Record Store Day, Soundtrack News & Release Tally

April 26, 2012 | By

Okay… so what began or was intended as one type of post morphed into another, because some recent news fit better here, so let’s begin with first of three sections.

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Topic A: Record Store Day

Like Video Store Day (begun by Toronto’s Eyesore Cinema in 2011), Record Store Day is part of a global celebration of things unique, and the vinyl adoration day is now in its 5th year.

Torontoist did their own report on what happened in Toronto this past April 21, and the publication also did a short spread called “Lost Tunes” with stills of long-gone record stores many of us frequented before they changed, got expensive, downsized, or died.

A&A’s – great selection, pricey, then scattershot, then the store imploded, and their big ‘sales’ before death were regular priced LPs after being discounted from insane pricing. They got greedy, and deserved to die. Quick anecdote: an ex-coworker used to be a clerk, and he recalled some dope they hired who looked under the counter and a funny white button ‘What’s this for?’ he asked, and after pressing the emergency Help button, 7 cop cars arrived in front of the store. Jackass was immediately fired, and the staff & store didn’t have to listen to the same CD over and over and over again.

Cheapies – designed to be a tax write-off, the chain made money because they had great buyers, and it’s where I snapped up tonnes of LPs and got into soundtracks. Still wished I picked up the picture discs of Evil Dead & Miami Vice; both were gone in less than a week. They also had a card for The Right Stuff LP but I wonder if they ever did get product. An ex-coworker at the bookstore worked at the Wellesley shop, and after about a week, her staff became annoyed because she wasn’t stealing product. Before she ended her shift one day, they packed her bag with discs and tapes so she would be ‘one of them’ but it was all for naught: after the company was bought by a Montreal entity, they fired the staff. Also did something stupid: jacked up prices beyond the norm, and opened a ‘superstore’ across the street from their regular store. They got greedy, and deserved to die.

The Incredible Record Store – used to house a huge collection of things new & old, and all ludicrously priced until the Boxing Day sale when that one thing you wanted became affordable. Owner had a news article of him selling a rare Beatles or Elvis LP to someone for $10,000 or something, prompting a slogan something like ‘You’ll Never Know what You’ll Find’ (unless that one belonged to Peter Dunne’s Vinyl Museum).

Record Peddler – After A&A’s imploded, Cheapies died, and Sam the Record Man didn’t restock the good stuff fast enough for me, and after Records on Wheels closed and their location briefly became a Book City, I found the Record Peddler, and bought a few hundred bucks worth of Varese Sarabande albums around the summer of 1989. An acquaintance visiting my dad & me that summer couldn’t understand why I wanted to stay home and listen to my new soundtracks instead of venturing out to Ontario Place to see Mike & the Mechanics. If you too have an issue with my decision, stop reading, and go away, because you’re no longer my friend.

Tower Records – gutted an old bank, I think, and turned it into a snappy multi-leveled store with exposed iron grids and welding. Always liked the look, with laserdiscs & books in the basement, jazz & soundtracks a few floors above. Prices were obscene and predatory towards visiting Americans preferring recognizable brand names. Of course, on Boxing Day, I went bonkers and frequently horrified friends with bags of boxed sets. It all eventually bit me in the pocketbook, but it was fun while it lasted. Towers got greedy, and deserved to die.

Peter Dunne’s Vinyl Museum – THE greatest record store ever. Cheap prices, massive eclectic selection of stuff. Frequently dropped modest cash for bags of LPs, often deletes, plus clear sleeves. If you buy a used LP in North America and find the original LP sleeve missing, and in its place is some big cartoon cat, congrats, you have a piece of Toronto history. Years later I paid collector prices for LPs that sat silently in his mega-delete bins, like On Her Bed of Roses (aka Psychedelic Sexualis). Ground floor was long and narrow, and a metal staircase led to the 2nd floor where the weird stuff – tapes, 8-tracks, soundtracks, lounge, exotica – was. Entire walls were mosaics of LP covers. Near the end, he had a mobile he created that said ‘8-track tapes are as good or better than compact discs,’ which was only true if you were Peter and had boxes of that junk. Peter Dunne was influential in a subtle way: he just stocked everything and was reasonable. Collector shops used to visit his store first to pick out rare stuff and flip it in their own shops. Dunne eventually went born again Christian, and printed “Jesus Saves” on his sleeves, but he stayed in business longer than anyone expected. After closing the Yonge shop, there was the Lakeshore Boulevard spot. When that closed, he moved to his other location in Fort Lauderdale, and eventually got out of the business.

MIA from the Torontoist piece:

Records on Wheels – very deep store that had a great buyer, and great prices. Bought my first Intrada LPs there (Goddamn, Red Dawn & Poltergeist II were pricey!), The Prisoner LP (on the Bam! Caruso label) and other rare UK goodies. They never seemed to follow through with special orders, but that little corner in the back left was filled with good stuff, Eventually they got tired of soundtracks, and it seems records, and closed shop. The location became a Book City for a short while, and Records on Wheels became ROW, major music and video distributors. They eventually were so successful they got deeper into home video. My order of events might be fuzzy, but I think ROW bought Image, and then sold their enterprise to E1. There was talk of the brothers being interested in taking a crack at Blockbuster Canada’s operations, but when the U.S. parent forbid the Canadian arm from using any of Blockbuster intellectual property, I’m sure that contributed to the deal idea dying (and wisely so).

Sam the Record Man – sometimes pricey (his imports were ludicrous) but had ancient stuff that simply shouldn’t have been there. I bought a sealed 1961 copy of One-Eyed Jacks, and it was replaced with another! A friend who worked there said the rafters and top of racks were packed with old LPs, including rare 78s. When he left the store, he bought a chunk. Biggest woe: the blaxploitation LPs I mocked in delete bins I later discovered were GREAT, but like the aforementioned Peter Dunne situation, had to pay semi-collector prices to get a few. I will never sell my Shaft’s Big Score! LP. The Boxing Day ritual was to get there by 9am, because the norm was 30% of all imports, 20% off all domestic. Record snatch: maybe 30 LPs. The chain eventually died out in malls, leaving the original store until business wasn’t so great, and Sam probably felt he was getting tired of it all, so the shop closed. The two big neon records will likely never materialize again in some commercial art display because Ryerson is, what’s the word… stupid? Flip-flopping on a promise they made before buying the buying? Yeah.

Speaking of Ryerson, here’s a March 2011 piece on the store. Better yet, however, is an olde City TV report on the closing of Dunne’s Lakeshore store featuring the great humble man himself, and if you jump to (:33) on the video More Night Ride 1986, you’ll see the store’s exterior for a blip (right after Sam’s and A&A’s bright signage). If anyone has stills of the store, please share, as I’m sure I’m not the only one with fond memories of spending an hour looking for stuff to chance a few bucks on (often with pretty good results). And no, I won’t explain what the hell Night Right was. That’s for another blog post.

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Section B: Record Store Day Specials

As the official U.K. website says, there were in fact some special releases done for that day, though I imagine some of these goodies may be unique to Europe. According to the site, limited 7” platters were created for the following titles (snipped from the Exclusive Products tally):

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Dracula A.D. 1972

The Satanic Rites Of Dracula
7″ numbered copies on blood red vinyl
QTY: 666
Label: Music On Vinyl

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Dr. Who

Dr. Who & The Daleks/Invasion Earth
7″ ltd to 500 copies blue vinyl worldwide. A glorious 7″ 33rpm EP taken from the Soundtracks of the two 1960′s Dr Who films : Dr. Who And The Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150!! Featuring two tracks from the Malcolm Lockyear score to Dr. Who And The Daleks, “Main Theme” and “Mountain” – two slabs of groovy 60′s beat music, lush strings and twangy guitars all round! – PLUS an EXCLUSIVE mini adventure story version of the Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 movie that has been especially created just for this EP- it stars the voice of Peter Cushing and of course The Daleks can be heard exterminating everything in their path!!
Label: Music On Vinyls

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Bob Marley

Marley OST
LP x3
Label: Island

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The Wicker Man

Willow’s Song/Gently Johnny
7″ yellow vinyl, sleeve specially created for this release
QTY: 500
Label: Silva Screen (details here)

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Section C: Soundtrack Release Tally

Yes, really! And my arthritic fingers hurt from all the tabulating. Why do I do this? Because I have something called QX-9 Kvoompot Lapzydoozkoompf, otherwise known as ‘the cataloguing gene.’ I’m wet-wired to take data and sort it from “jkrkoopfty moodenbloopf bang-bang-blachty-poopfts” into something legible and articulate for your buying pleasure.

First off, note another new label, Sugar Records of Italy. Seems they’ve picked up some of the CAM catalogue titles and remastered them. Most seem to be from CAM’s Soundtrack Encyclopedia series, which presented remastered scores in Dolby Surround. The Sugar line is apparently remastered (probably from the original non-Dolby mixes). Nino Rota’s The Leopard (a work of art) is back in print, but no details on whether it’s the CAM album or the badly needed expanded soundtrack released by Varese when the director’s cut was released to theatres back in the 1980s or 1990s on LP.

Secondly, Monstrous Movie Music is back with 4 vintage scores, including Bert Shefter 7 Paul Sawtell’s Kronos (previously released by Screen Archives when they were a new LP label, with snappy art direction by Craig Spaulding), and Ferde Grofe’s Rocketship X-M, originally from Starlog Records.

I reviewed the LP 6 years ago, and interviewed producer Kerry O’Quinn about his label and the Grofe score, so check them out if you’re curious. And yes, Part 2 of the profile does exist – it just got buried & forgotten. My bad. It’ll be rescued from oblivion in late May / early June.

Thirdly, I’ll have a quartet of soundtrack reviews, plus an interview with Imran Ahmad, the composer of The Dead [M] (2010), which recently came out on Blu-ray via Anchor Bay. My review of the soundtrack album should be in the next issue of Rue Morgue.

And lastly, I’ll have reviews of Twilight Time’s Bell, Book and Candle and Desiree Blu-rays, with some related goodies.

So without further ado, here’s the Soundtrack Release Tally:

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ISOLATED SCORES ON VIDEO:

Bell, Book and Candle (Twilight Time)

Big Heat, The (Twilight Time)

Bite the Bullet (Twilight Time)

Demetrius and the Gladiators (Twilight Time)

Desiree (Twilight Time)

Don Juan De Marco (Warner Home Video)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Twilght Time)

Pal Joey (Twilight Time) [M]

Swamp Water (Twilight Time) [M]

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REGULAR RELEASES:

Bear Family Records (Germany)

Deutsche Filmkomponisten, Folge 7: Franz Grothe

Deutsche Filmkomponisten, Folge 9: Gerhard Heinz

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Beat Records (Italy)

Quella sporca storia nel west (Francesco De Masi) – ltd. 500

Lo chiamavano tresette… Giocava sempre col morto (Bruno Nicolai) – ltd. 500

Porno Holocaust (Nico Fidenco) – ltd. 500

Supercolpo da 7 miliardi (Nico Fidenco) – ltd. 500

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Brigham Young University Records (USA)

Since You Went Away (Max Steiner) – 2CDs

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BSX Records (USA)

Moon 44 (Joel Goldsmith) – remastered; ltd. 1500

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin in 3D (Andrew Belling)

Tag: The Assassination Game (Craig Safan) – ltd. 1000

Titanic: An Epic Musical Voyage [M]

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Capriccio (Naxos Germany)

Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt (Edmund Meisel)

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Cometa (Italy)

India, alla scoperta dell’India (The India’s Discovery) (Francesco De Masi) – 2CDs

Poerino contro tuti / Pierino colpisce ancora (Berto Pisano)

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Creature Features Records (USA)

Lost Skeleton Returns Again (John Morgan, William Stromberg)

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Il sindacalista (The Labor organizer) (Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis)

Il venditore di palloncini (Last Moments) (Stelvio Cipriani)

L’amaro caso della Baronessa di Carini (Romolo Grano)

L’assassino e’ al Telefono (Stelvio Cipriani)

Le baccanti (Mario Nascimbene)

Ogro (Ennio Morricone)

Ombre roventi (Carlo Savina)

Ritratto di Borghesia in Nero (Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, Vince Tempera)

Sedotta abbandonata (Carlo Rustichelli)

Una su 13 (Carlo Rustichelli, Stelvio Cipriani, David Whitaker) – 2CDs

Ursus nella valle dei Leoni (Ursus in the Valley of Lions) (Riz Ortolani)

Veneri al sole / Veneri in collegio (Carlo Savina)

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Disques Cinemusique (Canada)

Imitation of Life / Interlude

Indiscretion of an American Wife / The Black Orchid

Run of the Arrow / The Brave One (Victor Young)

Sans Famille / Madame de… (Carolin Petit)

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Dutton Vocalion (USA)

Big War Movie Themes / Big Concerto Movie Themes (Geoff Love and His Orchestra)

From Russia with Love / Warning Shot (Sy Zentner and His Orchestra)

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

Ben-Hur (Miklos Rozsa) – 5CDs

It’s Alive (Bernard Herrmann) – orig. score

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GDM (Italy)

Gioco senza fine (The Endless Game) (Ennio Morricone)

Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) (Manuel De Sica)

La banchiere (The Lady Banker) (Ennio Morricone) – ltd. 500

La colt era il suo dio (God is My Colt .45) – (Vasili Kojucharov) ltd. 500

Larilllira (Nino Rora)

Minnesota Clay (Piero Piccioni)

Nevada (El mas fabuloso golpe del far-west) (Stelvio Cipriani)

Una pistola per ringo / Il ritorno di Ringo (A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo) (Ennio Morricone) – ltd. 500

Violenza segreta / La corruzione / I sovversivi (Giovanni Fusco)

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GNP Crescendo Records (USA)

Star Trek: First Contact (Jerry Goldsmith) – expanded; ltd. 10,000

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Intrada (USA)

Avengers (Alan Silvestri)

Billie / Popi (Dominic Frontiere)

Black Cauldron (Elmer Bernstein)

Déjà vu (Pino Donaggio)

Island at the Top of the World (Maurice Jarre)

Once Upon a Time (Mark Isham)

Predator (Alan Silvestri)

Whispers in the Dark (Thomas Newman)

White Fang (Basil Poledouris)

Wolfen (James Horner, Hans Zimmer)

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Karonte (Spain)

El perfecto desconocido (The Perfect Stranger) (Alejandro Roman)

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Barbarian and the Geisha / Violent Saturday (Hugo Friedhofer) – ltd. 1000

Blame it on Bacharach

By Side by Side by Side by Side by Stephen Sondheim – 2CDs

Fuzzy Pink Nightgown / A Breath of Scandal (Alessandro Cicognini / Billy May)

Good Old Bad Old Days (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – ltd. 1000

Invasion USA / Tormented (Albert Glasser) – ltd. 1000

Perfect War: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber – 2CDs

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Being Flynn (Bady Drawn Boy)

Casa de mi Padre (various)

From Inside (Brett Smith)

Gone (David Buckley)

Mother’s Day (Bobby Johnston)

Natural Selection (iZLER & Curt Schneider)

Red Lights (Victor Reyes)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Dario marianelli)

Transformers: Prime (Brian Tyler)

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (Mark Kilian)

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La-La Land Records (USA)

Batman Forever (Elliot Goldenthal) – 2CDs

Broke Sky (Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis) – ltd. 1000

Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Dimitri Tiomkin) – ltd. 2500

Galaxy Quest (David Newman) – ltd. 1000

Hook (John Williams) – 2CDs; ltd. 5000

Jennifer 8 (Christopher Young / Maurice Jarre) – ltd. 2000

Mechanic, The (Jerry Fielding) – ltd. 1200

Planet of the Apes (Danny Elfman) – 3CDs [M]

Robe, The (Alfred Newman) – 2CDs; ltd. 2000

Speed (Mark Mancina) – ltd. 3000

Walk in the Clouds (Maurice Jarre)

Wings (John Stephan Zamecnik)

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Monstrous Movie Music (USA)

Kronos / The Cosmic Man (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter)

McCullochs, The (Ernest Gold)

Rocketship X-M (Ferde Grofe)

Ship of Fools (Ernest Gold) – ltd. 1000

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MovieScore Media / Screamworks Records (Sweden)

Cinquest 1453 (Benjamin Wallfisch)

Dawn of the Dragonslayer (Panu Aaltio)

Dirk Gently (Daniel Pemberton)

Eye of the Eagles: The Film Music of Soren Hyldgaard

Innkeeper, The (Jeff Grace) [M]

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Music Box Records (France)

Agent Trouble / Les saisons du plaisir / Une nuit a l’assemblee / Noir comme le souvenir (Gabriel Yared)

Nouvelle guerre des boutons, La (Philippe Rombi)

Pigalle la nuit (Eric Demarsan)

Visit to a Chief’s Son (Francis Lai)

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Nowhere to Run (Mark Isham) – ltd. 3000

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Adieux a la Reine, Les / Au fond des bois / Villa Amalia (Bruno Coulais)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Jerry Fielding) – ltd/ 1000

Due cuori una capella (Stelvio Cipriani) – ltd. 500

Electra Glide in Blue (William Guercio)

Katmandu: Du espejo en el cielo (Pascal Gaigne)

Masque of the Red Death (David Lee) – ltd. 1000

Pope of Greenwich Village (Dave Grusin) – ltd. 1000

Una questione d’onore (Luis Bacalov) – ltd. 500

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Saimel (Spain)

7 Eroiche carogne (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino)

Dictado (Zacarias M. de la Riva)

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

Complete Harry Potter Film Music Collection (various)

Haywire (David Holmes)

Human Planet (Nitin Sawhney)

Music from the Twilight Saga (various)

Music of John Williams: 80th Birthday Tribute – 6CDs

Sherlock: Series 2 (David Arnold, Michael Price)

Woman in Black (Marco Beltrami)

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Sony (USA)

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (Thomas Newman)

Titanic: Collector’s Anniversary Edition (James Horner) – 3CDs [M]

Twisted Metal (Michael Wandmacher) [M]

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Sugar Records (Italy)

8 ½ (Nino Rota)

Amarcord (Nino Rota)

Cage aux folles, La (Ennio Morricone)

City of Women (Nono Rota)

Dolce Vita (Nino Rota)

Il Bidone (Nino Rota)

Il Postino (Luis Bacalov)

Juliette of the Spirits (Nino Rota)

Leopard, The (Nino Rota)

Mondo Cane (Riz Ortolani)

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Sumthing Else (USA)

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Grant Kirkhope) [M]

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Battleship (Steve Jablonsky)

Bel Ami (Lakshman Joseph De Saram, Rachel Portman)

Brake (Brian Tyler)

Cabin in the Woods (David Julyan)

Coriolanus (Ilan Eshkeri)

Columbus Circle (Brian Tyler)

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (John Powell)

Fringe: Season 3 (Michael Giacchino)

Game of Thrones: Season 2 (Ramin Djawadi)

Hostel: Part III (Frederik Wiedmann)

Spartacus: Vengeance / Gods of the Arena (Joseph LoDuca)

Toughback (William Ross)

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Water Tower Music (Warner Bros.) (USA)

Dark Shadows (Danny Elfman)

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various awesome sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.

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Mark R. Hasan, Editor
KQEK.com ( Main Site / Mobile Site )

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