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[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Triton


I agree completely. Especially when you consider that John Barry had three weeks, or two depending on who you read, to compose the score. It seems like reviewers for the most part rate it as the worst soundtrack of the series because they cannot get past their dislike of Lulu or the slide whistle.

Exactly! It proved that Barry could come up with some average-great work for a film in a matter of 2-3 weeks, whereas composers these days take months and months! Many people come to really like the soundtrack if they take the time to listen to it all, like you said Triton, and it's one of the very best.

[TGO]

Actually, the master tapes for Moonraker are in Paris, since most of the production took place there. Keep this in mind...without the original master tapes, they could not have made a 5.1 track on the current Moonraker DVD.

[Triton]

Originally posted by TGO
Actually, the master tapes for Moonraker are in Paris, since most of the production took place there. Keep this in mind...without the original master tapes, they could not have made a 5.1 track on the current Moonraker DVD.

Good point. I interpreted Lukas Kendall's comments to mean that the master tapes were lost somewhere in Paris. Could very well be that EMI wasn't willing to ship the music session masters from Paris and digitize them. Perhaps someday we will get the complete soundtrack released on CD.

But I think that Lukas Kendall made the correct decision to concentrate on releasing expanded editions of the classic John Barry scores of the 1960's.

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by TGO
Actually, the master tapes for Moonraker are in Paris, since most of the production took place there. Keep this in mind...without the original master tapes, they could not have made a 5.1 track on the current Moonraker DVD.

Oh yes, I know. However, I do hope that someday they'll turn up and be added to the Moonraker soundtrack. Perhaps in the years to come we'll find them on a James Bond compilation album, much like 'Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and [Demo] You Only Live Twice, one can only hope!

[TGO]

Originally posted by Triton


Good point. I interpreted Lukas Kendall's comments to mean that the master tapes were lost somewhere in Paris. Could very well be that EMI wasn't willing to ship the music session masters from Paris and digitize them. Perhaps someday we will get the complete soundtrack released on CD.

He did mention that there wasn't enough money there to do the later Barry scores, and not to mention that they would take a lot of time to properly mix.

[Brian Flagg]

The frustrating thing about TMWTGG is that EMI dropped it's plans to expand it because of time and money issues. The following quote is from Lukas' article in Film Score Monthly (which he publishes), Volume 8, Number 5:

"So we end up with only one title that missed narrowly: TMWTGG. Originally, EMI was going to try to remix and expand both LALD and TMWTGG from the 16-track tapes. As the transfers were being done at Abbey Road, I was informed that the process was becoming far too expensive and time-consuming, so TMWTGG would not be done. Had I known we could only do one of the early Moores, I would have suggested the Barry score rather than the George Martin one-but I didn't, so we couldn't."