Following La-La Land Records' recently-announced mega-slate of Black Friday releases, Spain's Quartet Records label has revealed its own impressive line-up of end-of-the-year reissues. The label has brought out the heavy hitters - including Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Quincy Jones - for an exciting group of limited edition soundtracks. Below, you'll find Quartet's own write-ups for each title, with pre-order links to the label as well as to Screen Archives
Kritzerland has announced its latest release, and it's another classic score from the pen of the legendary Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo). Twentieth Century Fox's lavish 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro starred Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner under the direction of Henry King and cinematography of the renowned Leon Shamroy. Kilimanjaro, nominated for two Academy Awards, was one of the year's most successful movies, and yielded more memorable music from the veteran composer
Cherry Red's él label continues to deliver an array of some of the most eclectic sounds of the pre-Beatles era with a recent pair of reissues. The Kirby Stone Four's Guys and Dolls (Like Today) reinvented Frank Loesser's classic 1950 Broadway score for 1962 in the group's "Go Sound" style fusing jazz, swing, tight harmony vocals and even a dash of freewheeling rock-and-roll spirit. It's been paired on one CD with the quartet's Laugh Along with the Kirby Stone Four at the Playboy Club and