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INTRADA
Announces:



CONDORMAN
Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 219

The 1981 Disney film Condorman features a tremendously energetic score by composer Henry Mancini -- his first film for Disney. Mancini’s Condorman theme is genuinely thrilling from the start, with its pulsating rhythms, syncopated stresses, and exuberant bridge passage. It’s the musical equivalent of Condorman's boundless optimism: no matter how bad things get, he’s ever ready to rush in and set things right. The dynamic Condorman theme gets plenty of play in the score, covering wild car chases, staging explosive rescues, and ultimately soaring through the skies in a fully functional Condorman costume. For the evil Russian agents, Mancini provides a growling line with stepwise motion and a distinctly Slavic inflection. But the heart of both film and score is the character of Natalia, who winds up falling in love with her dashing rescuer. Mancini’s sumptuous theme for Natalia is certainly among the loveliest romantic themes written for a comic adventure.

For this premiere release of Henry Mancini’s dynamic score in vivid stereo, the Disney engineering crew made new digital transfers of the entire multi-track sessions for Intrada. Every session roll survived in beautiful condition, including the choral “Con-dor-maaaaan” overdub sessions held after the orchestra sessions had been completed. The entire score is presented on this CD, including full-length versions of cues as written and recorded by Mancini prior to the picture’s post-production editing.

Condorman is a Cold War tale of “upsmanship espionage” in which an ordinary man stumbles into work as a superspy and must perform a high-stakes international extraction of a communist defector. English actor Michael Crawford plays Woody Wilkins, a comic-book artist whose insistence on “realism” prompts him to dress up as his own fictional character and attempt flights from the Eiffel Tower. When Woody’s bemused CIA friend Harry (James Hampton) is tasked with finding a civilian to carry out a seemingly insignificant document drop in Istanbul, Woody jumps at the chance to put his persona into action.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 219
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7849/.f

Thank you so much for releasing this fun and vibrant score. Audio quality is outstanding.

I can't say thank you enough for this release. Its been on my wish list for a very long time, and here you've release it complete with extras.

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This movie is a pure treasure from my childhood. I've wanted this score for a long time and now I can scratch it from the long list of Disney scores we couldn't even imagine we'd have one day on CD, because you know... this was Disney. But Intrada changed the rules, and now the Condorman can relive from his ashes and fly again...

Condormaaaaaan !

Mancini is up there with Delerue as one of my favorite composers. Will definitely be getting this!

Complete?, multi-track stereo?, extras?, U.K. poster art?

*FAINTS*

ORDERED!

I thought I was dreaming when I saw this!!! Thank you sooooo much Intrada: I was just told about this release by a friend so I HAVE to come and thank you personally. No one ever thought this score would get a release, including me. I've loved the film and soundtrack since I was a child and have been looking for it for the last 17 years! Since then I've had to put up with listening to diabolical VHS and DVD rips with sound fx and dialogue over the top - absolutley horrible. You guys have made my year worthwhile. Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!

This was my 2nd most wanted grail so needless to say I'm as thrilled as anyone could be right now. I'll be ordering ordering two copies as an extra thank you for making what was once a dream into a reality.

Thanks again Intrada and Disney for this release and for all you've done to please us soundtrack fans.

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Top 10 Grails: Revenge of the Ninja/Less Than Zero/Making Contact/Cobra/Over the Top/Highlander/Time Bandits/Top Gun/Listen to Me
Last 5 purchased: Jaws/Jaws 2/Back to the Future II/Back to the Future III/Nightmare Elm Street Box/Amityville Horror

This really is exciting!
I love seeing what you guys release even though the majority of titles are not my thing I enjoy the fact that other score fans get their grails......

But Condorman is MY grail, I can picture myself now sitting in front of the tv with a tape recorder taping the score onto cassette from the tv's speakers.

You've made me very very happy.
Thank you.

*Can you have a word with Disney about a Blu-ray release

At last CONDORMAN flies,thanks to INTRADA.
This one is a pure gem & a grail to some
Doug & the gang are making 2012 very exciting & of course it is not over yet.
Cant wait to get my hands on this one

Condorman fans might enjoy this.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKY01V_Kh5Q

First run already sold out. The next run will be available in about 3-2 weeks.
Question to Doug or Roger : I was just wondering how many discs have been produced for the first run ? 1500 ? Do you always produce the same quantity of discs for every title, or do you adjust the quantity depending on the title ?

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Yeah that's what made me wonder how many discs can be produced in the first run of Condorman. Did they underestimate the quantity that would sell quickly, or was the selling of this title simply huge just like Conan ? I'm always glad to see a Disney title selling well, that means more Disney along the way... ^^

That's right McFly. What a terrific offer we get nowadays.

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