Williams' alternate E.T. track for flying over the sun

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

Anyone know the name of the track Williams recorded initially for E.T. and Elliott when Spielberg was having them fly over the sun instead of the moon during Halloween?

 

The internet these days is such crap, I can't find it anymore.

[Jay 37,300]

No such thing. 

 

All the music recorded for the film is on the LLL album

[Holko 9,499]

whoosh?

[Thor 7,473]

9 hours ago, Oomoog the Ecstatic said:

Anyone know the name of the track Williams recorded initially for E.T. when Spielberg was having them fly over the sun instead of the moon?

 

INSTEAD of the moon? Because you do remember they fly over the sun during the escape sequence towards the end?

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

Initially Spielberg was going to have Elliot and E.T. fly across the sunset during the Halloween flight sequence, and so Williams wrote a separate track for that. This wasn't it. I just remember it having a specific sound.

 

 

[Jay 37,300]

The title of that YouTube video is incorrect and the story you are telling about there being an earlier cut of the scene, and this music being for that, is made up.

 

The music in that video is simply track #4 of the original 1982 soundtrack album. It's a concert arrangement / album-only version of the Halloween cue, not an early version of the cue. It's on the LLL CD on Disc 2, track 4

[King Mark 3,625]

Wiliams saved the Sun alternate for Hook "The Flying Sequence"

[SyncMan 313]

@Oomoog the Ecstatic, 

As Jay has mentioned, there were different arrangements of that cue.  The one you have referenced in that YouTube video is the album arrangement that ends on a (IMO) somber tone by the woodwinds.

And then there was the arrangement used in the final film-edit, where the cues ends abruptly.

Note that this cue is shorter is running time than the one you've referenced above.

 

And to further complicate your mind, there is another version of this cue for the 'L2P' (or 'movie with live orchestra') concerts.

The same as the film version, but the ending is very triumphant by the entire orchestra.  This cues ends Act One of the L2P concert.

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[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

The story you are telling about there being an earlier cut of the scene, and this music before for that, is made up.

 

It's a conspiracy. I remember all the articles on it 15 years ago, and the original Halloween flying across the sunset cue sounded different. It's out there somewhere but they're hiding it 

 

Spielberg had said that he changed it to where the group will fly over the sunset instead in a later cue.

[Jay 37,300]

Your mind is just mixed up, remembering things wrong. It's like the Mandela effect. 

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

It's a conspiracy headed by the aliens themselves. There were hidden secret messages in that music.

[Bespin 8,480]

E.T. phone home,  E.T phone home...

 

The true hidden secret about E.T. is who paid the telephone bill!

 

[Marian Schedenig 8,174]

On 10/24/2020 at 10:54 PM, Jay said:

Your mind is just mixed up, remembering things wrong. It's like the Mandala effect. 

 

Mandela.  

[Jay 37,300]

D'oh! 

 

Typo fixed