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I Am Spartacus

January 27, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Film score fans have had a lot to sing about in the past year or so. Thanks to the Herculean efforts of independent soundtrack labels, a lot of highly sought-after soundtracks that major labels would never think to release have been put on disc to the delight of fans everywhere. The Intrada label recently scored an enormous coup by releasing Alan Silvestri’s complete score to Back to the Future, La La Land Records recently pressed limited editions of James Newton Howard’s music for the film version of The Fugitive and the first-ever CD release of the Caddyshack soundtrack. And Film Score Monthly, which made one of the decade’s best box sets in Superman: The Music 1978-1988, has put out such recent fan faves as James Horner’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and John Williams’ Black Sunday, and (as previously posted) will be putting out a deluxe edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s Poltergeist later in the year.

But one cannot forget the score label that started it all: Varese Sarabande has been releasing new and old soundtracks since 1978, and are rapidly approaching their 1000th-title mark. For what seems like years, fans have speculated that the 1000th release will be the score to Spartacus, a classic soundtrack by Alex North and a favorite of label VP of Soundtracks and score producer Robert Townson.

Yesterday, the first semi-confirmations were issued.

Fellow composer Mark Isham recently posted a video of him conducting a tribute to North, and at the end revealed Varese’s plans to release a two-disc set of the score: one featuring the complete score as heard in the film, and another comprised of re-recordings by other famous composers.

Of course, as no official announcement has taken place yet, the video was quickly pulled. But Isham wasn’t done! In a series of tweets, he wrote:

Ok – I jumped the gun!! SPARTACUS hasn’t been officially announced yet – so it “doesn’t really exist” yet – video must come down for now –

-but it is a VERY cool project!!!!! Stay tuned!

Those missives quickly disappeared, too, but film score fans are quick on the draw (as such, big hat tip to the forums at the John Williams Fan Network, where I gleaned my info). So anyone excited over the revelation of Spartacus – a true classic of film scores – will not be disappointed this year.

As always, stay tuned to The Second Disc for updates on this and other great catalogue projects.

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Mike Duquette

Michael Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he discovered there was more than one version of John Williams' soundtrack to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, with bylines on catalog at Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Prince and credits on titles including the Grammy-winning 'Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic.' Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with an ever-expanding collection of music.

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  1. Sean Anglum says

    January 28, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    I wish Varese Sarabande would release the soundtrack to “Popeye.” It contains some great (and rare) music by Harry Nilsson and is sorely missing from Harry’s CD discography of available titles.

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    • Mike Duquette says

      January 28, 2010 at 2:06 pm

      Agreed! I’m also hoping Varese expands one of their most recent releases: Michael Giacchino’s score to the latest Star Trek film. Maybe with the recent uptick in Back to the Future music (thanks to Intrada), Varese could also expand their original release of BTTF Part III (maybe take a crack at Part II as well).

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