The end of the year always brings a deluge of news and releases for archival film score fans. While October is nearly over and has had its share of killer announcements, we'd first like to shine a light on some of the biggest titles released back in September!

La-La Land had a busy ninth month of the year, featuring a lot of other long-running partnerships and favorites from the label discography. First, there's the seventh and final release in the label's Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection product line. Here, all the music from the label's 2012 box set of music from the iconic sci-fi series has been broken out in smaller installments (all limited to 1701 copies), with new packaging by Goldwasser and new liner notes by Jeff Bond. The seventh set offers some of the most memorable music from original series composer Alexander Courage (including unaired pilot "The Cage" and first-produced regular episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before") plus notable episodes with scores by Gerald Fried ("Amok Time") and Sol Kaplan ("The Doomsday Machine").

La-La Land has also expanded another score from the Friday the 13th series: Harry Manfredini's music for the fifth gory installment, released in 1985. While the film was one of the least critically and commercially successful in the series, Manfredini's work for Jason Voorhees' latest bloody killing spree earned high marks from fans. This new, composer-approved remix by engineer Jerry Lambert features unissued material and a package by Goldwasser that features liner notes by producer/editor James Satterwhite. (Goldwasser and Satterwhite produced the disc, and Scott Saslow designed the album cover.) Finally, LLL's done a limited vinyl pressing of Nino Rota's film score to the 1972 classic The Godfather. Different from the original album presentation and originally released on CD for the film's 50th anniversary in 2022, the 2LP set is limited to 1500 copies apiece - half on black and white "tuxedo" vinyl, and half on cannoli cream and "Moe Green" discs.

Varese Sarabande recently issued two eclectic titles in their venerated, limited edition CD Club series. First up is John Debney's score to 1995's Sudden Death. Here, Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme (working again with Timecop director Peter Hyams) portrays a fire marshal for the Pittsburgh Civic Arena pitted against a group of terrorists who take the vice president hostage while he attends the final game of the Stanley Cup. Sure! Debney's percussive score is generously expanded beyond the original Varese album, and liner notes from Daniel Schweiger feature new quotes from composer and director. The other CD Club title is a premiere of a Jerry Goldsmith score to the twin-led psychological thriller The Other (1972). Considered one of the most offbeat horror works by the beloved composer, it's been restored to disc by mix/mastering engineer Chris Malone and producer Mike Matessino, complete with liner notes by Tim Grieving.

Over at Intrada comes an expanded latter-day Disney score and an obscure '80s thriller making its debut on CD. Though they'd had a successful partnership with Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures made a computer-animated flick of their own with 2000's Dinosaur, a dramatic tale of an Iguanodon raised by lemurs who joins a migrating herd after his home is destroyed by a meteor. (The project actually combined CGI dinosaur models with live-action background plates.) One of the top-grossing films of the year, the film earned applause for James Newton Howard's expressive score, using choral and orchestral flourishes and featuring a cue ("The Egg Travels") that became a mainstay of family film trailers. The 2CD program features the film score, unreleased extras and the film's original soundtrack album program, which ran nearly an hour. It's all presented from original multi-track masters, remixed by Chris Malone and assembled by Douglass Fake - one of the last projects the Intrada founder completed before his passing earlier this year.

Intrada has also prepped a premiere release from French composer Frédéric Talgorn: his very first film score to 1989's Edge of Sanity, a horrifying adaptation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde with a dash of Jack the Ripper mythology added for good measure. (Anthony Perkins, no stranger to playing psychotic killers in three Psycho films, led the cast.) Talgorn, a classically-trained composer/conductor, spun dark melodic themes for his first motion picture assignment - one that would open doors for him on assignments like Robot Jox (1992) and The Temp (1993) as well as music for the 1992 Olympics. He produces this album presentation, sourced from a recently-discovered DAT in his archive, with Doug Schwartz remastering.

Finally, the team at Music Box Records has recently remastered and expanded Gabriel Yared's score to The Talented Mr. Ripley for its 25th anniversary. This adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, written and directed by Anthony Minghella of The English Patient fame, stars Matt Damon as a charismatic con artist who enters a life of extravagance and mistaken identity with an American playboy in Italy. The knockout cast included Jude Law (in an Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning role), Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Yared's longtime collaboration with Minghella yielded this Oscar-nominated score, richly evoking its late '50s period theme and offering a haunting, suspenseful theme for its title character. (It was even set to lyrics for the film's soundtrack, as sung by the late Sinéad O'Connor.) This double-disc set includes a host of unreleased alternate cues and demos, plus 16 pages of liner notes by Daniel Schweiger that draw from new interviews with Yared, Minghella and editor Walter Murch. The set is limited to 2000 copies.

You can view the art and track lists below, with links to order each title.

 

Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection Vol. 7 (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1649, 2024 - original episodes broadcast 1966-1967)

All tracks previously released on La-La Land Records LLLCD-1701, 2012. * contains "Theme from Star Trek (TV Series)" by Alexander Courage and Gene Roddenberry

Disc 1

"The Cage" - music composed and conducted by Alexander Courage; Episode #1, rec. 1/22/1965 and originally unaired

1. Main Title * M10
2. Dr. Bartender * M11
3. Survivors M21
4. Prime Specimen/Bottled M22-30/M31
5. Probing/Monster Illusion/Monster Fight/The Kibitzers M41/M42/M43/M44
6. Long Look/Vina's Punishment M45/M51
7. Pike's Punishment M52
8. The Picnic M53
9. True Love M61
10. Vina's Dance M62
11. Torchy Girl/Under the Spell/Primitive Thoughts M63/M71/M72
12. Wrong Think M73
13. To Catch a T. M74
14. Going Up M75
15. Max's Factor M81
16. Who Was Eve? & End Credits * M82

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" - music composed and conducted by Alexander Courage; Episode #2, rec. 11/29/1965 • aired #3, 9/22/1966

17. Beyond the Pale (No Man Before)/Main Title M11/M12
18. Act 1 Card M13
19. Episode Titles M14
20. Force Field/Silver Orbs (Zooms Past) M15-20/M21
21. Crippled Ship M22
22. The Patient/Speedy Reader M23/M24
23. Some Corpse M31
24. Decision/Playtime/Megalomania/Stronger and Stronger/Hit the Button M32/M41/M42/M43/M44
25. On Delta Vega/Strangle by Wire M51/M52
26. When Your Eyes Have Turned to Silver M53
27. Instant Paradise M54
28. Power Mad/Situation Grave/Epilogue M61/M62/M63
29. End Title M64
30. End Credits M65

Disc 2

"Amok Time" - music composed and conducted by Gerald Fried; Episode #34, rec. 7/19/1967 • Aired #30, 9/15/1967

1. Main Title (2nd Season, Soprano Version, Enhanced Stereo; arr./cond. Courage) *
2. Enterprise */Prying M11/M12
3. Episode Title */Mr. Spock/Log * M13/M14/M14A
4. Deep Thought */Contrary Order/Prognosis/The Big Question/Message from T'Pring M15/M16-20/M16-20A/M21/M22/M23
5. Vulcan Biology/Pon Farr M24/M24A
6. More Soup * M26-30B
7. T'Pring M32
8. Vulcan * M33
9. Processional M34-40
10. The Challenge M41
11. War Sash M42
12. Ritual/To the Death M43/M44
13. The Ancient Combat/2nd Kroykah M51/M52/M52A
14. Remorse/Vulcan Logic/Marriage Counseling M53-60/M53-60A/M53-60B
15. Resignation */Lazarus Returned/Pig's Eye * M61/M62/M63

"The Doomsday Machine" - music composed and conducted by Sol Kaplan; Episode #35, rec. 8/30/1967 • Aired #35, 10/20/1967

16. Approach of the Enterprise */Distress Signal/The Ship Search */The Constellation M11/M12/M13/M13A
17. The Dead Ship */Going Aboard M14/M15
18. Commodore Matt Decker/The Crew That Was M16-20/M21
19. What is a Doomsday Machine?/The Planet Killer * M22/M23
20. Gaining Speed */The Strange Beam * M24/M25-30
21. No Casualties */Decker Takes Over M31/M32
22. The New Commander */The Approaching Killer * M33/M33A
23. Light Beams */Tractor Beam M34-40/M41
24. Violent Shakes * M42+M42A
25. Spock Takes Command */Decker's Foil/The Sneaky Commodore * M43/M51/M51A
26. Goodbye M. Decker * M52/M52A
27. Condolences */Power Drain * M53/M61
28. Kirk Does It Again * M62
29. One's Enough * M63

Additional Music/"Amok Time" Source Music

30. Approach of The Enterprise (Alternate)
31. Approach of The Enterprise (with Brass Sweetener)
32. One's Enough (Alternate)
33. More Soup (Alternate)
34. Resignation (Alternate)
35. Vulcan Lyre
36. Gong FX
37. Bells
38. Wind Chimes
39. End Title (2nd Season, Soprano Version, Enhanced Stereo; arr./cond. Courage) *

Harry Manfredini, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning - The Ultimate Cut (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1651, 2024 - original film released 1985)

1. Graveyard
2. Here Comes Jason!
3. Main Titles *
4. Arriving At Pinehurst
5. Tommy Scares Reggie/Tommy Watches
6. Vic Chops *
7. Roy Gets His Hands Dirty
8. Pete in the Woods
9. Flare/Pete in the Front Seat
10. Jason in the Mirror
11. Tommy Fights Eddie
12. Lana and Billy and You Know Who *
13. Tommy At the Window *
14. The Eyes Have It *
15. Drive to Demon's *
16. Tommy Meets Junior
17. Them Damn Enchiladas *
18. The Gang Waits While Heads Roll *
19. Robin Gets Ready for Dead
20. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies *
21. Pam and Reggie Meet "Jason"
22. Reckless to the Rescue
23. Chainsaw Pam
24. Tommy Confronts "Jason" *
25. Battle in the Barn *
26. Tommy's Dream *
27. Jason's Final Visit
28. End Titles
29. Heavy Metal Source
30. Punk Funk Source
31. "Ki-ki-ki...Ma-ma-ma..."

* previously unreleased/not used in film

Portions previously released on La-La Land Records box set LLLCD 1183, 2012

Nino Rota, The Godfather (Original Motion Picture Score) (La-La Land Records LLLLP 2010T/C, 2024 - original film released 1972) (Black/White "Tuxedo" / Cannoli Cream/Moe Green)

* not used in film ** contains material not used in film

LP 1

Side A

1. Main Title/Corleone Waltz #1
2. Hollywood *
3. The Horse's Head **
4. Sollozzo the Turk **/Luca Brasi
5. Christmas */Prelude to Murder *
6. The Aftermath
7. Bad News **
8. Bad Luck/Sicilian Message/Meditation *
9. The Halls of Fear (Extended Version) **

Side B

1. Michael's Decision **/The Waiting Game **
2. Armed and Ready **
3. Set the Meeting **/Michael Takes Over
4. The Pickup (Extended Version) *
5. The Getaway
6. Sicilian Pastorale **
7. Love Theme from The Godfather (Film Version)
8. Corleone Waltz #2 *
9. Apollonia
10. Sonny's Dead **

LP 2

Side C

1. Reunion **
2. Marry Me, Kay
3. Las Vegas Strip *
4. Too Little Time
5. The Baptism (Extended Version)
6. No Tears for Tessio **
7. The New Godfather (Film Version) *
8. Corleone Waltz #3 *
9. Finale
10. End Credits **

Side D

1. Main Title (Alternate)
2. Manhattan Serenade
3. The Horse's Head (Film Version)
4. Bad Luck (Alternate)
5. Set the Meeting (Alternate)
6. The Halls of Fear Pt. 1 (Film Version)
7. This Loneliness
8. Lucky
9. The Horse's Head (Trumpet Solo)
10. End Credits (Alternate)

All tracks previously released on La-La Land Records LLLCD 1610, 2022

John Debney, Sudden Death (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande VSD00869, 2024 - original film released 1995)

1. Sudden Death
2. Game Day/Roadblock/Grand theft Auto
3. Preparations
4. The Kitchen/Mrs. Ferrara Gets a Visitor/Badge Men
5. Loading Dock/Vice President Arrives/New Assistants
6. The Action/The Dome Again
7. Emergency Response
8. A Killing by the Numbers
9. Emily Sees
10. The Abduction of Emily
11. Kitchen Fight
12. Fight for the Bone
13. Phone's Dead/The Feone
14. Not Alone/Building Weapons
15. Vantage Point
16. The Roof/The Zamboni/A Dangerous Fireman
17. The Mayor Checks Out
18. The Sign/Le Dome
19. The Materials At Hand/The Meeting
20. Flame Thrower/Looking for Bombs
21. Locker Room Chase/Darren Sees Tyler
22. To Sudden Death
23. A Miracle/Scaling the Dome/Roof Fight
24. Through the Dome
25. Panic in the Arena
26. Foss's Escape Plan/Foss Flies Away
27. Foss Eats Ice
28. Sudden Death

Portions previously released as Varese Sarabande VSD-5663, 1995

Jerry Goldsmith, The Other (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande VSD00891, 2024 - original film released 1972)

1. Main Title ("The Other")
2. Summer Fun
3. The Apple Cellar
4. The Well
5. The Flight
6. The Finger and Free Admission
7. The Game
8. The Ice Truck
9. Alexandra
10. The Pond
11. Mother Knows
12. The Portrait
13. The Cemetery
14. The Casket
15. No More Games and A Visit with Mother
16. Angel of Fire
17. End Title ("The Other")
18. Oriental Source (Chan-Yu)
19. Main Title ("The Other" - Alternate)

Portions previously released on The Mephisto Waltz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Varese Sarabande VSD-5851, 1997 and Jerry Goldsmith At 20th Century Fox box set - Varese Sarabande VCL 0204 1028, 2004

James Newton Howard, Dinosaur (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Expanded Edition) (Intrada ISC 508, 2024 - original film released 2000)

Disc 1: Film score

1. Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds
2. The Attack
3. The Egg Travels
4. The Egg Hatches
5. Playing Monster
6. The Mating Ritual
7. The Meteor
8. Arrival on the Mainland
9. Raptors/Aladar Meets the Herd
10. Aladar Meets the Misfits (Film Version)
11. The Trek
12. Finding Water
13. Aladar and Neera
14. The Cave
15. Attack in the Cave
16. Neera Rescues the Orphans
17. A Dead End
18. Breakout/Comes with a Pool
19. Kron and Aladar Fight
20. Carnotaur Stand-Off
21. Epilogue

Disc 2: Extras and original soundtrack album (Tracks 7-22, released as Walt Disney Records 60672-7, 2000)

1. End Credits
2. Aladar Meets the Misfits (Alternate Ending)
3. The Trek (Alternate)
4. Enough for Everyone (Alternate)
5. End Credits - Version 2
6. End Credits - Version 3
7. Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds
8. The Egg Travels
9. Aladar & Neera
10. The Courtship
11. The End of Our Island
12. They're All Gone
13. Raptors/Stand Together
14. Across the Desert
15. Finding Water
16. The Cave
17. The Carnotaur Attack
18. Neera Rescues the Orphans
19. Breakout
20. It Comes with a Pool
21. Kron & Aladar Fight
22. Epilogue

Frederic Talgorn, Edge of Sanity (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 513, 2024 - original film released 1989)

1. Opening Scene
2. Main Title
3. Susannah Theme
4. Transformation
5. Hyde Walks in the Street
6. Frenzy
7. Meet Susannah
8. Blue Scene
9. Return from Picnic
10. Good Night, Henry
11. Maggie Climbs the Stairs
12. Maggie's Murder
13. Hyde Scribbles
14. Looking for a Murder
15. Visions from Nightmare
16. Looking for Susannah
17. Murder of Frank's Prostitute
18. Jekyll and Elisabeth on the Stairs
19. Hallucination
20. Elisabeth Finds the Scribbles
21. Looking for Jekyll
22. In the Attic
23. End Titles
24. End Credits
25. Opening Scene (Alternate Performance/Mix)
26. Hallucination (Alternate Performance/Mix)
27. At the Bordello (Source)
28. In the Tavern (Source)
29. Jekyll's Waltz (Source)

Gabriel Yared, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 25th Anniversary Edition) (Music Box Records MBR-236, 2024 - original film released 1999)

Disc 1: Film score

1. Lullaby for Cain - Sinéad O'Connor
2. Italia
3. I Hate You
4. No, I Like Him
5. Italia (Part 2)
6. Promise
7. Syncopes
8. Marge Maintenance
9. Silvana's Body
10. Last Trip
11. Heartbreak
12. Lost Love
13. Cain & Abel
14. Syncopes (Part 2)
15. Mischief
16. Opera Intermission
17. Meredith Meets Marge
18. As If That Makes Sense
19. Killing Freddie
20. Dumping Freddie's Body
21. Syncopes (Part 3)
22. Ripley
23. Nightmare/Dickie's Rings
24. Suitable Instrument
25. You're Shivering
26. Just Kidding
27. Huis-clos
28. Syncopes (Part 4)
29. End Title
30. Lullaby in D Minor

Disc 2: Extras

1. Italia
2. Crazy Tom
3. Mischief
4. Ripley
5. Proust
6. Promise
7. Syncopes
8. Lullaby for Cain (Opera Version) - MaryAnn McCormick & Toni Manoli
9. Italia (Alternate)
10. Heartbreak (Alternate)
11. Lost Love (Alternate Mix)
12. Venezia (#1)
13. Mischief (Alternate)
14. Killing Freddie (Alternate)
15. Promise (English Horn Version)
16. Mischief (Alternate #2)
17. You're Shivering (Alternate)
18. Venezia (#2)
19. Ripley (Alternate)
20. Lost Love (Alternate)
21. Crazy Tom (Alternate)
22. Lullaby for Cain (Instrumental)
23. Ripley (Main Theme) (Demo)
24. You're Shivering (Demo)
25. Italia (Sailing) (Demo)
26. Promise (Demo)
27. Crazy Tom (Demo)

Disc 1, Track 1 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-7 released on Sony Classical SK 51337, 1999