RUN WILD, RUN FREE (1969) David Whitaker

I recently obtained, off a GEMM seller, an excellent copy of the soundtrack LP of David Whitaker’s superb and very haunting score for the Mark Lester film RUN WILD, RUN FREE, released in 1969 on SGC records SD 5003 Stereo. I have just uploaded the track list details on the appropriate page and was going to submit an image of the LP cover. But, as the LP cover for the 1959 David Ladd version of A DOG OF FLANDERS, which I submitted to this site a year ago, still hasn’t appeared on the film’s page, I’m wondering whether I should bother submitting another cover image.

Actually, although RUN WILD, RUN FREE is listed on this site as being a Canadian release, my copy was pressed in the USA. I've no idea if the LP was also released in the UK at the time. You would think so, with it being a British recording. Does anyone know if a British pressing of this LP was released? I do know that the title song from the film and taken from the LP, sung by The New Christy Minstrels, was released on a CBS single in the UK in 1969. Catalogue number CBS 4369 and that single is also in my collection.

David in England.

david_rayner, February 15, 2007; 7:49 AM