Planned but unused album tracks for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

[BrotherSound 2,242]

So, E.T. appears to have had a number of planned album tracks that were never used. I recently noticed a number of cues in John Williams' original sketches are marked 'In Album', but aren't actually heard on the 1982 album as it was released.

 

 

The cues with these 'Album' indications are:

 

1M1 Revised - The Forest (the only one on the list actually on the OST)

2M3 Alternate Beginning (with an indication to segue to bar 5 of 2M3)

3M2 Meeting E.T.

5M2 E.T. Raids The Icebox (with an indication to overlap the downbeat of bar 54 with bar 43 of 5M5)
5M5 E.T. Gets An Idea

9M1 Keyes Enters The House

10M1 He Came To Me (with an indication to segue to 9M1 at the end)

 

I've reconstructed the two cue combinations:

 

E.T. Raids the Icebox and E.T. Gets An Idea

He Came To Me and Keyes Enters The House

 

So, I wonder what the story is here? The LP is already about 40 minutes, so there wouldn't have been enough space for its current contents plus all these other cues. Could a double LP have been considered? Or maybe these were planned before the unique OST arrangements were created? Who knows...

[Jay 37,368]

Wow, those 2 cue combinations are classic Williams-style album combos.  They are great!

 

I'd have to guess they initially contemplated a double-LP

 

Wait, 2M3 had an alternate beginning recorded separately from the original beginning?  Is that one of the differences between LLL track 1-04 and 2-12?

[BrotherSound 2,242]

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

Wait, 2M3 had an alternate beginning recorded separately from the original beginning?  Is that one of the differences between LLL track 1-04 and 2-12?

Yes, roughly the first 16 seconds of 1-04 are 2M3 Alternate Beginning. 2-12 has a different take of 2M3 Alternate Beginning with a solo E-flat clarinet in place of the piccolo (0:00-0:16), but also retains the bars the insert was meant to replace (0:16-0:26).

[Jay 37,368]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh that finally explains why the alternate is longer the main program version, it has two beginnings present.  Wow!

 

Did you check the 2002 MCA release to see what they did there?

 

 

[BrotherSound 2,242]

11 minutes ago, Jay said:

Did you check the 2002 MCA release to see what they did there?

Same as the film version (and LLL 1-04), with 2M3 Alternate Beginning (with piccolo) replacing the first 16 seconds of 2M3.

[Bellosh 3,419]

E.T. Gets an Idea is such an adorable name for a cue

[Holko 9,526]

Haha, I hope he'd have put it in the title to spite us because E.T. getting the idea is exactly the part he'd have removed from it.

[Indianagirl 298]

I listen to and love film scores. But you guys are on a whole other level. 

[Holko 9,526]

11 minutes ago, Indianagirl said:

I listen to and love film scores. But you guys are on a whole other level. 

I'm not sure if this is meant in a good or bad way Impressive scholars or creepy crazy obsessives? We're all a bit of both.

[Indianagirl 298]

1 minute ago, Holko said:

I'm not sure if this is meant in a good or bad way

lol a good way. I'm envious of your knowledge and attention to detail.