Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Here is Vince Guaraldi’s “Thanksgiving Theme” from the Peanuts specials.

Yesterday was November 23rd. And it fell on a Tuesday. This rang a bell because it was on a Tuesday, November 23, 1993—28 years...

Yesterday I wrote about The Split (Quincy Jones) being down to the last ten (now eight) copies. It is very strange to be talking about...

One of the coolest scores we ever released at Film Score Monthly is down to the last 10 copies at Screen Archives. If you love 1960s/’70s...

Just a quick shout-out today to one of my favorite YouTube channels, Enzo Music, for his lovingly crafted remixes of 1980s film and TV...

One of the earliest FSM albums that I remember putting special attention into was the first CD we did from I Spy, the groundbreaking...

There’s no dignified way to write a begging letter. And I should know, I’ve written a lot of them! Here’s my best attempt from a Screen...

I’ve reached the point of watching so much Narcos that I feel like I can speak fluent Spanish, even though I barely understand a word....

In the 1980s, somehow or other I stumbled across some interesting small-press books about Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I don’t...

I was looking for something “from the archives” to post and it was slow going...until I found a folder of “Pukas” cartoons by Altomari...

UPDATE: Of course, they took it down (pic above is a screen cap). Can’t wait to hear it for real! I love Cowboy Bebop. I am looking...

I am going through a somewhat complicated reckoning with the fact that I’ve spent my whole life enamored with...stuff, for lack of a...

I watched The Bonfire of the Vanities on HBOMax. I was looking at the A–Z of movies in the TCM section, it came up (this is why cheapo...

Congrats and many thanks to the Small family and Tim Greiving for a brand new and terrific website dedicated to the late Michael Small,...

Today is Friday, which reminded me of one of my favorite obscure TV themes—which I’m not sure we’ve ever talked about on the FSM board....

Here is the tape box to part one of Elmer Bernstein’s masters to his glorious symphonic score to Heavy Metal (1981). This was one of my...

Yesterday I took potshots at the late Michael Wayne, who I thought deserved it. It made me think of some of the other folks who have...

I have a rule that I don’t use this blog to go after people I don’t like—especially if they have passed and are no longer around to...

This is page one of the “Film Tech Logs,” as we called them, for the masters for Miklós Rózsa’s score to the 1954 Grace Kelly film, Green...

When we started the FSM record label, we did our own fulfillment. This lasted until the fall of 2004 when I reached total burn out: if...