's the correct link.

You won't regret it! Chris has done it again; the remastered sound is really fantastic. While writing the liner notes, I also had access to a lot of fascinating research material from the Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse collections at the Library of Congress (thanks to the generous assistance of of their Music Division), so you'll also be getting a much fuller account of the creative process with details from Bricusse's songwriting notebooks.

Personally, I don't hear "Childhood" in there. I think you're latching onto the "descending third" motion within the accompaniment figure, a common interval which "Childhood" also employs. But where "Childhood" descends from 5 to 3 relative to the tonic, this figure descends from 3 to 1. Now ... you can, of course, shift a melody relative to the tonic to give it a different character (Williams does this to good effect in The Witches of Eastwick). But both rhythmically and melodically, the accompaniment figure in this particular passage doesn't really have anything else in common with "Childhood"

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I tried mocking this up out of curiosity. It makes the composition look much too cramped when the logo is filled in. The high contrast also winds up detracting from the poster artwork. You would have to either reduce the logo size, scale down the artwork, or both. As a way to feature more of the original art within the more square dimensions of an album cover, I think Intrada's solution works just fine. The subtle darkening of the blues inside the text helps it avoid looking like a watermark IMO.

Track II was another name for Project FUBELT, the covert CIA operation to instigate regime change in Chile during the Nixon era. As I recall, parts of this operation are depicted and/or discussed in the film.

2007. I love the atypical harmonies.

While many longtime Williams fans will have all or most of these releases, I like the idea that new Williams fans who are buying this for the opportunity to get his greatest hits in one convenient package will also be exposed to many obscure gems that they otherwise might never have heard. FWIW the Target preorder price is currently $297.99 (or $283.09 with a Target Circle Card).

"Always in motion the future is." As Mike just pointed out at FSM, "the project was initiated before Dial of Destiny came out and the art for volumes 2 and 3 is not done yet."

It's been my great privilege and honor to collaborate with Mike on the liner notes for this project. To survey the Maestro's career through the lens of a collection so staggering in its scope has been quite the experience!

I'm afraid I don't know! You'll have to ask Mike. Possibly it was flagged somewhere, possibly it was just for variety.

Mike at FSM: In other words, there was no recording of the suite without narration to release.

I just pulled up that track, and if you mean the bit at the end, I do hear the back half of the "Cause" theme (I wouldn't call it a "B section" per se). I couldn't tell you why I wrote "love theme." Likely a mix-up with my scratch notes that just didn't get caught in the review. It happens, sadly!

Thanks very much for the kind words, Andy! I'm very glad you enjoyed them.

You're the first to point it out to me. Well, maybe they were also secretly Parisians...