Film Score Monthly, the CD label, has announed a 20-score boxed set on 12 CDs, featuring soundtracks from the United Artists catalog (controlled by MGM). It's called The MGM Music Treasury, Only 1,200 are being produced, only one will be sold per customer, and the price is $129.95.
DISC 1:
The Apartment, Music Composed by Adolph Deutsch, Tracks 1-14, Total Time: 34:03;
The Fortune Cookie, Music Composed and Conducted by Andre Previn; Tracks 15-25, Total Time: 27:59; Total Disc Time: 62:08
DISC 2:
How to Murder Your Wife, Music Composed and Conducted by Neal Hefti; Tracks 1-10, Total Time: 28:52;
Duel at Diablo, Music Composed and Conducted by Neal Hefti; Tracks 11-20, Total Time: 27:34, Total Disc Time: 58:34
DISC 3:
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Music Composed and Conducted by Johnny Mandel, Tracks 1-10, Total Time: 23:11;
The Fugitive Kind, Music Composed and Conducted by Kenyon Hopkins; Tracks 11-32, Total Time: 43:45, Total Disc Time: 67:03
DISC 4:
A Rage to Live, Music Composed and Conducted by Nelson Riddle; "A Rage to Love" Theme Composed and Played by Ferrante & Teicher, Tracks 1-12, Total Time: 27:06;
Goodbye Again, Music Composed and Conducted by Georges Auric; Tracks 13-26, Total Time: 31:40, Total Disc Time: 58:53
DISC 5:
The Happy Ending, Music Composed and Conducted by Michel Legrand, Lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Tracks 1-23, Total Disc Time: 63:43
DISC 6:
The Happy Ending, Tracks 1-8, Total Time: 22:43, Additional and Alternate Cues, Tracks 9-18, Total Time: 16:46, Source Music, Tracks 19-25, Total Time: 9:52. Total Disc Time: 49:28
DISC 7:
Billion Dollar Brain, Music Arranged and Conducted by Richard Rodney Bennett, Conducted by Marcus Dods, Tracks 1-14, Total Time: 31:51;
Shake Hands With the Devil, Music Composed by William Alwyn, Conducted by Muir Mathieson With the Sinfonia of London, Tracks 15-26, Total Time: 31:24, Total Disc Time: 62:22
DISC 8:
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Music Composed and Conducted by John Addison, Musical Setting to Poem Performed by Manfred Mann, Tracks 1-16, Total Time: 37:09;
The Honey Pot, Music Composed and Conducted by John Addison, Tracks 17-30, Total Time: 27:58, Total Disc Time: 65:14
DISC 9:
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, Music Composed and Conducted by Lalo Schifrin, Song: "Groove Into It" Music by Lalo Schifrin, Lyrics by Gene Lees, Sung by Henry Shed, Tracks 1-28, Total Time: 52:35; Bonus Tracks 29-32, Total Time: 5:44, Total Disc Time: 58:26
DISC 10:
The Hills Run Red (aka
Un Fiume di Dollari), Music Composed and Orchestrated by Ennio Morricone, Conducted by Bruno Nicolai, Tracks 1-15, Total Time: 27:31, Italian Single, Tracks 16-17, Total Time: 4:19;
Hornets' Nest, Music Composed by Ennio Morricone, Conducted by Bruno Nicolai, Tracks 18-34, Total Time: 36:57, Bonus Tracks 35-38, Total Time: 7:31, Total Disc Time: 76:37
DISC 11:
The 7th Dawn, Music Composed and Conducted by Riz Ortolani, Tracks 1-15, Total Time: 37:07;
The Glory Guys, Music Composed and Conducted by Riz Ortolani, Tracks 16-26, Total Time: 30:20; Bonus Tracks 27-28, Total Time: 10:36, Total Disc Time: 78:16
DISC 12:
Hannibal Brooks, Music Composed by Francis Lai, Conducted by Christian Gaubert, Tracks 1-15, Total Time: 29:49;
The Final Option (aka
Who Dares Wins, aka
Commando), Music Composed and Conducted by Roy Budd, Tracks 16-30, Total Time: 37:58, Total Disc Time: 67:54
Source material is either original LP masters or, in the case of two scores, including 'The Happy Ending", the original music masters giving us the entire scores.
Anyone wishing to learn more about this can visit
www.screenarchives.com.
I think this is one of the most AMAZING offerings of soundtracks ever. There's not a loser in the bunch, and some of the titles are among my very favorite scores.
