Some hope for a 'The Right Stuff' release?

On Randall Larson's Soundtrax there is an interesting 'Conversation with Bill Conti';

"Q: I’m pleased you recorded part of the score for that Varese album.  Do you think there will
ever be an actual true soundtrack of the whole score?
Bill Conti: I think that there will be.  Bob Townsend has asked me if I had the tapes.  I did
prepare an album for The Right Stuff at the time, so I had a master copy, and then when the
film did not do well, they cancelled the album.  So there might yet be an original soundtrack."

So there is some hope that this nice score will finally be released. Another hilarious quote;

"Original composer John Barry left the film because he found it impossible to understand
what Philip Kaufman wanted from the score, citing a meeting where the director described his
ideal score as "sounding like you're walking in the desert and you see a cactus, and you put
your foot on it, but it just starts growing up through your foot."

I guess Kaufman was very lucky that Conti understood what his film needed and did his own
thing. The whole interview can be read here;

http://buysoundtrax.com/larsons_soundtrax.html

chris, May 16, 2008; 7:22 AM