One of my favorite tracks of the 1990s was “My Life Before Me” from The Portrait of a Lady, with those haunting recorders by Wojciech Kilar. We have it for only $3.
We have a copy of The Poseidon Adventure by John Williams on La-La Land, $45.
I try to price our titles fairly, staying well below the crazy eBay prices. I usually use the current price at Discogs as a guide, and then go a bit under. The “hot” titles help pay for all the $1–3 ones, and make it worth the while for the person whose CD it is, after all. It usually works out...so I’m not quite sure what’s up with The Postman Always Rings Twice, a terrific, darkly romantic neo-noir Michael Small score in his Marathon Man style, finally released by Intrada after years of collectors wanting it. We priced it at $65 (it’s $75 at Discogs and way more than that on eBay) and presently have four copies. So I’m going to slash it to $45 and see if there are any takers? Here, here, here and here.
We have a sealed copy of Prehysteria! by Richard Band on Intrada, $35.
We have a sealed copy of Primal Fear by James Newton Howard on La-La Land, $20.
We have two copies of Stromberg and Morgan’s recording of Korngold’s The Prince and the Pauper, on Tribute Film Classics, $25.
We have one copy of the CDR-on-demand of Prisoners, a very moody Johann Johannsson score, on WaterTower, to the excellent Denis Villeneuve film, $35.
We have a copy of the Tadlow recording of Rózsa’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, $10.
Early Goldsmith: we have one copy of the FSM release of The Prize, $15.
We have a cheap copy of the Varèse Sarabande Project X (Horner), $8.
Next are, oh my, PROMOS! I have some apprehension about these. They came our way (from more than one collector) and I said, sure, I’ll sell them. But I’m always trying to price items fairly and it can be hard to say what is fair. A lot of these are rare and one-of-a-kind items. But they’re also, in a lot of cases, just work by-products. Twenty years ago, before people could easily email music files, they burned CDR for submissions to filmmakers, journalists, producers, radio stations, etc.—or just to give to somebody down the hall at work. So a lot of them are just CDRs with labels slapped on. But some of them actually are well produced composers promo CDs. So yeah, it’s confusing. Plus, it’s not always easy to identify what is a CDR vs. a pressed disc.
So let’s see...we have a four-track advance promo of Eternal Echoes by John Barry. Is it worth $5? It’s not anything you can’t hear on the actual album. But it is legit, and a unique pressing. So, well, if you want it, we have it.
Music for Film by Randy Miller is a nicely packaged “real” album, $12.
The promos start on this page at the store. We have advance copies of Williams scores like Memoirs of a Geisha and Lincoln—but it’s really up to you to decide if they enhance your collection.
By the way, there are notes I made on a few of these promos, “very old, might not play.” Obviously, when an item is defective, we will give a full refund.
We have Prophecy, the Leonard Rosenman score on FSM, for $12. Here is the greatest film clip you will ever see, courtesy this masterpiece. You’re welcome!
We have the other Prophecy, the 1990s movie scored by David Williams, on Perseverance for $35.
We have two copies of the vintage SAE CD, The Proud Rebel (Moross) for $35.
We have Goldsmith’s expanded Psycho II on Intrada, $18.
Quentin Durward is a medieval adventure score (but lighthearted) by Bronislau Kaper that we released at FSM, only $8.
We have the vintage Milan CD of Quest for Fire by Sarde, $15.
Let’s conclude today—and the Q listings—with one of my favorite projects to have worked on in recent years, the first volume of Quinn Martin television music. Jon Burlingame produced this for La-La Land Records and it’s a crackerjack collection of 1970s scoring by first-rate composers Goldsmith (Barnaby Jones), Grusin (Dan August), Schifrin (Most Wanted) and others. But my favorite track is the killer David Shire main title for an obscure show called Tales of the Unexpected. We have a sealed copy for $25.
Back tomorrow with the R titles—thanks!
I like David Shire's theme for this Tales Of The Unexpected more than Ron Grainer's theme for the more famous Tales Of The Unexpected - you can't beat some '70s grooves.