What a crazy day. I had a very nice breakfast meeting with an actor/singer named Ted Detweiler - he's asked me to create an act for him, and since I like him a lot, we're proceeding. He's also coming in to read for the lead in Nudie Musical next week. I then hurried home, put the Seesaw and Illya tapes in the car and drove them back to the MGM vaults, and picked up a ton more for potential projects. One of the potential film releases looks incredibly interesting and I'm VERY anxious to hear it - I'd seen the film a couple of months ago, and rewatched it quickly last night on DVD - there is almost no music in the film other than "source" music, i.e. music coming from the radio. I think there were two score cues lasting maybe five minutes, for chase sequences, with the music dialed so low that they may as well have left it out. At the time of the film, an album was prepared, and it's running time was just under forty minutes. Which leads me to believe there was a lot of music written for but not used in the film. The tape box says "not to be released - legal problems" but since they are willing to license to me, whatever those were (probably the fact that little or none of the music is in the film) have long since disappeared, since the film didn't exactly set the world on fire. IF it's a real score, then this could be a really cool release - it involves a favorite composer of mine. If it's just long versions of source music (really doubtful) then that's another story.
