I have a weird question. Does anyone else remember, from back when the 1977 Star Wars music score was first released – or at least somewhere early on around then – that there was some version of the score released that first opened with a bunch of, uhh, weird futuristic noises before the main title crawl music actually started? I only vaguely remember this, but I know I’m remembering something like it - I never found out what that was actually all about, what that version was called, and why it even existed that way in the first place.

Seriously, I think the introductory sound I’m remembering was somewhere in the neighborhood between the old school sci-fi movie sound effect here:
https://youtu.be/qHK4YjgDV9s?si=6jgbSo0JaYetm0o4

And the background sounds in this old PSA here:
https://youtu.be/COcR2Erpbx4?si=hMDJR-jtBb6ZiD3R

Thanks, if anyone can think of what I’m possibly referring to! (It’s not the meco/disco version – literally it was this weird, “old school sci-fi outer space sound effects” sound, that went on for maybe 20 seconds or something, and then, the official main title crawl score)