Soundtrack Watch: Varese, La-La Land, Quartet Wrap Up the Year with Goldsmith, Bernstein, Mancini, Zimmer and More

January 12, 2026 By Mike Duquette — 1 Comment

The last calendar page of the year (and, in this case, even the first!) means a bounty of soundtrack reissues! La-La Land Records, Varese Sarabande and Quartet have all recently planned some exciting expansions for your favorite score collector.

La-La Land may have claimed that they were “serving coal” this year, with a lot of their typically big end-of-year titles stuck in approval delays – but they still prepared two late-period favorites from two classic film composers (plus an exciting vinyl title for James Bond fans) before kicking off January with two more notable expanded CD sets. Their releases for the new year kicked off with a 35th anniversary restoration of Carmine Coppola’s score The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. After the acclaimed pair of 1972 and 1974 films based on Mario Puzo’s novel took home a total of nine Oscars (including the first Best Picture wins for an original film and its sequel), co-writer/director Francis Ford Coppola reluctantly took up Paramount’s offer for a third film to alleviate financial difficulties after a series of unsuccessful films. This time, aging Mafia don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) attempts to make his business empire legitimate, but the appearance of an illegitimate family member forces him to reckon with his sins – and perhaps endure even more pain. Originally released in 1990 and originally titled The Godfather Part III, the film was a success but maligned by some for its plot (based on real-life scandals in the Catholic Church); only with the release of a slightly recut version in 2020 – with a version of the title Coppola wanted to call the film – did it get another, more favorable look.

After masterful presentations of Nino Rota’s scores to the first two films, La-La Land has pulled out all the stops for a Godfather Coda reissue. Carmine Coppola, the director’s father who worked with Rota on the preceding films, took over sole scoring duties (Rota died in 1979); his balance of classic themes (including re-recordings of cues from the original film) with new material was a particular highlight of the picture. “Promise Me You’ll Remember,” a vocal love theme performed by Harry Connick, Jr., earned the film one of its seven Academy Award nominations. The 3CD set includes a full score presentation, a disc of alternates and unreleased material, and the original remastered soundtrack album. Neil S. Bulk and Dan Goldwasser produce this Coppola-approved set, featuring new mixes on the first two discs by Chris Malone and all remastered (from original digital recording and album master sources) by Doug Schwartz. Tim Grieving pens new liner notes in a package designed by Goldwasser; The Godfather Coda is limited to 3000 copies.

La-La Land’s second January release is Don Davis’ pivotal score to Bound, a scintillating neo-noir written and directed by Lana and Lily Wachowski in their feature debuts. The film starred Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon as unlikely lovers plotting a heist in the criminal underworld. Davis, a longtime composer for television who’d recently broke into film, enhanced the highly-stylized film with a lively score and birthed a fruitful partnership that continued into the Wachowskis’ blockbuster action trilogy The Matrix (1999) and its two 2003 sequels. Davis co-produced this release with Dan Goldwasser (who again designs the package), including a new recording by pianist Jenny Lin of a concert arrangement of themes from Davis’ music. Mastering is by James Nelson, with liner notes by Daniel Schweiger; the disc is limited to 1000 copies.

Released in December by LLL was their debut presentation of the score to Devil in a Blue Dress, composed by Elmer Bernstein. The 1995 film was based on a book series by Walter Mosley, featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator in the spirit of Philip Marlowe, solving crimes in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Acclaimed actor Denzel Washington played Easy here, with a notable supporting turn by a young Don Cheadle as Easy’s associate Raymond “Mouse” Alexander. Bernstein’s score was excerpted on the original soundtrack album, which prominently featured vintage jazz cues of the age; the original music recalls that scintillating style with the kind of dramatic scoring work Bernstein had long been known for. Neil S. Bulk produces this CD release, featuring mastering by Doug Schwartz, liner notes by Jeff Bond and art direction by Dan Goldwasser; it’s limited to 2000 copies.

LLL’s next late winter release was a restoration of a light action favorite from Jerry Goldsmith: his score to the 1985 adaptation of King Solomon’s Mines. The debut of 19th century English adventurer Allan Quartermain, depicted in H. Rider Haggard’s novel and its spin-offs, was adapted as a take on the Indiana Jones films, which were partially inspired by Haggard’s work. Goldsmith scores the campy action – led by Richard Chamberlain as Quartermain and Sharon Stone as his sidekick/love interest – with typical aplomb, and the presentation here has never sounded better. Producer Bulk and mastering engineer Mike Matessino have finally delivered an ultimate version of the score, reissued many times since its original release 40 years ago but often played at incorrect speeds on those old releases. This 2CD presentation, limited to just 1000 copies, features hi-res stereo transfers of the score as well as the original soundtrack album, preserved on a 1/4″ stereo master prepared by engineer Mike Ross-Trevor. Jeff Bond pens illustrative liner notes, while Scott Saslow’s art direction offers two covers on the front and back of the booklet!

Finally, another 007 heavy-hitter recently made its way to vinyl from the label: John Barry’s score to Moonraker. This 1979 sci-fi-fueled James Bond adventure, starring Roger Moore in his fourth outing as Ian Fleming’s iconic secret agent character, features a beloved score by John Barry whose deluxe release in 2024 was a revelation for collectors. Presented on two “Operation Orchid” color LPs and limited to 700 copies, this vinyl edition features the complete film score presentation from last year’s CD release, plus a side of five bonus tracks, including an early version of the title theme (which would ultimately be sung by Dame Shirley Bassey) that features lyrics and vocals by Paul Williams! Jon Burlingame’s notes are presented in an eight-page booklet designed, along with its gatefold jacket, by Jim Titus.

Varese Sarabande’s long-running CD Club recently offered two more action favorite scores from the ’90s and ’00s – both of which will begin shipping this month. First up is another Jerry Goldsmith title, 1992’s Medicine Man. Director John McTiernan of Die Hard fame reunited with his The Hunt for Red October co-star Sean Connery for this adventure film about a pair of researchers (Connery and Lorraine Bracco) on the trail of a cure for cancer in the Amazon rainforest. Though savaged by critics as a film, Goldsmith’s score – a hybrid of orchestral bombast, synthesized elements and even electric guitar – was treasured by fans. Here it’s expanded by co-producers Cary Mansfield and Mike Matessino (who also remasters), with Tim Grieving offering new liner notes.

Goldsmith was ironically the first choice for Varese’s second title, the 2003 adventure flick Timeline; it was ultimately scored by Brian Tyler, whose version gets the deluxe treatment more than two decades later. (Goldsmith’s incomplete version was released a year later, just after his passing; Tyler, who’s since scored several Fast & Furious films, a few Marvel pictures and even the delightful animated flick The Super Mario Bros. Movie, would ironically rearrange Goldsmith’s fanfare for Universal Pictures in the version heard in theaters today.) Based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name and directed by Richard Donner (whose The Omen featured a legendary Goldsmith score), Timeline features a ragtag team of archaeology and history students (including the late Paul Walker of the Fast franchise and future action-film mainstay Gerard Butler) on a time-bending quest to rescue their professor (Billy Connolly) from a teleporter accident gone wrong that’s trapped him in medieval France. Tyler’s expanded and resequenced score is a fine tribute to Goldsmith’s style, with impeccable mixing by Greg Hayes and mastering by Chas Ferry and Melinda Hurley.

Finally from Quartet, we’ve got a December quintet of score reissues: three high-quality reissues and two exciting premieres. First up, and seasonally appropriate, is a new release of Henry Mancini’s score to Santa Claus: The Movie. The 1985 big-budget epic, produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind (who’d wrapped up a trio of Superman films starring Christopher Reeve) and directed by Jeannot Szwarc (who’d helmed JAWS 2 and the Salkinds-produced Supergirl), is an unlikely combination: an origin story for the jolly old Christmas toymaker and a modern adventure where a rougish but good-intentioned elf (Dudley Moore) accidentally falls in with a greedy businessman (John Lithgow) to threaten holiday cheer worldwide. Previously expanded and reissued by Quartet, Santa Claus: The Movie got wrapped up again for its 40th anniversary as a 2CD set focusing solely on the film score (recorded with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in London) and songs Mancini wrote for the film with lyricist Leslie Bricusse – all sourced from newly-discovered first-generation 24-track 2″ master tapes as mixed by engineer Chris Malone. (Mancini’s album arrangements are included, though Sheena Easton’s “It’s Christmas All Over the World” is not.) John Takis pens liner notes in a package designed by Jim Titus.

Quartet’s second expansion brings new light to the score to Ridley Scott’s action cult classic Black Rain. The 1989 film featured Michael Douglas (his first role since winning an Oscar for Wall Street) and Andy Garcia as two NYPD cops in the criminal underworld of Tokyo, on a quest to recapture a member of the Yakuza they accompanied for extradition. The percussive, sequencer-assisted music by Hans Zimmer (in his first of several collaborations with Scott) heralded a new kind of sound in action films, helping the German composer begin a formidable, ongoing career in Hollywood. Portions of the score were included on an album released at the time alongside tracks by Gregg Allman, Iggy Pop and UB40’s Top 10 cover of The Temptations’ “The Way You Do the Things You Do”; a release from La-La Land in 2012 offered a lot of the underscore, but this release is the first to draw from the original multitrack recordings, which in turn yielded even more material than previously known. It’s all newly mixed by Maxime Marion under the watch of producers Stéphane Humez and Dan Goldwasser, with Zimmer not only signing off on the set but sitting for a new interview featured in Kaya Savas’ liner notes.

The last expansion from Quartet is of Dave Grusin’s score to the winning comedy Heaven Can Wait. Based on Harry Segall’s play of the same name (and previously adapted on film as Here Comes Mr. Jordan in 1941), it concerns a football star (Warren Beatty) mistakenly sent to heaven before his time, only to reincarnate in the body of a rich industrialist. Co-starring Beatty’s Shampoo co-stars Julie Christie and Jack Warden along with Charles Grodin and Buck Henry as Beatty’s guardian angel, the film was a critical and commercial success. (Beatty made Oscar history with nominations for Best Picture (as the sole producer), Best Director (alongside Henry), Best Adapted Screenplay (with Elaine May) and Best Actor.) Grusin picked up his first Oscar nomination for Heaven Can Wait – no mean feat, considering less than 15 minutes of his underscore was even utilized. The Kritzerland and Varese labels had previously released that material, but Quartet’s release is a revelation for fans: sourcing from the original 2″, 16-track recordings revealed additional unused and reworked material that puts this edition at the full length of a compact disc! Goldwasser’s reissue production and Malone’s mixing and mastering are further underlined by Jeff Bond’s in-depth liner notes.

Quartet next premieres two scores on disc. The first is an entry in the ongoing, multi-label Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection, and offers French composer Georges Delerue’s score to 1973’s The Day of the Jackal. Based on the novel of the same name about a mysterious British assassin ordered to carry out an attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle’s life in the summer of 1963, Delerue wrote a half hour of music for director Fred Zinnemann (the pair having worked on A Man for All Seasons in 1966), including source cues along with a dramatic underscore – but nearly none of it was used in the final cut. Enter this disc, produced and restored by Mike Matessino using surviving tapes from the Universal vaults and the Delerue estate and offering an aural picture at what could have been. Bond writes liner notes here, as well.

Finally comes a most unusual project: the original score to a documentary! 1995’s The Celluloid Closet, based on the late author Vito Russo’s book and lecture series of the same name, was a bracing, at times irreverent overview of LGBTQ+ depictions in Hollywood films. (At a time when such issues were much less discussed than they are now, the film’s production involved a patchwork of licensed film clips and financial backing from the likes of England’s Channel 4, HBO and even a cadre of celebrities organized by Lily Tomlin (who narrates the film alongside interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Gore Vidal, Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon and more. For the score, Carter Burwell (known for his scores for many of the Coen brothers’ films) evokes both the all-out bliss and melancholy of old school Hollywood scoring; his work is complemented by several relevant pop songs and even two renditions of the Calamity Jane tune “Secret Love” – performed by Doris Day in the 1953 film and an unreleased version by k.d. lang. Under Burwell’s supervision, the music has been restored by Chris Malone and mastered by Doug Schwartz, with new liner notes by Daniel Schweiger (including new interview commentary from Burwell and the doc’s directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) and package design by Juan Gatti, who created the art seen in the film.

These releases all nicely wrap up the year in archival film score releases and point toward another exciting year for listeners and collectors! You can find full track lists and order links below.

Godfather Coda LLL
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Carmine Coppola, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (Music from the Motion Picture – 35th Anniversary Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1683, 2026 – original film released 1990/recut 2020)

Disc 1: Score presentation (* unused in film)

  1. Main Title (Film Version)
  2. Lake Memory
  3. The Godfather Waltz (Reprise, Intended Film Version) *
  4. Foreboding *
  5. The Godfather Waltz
  6. Tough Neighborhood
  7. Connie
  8. Shareholders Meeting
  9. Michael to Rome *
  10. Government Man */Uncle Michael
  11. Altobello (Film Version)
  12. Drive to Confession
  13. Café Scene
  14. Helicopter Nightmare */King Lear Madness *
  15. Waldorf */Chapel *
  16. In the Hospital *
  17. Mary and Tony *
  18. Vincent Kills Joey Zasa *
  19. Vincent’s Theme
  20. Gnocchi Romance *
  21. Transition to Toast *
  22. Love Theme from The Godfather
  23. Sicilian Plot
  24. Pool Salon */As Guilty As the Others *
  25. Sell Your Soul */Photo Album */Lucchesi Meets Vincent */Evil Toast *
  26. Promise Me You’ll Remember (Band Version) *
  27. Mosca of Montelepre *
  28. Land of Father *
  29. Kay’s Theme
  30. White Smoke */Papal Montage *
  31. Evil Priests */Murder Menace *
  32. Tommasino Assassinated *
  33. Insulin Shot *
  34. Tommasino Coffin
  35. Call Yourself a Corleone
  36. Vincent and Mary Break Up
  37. Calo Arrives
  38. Spara Backstage
  39. Pistol to Mosca *
  40. Cue with Archbishop *
  41. Calo Kills Lucchesi
  42. The Godfather Waltz (The Godfather Part III Version)
  43. Love Theme from The Godfather (The Godfather Part III Version)
  44. Love Theme from The Godfather Part III
  45. Promise Me You’ll Remember (Love Theme from The Godfather Part III) – Harry Connick Jr.

Disc 2: Additional material

  1. Love Theme/Michael’s Theme
  2. Main Title (Alternate)
  3. Tough Neighborhood (Alternate)
  4. Connie (Alternate)
  5. Shareholders Meeting (Alternate)
  6. Uncle Michael (Alternate Excerpt)
  7. Altobello (Alternate Take)
  8. Drive to Confession (Alternate)
  9. Helicopter Nightmare (Alternate)/King Lear Madness (Alternate)
  10. Waldorf/Chapel (Alternate)
  11. Vincent Kills Joey Zasa (Alternate Excerpt)
  12. Vincent’s Theme (Alternate LP Version)
  13. Vincent’s Theme (Alternate)
  14. Gnocchi Romance (Alternate)
  15. Transition to Toast (Revised)
  16. Photo Album (Alternate)/Lucchesi Meets Vincent (Alternate)/Evil Toast (Alternate)
  17. Promise Me You’ll Remember (Band Version, Early Take)
  18. Land of Father (Alternate)
  19. Kay’s Theme (Viola Alternate)
  20. Murder Menace (Alternate)
  21. Tommasino Coffin (Alternate)
  22. Call Yourself a Corleone (Alternate)
  23. Vincent and Mary Break Up (Alternate Without Harp)
  24. Calo Arrives (Alternate)
  25. Mystery Cues
  26. Helicopter Nightmare (Alternate Brass)
  27. The Godfather Intermezzo Part II
  28. End Credits (Love Theme from The Godfather)
  29. Promise Me You’ll Remember (Orchestral Version)
  30. La campagna di San Giusto (Source)
  31. Tough Neighborhood (Alternate Intro)
  32. Sollozzo the Turk (The Godfather Part III Version)
  33. The Halls of Fear (The Godfather Part III Version)
  34. Michael Takes Over (The Godfather Part III Version)
  35. Apollonia (The Godfather Part III Version)
  36. Marry Me, Kay (The Godfather Part III Version)
  37. The New Godfather (The Godfather Part III Version)
  38. Finale (The Godfather Part III Version)

Disc 3: Original soundtrack album (released as Columbia C 47078, 1990)

  1. Main Title
  2. The Godfather Waltz
  3. Marcia Religioso
  4. Michael’s Letter
  5. The Immigrant/Love Theme from The Godfather Part III
  6. The Godfather Waltz
  7. To Each His Own – Al Martino
  8. Vincent’s Theme
  9. Altobello
  10. The Godfather Intermezzo
  11. Sicilian Medley: Va, pensiero/Danza tarantella/Mazurka (alla siciliana)
  12. Promise Me You’ll Remember (Love Theme from The Godfather Part III) – Harry Connick Jr.
  13. Preludio and Siciliana (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
  14. A casa amiche (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
  15. Preghiera (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
  16. Finale (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
  17. Coda: The Godfather Finale
Bound LLL
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Don Davis, Bound (Music from the Motion Picture – 30th Anniversary Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1669, 2026 – original film released 1996)

  1. Closet Diving
  2. Fix My Pipe
  3. Rug Rangers Qu’est-ce Que C’est
  4. Hand It to Shelley
  5. Ravine Cuisine
  6. Yodeling in the Canyon
  7. Girls Having Fun
  8. Ceasar Gets Corked
  9. Thelma and Louise from Hell
  10. Tang Bangers
  11. Dying for His Money
  12. I Am Gino Marzzoni, Capice?
  13. Chicago’s Finest
  14. Jail Bait
  15. Curiosity Cops
  16. Corky’s Peephole
  17. Ceasar Bizarro
  18. Holy Mackerel
  19. In Utero Morituri Te Salutamus
  20. Girl Talk
  21. Bang the Bangers
  22. Out of the Closet and Down the Stairs
  23. Mambo Mamacita
  24. Illicit Felicity – Jenny Lin

Tracks 1-23 released as Super Tracks Music Group DDCD 069, 1996. Track 24 previously unreleased

Devil in a Blue Dress LLL
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Elmer Bernstein, Devil in a Blue Dress (Original Motion Picture Score) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1681, 2025 – original film released 1995)

  1. Theme from Devil in a Blue Dress
  2. Easy At Home
  3. Coretta
  4. Albright
  5. Easy Leaves Jail
  6. Dreaming of Coretta
  7. Ambassador Hotel/The Letter
  8. Dead McGee/Mouse
  9. To Carter’s
  10. Leaving Carter’s
  11. Drive to Dupree’s
  12. Finding the Pictures
  13. Easy Confronts Daphne
  14. Malibu Chase
  15. Drive to Cabin
  16. Cabin Window
  17. Albright is Killed/Joppy Dead
  18. Daphne and Carter
  19. Taking Daphne Home
  20. The End
  21. End Credits
  22. Easy At Home (Alternate Version)
  23. Coretta (Alternate Excerpt)
  24. Albright (Alternate Version)
  25. Dead McGee (Alternate Version)
  26. To Carter’s (Alternate Version)
  27. Easy Confronts Daphne (Alternate Version)
  28. Malibu Chase (Alternate Version)
  29. The End (Alternate Version)

Tracks 1, 14 and 21 released on Devil in a Blue Dress (Music from the Motion Picture) – Columbia CK 67008, 1995. All other tracks previously unreleased

King Solomon's Mines LLL
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Jerry Goldsmith, King Solomon’s Mines (40th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1685, 2025 – original film released 1985)

Disc 1: Score presentation

  1. King Solomon’s Mines (Main Title)
  2. The Welcoming Committee
  3. No Sale
  4. The Mummy
  5. Have a Cigar
  6. Good Morning
  7. Under the Train
  8. Dancing Shots
  9. No Pain (Film Version)
  10. Forced Flight (Film Version)
  11. The Chieftain
  12. Pot Luck (Film Version)
  13. Upside Down People (Film Version)
  14. The Crocodiles
  15. The Mines
  16. The Ritual (Extended Version)
  17. Low Bridge
  18. Falling Rocks
  19. Final Confrontation
  20. No Diamonds (End Title)
  21. Percussion Sweetener (Source)
  22. Ride of The Valkyries (Source Excerpt – composed by Richard Wagner)

Disc 2: Original soundtrack album and additional music

  1. King Solomon’s Mines (Main Title)
  2. Upside Down People
  3. The Crocodiles
  4. Pot Luck
  5. Forced Flight
  6. Dancing Shots
  7. Good Morning
  8. No Pain
  9. The Ritual
  10. No Diamonds (End Title)
  11. Ride of The Valkyries (Excerpt with Insert)
  12. No Sale (Alternate Edit)
  13. Have a Cigar (Alternate Edit)
  14. Dancing Shots (Alternate Edit)
  15. No Pain (Without Insert)
  16. Forced Flight (Alternate Edit)
  17. The Crocodiles (Alternate Opening)
  18. The Ritual (Alternate Edit)
  19. Final Confrontation (Alternate Edit)
  20. Theme from King Solomon’s Mines

Alternate presentation of Disc 1, Tracks 1-18 and 20 released as Intrada FMT 8005D, 1991. Aforementioned tracks plus Disc 1, Track 21 and Disc 2, Tracks 11 and 20 released as Prometheus PCD 161, 2006. Disc 2, Tracks 1-9 released as Restless Records 72106, 1985

Moonraker LLL vinyl
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John Barry, Moonraker (Music from the Motion Picture – Vinyl Edition) (La-La Land Records LLLLP 2012, 2025 – original film released 1979)

LP 1

Side A

  1. Gun Barrel and Hijackers
  2. Last Leg and Freefall Sequence
  3. Moonraker – Shirley Bassey
  4. California and The Drax Residence
  5. Look After Mr. Bond and Chang’s Entry
  6. Centrifuge
  7. You Presume a Great Deal, Mr. Bond
  8. 18-Carat
  9. Corinne Put Down
  10. Venini Glass and Bond Follows Holly

Side B

  1. Funeral Barge – Venice Boat Chase
  2. Bond Smells a Rat (Extended Version)
  3. It Could Have Its Compensations
  4. Bond Arrives in Rio
  5. Cable Car Fight
  6. Hello Dolly (Romeo & Juliet)
  7. The Magnificent Seven
  8. South American Boat Chase and Hang Glider Crash
  9. Bond Lured to Pyramid (Film Version)
  10. Snake Fight
  11. Launch Program Commence and I Bid You Farewell

LP 2

Side C

  1. Flight Into Space
  2. Marines Get Ready and Emergency Stop
  3. Space Laser Battle
  4. Jaws and Dolly Reunited and Jaws Lends a Hand
  5. Globes Destroyed
  6. End Title – Moonraker (Extended Version) – Shirley Bassey

Side D

  1. Moonraker (Early Lyrics, Slow Version) – Paul Williams
  2. Mardi Gras
  3. Morning After
  4. Moonraker (Instrumental)
  5. End Title – Moonraker (Alternate Instrumental)

All tracks previously released on La-La Land Records LLLCD 1656, 2024

Medicine Man Varese CD Club
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Jerry Goldsmith, Medicine Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande, 2025 – original film released 1992)

  1. Rae’s Arrival
  2. First Morning
  3. Progress Reports *
  4. Campbell and the Children
  5. Night Clothes *
  6. I Lost It *
  7. The Trees
  8. The Harvest
  9. Mocara
  10. Mountain High
  11. Without a Net
  12. Finger Painting
  13. What’s Wrong
  14. Unforgiven *
  15. The Injection
  16. Something’s Up/She’s in Love *
  17. The Sugar
  18. The Fire
  19. Devastation/New Equipment *
  20. A Meal and A Bath
  21. Rae’s Arrival (Alternate Mix) **

Tracks 1-2, 4, 7-13, 15, 17-18 and 20 released as Varese Sarabande VSD-5350, 1992
* previously unreleased ** contains previously unreleased material

Timeline Varese CD Club
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Brian Tyler, Timeline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – The Deluxe Edition) (Varese Sarabande, 2026 – original film released 2003)

  1. Opening
  2. Descent
  3. Bifocal Discovery
  4. Mysterioso
  5. Star Charts
  6. Entering the Wormhole
  7. 1357 France
  8. Distraction
  9. Marek’s Transition
  10. Chase On
  11. We Have to Try
  12. Open Lane
  13. Lord Oliver
  14. Professor Found
  15. Bail Out
  16. Rooftop Escape
  17. Battle Axe
  18. False Marker
  19. Lady Claire/De Kere Attacks (Suite)
  20. Interruptus
  21. River Crossing
  22. A Lady’s Kiss/Fire Arrangements (Suite)
  23. Castleguard Burns/Red Attack (Suite)
  24. Battalion
  25. Battlefield Revealed
  26. It Was Me
  27. Galvanize the Troops
  28. Night Arrows
  29. Troops in the Fog
  30. Fix It David
  31. History Will Change
  32. Storming the Castle
  33. The Battle of La Roque
  34. The Return Home
  35. Eternal
  36. Main Titles
  37. End Credits

Portions of Tracks 2, 4, 6-7, 19-20, 23-25, 27-29, 31-33 and 35-36 released as Varese Sarabande 302 066 531-2, 2003

Santa Claus 40th Quartet
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Henry Mancini, Santa Claus: The Movie (Music from the Motion Picture – 40th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (Quartet QR600, 2025 – original film released 1985)

Disc 1: The Original Score

  1. Main Title – Every Christmas Eve/Santa’s Theme
  2. North Star/Arrival of the Elves
  3. Santa’s New Home
  4. The Magic Workshop
  5. Reindeer Stable
  6. Making Toys (Film Version)
  7. Season’s Greetings
  8. The Ancient One
  9. Santa Claus/First Sleigh Ride/Christmas Rhapsody
  10. Naughty or Nice
  11. Into the XXth Century
  12. It’s Christmas Again (Film Version)
  13. March of the Elves
  14. Table Scraps
  15. A New Sleigh Ride/Santa Meets Joe
  16. Sleigh Ride Over Manhattan
  17. Cornelia’s Home
  18. Bad Toys
  19. Sad Patch
  20. Vanishing Elf
  21. No Free Toys
  22. Present for Joe
  23. Patchmobile/Patch Versus Santa
  24. Lollipop Flight
  25. Stronger Formula
  26. The World is Different
  27. A New Doll
  28. Eavesdropping
  29. Letter from Cornelia
  30. Elf Portrait
  31. Flight from Police
  32. To the North Pole/Super Duper Looper/Reunited Again

Disc 2: Songs, Alternates, Outtakes and Other Gifts

  1. Thank You, Santa
  2. Main Title – Every Christmas Eve/Santa’s Theme (Alternate Lyrics)
  3. Making Toys (Album Version)
  4. Christmas Rhapsody (Album Version)
  5. It’s Christmas Again (Album Version)
  6. Patch, Natch!
  7. Sleigh Ride Over Manhattan (Album Version)
  8. Patch Versus Santa (Album Version)
  9. Thank You, Santa (Album Version)
  10. Sleigh Ride Over Manhattan (Alternate)
  11. Patch Versus Santa (Alternate)
  12. The World is Different (Alternate)
  13. To the North Pole (Alternate)
  14. Main Title – Every Christmas Eve / Santa’s Theme (Instrumental)
  15. Making Toys (Children’s Choir)
  16. Thank You, Santa (Alternate Vocal)
  17. Making Toys (Men’s Choir)
  18. It’s Christmas Again (Instrumental)
  19. It’s Christmas Again (Christmas Bells)
  20. Patch, Natch! (Instrumental)
  21. Making Toys (Instrumental)
  22. Thank You, Santa (Instrumental)
  23. Making Toys (Little Band Overlay)
  24. Making Toys (Percussion Overlay)
  25. Making Toys (Choral Insert)
  26. Chopin’s Waltz (Source)
  27. Christmas Jingles (Rehearsal)

Disc 1, Track 1, 2b, 13, 16, 19 and 23b and Disc 2, Tracks 1 and 3-9 released on EMI America SJ-17177, 1985
All tracks on Disc 1 and Disc 2, Tracks 2, 11, 13-122 released on Quartet Records QR408, 2019

Black Rain Quartet
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Hans Zimmer, Black Rain (Music from the Motion Picture) (Quartet QR 611, 2025 – original film released 1989)

Disc 1: The Film Score

  1. I’ll Be Holding On (Opening Titles Version) – Gregg Allman
  2. Scalari’s
  3. One-Way Glass – Osaka
  4. Phony Cops –  You Gonna Be Nice?
  5. Club Miyako
  6. Sato Watching/Circling Motorbikes
  7. Sugai’s Photo/Police Observers
  8. Stealing Money
  9. Charlie’s Death – Aftermath: Nick & Joyce
  10. Charlie’s Things
  11. Sequins
  12. Masa’s Reprimand
  13. Following Miyuki
  14. The Steel Mill/Meeting in the Steel Mill
  15. Steel Mill Chase/Airplane/Escape
  16. Sugai Has Nick Over for a Chat
  17. Arrival of Oyabuns – Sato’s Arrival/Meeting
  18. Bikes/Fight – Bullpen/Awards (Film Version)
  19. Airport (Film Version)
  20. I’ll Be Holding On (End Titles Version) – Gregg Allman

Disc 2: The Original Album and Bonus Tracks

  1. Livin’ on the Edge of the Night – Iggy Pop
  2. The Way You Do the Things You Do – UB40
  3. Back to Life (Jam on the Groove Mix) – Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler
  4. Laseman – Ryuichi Sakamoto
  5. Singing in the Shower – Les Rita Mitsouko & Sparks
  6. I’ll Be Holding On – Gregg Allman
  7. Black Rain Suite: Sato
  8. Black Rain Suite: Charlie Loses His Head
  9. Black Rain Suite: Sugai
  10. Black Rain Suite: Nick and Masa
  11. Airplane Muzak (Source)
  12. Art of the Fugue (Source)
  13. Charlie’s Death (Monks Wild)
  14. Charlie’s Death – Aftermath: Nick & Joyce (Alternate)
  15. Masa’s Reprimand (Alternate)
  16. Bikes/Fight (Alternate)
  17. Bikes/Fight – Bullpen/Awards/Airport (Alternate)

Portions of Disc 1, Tracks 2-19 released on La-La Land Records LLLCD 1229, 2012
Tracks 1-10 released as Virgin Movie Music 91292, 1989

The Day of the Jackal Quartet
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Georges Delerue, The Day of the Jackal (Music from the Motion Picture) (Quartet QR612, 2025 – original film released 1973)

  1. Jackal Opening
  2. The Day of the Jackal – Main Title
  3. Failed Assassination
  4. New Identity
  5. Assignment for Denise
  6. Jackal Walking No. 1
  7. Forger Dead/Love Theme
  8. Leash Off Dog
  9. Sexy
  10. Street Sounds
  11. Hotel Lobby Waltz
  12. Lounge Coffee
  13. Jackal Checks Into Hotel
  14. Jackal Out of Cab
  15. Jackal Walking No. 2
  16. The Jackal Gets It
The Celluloid Closet Quartet
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Carter Burwell, The Celluloid Closet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Quartet QR613, 2025 – original film released 1996)

  1. Secret Love – k.d.lang
  2. Titles
  3. Shades
  4. Give Me the Man – Marlene Dietrich
  5. Will Hayes
  6. Raids
  7. I Wanna Be Loved by You – Marilyn Monroe
  8. Silents
  9. The Code of Liberation
  10. Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love? – Jane Russell
  11. Gays Fight Back
  12. Men Where Men
  13. (Love is Like a) Heat Wave – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
  14. Psychopaths
  15. Making Love – Roberta Flack
  16. Kissing
  17. Finale
  18. Secret Love – Doris Day
Heaven Can Wait Quartet
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Dave Grusin, Heaven Can Wait (Music from the Motion Picture) (Quartet QR614, 2025 – original film released 1978)

  1. Heaven Walk
  2. I Understand/Walk to House
  3. Betty’s Entrance/Decision to Farnworth
  4. Dinner at 8/Dinner at 9
  5. Meeting of the Bored/Head Home
  6. At the Drive-In
  7. Training Montage
  8. Garden Walk
  9. Marry Me
  10. Bad News
  11. Goodbye
  12. Last Walk
  13. Butler to Betty/Stadium Transition
  14. Jordan Exits
  15. Max
  16. End Titles
  17. Heaven Walk (Alternate 1)
  18. Heaven Walk (Alternate 2)
  19. Heaven Walk (Alternate 3)
  20. I Understand (Alternate)
  21. Walk to House (Original)
  22. Walk to House (Original Alternate)
  23. Betty’s Entrance (Alternate)/Decision to Farnsworth (Alternate)
  24. Dinner at 9 (Alternate)
  25. Meeting of the Board (Original)/Head Home (Alternate)
  26. At the Drive-In (Original)
  27. At the Drive-In (Revised Alternate Mix)
  28. At the Drive-In (Revised Alternate)
  29. Garden Walk (Original)
  30. Garden Walk (Original Alternate 1)
  31. Garden Walk (Original Alternate 2)
  32. Garden Walk (Original Alternate 3)
  33. Garden Walk (Revised Alternate with Sax Improvisation)
  34. Garden Walk (Revised Alternate)
  35. Marry Me (Three Revisions)
  36. Goodbye (Original)
  37. Goodbye (New Alternate)
  38. Last Walk (Original)
  39. Last Walk (Revised Alternate)/Last Walk Extension (Alternate)
  40. Butler to Betty (Original)
  41. Butler to Betty (New Alternate)/Stadium Transition (Original)
  42. Jordan Exits (Original)
  43. Max (Original)
  44. Max (Revised Alternate 1)
  45. Max (Revised Alternate 2)
  46. Max Extension (Version 1)
  47. Max Extension (Version 2)
  48. End Titles (Original)
  49. End Titles (Revised Alternate)
  50. Drive-In Source
  51. Heaven Loop FX

Tracks 1, 2b, 3, 5a, 6, 8, 11-12, 15-16, 26, 45 and 48 previously released on Kritzerland KR20027-02, 2013

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  1. Gary

    Thanks for heads up on the Moonraker LPs. I didn’t get an email from either the US or UK distributors about that one.
    I’ve ordered from LaLaLand, gonna have to swallow that carriage again.

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