It’s our final week of the Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, and I’m proud to announce a new partner: The album will be distributed and coproduced by my friends at La-La Land Records! This is a perfect match: I no longer have the infrastructure to handle the distribution and administration of soundtrack releases, while La-La Land (recently featured in The New York Times) has released hundreds of incredible original soundtrack rec

Four days left in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores—please help! We are making a distribution announcement tomorrow—what will it be? Come back tomorrow! So much excitement!

We are in the home stretch of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. We are touching $30K of our $45K goal—with the stretch goal (to add Faerie Tale Theatre) being $50K. Two things I want to share... One is what a lifelong fascination I’ve had with Horner’s music, which I am sure is shared by many. I’m especially drawn to his early works—maybe because of the more traditional aesthetics of the era, or nostalgia for my own youth, but I remember so v

We are six days away from the end of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. Thank you to so many who have contributed—we are approaching the two-thirds point, $30K out of the $45K. However, to record the stretch goal, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin” from Faerie Tale Theatre, we’ll need to reach $50K. This will be tight! You can pre-order the digital and/or CD copy for not a lot of money, and every little bit helps. Thank you!

If you have never seen it, there is remarkable footage of young James Horner conducting Something Wicked This Way Comes, filmed by Disney for a documentary: This comes from the era we’ll record with our Kickstarter—one week to go!

We have eight days left in our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV scores. We’re sitting just under $28K of our $45K goal—to say nothing of our stretch goal to add “Faerie Tale Theatre.” We need your support! Congrats to our friends at La-La Land Records for a super-cool article in a little paper called The New York Times—well done! And thanks to everybody who ordered from the new listings yesterday at FSMCDs.com. We’ll be shipping them the rest of the week. Her

We are LIVE at FSMCDs.com with 900+ new listings from the Jeanne Jones collection. We finish the alphabet, V–Z titles, then start over with extra titles that we had to re-file from A to Z, plus odd-sized and “oversized” titles, plus sealed longboxes—really! Here is the spreadsheet of available inventory. This does not update as titles sell, so what you find on the actual site to order, www.fsmcds.com, is the correct inventory. There are still titles yet to be listed in cardbo

There are ten days to go in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early TV movie scores for A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. We’re sitting at nearly $27K of the $45K ask—but that doesn’t include the stretch goal, which will be to add Horner’s 1985 Faerie Tale Theatre score for Nicholas Meyer, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin.” So please help! For $25 you can basically just pre-order the CD, which I have a good feeling most people w

Be here on Tuesday, May 12, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern for the next batch of titles from the Jeanne Jones collection at www.FSMCDs.com. We will finish the alphabet (V–Z titles), then start at the beginning again (A–Z) for 400 or so “re-files” that were left off the first time, plus CDs still sealed in their original longboxes (quite the time capsule) and odd-sized and oversized albums. I am working on listing the “slimlines” (see above) which include a lot of the For Your

As we continue our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores—please contribute, if you have not done so already!—I wanted to share this interview from FSM Online that we also included in the Best of FSM book, thanks to Tim Burden. ### To say that James Horner is one of the best and most successful film composers of the past three decades is probably an understatement. Avatar is a monumental achievement in cinema, and the project was almost ten years in

The new May issue is live at FSM Online. Thanks to your help we were able to build a new site to host our 35+ years of film music coverage—and now we’re rebuilding the subscription rolls so we can continue the mission. If you are not a subscriber, please check out our free tour. Thanks!

My cousin David Kendall has died at the age of 68. This is such a cosmic injustice. He was one of the nicest, warmest, kindest men I have ever known. I don’t want to sound like I’m from The Manchurian Candidate but he really was such a good person. I was not aware he was ill and I am just reeling. He has a long list of credits as a comedy writer, showrunner, director and producer—and from the outpouring of affection on social media, he was much loved. As a kid, I remember my

Here’s another priceless James Horner interview archived on YouTube, his 1992 appearance at UCLA. I would have loved to have access to this stuff when I was getting into film music in the 1980s!

We are nearing the halfway point of our Kickstarter campaign to record James Horner’s early TV movie scores, and we’ve crossed the $25K mark—this is good! If you’ve never seen Horner’s 2005 TED Talk, it’s an interesting and very direct look at how Horner saw his work: Missing him all the time!

Years ago, Dennis Schmidt created an index (actually, a table of contents) for the FSM print edition that we used to made a search engine at the website. The search on the site is not functioning at the moment, but I realized I could just put the index on my Google Drive for people to consult. This will help you find articles in the print archive. I so want to have all this properly reconfigured on the site itself! It’s just expensive to have the programming done.

If you are not a subscriber to FSM Online, the paywall portion of our site (and continuation of the magazine, which started all the way back in 1990) please visit this FREE TOUR. Pretty cool stuff—thanks!

Congrats to US, I guess, for getting a “Projects We Love” badge from Kickstarter for our James Horner Television Music Recording campaign. We are over halfway to our initial goal, but we’ll need more than that to add our stretch goal, of recording Horner’s score for Faerie Tale Theatre. Thanks!

I have seen a lot of very early Varèse Sarabande pressings while processing the Jeanne Jones collection for FSMCDs.com. I came across two slightly different discs of the Fred Steiner Star Trek, Vol. 1 CD from 1985. Fortunately I knew who to ask, John Stroud, a very knowledgeable collector, and generous with his time! “They’re both Japan-for-U.S. pressings, but the top one is the original first pressing by Victor Musical Industries (as printed at the bottom on the label side!)

Thanks for all your purchases from FSMCDs.com this week! Thousands of items still in stock, here is an updated spreadsheet. Here’s an update I just posted to Kickstarter: THANK YOU! We’re one week into our 30-day campaign and have reached the halfway point of our initial goal of $45,000 to record James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino—thank you! Want to watch these obscure movies, and hear the scores in

It’s our first shipping day out of our new office! Usually I would just snap a picture of the orders on the “staging” table, soon to ship, but I’m still working from my home office so they’re not here! So let me plug our James Horner Kickstarter again which is nearly halfway to our $45K ask after one week—a great start! Thank you to everybody who has contributed, and spread the word. We had a big sales day yesterday, but there are still thousands of titles in stock. Here is t

UPDATE: There was a problem this morning where the cart exclusivity (six hours) was not working. So people found items disappearing from their carts. This has been fixed. However, the fix is not retroactive. If you have something in your cart and you want it, please buy it asap. We always, as a matter of S.O.P., combine multiple orders to save on shipping. I can’t tell you how embarrassed and sorry I am that we have had these tech problems. You guys are such great customers a

As we continue to sell the CD collection of our late friend Jeanne Jones—the next batch of titles go on sale tomorrow at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern—I’ve received a few inquiries about her very significant LP collection. Those are being sold by Soundtrackers at their Discogs and Amazon stores. The listings go live today! Thank you for all your support on our James Horner TV project Kickstarter, which heads into week two looking good—please keep it up! Thanks!

My mom found this in the crawlspace. I was nine years old. Page two: Would love to play with Pop Pop again!

We moved into our new office the past two days. It’s already out of room! So we’ll just have to sell more stuff!!! Back Tuesday with more from the Jeanne Jones collection.