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Quick recoupment of investment is in Intrada's best interests; but I hope there aren't many of the rest of us evaluating this (or any) score in terms of how quickly -- or even whether -- it sells out. The value in our collections ought to lie in our own pleasure; not in basking in how many others share our tastes (or crave what we have and THEY can't find).
Doug, you don't really need it since this was a labor of love for you -- but I still thank you and the entire Intrada team for the work in issuing this one! I already owned the RCA LP and the 1978 Japanese reissue but grabbed the SLC disc as soon as I saw it in 1990, not only because I love that music but because I well knew how scarce it had been on vinyl. (I'll tell my unique IN HARM'S WAY tale in a separate post.)
But my point right now is that I never noticed anything deficient about the SLC sources' quality -- though a friend, for whom I made a CD-R years ago, told me for the first time only this week that he had "always had to jack up the bass" on it. Well, years before the CD era began I had developed the habit of taping my LPs, hoping to leave the records themselves pristine; so I admit I never compared the quality there.
Announcement of this Intrada edition was bittersweet. I look forward to this improved quality, though I briefly brooded over learning at the same time that the rest of that score might be permanently unavailable. In addition to action or suspense music which other people here already have mentioned, from seeing the movie over the years I for one have also fallen in love with the second, unreleased Hawaiian source cue from the daylight Naval party sequence. It's so gorgeous, musicallly and dramatically, that I've long wished THAT had been on the album instead of the track we got.
You've mentioned, Doug, how you thought Goldsmith gave you a "wacky" response when he told you "You can't have everything" (referring to a cue he had dropped from an album). That was easier for him to say, because he understood -- as you couldn't -- how much more there was where that had come from!
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