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A new month kicks off with a bonanza of soundtrack reissues from La-La Land and Intrada – including more planned activity from the world of James Bond.

La-La Land has made three archival titles available for sale from yesterday (June 1). First is a vinyl edition of their remastered CD of John Barry’s score to Goldfinger. The third James Bond film (and the second to be scored by the British composer/arranger) scored big with the series’ first-ever title theme, co-written by Barry, Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse and sung with paint-peeling gusto by Shirley Bassey. It’s now a key part of the formula when putting Ian Fleming’s literary secret agent on film to this day. While La-La Land’s CD (produced by Neil S. Bulk, restored by Chris Malone and remastered by Doug Schwartz) turned up little in the way of unissued material, it did properly put every cue – including a few that were first available only on U.K. pressings of the LP – in chronological order. That program is replicated here for vinyl, available in two gold color variants: a “Fort Knox bullion” edition, available from the label and limited to 700 copies, and a “body paint” version available at the official James Bond store at only 300 copies. Bond score authority Jon Burlingame has penned liner notes for the eight-page booklet in the gatefold packaging designed by Jim Titus. (Variety broke the news of this set last week, also revealing that LLL is still very much in the Bond music business after expanding or reissuing six Bond scores since 2024 alone. This summer will see some sort of remastered reissue on CD of Barry’s score to 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, with 2LP editions of his scores to The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and Moonraker (1979) also on the way – the plan being to make sure “the fans have something to look forward to every six weeks or so.”)

Next available from La-La Land is a sequel to their first 4CD set of archival scores from Western films released by Paramount, first issued in 2019. Union Pacific – The Paramount Westerns Collection, Vol. 2 offers another four CDs with selections from scores to more than a dozen classics and favorites of the genre, released between 1939 and 1968. Only a few – Cyril Mockridge’s score to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Elmer Bernstein’s work for Tin Star among them – have ever been released before, and even those boast unreleased material and new restoration from engineer Chris Malone. John Takis and Frank K. DeWald have produced the set and penned its liner notes, with Dan Goldwasser designing the package to match its predecessor (which was, like this one, limited to 1000 copies).

La-La Land’s last archival score of the month is another in their “Ultimate Cut” series of remixed and remastered scores to the classic slasher series Friday the 13th. This time, the score to 1986’s Part VI – Jason Lives is on display, marking composer Harry Manfredini’s sixth score accompanying Jason Voorhees’ hockey mask-sporting, machete-wielding marches of terror. (He’d co-compose follow-up Part VII – The New Blood and returned after a one-film absence for 1993’s Jason Goes to Hell – The Final Friday and 2002’s Jason X.) Co-producers Dan Goldwasser and Brian Satterwhite and their team (restoration and mix by Matthew Crawford; assembly, edit and liner notes by Satterwhite; mastering by James Nelson; art direction by Goldwasser with cover art by Scott Saslow) promise another bloody good time with all the “ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma”s you’d expect plus some unearthed, unreleased material not available on previous reissues. Though not marketed as a limited title, the label will offer copies autographed by the composer while supplies last. (La-La Land will also release two physical editions of scores to new films in series’ they’ve had long ties to, available to order later this month. Those scores are Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey’s score to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Dominic Lewis’ music to Karate Kid Legends.)

Recent weeks have offered a pair of archival score releases from Intrada as well. First up is Michael Kamen’s swashbuckling work on The Three Musketeers. A loose, Disney-produced adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, this go-round was a sort of Young Guns take on the material, with two of that film’s stars, Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland, drawing swords along Oliver Platt and Chris O’Donnell as aspiring musketeer D’Artagnan. (Tim Curry and Rebecca de Mornay co-starred.) Kamen’s rollicking work recalls that of his pop epic score to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves two years earlier; this film also has a power ballad of a theme co-created by Kamen and Robert John “Mutt” Lange. “All for Love” was, appropriately, sung by three vocalists: a returning Bryan Adams, labelmate Sting and British icon Rod Stewart. While the film was a critical failure, the song was an unlikely chart-topper in America – perplexingly, Sting’s only No. 1 hit as a soloist. Intrada’s 2CD program offers the original edited soundtrack release (complete with “All for Love”) as well as an expanded score presentation remixed by Bruce Botnick (who co-produces with Neil S. Bulk). John Takis writes the liner notes.

Finally, having just successfully fan-funded another score re-recording project, the fruits of their latest are now available on CD. Here, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Adam Clemens and reconstructed and recorded by Leigh Phillips) has recorded new takes on a trio of unavailable TV movie scores by renowned composer Jerry Goldsmith: The People Next Door (1968), Pursuit (1972) and Crawlspace (1972). These short but diverse and thematic works are accompanied by new notes by Jon Burlingame, with cue-specific notes by Yavar Moradi of The Goldsmith Odyssey podcast.

Full order links and track lists for all scores are below from the respective labels!

John Barry, Goldfinger (Music from the Motion Picture) (La-La Land Records LLLLP 2011, 2025 – original film released 1964) (Fort Knox bullion variant / Body Paint variant)

Side A

1. Goldfinger (Main Title) – Shirley Bassey
2. Into Miami
3. Golden Girl
4. Alpine Drive – Auric’s Factory
5. Death of Tilly
6. Oddjob’s Pressing Engagement
7. The Laser Beam

Side B

1. Bond Back in Action Again
2. Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus
3. Teasing the Korean
4. Gassing the Gangsters
5. Goldfinger (Instrumental)
6. Dawn Raid on Fort Knox
7. The Arrival of the Bomb and Countdown
8. The Death of Goldfinger – End Titles

Tracks A1-2, 4, 6 and B1, 3-4 and 6-8 released on all original pressings of soundtrack
Tracks A3, 5 and 7 and B2 released only on U.K. pressings – United Artists SULP 1076, 1964
Track B5 released only on U.S. pressings – United Artists UAS 5117, 1964

Various Artists, Union Pacific – The Paramount Westerns Collection, Vol. 2 (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1668, 2025)

Disc 1

John Leipold, Victor Young, Leo Shuken & Charles Bradshaw, Union Pacific (1939) *

1. Union Pacific Prelude
2. John Brown’s Body (Traditional)/First Westward Push
3. Paddy’s Death
4. Mollie and Dick
5. Clementine (Saloon Orchestra) (Traditional)
6. The Rescue Train
7. Monahan’s Death/Farewell to Mollie
8. Beginning of Golden Spike Ceremony/The Spike Driving
9. Union Pacific Finale/Cast

Daniele Amfitheatrof, The Virginian (1946) *

10. The Virginian Prelude
11. The Challenge
12. Just a Stray
13. Trouble Ahead
14. The Hanging
15. Trampas Threatens
16. A Windy Murder and Finale

Manos Hadjidakis, Blue (portions previously released on Dot DLP 25855, 1968)

17. Paramount Opening Seal
18. Blue Main Title (The River)
19. The Cave
20. Ortega’s Initiative for the Fourth of July
21. The Mexicans Cross the River
22. Blue’s Memories/Mexican Coup
23. The Mexicans in the Village/Antonio Falls Dead
24. Blue’s Operation
25. Ortega and Blue
26. Nocturne
27. Scherzo/Have a Do
28. Morning After Love
29. Jess and Blue
30. Ortega’s Vow/Blue’s Solitude
31. Preparation of the Villagers
32. Nocturne (Reprise)/Blue and Joanne Near the River
33. The Mexicans Are Coming
34. The Death of Blue
35. Blue Cast
36. The Cave #2
37. The Cave #3 (Domingo De Ronda)
38. Blue Main Title (The River) (Alternate)
39. Ortega’s Initiative for the Fourth of July (Alternate)
40. Blue’s Operation (Alternate)

Disc 2

Victor Young, California (1947) *

1. California Prelude/Covered Wagon
2. Lily Evicted
3. El Capotín (Traditional)
4. Patio Waltz/Trumbo Loses Lily/Fabian is Drafted
5. Treachery
6. Pike Slugs Lily (Gerard Carbonara)
7. The Attack (Gerard Carbonara)
8. California Finale
9. Buffalo Gals/Rosa Lee (Traditional arr. Charles Bradshaw)

Victor Young, The Paleface (1948) *

10. The Paleface Prelude
11. Jane Gets Her Man
12. Marry Me, Stupid
13. Ominous Sunset
14. Oh, That Kiss Again
15. Painless Potter Rides Again
16. The Chase
17. The Paleface Finale and Cast
18. Indian Drums

Cyril Mockridge, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962 – Tracks 19-26, 28-30 and 32-35 released on Kritzerland KR 20028-4, 2014)

19. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Main Title
20. Cactus Rose
21. Sad Reunion/Overland Stage
22. Music of the Bars/Four Little White Doves (Traditional)
23. A Shapely Student/A Rose for Hallie
24. The Pen and the Sword
25. Carmela (Traditional)
26. Tears and Tenderness
27. Fumare/Marianina (Traditional) *
28. Langhorne Brass Band/Langhorne Bugle Band
29. Tom Shot Liberty
30. Cactus Rose Again/Finale
31. Liberty of the Press (Jarabe Tapatío – Traditional) *
32. Band Medley (Langhorne is Nominated/Stoddard is Nominated/The Last of Tom)
33. Guitar Medley (Tom’s Adios/Peabody’s Shadow/Jarabe Tapatío)
34. Saloon Medley (Sweet Genevieve/Saloon Music/Whiskey Bottle/After Election Pts. 1 & 2/Shinbone SaloonSaloon Piano Sweetener)
35. Utility Drum Track
36. Camptown Races (Stephen Foster)/Solomon Levi (Fred Seaver) (Unused) *

Disc 3

Franz Waxman, Red Mountain (1952)

1. Red Mountain Main Title/Opening Sequence
2. The Stranger
3. Night Scene/An Unguarded Moment
4. Brett’s Soliloquy/Lane Falls Asleep/Chris Takes the Watch
5. Morning Scene
6. Brett Relieves Skee
7. Wishful Thinking/Bridge to Cave
8. The Operation/Quantrill’s Blind Spot
9. Escape and Chase
10. Red Mountain Finale and End Title
11. The Operation (Alternate Segment)

Nathan Van Cleave, The Lonely Man (1957 – Tracks 12-28 released on Kritzerland KR 20023-8, 2014)

12. Paramount Seal
13. The Lonely Man Prelude (Instrumental)
14. The Prodigal Father
15. Burn and Beware
16. The Trek, Part 1/The Cold Deck
17. The Trek, Parts 2 & 3
18. Scorned At the Stable/Hate Makes Him Evil
19. The White Stallion/Ada’s Advice
20. Losing the Stallion
21. Signs of Blindness
22. Still the Boss
23. The Informer/The Canvas Corral/Fist Fight At the Canvas Corral
24. Something to Think About/Into a Trap
25. Then There Were Two/To the Rescue with Love
26. The Deserted Bonanza
27. Tension At the Bonanza
28. Death At the Bonanza/The Finale
29. The Trek (Film Segment) *
30. The Trek (Alternate Segment) *
31. The Finale (Harmonica Overlay) *

Disc 4

Elmer Bernstein, Tin Star (1957 – Tracks 2-10, 12, 14-15, 17-18 and 20-21 released on Kritzerland KR 20016-8, 2011)

1. Paramount Seal (Nathan Van Cleave) *
2. The Tin Star Prelude/A Stranger in Town
3. Bounty Hunter
4. Morg Meets Nona
5. Kip’s Half-Injun
6. Morg Saves Ben
7. The McGaffey Brothers
8. Good Indian
9. An Ex-Sheriff
10. Stagecoach
11. New Hoss *
12. New Patient
13. Ed Goes After Doc *
14. Last Report
15. Kip Follows Posse
16. Morg Goes After Kip *
17. Morg Captures McGaffeys
18. Bringing ‘Em Back Alive/Joyous Reunion
19. Posse Returns *
20. Ready for Action/Dead Silence
21. Finale
22. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow (Traditional, arr. Van Cleave) *
23. Last Report (Alternate) *

The Paramount Corral *

1. Texas Rangers Ride Again Prelude/Rangers’ Entrance/Final Scene & End Title – John Leipold (1940)
2. Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die Prelude/Clanton’s Ranch/Clanton’s Loud-Mouthing/End Title & Cast – Gerard Carbonara (1942)
3. Whispering Smith Prelude/Prelude (Alternate)/Wounded/Cast – Adolph Deutsch (1948)
4. Whispering Smith Cast (Alternate) – Adolph Deutsch (1948)
5. The Redhead and the Cowboy Prelude/The Chase/Foiled/Jeffers’ Heroism/Cast – David Buttolph (1950)
6. Paramount Seal (Nathan Van Cleave)/Run for Cover Main Title (Edit) /Narrow Escape/Finale – Howard Jackson (1955)

Harry Manfredini, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives – The Ultimate Cut (La-La Land LLLCD 1666, 2025 – original film released 1986)

* previously unreleased
** previously unreleased/not used in film
+ not used in film

1. The Cemetery/Coffins and Maggots and Worms–Oh My!
2. Oops! There Goes the Neighborhood!/Here We Go Again (Opening Titles)
3. He Only Takes Visa
4. The Caretaker *
5. The Kids Are Here +
6. The Survivalists
7. Armed and Dangerous
8. Does He Think I’m a Fart-Head? +
9. Darling, You’re Gonna Be the Death of Me
10. Let’s Play Camp Blood
11. She Saw a Monster
12. If the RV is a Rockin’ Come a Knockin’ +
13. RV for Sale–Good Radio +
14. Megan Balances Business with Pleasure
15. Happy Friday the 13th
16. Try Not to Wake the Kids
17. Scare Them Right Back
18. Paula Feels the Tension *
19. You Drive, Hot Lips/Say a Little Prayer
20. The Gang’s All Here
21. I Wanna Hold Your Head/Jason Takes a Dip +
22. Water, Fire and Brimstone *
23. Rescue
24. Final Scene *
25. Water, Fire and Brimstone (Alternate) +
26. Final Scene (Alternate) +
27. Coffins and Maggots and Worms–Oh My! (w/o Synth Overlay) **
28. Scare Them Right Back (w/o “Ki-ki-ki…Ma-ma-ma…”) **
29. Jason Takes a Dip (w/o Synth Overlay) **
30. Final Scene (Alternate Bed Track) **

Portions previously released on La-La Land Records box set LLLCD 1183, 2012 and La-La Land Records LLLCD 1513, 2019

Michael Kamen, The Three Musketeers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Expanded Edition) (Intrada ISC 519, 2025 – original film released 1993)

Disc 1: Film score

1. The Cavern of Cardinal Richelieu (Film Version)
2. My Sister’s Honor
3. D’Artagnan (Intended Film Version – Unused)
4. Musketeers Disbanded
5. Enter the Cardinal
6. Windmill
7. D’Artagnan Meets Constance
8. God’s Often Busy
9. Palace Gate/For Me and for France
10. Chandelier
11. D’Artagnan Meets the Musketeers/The Ruins Fight
12. Last Rites
13. The Dungeon
14. Cardinal and Milady
15. D’Artagnan Discovered/Now We’ll Never Know
16. Beheading
17. Carriage Chase
18. Into the Sunset
19. Athos’s Story
20. Musketeers Ride
21. Cannonballs (Film Version)
22. Talk of Love
23. Affairs of State/Athos Cornered
24. Rumors
25. D’Artagnan and Milady
26. Ship Fight
27. Athos and Milady
28. Milady in Jail

Disc 2: Film score continued, extras and original album

1. Musketeer Montage/Spotting the Gun
2. Brass Fanfare
3. Race to the Gun/Courtyard Battle
4. Saving the King/Throne Room Battle
5. The Musketeers Search for the King
6. Porthos and Ugly/D’Artagnan Defeats Rochefort
7. The Fourth Musketeer (Unused Choir Version)
8. My Sister’s Honor (Unused Alternate)
9. D’Artagnan (Unused Alternate)
10. Tavern Source
11. All For Love – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
12. The Cavern of Cardinal Richelieu (Overture – Passacaille)
13. D’Artagnan (Galliard & Air)
14. Athos, Porthos And Aramis (Courante)
15. Sword Fight (Bransle)
16. King Louis XIII, Queen Anne and Constance – Lady in Waiting (Gavotte)
17. The Cardinal’s Coach (Estampie)
18. Cannonballs (Rigadoon)
19. M’Lady DeWinter (Lament)
20. The Fourth Musketeer (Concert Royaux)

Disc 2, Tracks 11-20 released as Hollywood HR-61581-2, 1993

Jerry Goldsmith, Pursuit / Crawlspace / The People Next Door (New Recordings of the Television Scores) (Intrada INT 7184, 2025)

All tracks conducted by Adam Klemens and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Music from Pursuit (ABC, 1972)

1. Meet Mr. Wright
2. A Little Scuba
3. Get Me a Lawyer
4. Known Identity
5. Stakeout
6. A Paint Job
7. The Find
8. Get the President
9. The Arrest
10. Breakout
11. Gas Leak
12. A Desperate Act
13. Get the Sniffer
14. The Aftermath
15. Breakout (Alternate)

Music from CBS Playhouse: The People Next Door (CBS, 1968)

16. Main Title
17. Bad Trip
18. No Respect
19. A Bad Time
20. Sleepless Night/The Stethoscope
21. The East Village
22. STP Overdose
23. The Stash
24. A Difficult Choice
25. Recognition
26. A Father’s Rage
27. End Credits

Music from Crawlspace (CBS, 1972)

28. Main Title
29. Uninvited Guest
30. The Box
31. Open Door
32. Investigation
33. Locked Out
34. Return Home
35. A Little Advice/Christmas Dinner
36. More Lies
37. The Grocery Store
38. The Woods
39. Not Guilty
40. Bumper to Bumper
41. The Note
42. Broken Loom
43. The Captives
44. Angry Richard/Quiet Night
45. The Axe
46. Final Act