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Hello, can someone help me with my wondering. I am not educated in music but I think that I know my original Star Wars music by Williams quite well, though I have become somewhat confused.
Whilst out shopping the other day I picked up the Star Wars original 81 radio drama on cassette from a bargain basket. I thought that it would pass the time away on the journey home. I vaguely remember catching bit of it when I was younger. It boasts original sound effects and THE ORIGINAL OSCAR-WINNING MUSIC. Some of the music seems the same as the original soundtrack and yet other parts don’t. Did they use a different Orchestra, was it mixed differently or is there more unreleased music that has still to surface? Perhaps I am a bit naive about the latter. Anyway, it certainly had music in it that I had not heard before. The tapes that I bought were only the first four episodes of the production and I will now buy the complete sets of the trilogy. If anybody has not listened to these plays before, then I throughly recommend them.

robin.haggett, December 29, 2006; 3:37 AM

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Most definitely was ONLY the original music tracks, which Lucasfilm supplied to NPR (National Public Radio) for the radio adaption, as well as supplying them with original sound effects from the movie. More than likely the sound was remixed differently, but the NPR adaption used ONLY the original music tracks from the film. No additional or new music was used.

kriegerg69, December 29, 2006; 7:13 AM

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When they came to putting these radio dramas back together for a subsequent issue on CD and cassette - they had all remixed and re-edited the music. The original recording had degraded in some years so all of the Original Trilogy NPR broadcasts were re-edited.

On another note - the original Return Of The Jedi NPR broadcast had the original movie version of Lapti Nek by Sy Snootles & The Max Rebo Band - where as the re-edited CD and cassette versions has the english language Joseph Williams vocalised version.

fuzzbox77, June 8, 2007; 2:39 PM

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