Our friends at the Hollywood Bowl have a giveaway offer for the upcoming annual John Williams concert—check it out! ### We're giving away a pair of tickets to Maestro of the Movies at the Hollywood Bowl! To enter: Follow @HollywoodBowl, @soundingpointla, and @FilmScoreMonthly (Facebook) Tag 2 friends in the comments One winner will be selected to receive a pair of tickets Experience the ultimate celebration of John Williams, the legendary composer behind the unforgettable sco

Here’s good news: the Intrada Battlestar Galactica (classic) albums by Stu Phillips are coming back as an 8CD box set. I love Intrada’s video trailers, wish we could have done them back in the day for FSM!

I did not expect to be operating a used CD store—or, when I did, to be sitting on 7,000+ film music CDs, with thousands available for under $5. If you’re looking to fill out your collection with stuff you always considered trying, you’d be shocked to see they’re available now for $1-5. It’s a great time to buy! Here is our store, and a spreadsheet of inventory for review. Thanks!

Work on our Kickstarter-financed recording of rare James Horner TV scores is proceeding on schedule! Neumation Music, who have done the engraving, put together a video (using computer samples) of the end title cue, check it out on Facebook. Lovely!

Mark Rydell has died at the age of 97. Here’s the Deadline obituary. He made some great movies, and worked with great composers, notably John Williams on The Reivers, The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty and The River. And On Golden Pond by Dave Grusin is good. His first feature film as director was The Fox, with a great Lalo Schifrin score. R.I.P.

Happy birthday to the late James Horner, who would have been 73 today. I remember reading about him in the 1980s when he was barely in his thirties.

I forgot to mention I saw Project Hail Mary on the plane during last month’s vacation, and thought it was excellent. I liked the score, too, with its sort of galactic hymn-and-world music approach. It’s funny because if this was made in 1983 we’d have a top-five all-time Jerry Goldsmith score, but times have changed and so have audience sensibilities. Lord and Miller definitely have an approach that works, but to think they tried to make Solo full of this kind of jokiness—tha

Thank you to everybody who bought from our new sale list at FSMCDs.com, see yesterday’s blog. Here is a current spreadsheet of inventory. Want to know something interesting? Right now we have 7,267 items in stock. Know what the median price is? $5. There are 1212 items in stock that are $15 and up, and they are valued at $30,462. The other 6,056 items are valued at $27,184. Put another way: 4,532 items (priced from free to $5) are valued at $12,589. I could go deeper into it,

So here’s the situation at FSMCDs.com. This is a weird problem to have—but we have it. We have a collection that just came that we are processing to sell in September. We’ll have a lot more about it soon because it’s really cool, and really big, and has the juicy collector editions that always sell like hotcakes. But we literally have no place to put it. The way our “warehouse” works (just a big room in an office building—it used to be my house!), we have six-foot fold-out ta

I am typing up more CD listings for FSMCDs.com—you’ll hear about it soon! As our regular customers know, I make a note in the listings when the limited edition has a specific number, e.g. 2346/3000. And I’m astonished at the size of these pressing runnings that we did 20–30 years ago. (Above is a still from Dragonslayer, as the SCSE edition comes to mind.) Nowadays, it feels like many of these titles would be lucky to sell 500 or 1,000—though I wouldn’t know, not running an a

Well this is an exciting surprise—the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is debuting a “new” piece by the late James Horner, “Skyward Spirit,” which was discovered in his archives and brought to life by his longtime collaborator, Simon Rhodes. Their video is NOT the full piece, alas, but the story behind it. Very excited for this!

We’ve made some improvements at FSMCDs.com in the store interface, making the shopping carts easier to use, and giving some new search options. Hope they help—thanks!

The new issue of FSM Online is live and I am looking forward to reading (well, listening, it’s an audio interview) Tim Burden’s interview with Barry Levinson about his entire composer history—wow! Go here for the new issue—and if you haven’t subscribed, please do so, we need you!

Congrats to La-La Land Records as they make their way through the James Bond catalog, this time with a long overdue 2CD set of Michel Legrand’s score to Never Say Never Again. At last—the “horse chase” music, which I know now is “Escape From Palmyra (Film Version).” (I never realized there’s evidently an alternate of this on the album, also called “Escape From Palmyra.”) What a catchy piece! And yeah, they actually dropped a horse in the ocean—1980s moviemaking: This movie—oy

Mighty Orbots blew my 10-year-old mind when it aired Saturday mornings in the fall of 1984. Visually, at least—the writing was so juvenile, I remember one reviewer said it was only fit for “ormons.” But those dazzling, swirling images (24-frame Japanese animation), and the futuristic designs—and the cool title song and jazzy background music—what a presentation! The show only lasted a season, which was typical for anything space-oriented back in the day so I didn’t pay it muc

Thanks for all your orders from yesterday’s new CD listings! Here is an updated spreadsheet of inventory as of this morning—and the store, as always, is at FSMCDs.com. Thanks!

We are live at FSMCDs.com with more CDs! We have some top-rare Jerry Goldsmith collector’s editions, as well as some film music books from my personal collection, and more odds and ends from Jeanne Jones’ massive collection. Here is a spreadsheet of everything, but keep in mind this does not update as items sell. But it is faster to review than the site itself, which you’ll need to use to order. Hope you find some goodies, thank you!

Be here tomorrow, Tuesday, July 28, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern for a small new lot of CDs and film music books. Oh, and by the way, we only have a couple dozen mugs left from our 35th anniversary Kickstarter. They’re pretty neat!

Congrats to Leigh Phillips, with whom we’re working on our James Horner TV music album, on his new Kickstarter for a volume 3 of Jerry Goldsmith’s Thriller music. He very quickly made his initial goal, but having done some of these things, I can tell you how fast the money goes. Check out the campaign and hope you can contribute. Thanks!

Many thanks to Philippe Blumenthal for reaching out for a short interview, which you can find on their site as of today. The intro and journal is in German, but the interview itself is in English.