Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Paramount did recently license the dvd rights for several of their films to a company called . These were titles that Paramount was not interested in releasing themselves. So, they are willing to make deals, if the money is right. Just got to make them an offer they can't refuse.

You're right Blind. An offer that wouldn't be refused if is someone bought the entire music library from them and put Nick Redman, Robert Townson or Doug Fake in charge of it and do all their great remastering and preservation for those scores that are now deemed lost or deteriorating in those vaults.

My friend told me a story once about how bad they've been I'm sure people remember those Star Trek albums from GNP Cresendo of the original series, not the STNG or STNS9. That someone had found those tapes in a dumpster and luckily those were saved. I wonder if they've done the same thing that MGM did emptying their music vaults and throwing away all those golden age scores right into the garbage, which was an absolute disgrace and a disservice to the integrity of those great composers who put their heart and soul into those projects.

Just think of all the scores that are just sitting there waiting to be rediscovered again in their full glory like:

Islands in the Stream (Jerry Goldsmith's original tracks)
Nate and Hayes (Trevor Jones)
The Golden Child (Michel Colombier and John Barry's full scores)
True Grit (Elmer Bernstein's original tracks)
In Harm's Way (Jerry Goldsmith)
48 Hours (James Horner)
Mommie Dearest (Henry Mancini)
Airplane! (Elmer Bernstein)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Miles Goodman)
Star Trek The Wrath of Khan (James Horner, complete)
Star Trek 3 The Search for Spock (James Horner, complete)
Hunt for Red October (Basil Poledouris, complete)
Major League (James Newton Howard)
Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (Harold Faltermeyer)
Beverly Hills Cop 3 (Nile Rodgers)
Escape From Alcatraz (Jerry Fielding)
French Postcards (Lee Holdridge)
Venom (Michael Kamen)
Racing With the Moon (Dave Grusin)
Breakdown (Basil Poledouris)
Trading Places (Elmer Bernstein)
I.Q. (Jerry Goldsmith)
Flight of the Intruder (Basil Poledouris)
Best Defense (Patrick Williams)
Coming to America (Nile Rodgers)
Harlem Nights (Herbie Hancock)
Some Kind of Hero (Patrick Williams)
Seven Days In May (Jerry Goldsmith)
Sebastian (Jerry Goldsmith)
Man, Woman and Child (Georges Delerue)

I could go on and on and on and everyone here would have their own personal picks as which scores they'd love to see released from their enslavery in the Paramount Vaults.

The Godfather (complete)
Godfather II (complete)
Will Penny
Posse (1976)
McLintock
The Shootist
Sons of Katie Elder
White Christmas (complete)