Hi Knives,

Take a look at OLIVER TWIST. I think someone has listened to your pray. Perhaps now you may submit the cover :)

Cheers,
Angel

angeldibujo, April 14, 2008; 8:23 PM

(angeldibujo) There it is!

I started a blog with LP cover scans a few months ago. To do so is to appreciate the work it must be to update all the submissions to this site. It's a lot of work and is very time consuming.

victoravalentine, April 15, 2008; 2:34 AM

You are right Knives. That's a lot of hard work...

By the way, is it possible to visit that blog? I'd love to have access to all those LP covers.

See you!

angeldibujo, April 15, 2008; 4:40 PM

I only have 100 scans listed right now as most of my recordings are tucked away in storage. http://filmmusicvinyl.blogspot.com

victoravalentine, April 16, 2008; 2:33 AM

Great looking LP covers killer knives... digi camera?

Just checked, the images have to be at least 400x400 pixels (I thought it was 500... hmmm) to be accepted in SC's database even though I have submitted a few (I think one image for sure) slightly lower in pixels that was accepted. The image sits on a slight white background which does not look bad at all.

serifiot, April 16, 2008; 8:46 AM

Wow, Scarlet Street, directed by my favorite Hun and sporting the incredibly beautiful Joan Bennett on the cover... *sigh*



coma, April 16, 2008; 12:23 PM

Digital camera images yes. SijboldTonkens mentioned in another thread that his LP scans on this site are all from digital camera images. So I tried my hand at it. They look pretty good.

"Scarlet Street" is a great film. I enjoy the music of Hans Salter quite a bit. The old Medallion LP's popped up on the shelves at record stores back in the mid 70's and quickly dissapeared. I began buying film music recording in 1979 and caught the tail end of it. I remember seeing a vinyl pressing on Medallion of the 1940 version of "One Million BC" (Werner Heymann) at Tower on Sunset in Los Angeles. Have never seen it since. What a great score that is.

victoravalentine, April 16, 2008; 1:01 PM

Hi workingwithknives,
I did indeed use the digital camara for all the recordsleeves. It is indeed a lot of work. and over 1.000 are still on hold to be published on this site. Ton is doing all he can, but also for him it is a lot of work. I try to remind him from time to time to put some sleeves on the site. I have them on hold for 4 and a half years now and they come in slowly.... As I said, Ton is doing all he can to make this site so great.
greetings, Sijbold

s.tonkens, April 16, 2008; 1:24 PM

Congratulations Knives! There are some really beautiful and rare LP covers in your blog! I'll visit it from time to time.

I've always dreamt of a full color book with hundreds (if not thousands) of soundtrack LP covers in its pages. Wouldn't it be great?

Regards,
Angel

angeldibujo, April 16, 2008; 2:57 PM

Angel, I'm sure a book like that must exist somewhere... if not, well killer knives... there's an idea for you.

As far as LP's, I completely gave up on them since CD's came into existence.
I was so taken by the whole technology thing, their durability, convenience and their 'high-tech' look. It was something like love at first sight.
I even remember my first CD player and buying my first CD which was not a film score mind you but rather a CD with the beautiful music of Johann Strauss. What an impression!
The sound was so... perfect without any hiss or pops. It was DDD in all its splendor.
I think that they made better sounding CD's in those days. Some of them were slighty heavier as well or at least they seem to be anyway.
Even today I still adore the way they look, though these discussions about this thing called 'disc rot' among other things are making me aware of their fragility giving me gray hair strands.

Lately, I have found myself looking and purchasing LP's again. Their is some nice art work out there and they certainly look very cool framed.
BTW, there is a special frame for LP's where one simply slides in the LP making it easy to replace with another LP.

I remember being so good in taking car of my LP's. Each one was in its own plastic sleeve even the ones I had managed very carefully to leave in their own plastic wrappping, looking and... smelling (sniff!) brand new until I got possessed to free the LP's and set those plastic sleeves along with some 8-tracks (regrettably) in a blazing inferno.

LP's vs. CD's?!...

On a clear, moonless, pitch black Mediterranean night, while pensively gazing at that star filled sky (very romantic of me)... I sometimes wonder as I'm counting falling stars and thinking film scores, if a well cared for LP could outlast a well cared for CD... hmmm!

Most likely an LP could be played let's say 500 years from now were as the CD will not play at all but again as I get pinched back to reality, I think to me self there are more substantial things to wonder about, like... what is disc rot?... where does it come from?... and like why am I here and all that jazz.

BTW, "All That Jazz"... great movie, great score, great everything!

serifiot, April 16, 2008; 7:40 PM

You are a philosopher, Serifiot!!

I prefer CDs to LPs, exclusively for technical reasons: the sound is cleaner. Anyway, I'm still deeply in love with LPs and, from time to time, I use to purchase one or two (sometimes more) rare LPs in eBay. It's a matter of collecting. It's curious, but there was a time when I bought CDs I did already have on LP, and now, I'm trying to get some LPs that I've already got on CD. Someone would think I'm nuts. There is something exciting in owning a ";first edition", specially from those composers you have always admired...
Sometimes I think that collecting things (soundtracks in that case) is some kind of disease. I'm afraid there is no cure for it.

On the other hand, yes, you are right, there is a book about LP covers floating around. The title is "The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks". It's not very expensive and is easy to find (the Amazon marketplace has it). It's a beautiful book, of course, but there are hundreds of soundtracks more that should be in its pages. I'm still waiting for the definitive book...

By the way, it's funny you mentioned the smell of those old vinyl records. The smell is one of the most evocative of our senses...

Good night, my friends
Angel

angeldibujo, April 16, 2008; 10:12 PM

I would say the ultimate hardbound edition of film music LP and CD covers would require the mutual participation of a lot of people here.

But then who would buy it when everything is published on the internet anymore?

victoravalentine, April 17, 2008; 12:00 AM

I am looking at these LP covers more carefully now. I noticed that if I click on the LP image in your blog I can get a larger one which definitely can be used in SC's database. I think you are close in converting me in collecting vinyl once more.
Ton should really prioritize these. It's a shame to let them go.
Again knives, it must be a pain getting such fine pics with a digital camera. I can't get over it. A fine job indeed. You might also consider doing the back covers as well for your blog.

I have to get my act together and take care of whatever neglected LP's I have (my childhood classic rock ones, etc. and a few film scores ones) by dusting them and putting them back in sleeves once more. I cannot give these up.
I think part of the reason for neglect is not having a decent turntable to enjoy them. I was browsing at some turntables on the internet which can also be used with a PC. Wow!

As a final note, you are stating in your blog that the earliest ones are from the 40's. Did they have 33 RPM LP's then? I was wondering if any 78 RPM film score soundtrack LP's were issued. I know 78's are very fragile and can brealk easily. Just curious.

Also, were LP's from 50's science fiction film scores ever issued like Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Creature Walks Among Us, It Came From Beneath The Sea, The Blob, etc.? If so, these must have very cool LP covers.
BTW, do you have any idea how much the original sci-fi/monster 50's film posters fetch for? Quite a lot.

As far as things being published on the internet and who would buy them... that is nonsense. Books are still being published and magazines and newspapers by the millions. Personally, I dislike reading actively on the internet. Having a book in front of you is the same as like having the actual CD album (or LP) as oppossed to downloading it which feels like nothing.

serifiot, April 17, 2008; 9:26 PM

As far as I know 1949 was the first year of the 33 1/3 format.

The first recording of music from a film was "The Jungle Book" (with narration by Sabu) on 78 rpm. There's a Rozsa "QVO VADIS" on 78 rpm and I've heard of a "Sea Hawk" (Erich Korngold) and a few others. For the most part the old 78's were vocal songs from the old musicals.

In the early 1970's Tony Thomas started a label and released some sci-fi stuff like "Creature From The Black Lagoon". I don't believe any were released during the 50's.

I've been thinking about doing some back cover scans along with the fronts.

There's a lot of nice jackets scanned on soundtrack collector. I've spent a total of hours looking at them over the past several years. I enjoy the fact that my scans are actual copies either my brother or I have owned for years.



victoravalentine, April 17, 2008; 10:34 PM

I guess you're right. Without the internet one would not be able to look at these scans at first glance, and for free. It's nice to have them in books as well though.

You might be aware of this website...

http://lpcoverlover.com/

Signing off...

Cheers!

serifiot, April 17, 2008; 11:13 PM

Interesting link, seri. Thanks! Looking at these and particularly at knives' scans, I'm feeling awfully depressed by the thumbnail size of the pictures on SC.


coma, April 18, 2008; 3:55 PM

Yes... after viewing these images by knives' blog and lp cover lover one does get spoiled.
Knives has added more by the way.
Once clicking on the images here in SC's database they do get larger but even larger would have been better.
Also back covers as I had suggested in another thread way back would have been an added plus (like Varese) but I guess since Ton is working on submitting images alone or in conjuctiion with Erwin, the waiting time could be infinity and that might drive both to the looney bin. We certainly don't want that.

Lastly, I don't know if other browsers have this but Internet Explorer 7 has the added feature of enlarging everything on the screen by 400% so that could be of use to a certain point.

serifiot, April 18, 2008; 8:54 PM

I look forward to doing a scan of "The Wild Side Of Henry Mancini" which is a promotional copy of the "Touch Of Evil" score with a couple of tracks not released on the commercial pressing. From what I've heard it was released in 1961 as a 1000 copy DJ pressing run for radio play.

Imagine a radio station playing the "Touch Of Evil" score in 1961.

Citadel records combined both pressings for their release around 1979.

victoravalentine, April 18, 2008; 10:05 PM

I have the Varese 1993 cd release with 20 tracks. I hope it's all there. Looking forward to your submission. Do the back cover as well if you wish. Great score, great talent! I don't think there is anything by him I dislike.

serifiot, April 18, 2008; 11:23 PM