Search - Adolph Deutsch, Andre Previn, Neal Hefti :: MGM Soundtrack Treasury (The Apartment / The Fortune Cookie / How To Murder Your Wife / Duel At Diablo / The Russians Are Coming / The Fugitive Kind / A Rage To Live / Goodbye Again / The Happy Ending / Billion Dollar Brain / Shake Hands With The Devil /

The MGM Soundtrack Treasury features 20 scores from the United Artists film library and record catalog. Many of these titles are long-treasured LPs that looked as if they would never make it to CD: Billion Dollar Brain by Richard Rodney Bennett...How to Murder Your Wife by Neal Hefti...Charge of the Light Brigade by John Addison...The 7th Dawn by Riz Ortolani...The Final Option by Roy Budd...it is likely that every collector will have his own set of favorites!

All of the titles have been remastered from the best-possible stereo source tapes in the MGM archives, with these exceptions: Goodbye Again and Shake Hands With the Devil are in 'electronic' (simulated) stereo; and the two Ennio Morricone scores are in mono, with The Hills Run Red largely taken from vinyl (the only available source for the recording). For most of the scores (and the United Artists catalog in general), the album masters are the only surviving recordings, but complete masters were located for The Fugitive Kind (Kenyon Hopkins) and The Happy Ending (Michel Legrand) allowing complete-score presentations. Finally, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (Lalo Schifrin) and Hornets Nest make their debut presentations in complete form. Two additional notes: The Glory Guys (Riz Ortolani) is the LP re-recording, but bonus tracks have been added from the London session masters, and The Final Option is a hybrid of the Varèse Sarabande and Milan LP programs (containing all of the previously released tracks).