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INTRADA Announces



KING KONG LIVES
Music Composed and Conducted by JOHN SCOTT


INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 214


For the sequel to the 1976 remake King Kong, composer John Scott was brought in to give both Kong and his new love musical life, capturing both the romance, the adventure, and the thrills of having two apes in love and on the loose. Contrary to direction film composers get nowadays, Scott was told to provide melody and emotion. Today's filmmakers run to the hills when they hear those two word associated with music. As John Scott notes in the original album liner notes:

The resultant score is basically two themes,“Kong, The Noble Beast” and “Kong’s Nemeses” (Colonel Nemit and the Army). Kong’s theme takes on different shapes as it traces its way through the film and even mirrors the relationship between Mitch and Amy as their relationship mirrors the romance of Kong and Lady Kong. This theme reaches its full glory in the cue “Kong’s Final Battle.”

At the time of the film's release, Scott had produced a 47-minute MCA LP that captured most of the score, providing the perfect presentation. While no CD was released in the US, a Japanese CD emerged, with some additional Gorilla grunts added for good measure. Now Intrada has released the first US release of the score on CD (without the gorilla editorials). One of John Scott's finest hours deservedly brought back into print.

Ten years after the events in King Kong, Kong is still alive—albeit in a coma and surviving on life support—waiting for a heart transplant in a secret medical institute. The plan is to provide him with a computer-monitored artificial heart by surgeon Amy Mitchell (Linda Hamilton). Massive amounts of matching blood will be needed for the operation, so earnest adventurer Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) is assigned to find a blood donor. He travels to Borneo, where he comes upon a huge female gorilla and brings her back. Kong’s operation proves difficult, but all goes well. When Kong is revived, it is love at first scent, and the big gorilla goes bananas, escaping the institute and running off with his new girlfriend in his arms.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 214
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7793/.f

A huge release for Intrada that is as big as King Kong himself.

And without the grunts!

I've been sticking with the AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST CDs of late, but this I must have now! I got the DVD from Netflix in the mail this afternoon in anticipation of this realese.
If you are wondering... Yes, I am going to watch it again. This will be the first time since we rented it when it made its way to Betamax home video. I'm sure the kids will get a kick out of it. Or kick me when it's over. One of the two.
Thanks Intrada.

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Chris

To quote Lou Diamond Phillips and Mark Wahlberg in THE BIG HIT (1998).

Phillips - Sequels are never as good as the original.
Wahlberg - Hey that's not really true tho... ever seen KING KONG LIVES ?
Phillips - Damn!!! That's like... That's like a sequel to a remake... It's in a category of it's own.

Cracks me up every time.





Great release Intrada even if the movie is a turkey... It's got one dynamite score...

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Most Wanted Unreleased scores:
Howard Shore's AN INNOCENT MAN (1989) Touchstone/Buena Vista
Richard Halligan's THE OCTAGON (1980) American Cinema
Sante Maria Romitelli's GOD'S GUN (1976) MGM/Cannon
Trevor Jones' FREEJACK (1992) Morgan Creek

Awesome release - ordered along with High Plains Drifter. What a fantastic week of releases from Intrada - thanks guys!

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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

A RELEASE TO "GO APE" OVER? - YOU BET IT IS!

Ordered (along with a crate of bananas! )

I'm so happy, I could cry.

Needless to say, an instant order. My favorite John Scott score. Thanks Intrada.

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Another awesome year with Intrada... 2012

Fantastic! KING KONG LIVES is probably my favorite score by John Scott. The themes are incredible, very evocative and the performance of the Graunke is great. And most of all, the album tells a story. And that, to me, it has no price (well ok, $19,99 ).

Thank you to John Scott! Thank you Intrada!

Ordered!

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Rame Tep! Rame Tep! Rame Tep!

Kong Lives!!! He sure does thanks too Intrada.
I'm beating my chest with excitement, great release guys & awsome artworks.

King Kong"
"King Kong Lives"

Boy, now would sure be a good time to complete a trifecta and release Howard Shore's rejected score to the 2005 film.

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

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I´VE COME HERE TO DRINK COCONUTS AND *censour*...AND I´M ALL OUT OF COCONUTS...

I´m a dirt merchant and a figure of your imagination

The samples sound fantastic, I'll be getting this one! Thanks Intrada!

Thank you, Intrada! Never thought I'd see the day...