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Post #609832

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captainsolo
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James Bond 007 Thread
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Date created
24-Nov-2012, 3:09 PM

Holee crap! An actual Dr. No score release???

Wait...isn't it the original "soundtrack" with 10-12 minutes added? After comparing tracklistings I think this may be the case, but how much of the score could that include I wonder?

I wish they had been able to do more on the 2003 remaster series, but EMI wouldn't give any more time or $$$. Plus on some titles they did some remixing which always threw me, not to mention that the project was only done at 24bit 44.1khz sampling rate. Some original vinyl sounds better. The second half of Thunderball that was unreleased for so many years actually sounds better in the Suite version found on disc 2 of the 1992 Best of Bond compilation.

Many are still incomplete: FRWL, GF, TMWTGG, TSWLM, MR, LTK and a few others IIRC.

Goldfinger finally added the four tracks from the original British score, but is still missing some bits. Spy as released was an alternate re-recording and the original score has never been issued. Even "Nobody Does it Better" is different as heard in the film versus the release! Moonraker's master tapes are still supposedly lost in France somewhere...do we have any French Bond fans who are also musicians working in studios...? ;)