Intrada Soundtrack Forum

The recent LLL release of Scarface made me think just how common it is for official documentation to misspell track titles and/or performers' names (e.g., Turn Out the Light instead of Night), and how the labels must maintain those mistakes. How do such high-budgeted projects not receive the most basic of proofreading or information gathering?

Bonus discussion: It's also weird how full writing credits are hardly ever documented for songs that were not officially released at the time of their respective films. For instance, no lyricist noted for "Right Combination" or "Success" on the Scarface release.

Again, this isn't just about Scarface specifically, but rather something that I've noticed often.

Also "Hanger Shootout" on the Bad Boys score album.

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Sometimes spelling mistakes just happen, like bad weather. In some cases, there are just so many individuals that pass over the cue titles, from the composer's own spelling of words (Jerry Goldsmith was sometimes "creative"), through the orchestrators and copyists involved in preparing the music, on through the secretaries and other staff that type up what they receive for administrative and publishing purposes, through cue sheet production and so forth... right on through identification by the myriad artists and producers handling all of the corresponding commercial uses of the cues in performance and on record. Whew! That's a lot of hands (and eyes) involved and sometimes a word is just spelled incorrectly somewhere in the process.
--Doug

The most famous one have to be from Alan Silvestri`s Eraser.

On the original STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE album, was "Vjur" an intentional phonetic "misspelling" of "V'ger", or was that an actual "mistake"? I'm sure I read somewhere about that.

It permeates film and television, too. I was recently reminded of how Sam Beckett's last name was misspelled in the slapdash end card for the series finale of Quantum Leap. Still more forgivable than the awful title music arrangement used throughout the final season. And even more forgivable than not having a more substantial soundtrack album for the series.

The Varèse Sarabande Deluxe Edition of TOTAL RECALL spelled one cue "The Hollowgram" that was formerly called "The Hologram"... I always wondered if that was a play-on-words joke (HOLLOW MAN), or a mere typo.