June 29, 2009

Just announced from Varese Sarabande are the latest limited CDs in their CD Club: Jerry Goldsmith's Lonely Are the Brave (previously available as a European bootleg); the aborted Geffen soundtrack album for Bill Conti's Oscar-winning The Right Stuff, which edits cues from the original and slightly longer soundtrack; David Shire's Norma Rae, from which only a vocal single was commercially released; and a rare Alex North crime score, Hard Contract, restored from mono and stereo sources. All four albums will ship July 13th. Lonely and Right Stuff are limited to 3000 copies, whereas Norma Rae is 1500, and Hard Contract is 1000.

This week Silva Screen America releases a pair of compilation albums, Music from the Films of Johnny Depp, and Music from the Films of Paul Newman. Both albums feature newly recorded suites & themes. Also out this week is via Film Score Monthly is The Split, a previously unreleased score by Quincy Jones for a 1968 caper film that's limited to 1500 copies.

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