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THE SECRET OF NIMH

THE SECRET OF NIMH
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    Jerry Goldsmith
    Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 332
    Film Date: 1982
    Album Date: 2015
    Time: 63:09
    Tracks: 16
    Expanded release of richly melodic, highly exciting Jerry
    Goldsmith soundtrack for popular Don Bluth animation film.

    Price: $19.99

     
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    • Expanded release of richly melodic, highly exciting Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack for popular Don Bluth animation film from Robert C. O'Brien novel "Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH", with voices of Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, Peter Strauss, John Carradine. Original 1982 album offered generous 48-minute program featuring all of the major cues save one lengthy dramatic sequence entitled "At Your Service" and a few shorter bits. For some three decades, complete session elements have been lost and sadly remain as such. But exhaustive search did yield significant reward: Len Engel's actual first generation 1982 dbx-encoded album master plus 3 rolls of 1" and 1/2" multi-track tape offered complete album - and at last! - the previously unreleased "At Your Service". Three additional demo theme recordings featuring both Paul Williams and Sally Stevens were also present on masters. Jerry Goldsmith fashioned his music in epic-scale for large orchestra plus chorus with nods to classic styles of Debussy, Stravinsky as well as his own landmark Poltergeist. Resulting score offers magical moments, beautiful theme, awe-inspiring colors plus incredibly ferocious action music. Another big asset: several sequences are quite lengthy. Total score now runs 53 minutes. Ten additional minutes of demos bring CD up to 63 minutes. Courtesy MGM, Intrada re-mastered CD now offers nearly-complete program in dynamic stereo. Informative liner notes from Jeff Bond plus flipper-style cover artwork and interior package design by Joe Sikoryak add rich graphics to compliment Goldsmith's legendary score. Recorded May 4-7, 1982 at CTS Studios in London. Jerry Goldsmith conducts National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers. Intrada Special Collection CD release available while quantities and interest remain!
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      THE SECRET OF NIMH
      ORIGINAL MGM MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
      Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
      01. Main Title (3:15)
      02. Allergic Reaction/Athletic Type (2:42)
      03. Flying Dreams – Lullaby (Vocal: Sally Stevens) (3:18)
      04. The Tractor (3:00)
      05. The Sentry Reel/The Story Of NIMH (6:05)
      06. At Your Service* (3:39)
      07. Escape From NIMH/In Disguise (5:02)
      08. Flying Dreams (Vocal: Paul Williams) (3:21)
      09. Step Inside My House (4:43)
      10. No Thanks (2:03)
      11. Moving Day (8:00)

      12. The House Raising (4:36)
      13. Flying High/End Title (2:39)
      Total Score Time: 53:00

      The Extras
      14. Flying Dreams – End Title Demo (Vocal: Sally Stevens)* (3:15)
      15. Flying Dreams – Demo (Vocal: Paul Wlliams)* (3:21)
      16. Flying Dreams – Demo (Piano Duet)* (3:24)
      Total Extras Time: 10:09

      *Previously Unreleased

    • Tech Talk From The Producer…

      The original album Jerry Goldsmith prepared for The Secret of NIMH in 1982 featured 12 tracks and ran a generous 48 minutes. This covered almost all of the score’s major sequences, including the haunting lullaby version of “Flying Dreams” that was written by Goldsmith with Paul Williams and sung by Sally Stevens in a touching early scene. The one fairly substantial cue missing from the record was “At Your Service,” which accompanies Mrs. Brisby as she journeys into the lair of the intelligent rats, encountering the kindly but irascible Mr. Ages and the friendly rat master-of-arms Justin. (The cue was called “The Descent” prior to the recording sessions, when Goldsmith himself re-titled it.) The other important cue missing from the first album was the film version of the end-title vocal, sung again by Sally Stevens, but on the record sung by lyricist Paul Williams. His version was recorded in a separate session and then synched to the already-recorded and fully mixed orchestral tracks.

      For some three decades, the complete session elements have been lost—and sadly many of them remain lost. However, a search deep within 20th Century Fox’s vaults by film producer Nick Redman yielded the first-generation, DBX-encoded 1982 album master assembled by Goldsmith and engineer Len Engel, as well as three rolls of 1′′ 8-channel and ½′′ 3-channel tape.

      While these still didn’t reveal every sequence of Goldsmith’s magnificent score, they did yield at last the missing cue “At Your Service” as well as a complete “demo” version of the end-credit song performed by Sally Stevens and the orchestra. The latter is identical to the film recording with the exception of the temporary orchestra mix and levels, which largely yielded to the vocal for later balancing purposes.

      In the film, “At Your Service” plays between “The Sentry Reel” and “The Story Of NIMH,” but Goldsmith connected the latter two cues for his album. Rather than separate them and destroy his musical continuity, we have simply placed the new cue after his assembly. The “Flying Dreams – End Title Demo (Vocal: Sally Stevens)” appears in “the extras” section of the CD as track 14.

      Finally, two other demo recordings were present on the 1′′ roll. These included a piano duet version of the “Flying Dreams” theme and the original demo recorded by Paul Williams, accompanied by piano. These were both recorded by Len Engel, engineer for the original album, courtesy his Contempo Recording Co.

      Perhaps one day the remaining material from this musical masterpiece will surface. But until that happens, savor the beloved 1982 album with the addition of one important previously unreleased cue and some interesting demos.

      —Douglass Fake


    AN AMERICAN TAIL (EXPANDED)

    James Horner

    THE LAND BEFORE TIME (EXPANDED)

    James Horner

             

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