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Just got through listening to Guns of the Magnificent Seven from the recent FSM Westerns set. As I listened, it was quite bizarre given how well I know the original Magnificent Seven score and film and the scenes the music coincides with to hear how the arrangers cobbled together themes into sometimes coherent pieces and sometimes pretty incongruent cues in that music not meant to flow together were attached by an artificial bridge to ensure that there was enough to cover the scene. Anyway, it plays much like a concert suite of the original rather than as a score.
Now onto Return of the Seven. As I understand it, this LP (later released on CD) was a rerecord of cues from Magnificent Seven to coincide with the release of the sequel film (the first film never had a release of its own until recent years). Therefore, the cues on the release named Return of the Seven are not actually the cues for that film. Are you following this?
So my question is this. Are the arrangements of Bernstein's score from Magnificent Seven as recorded for and used in Return of the Seven worthy of their own release?
Thoughts? Haven't seen Return of the Seven in a VERY long time.
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