Thanks for all your orders from yesterday’s mini-sale at FSMCDs.com ! Today is shipping today. We have a lot of empty boxes around here! Here is the spreadsheet of our current inventory . You can review this list if it’s easier than browsing on the store itself . Thank you!

We have added a small lot of CDs to FSMCDs.com : around 60 John Williams CDs, and anoher 120 of all composers that sadly suffered from water damage—but in most cases, the discs themselves are fine, and they are super cheap! And remember, there are now thousands of CDs with SALE PRICES, including what we have left of Douglass Fake’s collection. You may want to browse this spreadsheet of our complete inventory (new items at top), and then go to FSMCDs.com to order. In other n

We will go live with a small lot at FSMCDs.com tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). There are around 60 John Williams CDs (in great condition) plus another 115 CDs or so (all composers) from a different collector which unfortunately suffered water damage. So typically the booklets are shot—and sometimes there is even print matter stuck to the tops of the discs—but the discs themselves should be playable (your meager money back if not). So if you

Congrats to La-La Land for their Bad Boys and Bad Boys II CDs announced today. Check out the bundle here . Crazy to think that Bad Boys is 30 (actually 31) years old. Back in the 1990s, when I started FSM, that would be like us celebrating a reissue of a 1966 score—wow!

Harrison Ingemarson made this piano reduction of John Williams’ theme for Amazing Stories : I remember watching this for the first time with the imaginative title sequence: What can you say about master composer like John Williams, who knows how to create an instantly memorable tune, perfectly arranged? It’s like a lost art now. Although the show had a lot of promise—a Twilight Zone -style anthology, made by top filmmakers (Spielberg!)—outside of a few episodes, it just wasn’

Please see our Kickstarter campaign page for an update today —thanks!

As promised we received our final replacement books from Amazon of The Best of Film Score Monthly: 35 Years of Loving Soundtracks (some of the initial batch were dinged up) and we will spend today and tomorrow sending those to the final Kickstarter donors. Thanks for your patience! The dinged copies, by the way, are half-price on our website . The book itself is available worldwide from Amazon . If you’ve already read and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a review at Amazo

There will be a celebration of Jeanne Jones’ life next Wednesday: Jeanne Jones Celebration of Life Wednesday, February 25 10:30 am - Noon   The Church On The Way Hayford Prayer Chapel 14344 Sherman Way Van Nuys CA 91405   There is a large parking lot right next to the Prayer Chapel. Enter the lot from Sherman Way, just to the west of the building. Also, Jeanne’s friends are presently going through her apartment. There is a large amount of collectible material: books, scrapboo

We had a great week of sales to thin out the stock in my living room—thank you! Thousands of great titles still available. Here’s a spreadsheet , and order directly at www.fsmcds.com . Thanks!

Thank you to everybody who bought from yesterday’s clearance sale, we had a busy day! Here is a spreadsheet of what remains in inventory —and please go to FSMCDs.com to order. Doug Fake had one of the most impressive collections I’ve ever seen—and I would know! He was especially comprehensive with Italian soundtracks (Beat, Cinevox, GDM, etc.) and those rare titles are a lot of what we still have now—now at discounted prices. Hope you find some goodies. Thanks!

We are slashing prices on what we still have of the Douglass Fake CD collection —as well as some other collections that we’ve been selling for nearly a year. The reason is simple: we have MORE collections coming in, and we don’t have any room! Visit the store to order , or see this spreadsheet of the complete inventory —Doug’s titles start with “DCF” in the last column, and you can sort by that column as well. Other collections with sale prices are LAR, FED, PCL and a few oth

Check out this video of Vince Guaraldi (with bass and drums) playing “Linus and Lucy,” courtesy Lee Mendelson Film Productions: It’s billed as the earliest television recording, from 1964—but I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen a video of Vince playing. I have read that he had short fingers which led in part to his unique sound. It’s hard to describe, but his music just doesn’t sound the same played by anybody else.

We are continuing our work at FSM Online to make the decades-long library of backissues more easy to navigate. Subscribers, check it out so far—thanks !

I’m sad to report that longtime collector Jeanne Jones has passed. I mentioned her GoFundMe last month . Please see this thread on the FSM board with info on a remembrance in the L.A. area on the 25th—I’ll be there. I received this remembrance from longtime friend, filmmaker Willard Carroll, who asked to share a few words with the community: ### In the ’90s I purchased quite a few soundtracks from one J.J. Jones. After a couple of years of contact, I extended an invitation t

Today would have been Jerry Goldsmith’s 97th birthday. Check out this great piece by Tim Greiving on Goldsmith , informed by his time interviewing John Williams.

Happy 94th birthday to the Greatest Of All Time, John Williams, still going strong—looking forward to Disclosure Day! His birthday was yesterday. Also congrats to Intrada who made their Kickstarter goal to The Night of the Hunter ! And really, congrats to US who will get to hear it.

It’s the final stretch for Intrada’s Kickstarter to make a new recording of Walter Schumann’s transcendent score for The Night of the Hunter . Please help support this effort! Thanks!

Artist Paul Shipper has made available the cover art from the Best of FSM 35th Anniversary book on his website . It’s beautiful work and I’m so honored to have it for our book!

Today’s update is going to be super annoying—it is for me! We used Amazon print-on-demand for the Best of Film Score Monthly book. It was cheaper and more convenient than a conventional printer. I do not have the funds to do a 1,000-copy print run (and then have to deal with ongoing warehousing, shipping, etc.). The book has come out really well...except for one problem. Out of the “author’s copies” I ordered to ship to the Kickstarter donors, 114 of them were dinged, perfor

I saw this YouTube video by Ryan Leach about five amateur composer mistakes: And what can I say? Yup—seems right to me.