Label Threads The Official Film Score Monthly (FSM) Thread

[Richard Penna 3,671]

Actually if it fell on a normal release day for one of the labels it would be the perfect time to spring a huge release.

Imagine the shock when people take a chance to click on the "purchase" button and it actually takes them to their shopping cart instead of "APRIL FOOLS!" popping up.

That's far too evil for one of our beloved labels to do to us

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

I don't think anyone in their right mind would actually announce anything on April 1st, since it'll just be seen as a joke.

Play.com had a special April Fools Sale yesterday. I ordered Benjamin Button and Gran Torino on Blu for €10.50 each. I hope they don't tell me it was just a prank and charge me extra.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Lukas has pretty much told us the next two planned Goldsmith releases for FSM, although I'm only guessing. Outland & Poltergeist could be due at a later time and he has two already finished for release.

So it's an obscure score, and presented complete and chronological

I won't get excited tho, as FSM doesn't do contemporary stuff.

Don't pat yourself on the back, you guys do it for scores that are good and popular as well.

What do you mean?

I was referring to Thor's hatred of anything C & C. And 'pass' generally means it's obscure. How's that 'patting on the back'?

This topic was already discussed here and here!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

From Screen Archive's fan page on Facebook:

FSM has a small release coming in about two weeks - shhhhh!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

Well the video has returned.

This would be the perfect time of year to release The Ten Commandments because of the film's traditional Easter airing on ABC.

Just assume I'm completly stupid (or whatever), but what has "The Ten Commandments" got to do with Easter? better to show "Jesus Of Nazareth" (a fine score), or "Jesus Christ: Superstar" (like, wow, man), or "The Last Temptation Of Christ" (a criminally underrated film) or even "The Passion Of The Christ" (blurgh!) isn't it?

[Jay 37,287]

From Screen Archive's fan page on Facebook:

FSM has a small release coming in about two weeks - shhhhh!

I wonder if "small" is some kind of clue?

I know - its a CD of music from the television show "Small Wonder"!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Small could mean lots of things. It could just be hyperbolic and the release is something huge. It could mean it's by composer Michael Small

[Charlie Brigden 7]

Small could mean lots of things. It could just be hyperbolic and the release is something huge. It could mean it's by composer Michael Small

It'd be cool if it were Small's JAWS THE REVENGE.

[OneBuckFilms 319]

Small could mean lots of things. It could just be hyperbolic and the release is something huge. It could mean it's by composer Michael Small

I suspect (read: hope) it's Star Trek III

[Jay 37,287]

That's be most excellent!

The end of April could be huge: 3,000 unit release from Intrada, ID4 from LLL, which will probably be paired with another high-profile release we've seen no hints about... and now an FSM release too!

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

Gremlins are small... aren't they?

[Demondm810 399]

Didn't they say Poltergeist would be released prior to Summer?

[Jay 37,287]

Since the cat's already out of the bag in regards to Poltergeist, I'd imagine they don't have to hint around about it and can just talk about it

[Demondm810 399]

They just updated with this:

"It's a twofer on a single...shhhhh!...I have to go now...

someone's coming..."

[Andy 4,085]

Well, that rules out Star Trek III, and it's probably not Jaws the Revenge either.

[Jay 37,287]

Probably something I don't care about. Can't think of any scores I love that are under 40 minutes total

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

And both Gremlins scores don't fit on a single disc.

[TownerFan 4,983]

They just updated with this:

"It's a twofer on a single...shhhhh!...I have to go now...

someone's coming..."

My bet it will be a disc featuring Michael Small's Marathon Man and The Parallax View.

[Ollie 1,059]

Iz it zafe?

Yeah I think the "small" clue pointed toward Michael Small.

[Dole 17]

Well the video has returned.

This would be the perfect time of year to release The Ten Commandments because of the film's traditional Easter airing on ABC.

Just assume I'm completly stupid (or whatever), but what has "The Ten Commandments" got to do with Easter? better to show "Jesus Of Nazareth" (a fine score), or "Jesus Christ: Superstar" (like, wow, man), or "The Last Temptation Of Christ" (a criminally underrated film) or even "The Passion Of The Christ" (blurgh!) isn't it?

I'm pretty sure they don't air it for Easter, but for Passover which occurs around the same time.

[Wojo 2,453]

I didn't say anybody was stupid. I also didn't say that I worked for ABC.

[mahler3 478]

I think this release could be Georges Delerue, Lukas stated some time ago that he was waiting to release Rich & Famous with an appropriate companion as the latter is such a short score. That would contradict the 'small' reference, unless we are reading too much into it.

Hopefully it's Delerue anyway!

[Ollie 1,059]

I really want that Delerue score but little clues probably point to Michael Small.

[Ollie 1,059]

On SAE's Facebook page someone asked if Star Trek III would be out before Comic Con this summer and SAE"s response was "fingers crossed".

[Jay 37,287]

Win!!!!!!!

[John Crichton 4]

Woot!

[Demondm810 399]

Oh man. That's incredible.

[fommes 153]

Oh, damn.

I mean, yay!

[Trent B 337]

On SAE's Facebook page someone asked if Star Trek III would be out before Comic Con this summer and SAE"s response was "fingers crossed".

That would be totally bad ass!

[Wojo 2,453]

A spring release of a complete Star Trek score should become a yearly event for the next...nine years.

[Ollie 1,059]

Good god I hope not. I don't want to wait 9 years.

If the rumor mill is correct I have a feeling two Star Trek scores (think Sony) may be coming from a different label.

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

What, TPM and FF?

[Ollie 1,059]

Yep.

Like I said though, it's just a rumor that has been floating around. Plus you throw in what Jeff Bond said in that interview that was linked on this message board somewhere, and it makes sense.

http://trekmovie.com/2009/12/09/tmp30-the-music-of-star-trek-the-motion-picture/

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Directors these days should be more like Robert Wise. They should say "but there's no theme!"

[Kendal_Ozzel 36]

What, TPM and FF?

TPM's not happening. Ricard was just yanking our chains.

[John Crichton 4]

As long as Sony doesn't frell them up. I'm a lot more comfortable with them in the hands of the specialty labels.

[MattyO 62]

I tend to think, and sorry if this will completely derail this thread, that in a couple more years La-La Land will have the clout to approach LucasFilm. They're building up into a formidable record label.

[Datameister 2,037]

I will be unable to contain my excitement if one of the small film score labels gets to release the prequel scores. Any or all of them. That would be mind-blowingly good news.

[Trent B 337]

I'm not holding my breath that the labels will be releasing the complete scores for the Prequels (other than Sony themselves). If I'm proven wrong then hey that will be fine by me. Though if you all remember Lukas Kendall said on FSM that Lucasfilm only sells out the rights to the highest bidder. So it would probably be a bit impossible money wise for our beloved labels to invest in getting the complete Prequel scores to us.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Unless... they all pull together and make it happen, for the ultimate Varese Intrada Prometheian Monthly La La Film Score Land Sarabande box set.

[Jay 37,287]

Haha, that would be epic!

[Ollie 1,059]

Varese would be the lable with clout.

However the costs wouldn't be worth it. Maybe 20 or 30 years down the road some smaller label could take a crack at it but any future Star Wars scores will be mainstream releases. Lucas can repackage and release the same product for generations to come.

[Jay 37,287]

Marathon Man/The Parallax View (1976, 1974)

Limited Edition of 3,000 Copies.

Composed by: Michael Small

View CD Page at FSM Site (More Details)

FSM presents two superb Michael Small thriller scores long requested on CD: Marathon Man (1976) and The Parallax View (1974), both from the Paramount Pictures vaults—two classic works of pain and paranoia from the 1970s.

Marathon Man gave cinema one of its most iconic and frightening scenes: Laurence Olivier, as a fugitive Nazi dentist, torturing Dustin Hoffman with dental equipment while repeating the perplexing question, “Is it safe?” The film was directed by John Schlesinger from a screenplay by William Goldman (based on his book) and also starred Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller and William Devane. The film is equal parts international intrigue, historical speculation, character development and pitch-perfect suspense—a masterpiece of the genre.

The Parallax View, directed by Alan Pakula (see FSM’s CD of Klute/All the President’s Men), was a political thriller starring Warren Beatty as a quirky reporter who stumbles upon an all-powerful organization, The Parallax Corporation, recruiting assassins for nefarious ends. With its breathtaking filmmaking, paranoid conspiracy theories and downbeat implications, no film made the doom and gloom of the Watergate era so fascinating or pleasurable.

A huge part of the success of both films is their music by Michael Small, a master of the suspense and subtlety required of these pictures. Marathon Man features a melancholy main theme for Hoffman’s troubled graduate student and a foreboding anthem for Olivier’s Nazi, as well as fascinating textural ideas such as pitch-bending strings, ominous piano and piercing synthesizer. The Parallax View centers on a skewered patriotic march for the Parallax Corporation, and features a five-minute pop-rock source cue, “The Parallax Test,” for a pivotal recruitment film. Both scores feature arresting action cues that emerge perfectly from the atmospheric dissonance.

Marathon Man, although produced second, comes first on this CD as it is newly mixed from the original 16-track 2” multitrack tapes for modern stereo sound. No scoring session masters survived for The Parallax View, so its score is presented in mono (given a light stereo reverb for listenability) from the film’s edited music stem.

The booklet features incisive essays on the films by Scott Bettencourt and Jeff Bond, respectively. Expanded essays on both films, and full track-by-track commentary, can be found, for free, online at our website.

Marathon Man

Music Composed and Conducted by Michael Small

1. Main Title 3:00

2. Tragedy at the Truck 1:31

3. In Hot Pursuit/Out of the Race 1:19

4. Bellman and Pram 1:47

5. The Doll’s Demise 0:51

6. Biesenthal Flashback 0:39

7. Soccer Ball 0:56

8. Elsa’s Intrigue 0:36

9. Szell Arrives 0:27

10. Love Scene 3:00

11. The Letter 1:00

12. Airport 0:51

13. Resemble Diamonds/Fountain Appointment 1:48

14. Scylla Stabbed 1:51

15. Doc Dies 0:34

16. Nightmare of the Past 1:22

17. Bathroom Terror 1:49

18. False Rescue 1:12

19. Betrayal/Drilling Horror 0:50

20. Escape 0:44

21. Chase Pt. I 2:08

22. Chase Pt. II 0:57

23. Urgent Phone Call 1:37

24. Calculated Risk/Gang Moves In 1:58

25. House on the Hill/Approaching Showdown 2:39

26. Jewelry Market Pt. I 1:23

27. Market Continuation 0:28

28. The Recognition 1:47

29. Szell Escapes 1:25

30. All That Glitters Pt. I/All That Glitters Pt. II 0:41

31. Too Close/Essen 0:33

32. Diamonds of Death 1:17

33. Babe Tosses Gun 1:53

34. End Credits 2:00

Total Time: 48:23

Bonus Tracks

35. Main Title (alternate) 2:59

36. Fountain Appointment (alternate) 1:40

37. False Rescue (alternate) 1:09

Total Time: 5:52

The Parallax View

Music Composed and Conducted by Michael Small

38. Commission and Main Title 2:42

39. Morgue 0:51

40. Sheriff’s House 0:58

41. Car Chase 1:12

42. Testing Center 1:05

43. Out to Sea 0:52

44. Slide of Art/Austin Sleeps 1:56

45. Parallax Test 4:55

46. Art in Cafeteria/Suitcase Bomb 3:55

47. Gunmen Search 1:30

48. Joe’s Final Run 1:29

49. End Title 2:02

Total Time: 24:01

Total Disc Time: 78:30

[Luke Skywalker 1,792]

Though if you all remember Lukas Kendall said on FSM that Lucasfilm only sells out the rights to the highest bidder.

Everyone, not just lucasfilm*. Its just than since its STAR WARS, big companies come into play and can afford to offer more money.

*Recent interview posted here about the labels.

[Richard Penna 3,671]

Varese would be the lable with clout.

However the costs wouldn't be worth it. Maybe 20 or 30 years down the road some smaller label could take a crack at it but any future Star Wars scores will be mainstream releases. Lucas can repackage and release the same product for generations to come.

Can't see the costs involved with the prequels - the music is sitting on a hard drive, and they would just need to assemble it as Williams intended. No reuse fees, no tapes to bake, nothing wrong with the sound quality.

[Ollie 1,059]

I refer you to the "Lucasfilm to the highest bidder" comment.

Congrats to FSM on another outstanding release. I know these two scores have been on quite a few wish lists.

[Jay 37,287]

Cleopatra Jones/Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1973, 1975)

Music by Dominic Frontiere, J.J. Johnson, Joe Simon

Price: $24.95

Limited #: 3000

Line: Silver Age

CD Release: April 2010

Catalog #: Vol. 13, No. 6

# of Discs: 2

Cleopatra Jones was one of the most memorable characters to emerge from the 1970s "blaxploitation" genre. Played by six-foot-two Tamara Dobson, she was a female African-American version of James Bond, starring in two adventures for Warner Bros. where she battled villainess drug lords in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, respectively.

The original Cleopatra Jones (1973) introduced the character as an international secret agent stamping out the narcotics trade. She runs afoul of "Mommy" (Shelley Winters), a lesbian kingpin who targets her L.A. inner-city charity, the B&S House, for retribution. Cleo returns home to fight Mommy's henchmen and corrupt white cops; Bernie Casey co-stars as her love interest.

The soundtrack to Cleopatra Jones (released on Warner Bros. Records) was a collaborative effort of two R&B artists from the Spring Records label, Joe Simon and Millie Jackson, and score composer J.J. Johnson (himself collaborating with Carl Brandt). Simon's "Theme From Cleopatra Jones" kicked off the LP and film with a groovy ode to Cleo's prowess, while two of Jackson's performances, "Love Doctor" and "It Hurts So Good," were taken from her concurrent record album for Spring. Combined with two additional (and previously unreleased) source cues by Roger Kellaway (sung by Pattie Brooks), the Cleopatra Jones soundtrack is a minor-masterpiece of the "symphonic funk" fusion that identified the genre.

Cleo returned in Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975) for a blending of "blaxploitation" with the burgeoning kung fu genre. Shot in Hong Kong (and a co-production between Warner Bros. and Run Run Shaw), Cleo teams with a local secret agent (Tien-Ni, billed as "Tanny") to battle a drug kingpin known as the "Dragon Lady" (Stella Stevens).

Unlike most of the "blaxploitation" films, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold did not involve an African-American recording artist—although you wouldn't know that by listening. Veteran composer Dominic Frontiere provided a pulsating, funky score with exotic instrumentation for the Far East setting (and martial arts action) in the best tradition of Lalo Schifrin's seminal Enter the Dragon, as well as a groovy title song, "Playing With Fire."

This 2CD set is feast of Cleopatra Jones tracks: Disc one features the Warner Bros. Records album program to Cleopatra Jones followed by a new program of solely the dramatic score by J.J. Johnson and Carl Brandt (including several previously unreleased cues). Disc two features the complete Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold score by Dominic Frontiere, as well as bonus tracks of instrumental and alternate-lyrics versions of the main title. Disc two closes with additional selections from the first film: extended versions of the Joe Simon title song, as well as the aforementioned Roger Kellaway source cues.

The entire 2CD set is in excellent stereo sound, with liner notes by Scott Bettencourt. Complete track-by-track commentary can be found, for free, online at our website (presented here for space reasons).

Cleopatra Jones (1973)

DISC ONE

Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture Featuring Joe Simon Singing the Hit "Theme From Cleopatra Jones" and Millie Jackson Singing "Love Doctor" and "It Hurts So Good"

1. Theme From Cleopatra Jones (Joe Simon) 3:43

Produced and Sung by Joe Simon

Performed by The Mainstreeters

Strings Arranged by Bert de Coteaux

2. The Wrecking Yard (Carl Brandt) 3:36

3. Love Doctor (Jackie Avery) 2:54

Produced by Brad Shapiro

Sung by Millie Jackson

Arranged and Conducted by Mike Lewis and Brad Shapiro

Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound

4. Airport Flight (Carl Brandt) 2:15

5. Emdee (J.J. Johnson) 2:31

6. Desert Sunrise (J.J. Johnson)/Main Title Instrumental* (Joe Simon) 2:55

*Arranged and Conducted by J.J. Johnson

7. It Hurts So Good (Phillip Mitchell) 3:26

Produced by Brad Shapiro

Sung by Millie Jackson

Arranged and Conducted by Mike Lewis and Brad Shapiro

Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound

8. Goin' to the Chase (J.J. Johnson) 0:29

9. Go Chase Cleo (J.J. Johnson) 3:26

10. Cleo and Reuben (J.J. Johnson) 2:04

11. Wrap Up (Carl Brandt) 3:02

12. Theme From Cleopatra Jones/Instrumental (Joe Simon) 4:53

Produced by Joe Simon

Performed by The Mainstreeters

Total Time: 35:37

Original Music Composed and Conducted by J.J. Johnson

Additional Music by Carl Brandt and Brad Shapiro

Joe Simon and Millie Jackson Appear Courtesy of Spring Records

Score Program

Dramatic Score and Source Music Composed and Conducted by J.J. Johnson

Interpolating "Theme From Cleopatra Jones" by Joe Simon

Additional Music by Carl Brandt

13. Pot Burn/Mommy/Police Raid (Johnson, orchestrated by Carl Brandt) 1:08

14. Jimmy Pleads (Johnson/Brandt, orch. Brandt) 1:18

15. Airport Flight (Brandt) 2:52

16. Emdee 3:01

17. Elevator/Cleo and Captain (Brandt) 1:58

18. Ambush (Brandt) 1:38

19. Doodle Apartment 0:39

20. Soul Food 3:06

21. Karate Gag 0:52

22. Motorcycle Funk 3:50

23. Cleo and Reuben Love Theme 2:05

24. Chase Cassette 1:08

25. Cleo Chase 5:06

26. Before Crash 0:14

27. Snake Crib 1:50

28. Verbatim, Simon/Man From Glad (Brandt) 3:02

29. The Wrecking Yard (Brandt)/More Wrecking Yard (Johnson, orch. Brandt)/Wrap Up (Brandt) 8:38

Total Time: 42:55

Total Disc Time: 78:39

Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)

DISC TWO

Music Composed and Conducted by Dominic Frontiere

Song: "Playing With Fire" Music by Dominic Frontiere, Lyrics by Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise

1. Playing With Fire 3:33

2. Oynia 0:48

3. Here Comes Cleo 1:29

4. Cleo Leaves 0:58

5. Downtong 2:20

6. Room of Mirrors 1:21

7. Les Orgie 2:46

8. Fatman Stomp 1:41

9. You Must Believe Me/My Regulars 1:14

10. Hoe Down Car 1:47

11. Mr. Ling's Apartment/Enter the Studs 2:47

12. She's My Mother 2:42

13. Pool Hall Rock 2:41

14. Banjo Bike 1:00

15. Juke Box Blues, Pt. 1 and 2 1:16

16. Alley Rock 2:07

17. Turn Him Loose 0:42

18. Chopped Meat 0:55

19. Casino Source 2:11

20. Catch Cleo/Car Crash 4:19

21. Casino Fight 2:41

22. Dead Dragon Lady 3:23

23. End Title 1:17

Total Time: 47:03

Bonus Tracks

24. Main Title (instrumental) 3:35

25. Take Me Away (main title, alternate lyrics, version #1) 3:36

26. Take Me Away (main title, alternate lyrics, version #2) 3:36

Total Time: 10:52

Cleopatra Jones Bonus Tracks

27. Theme From Cleopatra Jones (extended version) (Joe Simon) 4:46

Produced and Sung by Joe Simon

Performed by The Mainstreeters

28. Am I Blue (Roger Kellaway, performed by Pattie Brooks) 5:14

29. Swing Down Chariot (Roger Kellaway, performed by Pattie Brooks) 3:23

30. Theme From Cleopatra Jones (extended version, alternate vocal take) (Joe Simon) 4:46

Produced and Sung by Joe Simon

Performed by The Mainstreeters

Total Time: 18:17

Total Disc Time: 76:27

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[Wojo 2,453]

Huh. So "Cleopatra Jones" predates "Indiana Jones" by 8 years or so. Way to be original, Lucaspielberg!

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Lucas is always taking his inspiration from somewhere. Now we know where Indy came from.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I prefer CLEOPATRA SCHWARTZ.