Who needs more posts, say I? Who needs more posts when the posts we've got are so damnably cherce?
Mr. Shire is a treasure and the fact that he works so infrequently as a film composer is one of the great injustices. So, I'll throw in a few of his classic film scores, starting with his masterpiece Return to Oz. To that add The Conversation (sparse but brilliant), The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, The Promise, and Old Boyfriends (when I saw the very first workshop of Flight or Take Flight or whatever they're calling it these days) I was the only person in the audience who knew where Mr. Shire had gotten the glorious tune for the best song in the show - right from Old Boyfriends), and quite a few others.
Song-wise, my favorite remains Autumn, as done by Miss Barbra Streisand - it was my first exposure to Shire and Maltby and so it holds a special place. I also love It Goes Like It Goes from Norma Rae, and, of course, a ton of others.
If you don't have David Shire at the Movies, which I produced for Bay Cities and if you don't have Return to Oz, seek them out.