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!

I saw an A.I. video on YouTube, that I’m not going to bother to link to, that was just plagiarism of Star Wars clips—instead of getting shot in Empire , Threepio pulls out a bat and beats up another robot. The technical quality is getting better exponentially, but it’s still a world of crap. It really makes me think if the problem isn’t the technology but the operators. How many people in the world can really make a great film? A few dozen? A hundred?

I have not seen The Bride! I didn’t even know there was such a movie. I loved Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first film, The Lost Daughter . I guess The Bride! doesn’t really work but people sure are laying into it. The vitriol for it seems just so—I guess ugly is the word.

The March 2026 issue of FSM Online is live ! I particularly enjoyed the piece on Dan Romer and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , as I’ve really enjoyed that show and its music. We are working on additional functionality like article previews. We need subscribers!!! Thanks!

My least favorite morning of the year: daylight savings time begins. I think it’s necessary to have daylight savings time, but I don’t like how they changed it some years ago to start several weeks earlier. (Keeping it an extra few weeks in October for kids trick or treating on Halloween makes sense.) I’ll be awake eventually.

I’ve written before about how I read comic books as a kid in the 1980s. I loved the Marvel X-books and still have nostalgic fondness for that era. I stopped briefly into a comic book earlier this week...and it’s always a strange experience. It feels so far removed from what I knew and loved. I asked the guy working there if any kids buy comics now. He seemed surprised by the question. I think he said something about parents occasionally bringing in their kids while they shop.

Check out this very comprehensive transcription—with annotations—on the seminal “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi: Very informative!

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