Spring is in the air, making now the perfect time to check out some killer recent archival soundtracks released by our friends at La-La Land Records, Intrada, Quartet and Varese Sarabande – plus a great recent score with some deep musical history that felt worth sharing, too. La-La Land shone brightly with new releases in March and April, most notably their latest restoration of a James Bond film score! This time, it’s John Barry’s music to Diamonds Are Forever, the seventh film in the long-running spy series based on Ian Fleming’s novels. For…
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…
