A key premiere from one of the most popular composers in recent memory and a fan favorite score to a divisive blockbuster are among the newest catalogue film score titles released this month.

The estate of the late James Horner (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar) has made a considerable push in recent years to unlock many of his rarer film scores from the studio vaults. Their latest collaboration with Intrada is one of the most notable yet: Horner's short but pivotal work on the 1979 drama The Lady in Red marked his first film credit ever. The film, written by John Sayles, starred Pamela Sue Martin as a woman who gets mixed up in the seedy underworld of Chicago during the Great Depression, including run-ins with the notorious real-life gangster John Dillinger (Robert Conrad). Horner's score reflected the jazz styles of the period, complete with quotations of Harry Warren and Al Dubin's immortal "42nd Street," from the film of the same name. This historic score was sourced from 2″ 16-track 30 ips session masters and newly mixed to stereo (the original film was in mono). If you're a fan of Horner, this is one to pick up.

Elsewhere, BuySoundtrax is reissuing one of their great '90s score presentations: David Arnold's music to the 1998 reimagining of Godzilla. The timing couldn't be better: Toho's legendary kaiju celebrates his 70th anniversary on screen this year; the Japanese studio's most recent film, 2023's Godzilla Minus One, scored an Oscar for its visual effects, and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire - the latest in Toho and Legendary Pictures' American "MonsterVerse" series, is imminently arriving in theaters.

The world was a different place more than 25 years ago, when Toho reluctantly allowed Sony Pictures to make its own version of the creature for U.S. audiences. Created by writer Dean Devlin and writer/director Roland Emmerich - the duo behind the blockbusters Stargate and Independence Day - this film featured a radically-redesigned version of the nuclear-powered beast threatening New York, with a ragtag ensemble cast (including Matthew Broderick, The Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria and French thespian Jean Reno) doing their best to stop the effects-heavy threat. Godzilla was punctuated by a marketing campaign that kept the new look of the titular character a secret and a multi-quadrant, various artists soundtrack that featured fan favorites by The Wallflowers (a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes") and rapper Puff Daddy (whose "Come with Me" sampled Led Zeppelin's "Kashimir," with Jimmy Page recording new guitar parts).

While the film was a commercial success, it was regarded with contempt by critics and fans. (Toho even addressed this in 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars, where the Big G easily takes down a poorly computer-generated version of the 1998 creature known as "Zilla.") One of the few bright spots, however, was David Arnold's score. The British composer made his mark on Devlin and Emmerich's Stargate and Independence Day, and started his dream gig the year before as the composer for the James Bond film series. His bold themes and cues worked well in and out of the movie and have been fan favorites ever since La-La Land Records first released them in 2007. BSX expanded that label's offering five years later, adding a few alternate cues as well as a third disc featuring an album presentation of Arnold's material, sent to Oscar voters but never commercially released. That long out-of-print presentation is back on the market, with new liner notes by David Hirsch. It's limited to 3000 copies.

The track list and order links for both titles are below!

James Horner, The Lady in Red (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 503, 2024 - original film released 1979)

All tracks previously unreleased

1. Theme from The Lady in Red
2. Main Title Music - 42nd Street
3. First Bank Robbery
4. Now That You Know
5. Lonely
6. The Garden Party
7. 42nd Street - Juke Box Source
8. Playing Baseball
9. Love Theme (Film Version)
10. California
11. Laying the Trap - Part 1
12. Laying the Trap - Part 2
13. Dillinger's Death #1
14. Dillinger's Death #2
15. Polly's Slap
16. The Getaway
17. Eddie's Goodbye
18. Pop's Death
19. 42nd Street - The Eggs
20. End Title
21. Love Theme - Postlude
22. Oriental Blues

David Arnold, Godzilla (Original Motion Picture Score - The Ultimate Edition) (originally released as BuySoundtrax BSXCD-8916, 2012; repressed 2024 - original film released 1998)

Disc 1: Film score

1. The Beginning
2. Tanker Gets It
3. Chernobyl
4. Footprint
5. Footprints/New York/Audrey
6. Chewing Gum Nose
7. Ship Reveal/Nick Discovers Fish/Flesh
8. The Boat Gets It
9. Dawn of the Species
10. Joe Gets a Bite/Godzilla Arrives
11. Mayor's Speech
12. Caiman's Office
13. Animal's Camera
14. Military Command Center/New Jersey
15. Audrey's Idea
16. Evacuation
17. French Coffee
18. Subway Damage/Command Enters City
19. Fish
20. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
21. 1st Helicopter Chase/Godzilla Swats a Chopper
22. We Fed Him/Audrey Sees Nick
23. Nick and Audrey/He's Pregnant/Audrey Takes The Tape/French Breakfast
24. He's Preparing to Feed
25. Nick Gets Fired/Abducted/Frenchie's Warehouse/Nick Joins the Foreign Legion

Disc 2: Film score continued (1-11) and extras (12-20)

1. Chewing Gum
2. Rumble in the Tunnel
3. Godzilla Park/Godzilla Takes a Dive/Godzilla Versus the Submarine/Egg Discovery
4. Baby 'Zillas Hatch
5. Nick Phones for Help
6. Eat the French
7. Phillip Shoots the Lock
8. Nick's Big Speech/The Garden Gets It
9. He's Back!/Taxi Chase & Clue
10. Big G Goes to Monster Heaven
11. The End
12. Logo #3
13. The Beginning (no choir)
14. The Boat Gets It (alt.)
15. Footprints/New York/Audrey (alt.)
16. Evacuation (alt.)
17. The Garden Gets It (alt.) (3:03)
18. Big G Goes to Monster Heaven (alt.)
19. Godzilla (Solo Piano)
20. Gojira (Album Version)

Disc 1 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-11, 13-15 and 20 originally released as La-La Land Records LLLCD 1058, 2007

Disc 3: Score album (released as TriStar Pictures promo (no cat. #), 1998)

1. Gojira Opening Titles
2. Dawn of the Species
3. Joe Arrives
4. Leaving Manhattan
5. Subterranea
6. Warnings/Fish Bait
7. It's Alive!!
8. Audrey Steals the Tape
9. Nick Gets Fired
10. Foreign Help
11. The Babies
12. Final Encounter
13. Taxi Chase
14. Brooklyn Bridge
15. Finale