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…
Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Detects ‘Foul Play,’ La-La Land’s Big Sale
If you’re a catalogue soundtrack enthusiast, you’re usually always ready to take a chance again on a new pressing of an old favorite. Intrada’s latest reissue is about to make that idea as literal as possible: a new remix and expansion of Charles Fox’s score to the 1978 comedy Foul Play. Written and directed by Colin Higgins (who penned the script to Harold and Maude and later directed the comedy 9 to 5), Foul Play is a screwy Hitchcock homage about a librarian (Goldie Hawn) who gets mixed up in an assassination plot in San Francisco,…
Soundtrack Watch: Intrada’s ‘Inchon’ Re-Introduction, La-La Land’s Next ‘Trek’
La-La Land and Intrada are reaching into their archives for a pair of new releases out this month. Coming from La-La Land is the fourth entry of Star Trek: The Original Series – The 1701 Collection, a series of six volumes drawn from 2012’s box set of music from the iconic television show. This 2CD set features music from seven episodes released in 1968 and 1969, as scored by original series theme composer Alexander Courage, along with music by Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried and Ivan Ditmars. As with previous volumes, the audio…
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land, Intrada Deliver Archival Scores Beyond the Stars
With only weeks to go before La-La Land’s typically huge Black Friday announcement, it’s worth noting an incredible clutch of archival score reissues and premieres that have been released over the last two months. Here’s a look at some recent releases – including one on vinyl – coming from La-La Land Records and Intrada. La-La Land Records: Trek, Scarface and Jason Some box set breakouts and a rare foray into vinyl have lit up LLL’s release slate this fall. First up, second and third installments of the label’s Star Trek: The Original Series –…
Soundtrack Watch: Summer Releases from Horner, Goldsmith, Silvestri, ‘Star Trek’ and More
June and July have brought with them a bonanza of archival soundtrack titles from three of the major film score reissue labels, covering some of the biggest names in the genre as well. Here’s a rundown at the latest from Intrada, Varese Sarabande and La-La Land Records! Intrada recently filled a gap in the work of the late contemporary composer James Horner (Aliens, Titanic, Avatar) with a premiere release of his work on the 1981 film Deadly Blessing. This picture about a series of possibly supernatural murders in a rural community, featured…
Soundtrack Watch: Varese’s Latest CD Club Batch Includes Goldsmith, ‘Trek’ and ‘Cogburn’
Last month, Varese Sarabande unveiled a killer trifecta of CD Club titles that featured their most requested expansion, a repress of one of their most beloved reissues of the decade, and the premiere of a classic Western score. The CD Club began some 30 years ago, but since its original soundtrack release in 1997, fans have yearned for a more complete presentation of Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Air Force One. The hit action film stars Harrison Ford as an American president fighting a band of airborne hijackers to save his family and…
La-La Land’s Wondrous World: Soundtrack Giant Plans ‘Potter,’ ‘Bond’ and More Archival Releases
Hours of unreleased soundtrack music? Oft-requested titles from favorite composers and popular film series? It’s definitely Black Friday season at La-La Land Records! The venerable soundtrack label closed the book on 2018 with five brand-new film and television score expansions – a total of 18 discs’ worth of material, including three works involving one of the most successful living soundtrack composers and projects related to two world-renowned franchises. First up, La-La Land’s successful Spielberg-Williams collaboration – the label has expanded many of the director and composer’s works together, from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial…
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Debuts ‘Alien 3,’ Breaks Out ‘Superman IV’
Over the past couple of days, La-La Land Records has released a pair of 2-CD soundtrack limited edition sets for two entries in sci-fi/superhero franchises which began in the 1970s: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Alien 3. Released in 1987, Superman IV marked the final time Christopher Reeve would step into the Man of Steel’s iconic red and blue costume. Directed by Sidney J. Furie (Lady Sings the Blues, Iron Eagle), the film centered around Superman’s efforts to curtail the nuclear arms races. At the same time, Lex Luthor (portrayed…
