Congratulations serifiot!!
sincerely!
ciao,
Ric

riccardo.rocchi4, August 10, 2006; 5:17 AM

1992 #11 VCL 9201.11 Film Music Of Alfred Newman
(1500 copies)

1992 #12 Varese Sarabande VCL 9201.12 We're No Angels - George Fenton (2500 copies)


rbgws1, August 10, 2006; 5:57 AM

This is probably the third time I've posted the complete list in the last couple years. The club adverstised in it's CDs and then a mailer was sent out. I have copies of those mailers somewhere around I just can't find them. Here is a complete list:

VCL 8903.01 Cherry 2000 Basil Poledouris
VCL 8903.02 Fedora / Crisis Miklós Rózsa
VCL 8903.03 Symphonic Suites Pino Donaggio
VCL 9001.04 Vibes James Horner
VCL 9001.05 Rose Tattoo, The Alex North
VCL 9001.06 Red Sonja / Bloodline Ennio Morricone
VCL 9101.07 Raggedy Man Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 9101.08 Stars 'N' Bars Elmer Bernstein
VCL 9101.09 Eye Of The Needle / Last Embrace Miklós Rózsa
VCL 9201.10 'Burbs, The Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 9201.11 Film Music Of..., The Alfred Newman
VCL 9201.12 We're No Angels George Fenton
BCL 6001 Jagged Edge John Barry
BCL 6002 Flesh + Blood Basil Poledouris
VCL 1101 1001 Heartbeeps John Williams
VCL 1101 1002 Project X James Horner
VCL 1101 1003 Marie Ward Elmer BernsteinVCL 0202 1004 Die Hard Michael Kamen
VCL 0202 1005 Long, Hot Summer, The / Sanctuary Alex North
VCL 0202 1006 Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing Alfred Newman
VCL 0502 1007 Ballad Of Cable Hogue, The Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0502 1008 Cast A Giant Shadow Elmer Bernstein
VCL 0502 1000 Virgin Queen, The Franz Waxman
VCL 0702 1010 Sand Pebbles, The: Deluxe Edition Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0702 1011 Fury, The: Deluxe Edition John Williams
VCL 0702 1012 Romancing The Stone Alan Silvestri
VCL 0702 1013 Bride, The Maurice Jarre
VCL 1102 1014 Home Alone 2: Lost In New York: Deluxe Edition John Williams
VCL 1102 1015 Big Howard Shore
VCL 1102 1016 Studs Lonigan Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0403 1017 Hawaii: The Deluxe Edition Elmer Bernstein
VCL 0403 1018 Magic Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0403 1019 Beloved Infidel Franz Waxman
VCL 0403 1020 Return Of A Man Called Horse, The: Deluxe Edition Laurence Rosenthal
VCL 0803 1022 Predator Alan Silvestri
VCL 0803 1023 Justine: Deluxe Edition Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0803 1024 Story Of Ruth, The Franz Waxman
VCL 1103 1025 Robe, The: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Alfred Newman
VCL 1103 1026 Commando James Horner
VCL 1103 1027 Island, The Ennio Morricone
VCL 0204 1028 Jerry Goldsmith At 20th Century Fox Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0804 1029 Great Escape, The: The Deluxe Edition Elmer Bernstein
VCL 0804 1030 Fitzwilly / The Long Goodbye John Williams
VCL 0804 1031 Piranha Pino Donaggio
VCL 1104 1032 Agony And The Ecstasy, The Alex North
VCL 1104 1033 Three Coins In A Fountain Victor Young
VCL 1104 1034 Sheena Richard Hartley
VCL 0505 1035 Alien Nation (Rejected) Jerry Goldsmith
VCL 0505 1036 Desiree Alex North
VCL 0505 1037 Making The Grade Basil Poledouris
VCL 0505 1038 Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone Elmer Bernstein
VCL 0505 1039 F.I.S.T. / Slow Dancing In The Big City Bill Conti
VCL 0505 1040 True Confessions Georges Delerue
VCL 0505 1041 Kindred, The David Newman
VCL 1105 1042 Broadcast News Bill Conti
VCL 1105 1043 Scalphunters, The Elmer Bernstein
VCL 1105 1044 Left Hand Of God, The Victor Young
VCL 1105 1045 Top Secret Maurice Jarre
VCL 0306 1046 Ghostbusters Elmer Bernstein
VCL 0306 1047 Rookie Of The Year/Night In The Life
Of Jimmy Reardon/Bushwacked Bill Conti
VCL 0306 1048 Return To Peyton Place Franz Waxman
VCL 0306 1049 An Almost Perfect Affair Georges Delerue
VCL 0706 1050 Gloria Bill Conti
VCL 0706 1051 War Of The Roses / The Sandlot David Newman
VCL 0706 1052 An Unfinished Life (Rejected Score) Christopher Young
VCL 0706 1053 Sky Bandits Alfi Kabiljo

There are also some CDs that were released on the Masters Film Music label, which were only available through the Varèse Sarabande CD club. All of those CDs are equally hard to find as the Varèse club CDs:

SRS 2001 Boys From Brazil, The Jerry Goldsmith
SRS 2002 Wild Geese, The Roy Budd
SRS 2003 Suites And Themes Jerry Goldsmith
SRS 2004 Obsession Bernard Herrmann
SRS 2005 Concert Suites Volume 1, The: The Early ClassicsBernard Herrmann
SRS 2006 Concert Suites Volume 2, The: Science Fiction Bernard Herrmann
SRS 2007 Concert Suites Volume 3, The: Alfred Hitchcock Bernard Herrmann
SRS 2008 Concert Suites Volume 4, The: Fantasy Films Bernard Herrmann
SRS 2009 Reivers, The John Williams
SRS 2011 Under The Volcano Alex North
SRS 2013 Those Secrets Thomas Newman
SRS 2014 Joe Versus The Volcano Georges Delerue
SRS 2015 Racers, The/ Daddy Long Legs Alex North
SRS 2016 Wonderful Country, The/King And Four Queens, The Alex North
SRS 2017 Viva Maria!/King Of Hearts Georges Delerue
SRS 2018 Hallelujah Trail, The Elmer Bernstein

There were some CDs released “early” through the Varèse Sarabande CD club:

302 066 500 2 Great Train Robbery (Standard & SACD Format) Jerry Goldsmith
302 066 600 2 Timeline (Rejected) (Standard & SACD Format) Jerry Goldsmith
302 066 663 2 Stripes Elmer Bernstein

hammon, August 10, 2006; 8:32 AM

As far as I know Varese was the first label which had a soundtrack CD club, but Japanese SLC also released CD Club soundtracks - SpaceCamp was one of them. Anyone knows about other SLC Club releases?

ohmss, August 10, 2006; 10:14 AM

Referring to what hammon already said, here is the note I found in the booklet of my recently acquired - seemingly "brandnew and sealed" ;-) - Varèse CD DRESSED TO KILL (VCD 47148):

"NOT IN ANY STORES: LIMITED EDITION CD's
Varèse Sarabande is proposing to launch a mail order-only CD club
devoted to issuing limited edition compact discs of great film scores.
These CD's would be available to club members only.
If you would be interested in receiving information concerning the
VARÈSE SARABANDE CD CLUB please write to us at:
Varèse Sarabande Records 13006 Saticoy Street,
North Hollywood, CA 91605"

And by the way, I guess the film release year instead of the actual CD release year could be found on many soundtrack CDs. DRESSED TO KILL only bears the year 1980, too.

Regards,

Urs

handstand, August 10, 2006; 11:29 AM

Actually, the original Varese Club CDs were not availble from any store. You could only order them directly from Varese Sarabande via an "order form" which they would mail out when the titles were available. The numbering system did reflect the month and date of their releases. I can remember my order form that had BOYS FROM BRAZIL marked as sold out on the first flyer I received. Seemed odd, and have always wondered how it could have sold out before ever being advertised.

As for the SLC "Club" titles. I can remember walking into Intrada and seeing SPACECAMP and buying it, wondering what other "club titles" there were. They were never "exclusive". Here is what I have:

BATTLE OF THE BULDGE - SLC 1014
BULLIT - SLC 1015
SPACECAMP - SLC 1016

If you do a search: "Soundtrack Listeners Club SLCS" 73 titles will appear (SPACECAMP not being one of them) and most of those 73 titles have been released by other companies. As for the three I have listed those (at the time of their release) had never been released on CD by any company.



hammon, August 10, 2006; 2:35 PM

Goodmorning & thanks to all for your input!...

hammon a BIG thanks!!...
More then I had in mind and indeed an extremely useful wealth of information at a glance to have in front of you when the need rises.
Don't delete them by mistake or for any reason, please.
This list is a good reference point to go back and forth to.

The expansion of my knowledge, search and acquisition concerning film music soundtracks really came upon when I first got myself a PC which is really not that along ago.
Before this, it was impossible to have the contacts I have now and which I still believe I'm in my infancy and still learning about.
Record stores were my only source of getting a soundtrack on my hands.

I remember sending Varese a letter more than once, requesting to be placed in their mailing list or something like that, concerning their limited releases being advertised in their regular cd's but unfortunately I had the letter send back to me since the address was invalid.
I guess they must had moved to a new address by the time I found out about such releases .
If I only had known about their mail ordering earlier.
I guess it's not too late thanks to the internet only much more expensive.

serifiot, August 10, 2006; 4:39 PM

If I remember correctly, the first notification I got about the start of the Varese Club was
from a card in their "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" CD. I mailed it in and got the order form
back. That was around 1985, though it seems pretty early, considering the first club
releases were in '89.

glenngarv, August 11, 2006; 5:47 AM

The Varese Club was first advertised only inside the CD booklets of MANY of their soundtrack releases. Those ads pre-dated the first releases by almost two years and the first four batchs were notified by snail mail only. CDs were all hand numbered and sold in order of who mailed their invoice back the fastest.

One of the fastest sell outs was RAGGEDY MAN. During that batch, Varese lost my order form and I received it four weeks late. When I finally received my copy, six weeks after the initial announcement letter/invoice, it was #712 of 1500.

Also, all initial Club releases were limited runs of usually 1500 copies, not the generous 3000 FSM standard that Varese adapted when the club was revived.

deviantman, August 12, 2006; 8:28 AM

I've also seen two additional CD's with the Varese Sarabande Club seal...Elfman's "Scrooged"
and "Freeway". Both have a catalog number of VCL 3737.2C. Perhaps these are bootlegs.

jeffkrans, August 14, 2006; 12:09 PM