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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Monstrous Movie Music

Announcing the two newest Monstrous Movie Music releases!

Mighty Joe Young (and other Ray Harryhausen Animation Classics)

Features music from: 1949’s "Mighty Joe Young" (Roy Webb) [35:44] 1957’s "20 Million Miles to Earth" (Mischa Bakaleinikoff and Columbia library cues by George Duning, Frederick Hollander, David Diamond, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Max Steiner, David Raksin, and Werner Heymann) [21:07] 1956’s "The Animal World" (Paul Sawtell) [4:03] Bonus track! [:48]

This Island Earth (and other Alien Invasion Films)

Features music from: The complete score from 1955's "This Island Earth" (Herman Stein, Hans J. Salter, Henry Mancini) [37:42] 1962's "The Day of the Triffids" (Ron Goodwin's semi-rejected score) [20:10] The Main Title from 1958's "War of the Satellites" (Walter Greene) [1:23] The Main Title from 1956's "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" (Daniele Amfitheatrof) [:47]

Both CDs contain 40-page liner books loaded with tiny-little headache-inducing photos, never-before-released information that only a few thousand sci-fi/film music nerds care about, and extremely silly humor. And even though each book contains approximately 20,000 words of text (about 129,000 characters, including spaces), we even found enough room to number the pages!

For more info and to order visit: mmmrecordings.com