Release Round-Up: From Chicago to the White House

March 4, 2010 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Rhino Handmade has announced its latest title, the first-ever true quadraphonic release of The Chicago Transit Authority, the 1969 debut LP by Chicago. Featuring hits like “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Questions 67 and 68,” this DVD release includes the entire album presented in four discrete channels of sound. Order it here and have a go at a demo of “quadio” over here.
A couple of soundtrack tidbits coming up. First up, new releases from La La Land Records have been announced for sale March 9. Marc Shaiman’s score to the Michael Keaton/Geena Davis comedy Speechless (1994) and Miles Goodman’s score to the hilarious Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1987) are both making their CD debuts at 1200 copies each.
Elsewhere, it was confirmed that Film Score Monthly will soon release a five-disc box set devoted to the work of Lalo Schifrin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible and four of the five Dirty Harry films). No details about which works will be included have been announced.
Finally, a well-known, well-liked modern-day composer has hinted that one of his most-requested scores will see an expanded release soon. David Arnold, best known as the current composer for the James Bond films, tweeted that the complete score to Independence Day (1996) is “happening now…should be ready in a month or two.” He later added that La La Land Records would be the label that would release it, referring to their previous expansion of his score to the 1998 American version of Godzilla. “[T]hink its the same people who did [G]odzilla. [N]o other releases as far as [I] know,” he wrote.

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. 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, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.