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Scoring a major motion picture…writing a Broadway musical…recording a jazz piano album…conducting a classical symphony.  Any of the above might be all in a night’s work for André Previn, a four-time Academy Award winner and ten-time Grammy recipient.  And now Previn’s score for the 1962 film All in a Night’s Work is getting its first-ever soundtrack release courtesy of the Kritzerland label! The Dean Martin/Shirley MacLaine comedy followed Previn’s triumphant, Oscar-nominated score for 1960’s

Around these parts, we know that good things do come to those who wait.  The old adage has been proven again, yet it might this time be amended to great things do come to those who wait.  For the Intrada label has just announced the first-time-ever release of Henry Mancini’s original score tracks for Charade (1963) and Hatari! (1962). Why is this such a big deal?  Most of Mancini’s original film scores from his prime period have never seen the light of day; instead the prolific recording artist,

Though a holiday weekend is soon to kick off here in the U.S., the Kritzerland label isn’t resting on its laurels.  The soundtrack specialists have just announced two new releases featuring three wild (and wildly different) film scores. One of the most successful thrillers of 1979, When a Stranger Calls, featured the second ever film score by Dana Kaproff (Cagney and Lacey, The Bionic Woman, Falcon Crest).  Kritzerland released Kaproff’s first (1977’s Empire of the Ants) so it’s only

You've heard all of the clichés before, but La-La Land records truly will go where no man has gone before with the June 5 release of the 3-CD set Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Complete Score.  Though Jerry Goldsmith's score to the science-fiction classic has been released on CD before, this joint project of La-La Land, Sony Music and Paramount Pictures offers a luxurious view of every aspect of the film's music. Released in December, 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture reunited the cast

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and La-La Land Records is celebrating with a couple of releases celebrating some, ahem, very unusual mothers.  No, the world premiere of the soundtrack to Psycho isn't among the duo, but this pair just might be the next best thing.  On May 8, the label will issue Henry Mancini's score to 1981's cult campfest Mommie Dearest and Christopher (Krzysztof)  Komeda's score to 1968's horror classic Rosemary's Baby, both from the vaults of Paramount

The latest offering from La-La Land Records may be among the oldest music we've ever covered for the site! The label is releasing a new recording of J.S. Zamencik's score to Wings, a 1927 silent picture forever noted by trivia buffs as the first film to take home an Academy Award for Best Picture (or as it was known then, Most Outstanding Production). Wings, which starred Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen as rival pilots in World War I and Clara Bow as the small-town girl in love with

Intrada's latest release, announced Monday, is another totally unreleased gem of a score: Thomas Newman's music to Whispers in the Dark. The 1992 drama, which starred Annabella Sciorra, Anthony La Paglia, John Leguizamo and Alan Alda, is a dark and sexual thriller about a psychologist whose patient may be dating a serial killer. While the film was not a smash - Alda in fact was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor - the score by Newman (whose great Galaxy Quest was just

Here’s one off the beaten reissue path for you children of the eighties!  Chances are you’ll remember Masters of the Universe: Prince Adam of Eternia transformed into the valiant warrior He-Man to defend his kingdom from the evil forces of Skeletor.   Launched as an action figure line in 1982, the franchise reached its largest audience via Filmation’s animated television series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.  130 episodes were produced over two seasons, but the series continued to air

With all the Star Trek soundtrack love expressed in the reissue world lately, it's awesome to report the premiere release of the score to the best Trek satire there ever was. The soundtrack to the excellent 1999 comedy Galaxy Quest is making its commercial debut from La-La Land Records. Galaxy Quest is the tale of a group of struggling actors known for playing the crew of a short-lived cult favorite show of the same name. Tim Allen is the William Shatner-esque captain, Sigourney Weaver the

Fans of the soundtracks to Star Trek have had a great few years. Some of our favorite film score reissue labels, including Film Score Monthly, Intrada, La-La Land and Varese Sarabande, have expanded no less than six Trek film soundtracks in the past two years, including The Wrath of Khan (1982), The Search for Spock (1984), The Voyage Home (1986), The Final Frontier (1989), The Undiscovered Country (1991) and the 2009 reboot film, not to mention two box sets of music from Star Trek: The Next

Here's a real treat for Disney fans coming from their co-branded series wit Intrada Records: the premiere release of Elmer Bernstein's original score to the studio's controversial animated feature The Black Cauldron. Based on the Welsh mythology-inspired fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain, Cauldron is the tale of Taran, a young pig-keeper embarks on adventure to save his home from the fearsome Horned King and his armies of the undead. As Joe explained it in our Disney/Intrada wishlist