Two New Releases From Film Score Monthly
Aug 17th, 2008 by Tim Fife
A good Christmas present for the Italian soundtrack fan in your life just might be the limited edition MGM Soundtrack Treasury box set Film Score Monthly is releasing this month. The 12 CD set includes 20 scores from the United Artists Film Library, including rare Ennio Morricone and Riz Ortolani material. Some of this material has never been issued (one being a Lalo Schifrin score), and many of the CDs include previously unreleased bonus tracks. This release is limited to only 1200 copies and includes a 48 page booklet of original album art.
Here’s what’s included:
Disc 1) THE APARTMENT (Adolph Deutsch)
THE FORTUNE COOKIE (Andre Previn)
Disc 2) HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE (Neal Hefti)
DUEL AT DIABLO (Neal Hefti)
Disc 3) THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING,THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (Johnny Mandel)
THE FUGITIVE KIND (Kenyon Hopkins)
Disc 4) A RAGE TO LIVE (Nelson Riddle)
GOODBYE AGAIN (Georges Auric)
Disc 5) THE HAPPY ENDING (Michel Legrand,)
Disc 6) THE HAPPY ENDING (Michel Legrand, additional cues)
Disc 7) BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (Richard Rodney Bennett)
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (William Alwyn)
Disc8) THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (John Addison)
THE HONEY POT (John Addison)
Disc 9) PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT, I LOVE YOU (Lalo Schifrin)
Disc 10) THE HILLS RUN RED (Ennio Morricone
HORNETS’ NEST (Ennio Morricone)
Disc 11) THE 7TH DAWN (Riz Ortolani)
THE GLORY GUYS (Riz Ortolani)
Disc 12) HANNIBAL BROOKS (Francis Lai)
THE FINAL OPTION (Roy Budd)
In September Film Score Monthly will also be releasing a 3 CD set of previously unreleased music from the Shaft movies and TV show. Titled Shaft Anthology: His Big Score and More it includes the original soundtrack Issac Hayes composed for Shaft (not the rerecorded for LP version that has been available), as well as Gordon Parks’ Shaft’s Big Score and Johnny Pate’s music for the short lived Shaft TV show. FSM claims that the release is coincidental to Hayes’ recent death, and has been in the works for the last three years, and that music from Shaft in Africa had to be omitted due to licensing issues. The set will be limited to 3,000 copies.
