Tallguy

@Jay: I certainly believe you, but how did you know this about By Request? It's funny, I realize that all of these Pops collections (Boston and Cincinnati) are all albums I didn't encounter until I had a CD player. It kind of trips me out to think of By Request or even Pops in Space (certainly square in the LP / cassette era) having side 1 and side 2!

I did that yesterday morning. I'm not saying I don't love having the more or less complete and more or less chronological. But I adore that double LP. Star Wars even more so.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I.

Whoa. My mind is blown. It's my favorite compilation CD. (Also one of the first CDs I bought.) I had gotten the impression that it had been JW's preferred arrangement for a long time. That certainly adds fuel to that fire. Thankfully I had never heard any of these before I saw Jedi in the theater so the ending of Jedi was a wonderful surprise. Clever, even.

So does By Request. And that's 1987.

This one? It's.. Interesting. It's like they're playing by ear.

York was d'Artagnan. Chamberlain was one of the Musketeers.

SNW will apparently air on August 1st.

Which I'm pretty sure was actually "SFX" from the particles and animation department.

So it was. Well, it was the first one that I bought. I should make some kind of catalog of these kinds of things. I had no idea that Fight in the Dungeon and Heroic Ewok were on the Gerhardt Return of the Jedi.

Are you thinking of The Little Mermaid?

It's funny because I don't consider the Kojian Trilogy recording to be "early". As I read this thread I kept assuming there were earlier recordings I had missed. OTOH it's the first time that the music was treated as collected whole. It's also the first recording to include the Fox Fanfare. (Is it the only one to include photos from the films themselves?) And they did it right: If you're going to play the Main Title suite to Star Wars AND some end credits suite as well then play the film version of the ending in the first track and play the concert ending (the Return of the Jedi ending as I call it even though it predated Jedi by five or six years) in the second. It baffles me when I hear programs that have the Jedi ending twice and never play the original. The Jedi ending is so triumphant that I think it can only be heard at the end of a program. Poor JW. He's thought he WAS playing at the "end of the program" three times now!

Yeah, Shogun was quite the big deal when it aired. Three and Four Musketeers are still my favorite adaptations of that story. But everyone is so overshadowed in my mind by Oliver Reed and Charlton Heston that I kind of forget who else was in it. To me, he's Archie from Leverage. Oh, did they mention that he's the original Jason Bourne?

He really did.

So my Dad was watching Pelham on TV when I was like 11 or 12. You know how at that age you just kind of drift in an out of a movie you're not really watching, but it's what's on THE TV set? I had no idea what movie this was. I knew who Walter Matthau was. (How weird were the 70's? Walter Matthau was a Hollywood leading man!) I had no clue who anyone else was. But I remembered that last scene. I had seen enough of the movie that it made sense and wow, what a way to end a movie! My Dad laughed like it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. 20 years later I rented the DVD of this classic movie that people told me I should see. Early days of Netflix. Best video store you could imagine! They had EVERYTHING. I had been watching a bunch of "classic" 70's thrillers and I was realizing why Star Wars and Jaws were such hits. They were the first big movies in years that weren't depressing, apparently. But this? This was GREAT. It was snappy and tense and fun and it knew how to tap dance. I'm however far into the movie. Like, what? 20 minutes in? Not far, right? It's amazing. And then Balsam sneezes and Matthau says "Gesundheit". God. Damn. It. Well, the rest of the movie was great anyway.