All right, here we go! We’ve added listings for D through K titles from Jeanne Jones’ collection. Also, there are several hundred titles (all letters of the alphabet) from two other collectors. Here is a spreadsheet of the inventory as of this morning , which you can use to browse and make notes, then order at www.FSMCDs.com . Don’t forget the rare Goldsmtih posters which I mentioned yesterday ! We are looking to move into office space in April to grow the business—it is burs

We are on track for our next CD sale list tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/31/26, at 10AM Pacific and 1PM Eastern. In addition to Jeanne Jones CDs D through K titles, we have a few hundred CDs (all letters of the alphabet) from two other sellers. And I am putting the two Jerry Goldsmith posters from our Kickstarter back on the market. The donor whose package included them offered them back to me to sell on consignment, to raise more funds for our website (which is still in need of work!)

We are on track for our next listings from the Jeanne Jones collection to go live Tuesday, 3/31/26, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. Here is a picture of my filthy keyboard to prove it. I actually bought a new keyboard a couple of years ago, but didn’t like the feel of it. I am used to my old crappy one! We have processed the D through I titles, and I’m presently in the Js and should finish the Ks in time for Tuesday. I continue to be impressed by the depth and breadth of Jeann

I got this email a few days ago and thought I’d pass it on: Dear Subscribers, At some point you threw caution to the wind and subscribed to a Newsletter on VictorYoung.com or have supported my biography project in some way, that might only be obvious to me.  If you don't want to receive Newsletters or Announcements like this, please use the Unsubscribe link below. For everyone else, please note that this Saturday, March 28th, at 1PM Pacific Time , jazz pianist Larry Vuckovic

I am showing the Star Wars films to one of my daughters (she asked). I don’t want to go blow by blow, but it’s an interesting experience. Especially given that she’s never seen them, it’s a chance to “view them with new eyes.” The first twenty minutes of The Empire Strikes Back reminded me of that halcyon period of Star Wars fandom. At the time, I hadn’t even seen Star Wars —I was three in 1977—but I knew the story from the Storybook, comic books, toys, “movie on record” a

Our next CD sale listings go live on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. We are making progress going through the Jeanne Jones collection. I am presently typing up the G titles, and hope to get deeper into the alphabet over the weekend. We are also making progress getting into office space so I can get 10,000+ CDs out of my house! Thanks!

Ted Nichols has died at the age of 97. Here’s the Hollywood Reporter’s obituary . He was the music director at Hanna-Barbera from 1964 to 1972—so it was actually Nichols, and not Hoyt Curtin, who wrote those fantastic, jazzy action-adventure themes that I used to love on Saturday morning reruns. Another one of my faves: And, of course... How I wanted to do a CD of this material! But we ran out of time at Warner Bros. NOTE: Strangely, the YouTube embeds are not loading right n

Above: With Dennis Schmidt in April 2006. Dennis very kindly compiled the FSM index for us, which we’ve consistently used ever since. An important MEA CULPA today to all our peeps in FSM land. The new Best of FSM book we compiled ( available worldwide from Amazon ) was a huge challenge for a variety of reasons—namely, making a book out of 35 years’ worth of content, and then locating all the files, doing clean-up/editorial, etc. One of the things I was worried about—so much s

Happy 95th birthday to the one and only William Shatner. Here’s a February 1969 TV interview that just surfaced where he talks about whether the show is about to be canceled (spoilers? haha). The man is a physical freak of nature!

As part of our ongoing improvements to FSM Online , we’ve put in place free teasers for non-subscribers when you click on an article behind the paywall. Instead of just getting redirected to a “nanner nanner nanner please pay us first,” you can at least see the opening graph or two. And then we beg for your money. Check it out! We need more subscribers! Thanks.

In the early days of FSM, one of the first people who reached out about making a “soundtrack fan club” (or something like that) was Andy Dursin, who has been writing The Aisle Seat for several decades, and is now a lifelong friend. We were delighted to discover we were around the same age and lived not far from each other in Southern New England—so we’d hop the Schamonchi ferry (New Bedford–Vineyard Haven) for reciprocal visits. I loved my time at Andy’s house. His folks wer

As I type the listings for Jeanne Jones’ collection, I am encountering price tags from our legendary soundtrack past...Jeanne sure got around! Footlight Records in lower Manhattan was mindblowing for a soundtrack collector in the 1980s and ’90s. Their phone number is still burned into my memory. This was before the Internet, so there was no IMDB or discogs. They stocked out-of-print and import LPs and CDs and you’d flip through the racks and discover things you always wanted

I didn’t realize Dune 3 is coming out this year. The trailer: I’m excited to see this—and wondering how they adapt the story, as the Dune sequel novels are bonkers.

Thanks for your orders from yesterday and the start of the Jeanne Jones Collection sale . We are so overwhelmed by it, we listed her A through C titles only. Here’s the state of the inventory as of this morning , and go to FSMCDs.com to order please. Next sale launches March 31, 2026 at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern—and we will stay on that schedule, with a new sale every other Tuesday, for the foreseeable future. Thanks!

UPDATE Friday 3/20/26: Here is an updated spreadsheet of our inventory . ### We are live at FSMCDs.com with the first 1,500+ listings from the Jeanne Jones collection, the A through C titles! Here is a spreadsheet of our total inventory , and you can review this, or the listings directly at FSMCDs.com , where you can place your orders. As I wrote yesterday , there is an abundance of promos, cut-outs, industry CDRs, and rare but low-priced odds and ends. Jeanne scoured the lo

We lost Jeanne Jones in February, she was a longtime collector and fixture of the film music community. Please see this lovely reminiscence from filmmaker Willard Carroll . (Above is a picture of us from an event of some kind 10–20 years ago, I wish I knew which one!) This might be something folks expected, but we have her CD collection and it is next up at FSMCDs.com . But it is so huge that we need to make some changes in how we do things. Jeanne was an incredible personali

From time to time I get pitches from new streaming platforms asking to distributor my meager output as a filmmaker. I just got another one yesterday. They all have a lot of utopian pitch language about making a better system for audiences and filmmakers—but I’m afraid, until one really proves me wrong, I’m dubious about their prospects. It seems like we have enough platforms already, right?

Check out the latest episode of Dropping Names With Brent and Jonny , the new podcast by Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, where they have Seth MacFarlane as a guest. Halfway through they discuss film composers: Seth’s lunch with John Williams, and Frakes and Rick Berman working with Jerry Goldsmith on First Contact : Fun stuff!

If you have read our Best of Film Score Monthly book, please consider leaving a review at Amazon —thanks!

I am deep in the time-consuming work of CD data entry. Announcement to come!