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New Goldsmith General Electric Theater Kickstarter Achieved!

Leigh Phillips announced two new Goldsmith episode scores funded via the Kickstarter service. For this campaign the focus will be on two highly contrasting scores. Firstly, "The Legend Who Walks Like a Man", an energetic and comedic episode featuring a larger-than-life performance from Ernest Borgnine. The second score is to record a dark, militaristic, and dramatic accompaniment written only for brass and percussion: "Hitler's Secret". The kickstarter was quickly funded by devoted Goldsmith fans in late November. But fans who are interested in more of these wonderful new recordings of these rare early Goldsmith career moments can continue to fund the project for helping future volumes.

Kickstarter Volumes 3 and 4.

The 'Burbs - Expanded and Remastered CD!

La-La Land Records announce a new expanded and re-mastered presentation of The 'Burbs. The last CD edition from Varese is long out of print so this new disc is very welcome to fans who missed this popular score. This disc features a few missing extra cues but most importantly film versions of the score. The music is a fabulous Goldsmith comedy score with a dramatic edge. Limited to 1500 copies.

Order from La-La Land Records!

L.A. Confidential - Deluxe Edition From Varese!

Varese Sarabande announce an expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith's popular L.A. Confidential score. The new presentation features the film versions of several cues from the original album as well as a number of previously missing and alternate sequences. The original album is also included.

Order the CD or Digital Download from Varese's CD Club. Limited to 2000 copies.

Listen to the new Goldsmith Odyssey episode.

A L I E N - Full Score Book Pre Order - Plus Gremlins For December!

Chris Siddal Music Services has his latest full score study book now available for pre order. Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed score to the classic sci-fi horror A L I E N. The book features the complete score plus alternates and amazing front cover art. Pre order now. Chris has also teased that Jerry Goldsmith's score for Gremlins is due sometime in December.

A L I E N pre order.

New French Goldsmith Book Crowdfunding Project

Yet another Goldsmith book! What an amazing year for books on the legendary composer. Now there is another in French. The project is going to be crowd funded though. So show your support here..

JERRY GOLDSMITH Un orfèvre à Hollywood

Hollow Man 2 CD Set From Intrada!

Intrada present the complete presentation of Hollow Man and what appears to be Jerry Goldsmith's longest score at over 90 minutes. Plus a second disc of alternates at over 45 minutes. This stunning set presents what I would say is Jerry Goldsmith's last big score. It is a huge action thriller work with a massive orchestral force beautifully recorded by Bruce Botnick at Abbey Road revealing incredible instrument detail. A truly mammoth release. Of course Goldsmith had a great relationship with director Paul Verhoeven over 3 key films and wrote some of his best work. The enthusiasm and love is evident throughout these works. Hollow Man was an update of the invisible man thriller with cutting edge computer generated effects and featured Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue.

Check out the latest Goldsmith Odyssey podcast on this new release. Also check out their interview with Paul Verhoeven.

Order from Intrada Records today!

Rambo Scores - LP Box set From Quartet Records!

Quartet Records present the expanded Jerry Goldsmith Rambo scores on a spectacular 5 LP box set. The set features coloured 180 gram vinyl, detailed booklet notes with gatefold jackets. Doug Fake at Intrada, who of course have the scores in complete form on CD sets, provided the mixes and these were mastered by Chris Malone. First Blood was apparently released at the wrong speed on the Intrada CD set so it is expected this set will feature that score fixed. Note the LPs do not include the extra music that featured on the Intrada CD sets.

Pre Order now from Quartet, available 17th November 22

Rudy - Deluxe Edition CD From Varese!

One of Jerry Goldsmith's most popular scores comes to Deluxe Edition CD from Varese - Rudy. The film and score is especially popular in the US where the score has been performed live to picture a number of times and the emotive Irish themed score resonates with many. The new edition now runs to 67 minutes including a few source cues, unused score and alternates! Available as a physical CD from Varese as well as Digitally and for streaming too.

Order the CD From Varese

Streaming on You Tube

Purchase the Digital Release

Check out The Goldsmith Odyssey spotlight on this new release.



Goldsmith At 20th Vol. 5 – Music For Television (1968-1975)!

La-La Land Records present a 2 CD set of Goldsmith television music from the 20th Century Fox archives. A number of these scores were presented in part on the 2004 Fox Box from Varese but this new presentation includes improved sound, extra music as well as a exciting previously unreleased music. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is the highlight now being presented in stereo and fully expanded. Also, Anna And The King gets a lot more music. New scores are for the failed pilots Only In America (aka Best Of Times) and Prudence And The Chief. For this Goldsmith re-purposed this theme later in Rio Lobo. Also included is the earlier Nick Quarry failed pilot, Room 222 and A Girl Named Sooner.

Listen to the interesting Goldsmith Odyssey Podcast on this new release!

Order From La-La Land Records!

Jerry Goldsmith New Two Volume Spanish Book!

Another Jerry Goldsmith book is available from Spain. This one is over two volumes. No word on an English translation. Order direct from Spain.

The General Electric Theater Goldsmith Scores Now Available!

Leigh Phillips' Kickstarter Project to record and present two of Jerry Goldsmith's scores from the early TV series The General Electric Theater are now available to backers for download. Backers should have got their emails (check your junk folders) and are able to download the super high quality recording audio files as well as cover and detailed booklet notes by The Goldsmith Odyssey's Yavar Moradi. The two beautiful JG scores are The Bar Mitzvah Of Major Orlovsky and Sarah's Laughter. If you haven't been apart of the Kickstarter please look out for the scores being available next month. And if the support is there more could follow! More news in September.

Check out the production report from the Goldsmith Odyssey!

Available to buy from the usual digital music services from September 19th.

Star Trek The Motion Picture Director's Cut 4K Collector's Edition Disc Set

Paramount Pictures announce that the physical disc release of the 4K Director's Cut of Star Trek The Motion Picture will be released September 6th. The set has a number of new extras and will include a music feature and isolated score option. Look out for pre-ordering via your favourite vendors.

Matinee - Expanded Release From Intrada Records!

Intrada announce an expanded presentation of Jerry Goldsmith's light-hearted score to the 1993 Joe Dante period comedy drama Matinee. A homage of sorts to Sci-Fi B movie maker William Castle with a likeable John Goodman as the larger than life filmmaker Laurence Woolsey.

Goldsmith's score focuses on the younger cast and the teen relationship drama,  including some light comedy and jazz elements, plus a nod to the Cuban Missile Crisis setting. The original Varese CD release missed out on a handful of extra music cues but a brief military themed march for the build up of missile hardware in the town, ready to launch if the unimaginable happened, has been a firm favourite and must have for hardcore Goldsmith fans.

Order from Intrada Records Today!

Listen to the Goldsmith Odyssey Podcast on the release with special guest Joe Dante!

Seconds - New, Improved and Slightly Expanded Dedicated CD and LP Release!

Quartet Records announce an improved dedicated CD and LP release of Jerry Goldsmith's chilling and melancholy score to John Frankenheimer’s scifi thriller Seconds, starring Rock Hudson. The score was previously released by La-La Land in 2009 but this new presentation, by restoration expert Chris Malone, now features the complete mono score cleaned of dialogue bleed and defects as well as two bonus source cues, one conducted by Goldsmith and the other written by him.

Order from Quartet Records! Limited to 1000 copies (CD) and 500 (LP).

Listen to the Goldsmith Odyssey Podcast on this new release!

General Electric Theater Kickstarter Funded Plus Bonus Score Added!

Leigh Phillips' Kickstarter project to reconstruct and record the Jerry Goldsmith score to the GE episode The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky has been achieved. And an additional score - Sarah's Laughter has also been funded and added to the session. Keep up to date with the project through the Kickstarter project page.

Check out this fun and informative period promo from the Goldsmith Odyssey team with samples of the additional score.

Alien - Full Score Book Due Late 22!

Chris Siddall has announced he will issue a full score book of Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed Alien score later this year. The stunning art for the book has already dropped.

New Kickstarter To Record Rare Goldsmith Scores From The General Electric Theater!

Composer, Orchestrator and Score Reconstruction Genius Leigh Phillips is seeking your assistance in breathing new life into several short scores, from the pen of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith, in the form of an ongoing project concentrating on his work for the General Electric Theater TV series (1959-62).

To keep contributions (and costs) at a manageable level for our backers, the plan is to run a series of mini-Kickstarter campaigns, with the purpose of recording each of the individual episode scores as they meet their respective funding goals. Using this approach, we will simply record as many Goldsmith scores as backers choose to support, and if at least four Goldsmith scores for the series are successfully funded, we will also make available a special Stretch Goal to fund the manufacturing and distribution costs of a physical CD album. Whichever scenario presents itself; contributors will find themselves in possession of new, pristine, recordings of some of Jerry Goldsmith’s most colourful and engaging TV scoring (each half hour episode contains between 5-10 mins of music), in lossless WAV format, complete with detailed PDF liner notes for each “digital single” release (written by The Goldsmith Odyssey podcast producer and co-host, Yavar Moradi).

The first score that we hope to record is the evocative The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky (approx. 8 mins in total). This touching story, featuring a wonderful lead performance from Ernest Borgnine and contains one of Goldsmith’s most beautiful Jewish-flavoured melodies.

Support the new recording at the Kickstarter Page!

The Sand Pebbles Back In Stock At Intrada With Minor Improvements

Intrada announce that their special edition 2 disc release of a Goldsmith classic from 2011 is now back in stock for those who missed it. The new edition has some slight improvements with 'wow' now fixed on a couple of tracks, and a couple of tracks moved.

Order from Intrada today!

Star Trek The Motion Picture Director's Cut Movie and Score Now Streaming! Plus La-La Land Records Star Trek 4 CD Set

The new stunning 4K presentation of Star Trek The Motion Picture The Director's Cut is now streaming on Paramount+ and the film soundtrack of this expanded version is also streaming across the internet. The blu-ray disc of the film is due September.

More details from Paramount Music.

In other Goldsmith Star Trek news La-La Land Records announce a 4 CD set of music from the TV series' Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. As and added bonus the set includes not only the two Goldsmith themes but a selection of re-created and unrecorded Goldsmith cues from Star Trek The Motion Picture by Joe Kraemer.

Order From La-La Land Records!

New Book - Jerry Goldsmith Companion: Volume 1 and 2!

From CF Publishing

For over 70 years, and even now almost two decades after his death in 2004, the name of Jerry Goldsmith has been an iconic addition to a host of science fiction movies, action films, thrillers, war movies and other genres, as well as television projects throughout the 1960s and 1970s, radio work, concert compositions and even familiar movie studio logo music and commercials. Goldsmith’s name guaranteed one thing—that the music from these projects would take on its own life as a virtuoso, involving composition, a work of art of its own that could continue to grip and involve listeners year after year—often when the film or television project itself had been long forgotten.

Jerry Goldsmith’s scores for classic films like Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist and Basic Instinct are part of the DNA of these films—music that helped define them and push them into the forefront of our cultural consciousness. But the composer’s efforts on other films—The Blue Max, The Chairman, Capricorn One, Star Trek – The Motion Picture, First Blood, The Secret of NIMH, Under Fire, Legend, Total Recall, L.A. Confidential, The Sum of All Fears and dozens of others—stand up as influential, lasting creations as well.

Now for the first time in the U.S. Goldsmith’s career and music is explored in a titanic, 2-volume publication by Jeff Bond, author of The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton, The Music of Star Trek and other books. Over three years in the making and boasting a manuscript of over 330,000 words - OVER 1,000 pages - The Jerry Goldsmith Companion covers the composer’s earliest projects, including radio work involving Ray Bradbury, William Conrad, Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood; Goldsmith’s groundbreaking work on live television with directors like Franklin J. Schaffner and John Frankenheimer; his pivotal work on the TV programs The Twilight Zone and Thriller, his years under contract at 20th Century Fox where he wrote classic scores such as The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes and Patton; his gritty 1970s television and TV-movie work and his Oscar-winning score for The Omen; his conflicts with directors like Otto Preminger on In Harm’s Way and Ridley Scott on Alien; his struggle to create the monumental music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979; his symphonic fantasy and action movies of the early 1980s like Poltergeist, The Final Conflict, Night Crossing and First Blood; his exploration of electronics throughout his career and his constant evolution from year to year and decade to decade, and his emergence as one of the only composers of his generation to adapt and remain relevant and in demand for major motion pictures up until the final days of his career.

With never-before-published photographs and artwork, music samples and interviews both archival and new (with fresh insights from David Newman, John Mauceri, Christopher Young, Michael Giacchino, Christophe Beck, John Ottman, Ludwig Goransson, Richard Kraft, Peyton Reed, Conrad Pope, Douglass Fake, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Malcolm McNab, Jeff Russo and others), this massive two-volume set finally puts into perspective the work and career of one of the most important musical artists of the 20th Century.

Black Patch And The Man New Recordings Now Available!

Intrada's new recordings of two ultra rare and lost Jerry Goldsmith recordings are now available to order for those who did not support the earlier Kick-starter funding project. The stunning album, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, finally allows Jerry Goldsmith fans to properly listen to his first ever film score Black Patch; a western adventure featuring George Montgomery from 1957 and the short score from the rarely seen 1972 movie The Man, featuring James Earl Jones as the first black president of the United States. The scores were transcribed and reconstructed by Leigh Phillips, conducted by William Stromberg and recorded by Simon Rhodes.

Order from Intrada Records!

Listen to the Goldsmith Odyssey Podcast on the production of this fantastic release.

Star Trek The Motion Picture - Reissue (2CD version)

La-La Land Records announce a 2 CD version of Star Trek The Motion Picture. The definitive 3 CD set was released in 2011 so this version misses off a number of alternates and focuses on the film soundtrack, the unused earlier takes, a selection of alternates and a new presentation of the 1979 album, now re-created from the remixed first generation master material for consistent and superior sound quality throughout the set.

This new 2-CD edition is the official tie-in soundtrack to the forthcoming STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE: THE DIRECTOR’S EDITION, premiering this year on the Paramount Plus streaming service.

Order from La-La Land Records 22nd February.

Jerry Goldsmith Book - A Musical Chameleon New Edition

An new updated edition of Christian Aguilera's book from 2014 - Jerry Goldsmith: A Musical Chameleon is due March 15th in its original Spanish. But good news for English speakers as an English edition is due April. Check out Soundtrack Fest for more info and look out for more news on this nearer publication date.

Soundtrack Fest

New Arrangements Of Jerry Goldsmith Themes

Composer-orchestrator and pianist Jean Michel Bernard has produced a new album of arrangements of Jerry Goldsmith themes. The eclectic selection takes in music from the likes of Total Recall to Gremlins, including Rambo, Star Trek, The Omen, Basic Instinct, The Man from UNCLE and many others. The performance features 7 players and will also be featured in a special concert too. Jean Michel Bernard has recorded similar albums featuring the music of Lalo Schifrin and John Williams. Album is due March 11th on CD and Digital. Concert is on Tuesday, 22nd March.
 

Order from Cristal Records!

Concert info on FaceBook Page