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- It is with great sadness that I report a week ago legendary orchestrator Jack Hayes, passed away. I had been trying to arrange an interview with him for years, but there were issues to be worked out and the party I communicated with was always busy, so communication was slow.
At one point in about June this year, the party -- obviously forgetting I can't record phone interviews, gave me Hayes' home number and said to call him up. In hindsight, I should have at least just called -- I wanted so much to praise him for his work and talent. Two regreats.
- Stay tuned for new interview announcements.
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- I have noted the absense of an "About Me" page, and plan to rectify that later in November/early December.
- Music Samples page is now up -- enjoy!
- Polls page being re-deisnged, and more than the just one poll, are coming (a new one, for Jarre, is up now).
- Running since 2004, my site now stands at over 100,000 hits.
- My Role.
- Contact me if you got info and such, or want to ask me something; send it twice; keep a copy in case it doesn't arrive; don't hear back in two days or less, I didn't get it:
- Look, this site isn't top secret; tell people about it, link to it, show people it -- it's okay, you don't have to ask for permission. Top directors and composer have visited this site; musicians, orchestrators, writers -- all visited. Studio heads, much to their dismay, have even been here.
- Thoughts on bootleg CD-Rs: HERE.
- It is with great sadness that I report a week ago legendary orchestrator Jack Hayes, passed away. I had been trying to arrange an interview with him for years, but there were issues to be worked out and the party I communicated with was always busy, so communication was slow.
May 21, 2010:
A November 4CD box set of Maurice Jarre scores (news link) is supposed to contain, among other scores by him, "some rejected scores"; since I doubt they would devote the majority of the set to Jarre's nine fully to partially recorded rejected scores, I think we're looking at two, maybe three, with "Two Bits" and "The River Wild" being my guesses. May 21, 2010:
The tracklisting on Amazon.com for the "Kick-Ass" score CD, is wrong. John Murphy posted on his Facebook site the correct tracklist; as you can see, selections from ALL three rejected scores DID make it onto the CD, along with the replacement score:
1. Armenian Superhero : Jackman & de Vries
2. Stand Up : Howlet & Mann & Thomas
3. Forcefield : de Vries
4. Watching : Jackman
5. Man In The Mirror : Jackman
6. A Punch In The Chest : arr. de Vries
7. Roof Jump : de Vries & Eshkeri
8. Time To Engage : Jackman
9. Stabbing - Morphine : de Vries & Howlett
10. I'm Kick-Ass : Jackman
11. Famous : de Vries & Eshkiri & Jackman & Murphy
12. A Friend Like You : de Vries
13. Walk To Rasul's : Elfman
14. Trick Or Treat? : de Vries & Eshkeri
15. Leaving Rasul's : Murphy
16. Hit Girl & Big Daddy : Murphy
17. Damon & Marcus Comic Book : Jackman & Murphy
18. I Miss You Both : Eshkeri & Murphy
19. Hunting Kick-Ass : Jackman
20. Mistmobile : Jackman
21. Big Daddy Kills : Murphy
22. One Last Time : de Vries
23. Sleepover : de Vries
24. To Brooklyn Bridge : de Vries
25. Safehouse - Ambush : Murphy
26. Showtime Pt.2 : Murphy
27. Nightvision : Murphy
28. Strobe : Murphy
29. Big Daddy Dies : Jackman & Murphy
30. Hit Girl Drives Home : Murphy
31. Marshmallows : Murphy
32. Choose Your Weapon : Eshkeri
33. You Got Five Minutes : de Vries
34. No Power, No Responsibility : Jackman
35. The Corridor : Murphy
36. Kitchen Stand Off : Eshkeri & Murphy
37. The Fight : Jackman & Murphy & Eshkeri & De Vries
38. Flying Home : Jackman & Murphy
39. True Identity : Jackman March 13, 2010:
Plans are unerway for a score CD to "Kick-Ass" and it may possibly contains selections from the used score, and all three rejected scores -- this would be, to the best of my knowledge, the first regular commercial CD (no limited or club CDs) that was intentionally released with cues from the rejected score on it.
March 25, 2009:
Among other scores composed by George Fenton, Fenton will be playing some of his rejected score to "Interview With the Vampire" live June 7th. Click HERE for details. As I post this it looks like the program has been edited and IWTV has been deleted from it, but that could change, so keep visting the link to find out. And if you attend, please ask Fenton why it was changed, and if he could contact me. :-)
December 16, 2008:
The 6CD boxed set of Georges Delerue contains (on CD 4) "Something Wicked This Way Comes" -- which is reportedly original tracks in a 10min suite.
Earlier this year I reported a rejected score would be coming out by year's end. It's been pushed back a little, but it's coming early next year.
December 13, 2007:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
October 25, 2007:
The rejections are starting to poor in for the holidays ... kind of a sad gift.
Perserverence Records has CANCELLED the re-recording of "Chinatown", so you'll all have to scratch your head and still wonder.
July 22, 2007:
New interview on THIS page where George S. Clinton talks about, among other things, his rejected score to "Scary Movie 2".
In a post HERE, Intrada Records says their next CD will have a rejected scores on it from the 70's, but upon browsing my list, I don't feel any of the films from the 1970's fit the clue, and none of them would have a score short enough to fit on a CD that will have three scores, so that means tomorrow there will be a new title on my list, and also ... there will be a new rejected scores from 2006...
July 2, 2007:
Carter Burwell has put up some clips from his rejected score to "Kiss the Girls" at his site. And hopefully "Serenity" and "The Bourne Identity" can't be far away...
HERE
I also got a nice mystery for you all to solve: CLICK ME.
December 20, 2006:
MERRY CHIRSTMAS -- no war on Christmas here.
October 25, 2006:
The other day I was trying to find people to reach, to ask about a rejected score, and the composer was dead. The orchestrators were dead. The director was dead. The producer was dead. It was then I realized I'd become something here with my site, that I had not originally intended when I started it; I'm a historian. I gather information about scores where the maybe no one can answer anymore, what ever the source is. I find myself in a position where I feel I need to preserve this info and find as much as I can, for one day, there may be no one to answer the questions. It's one big history book in the making.
October 21, 2006:
We may get to hear a remastered, rejected Bernstien score, "A Night In the Life of Jimmy Readon", if the last line in the first post of this thread is anything.
September 21, 2006:
Cinevox Records will release a 2CD set of "Deep Red" (Profondo Rosso, 1975); the set will contain an unknown amount of the rejected score (replaced by Golbin).
Yeah, I know -- where the hell is "Gangs of New York"; maybe before year's end.
June 25, 2006:
FSM has released it's mega CD set of Elmer Bernstein. Among the titles is Elmer's re-recording of Bernard Herrmann's rejected score to "Torn Curtain". Also, it's a lot of money.
October 17, 2005:
Okay, appearently I only have 40 megabytes of bandwidth per day, and with this "King Kong" business, people have gone ape shit with the visiting and clicking -- which I don't mind :-) -- so, if you come and the site doesn't load, and you get an error, it'll be back on, according to my provider, about 12 midnight Mountain Time.
"Why make a site like this Justin? Why make a site devoted to something some composers might want to forget?"
You're looking at it the wrong way; this site isn't about any of that.
So why then? Well, at first it was my fascination with scores that were rejected, especially by famous composers -- it's like a new score when one wasn't done.
But it took a different route when I remembered something that Film Score Monthly had brought up about their release for the late Ron Grainer's "The Omega Man". They said they looked and couldn't find anything where Grainer commented on his score. I thought that was terrible. Such a fantastic score and we'll never know what Grainer thought about it. And it occurred to me not a lot has been said by any of the composers who have been rejected, on their work. So I wanted to fix that. It's so sad that I am too late to get Bernstein or Goldsmith's comments. I could go on about this, but I'll move onto my other reasons.
Just because a score is rejected, doesn't mean it should disappear into obscurity. Should Revell's "Eaters of the Dead" have gone on unheard? Should Georges Delerue's wonderful "Something Wicked This Way Comes" have taken a ride and disappeared with age? No. I firmly believe these scores should be chronicled; whether or not it's Jerry Goldsmith, or some composer you've never heard of -- I try to find all scores that are known to have, or at least no contrary rumor to have been recorded.
Rejected scores are a special bunch. Reasons for why a score is tossed vary. From Test Audiences, Director/composers differences, Producer differences, even the film's star and Studio Heads. That's just some. But sometimes a composer walks out. John Barry walks out often.
The film may be suffering from low cash, bad writing, lots of edits that force rescoring and thus conflict with the composer's schedule and forces the composer to leave.
Well, after having said all that, I thank the composers who agree to do interviews and pour their heart out over what happened and I thank companies like Varese Sarabande and Film Score Monthly, who release rejected scores and give us a glimpse into what was not used.
But for ones I am unsure as to anything was recorded, they make the "Supposedly Rejected" list.
So click away and enjoy.
Last worked on: August 16, 2005
