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(and other creepy sounds)

Announcing the first MMM CD featuring original music tracks! The Blob (and other creepy sounds) [MMM-1955] features the complete Ralph Carmichael score from the 1958 cult monster movie starring Steve McQueen. The CD features every cue from the movie, as well as music not heard in the picture. And yes, that famous Burt Bacharach/Mack David novelty song is included!

The remainder of the CD is packed with superb horror and suspense cues from the Valentino Production Music Library, including pieces used in The Green Slime, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, and Terror From the Year 5000. Film composers include such distinguished figures as Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Roger Roger, and Mario Nascimbene. The Blob (and other creepy sounds) is guaranteed to ooze into your nightmares! Click on the cover for more details!

MP3 AUDIO SAMPLES:
“The Blob”
“Horror Bridge”
“Empty Crater”
“Darkness”
“Climactic Curtain”
“Celestial Wonder” (Valentino cue)
“Birds in Flight” (Valentino cue by Lavagnino)
“New Threat” (Valentino cue)

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(and other music by Herman Stein)

Our second release of original tracks features the music of legendary film composer Herman Stein (Creature From the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space), and it’s a special limited-edition of 3,000 copies. This CD contains Stein’s complete score for Roger Corman’s hard-hitting film about Southern racism: The Intruder, starring a young William Shatner.

The Intruder (and other music by Herman Stein) [MMM-1956] also includes the composer’s first film score, the delightful Career For Two, miscellaneous cues from various Stein film projects, as well as a new recording of a brilliant solo piano work Stein composed way back in 1948. Click on the cover for more details!

MP3 AUDIO SAMPLES:
“Main Title”
“Pray”
“Plot”
“Klan”
“Stranger”
“Editorial”

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MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (and other Ray Harryhausen animation classics) [MMM-1953] is a spectacular release that follows on the heels of our first three acclaimed CDs, and it features the first film music recordings from three movies whose characters were brought to life by stop-motion special effects genius Ray Harryhausen.

The CD begins with a long suite from the wonderful 1949 fantasy, Mighty Joe Young, with a rousing score by Roy Webb. Filled with exotic African underscore, fanfares galore, nightclub music, and outrageous orchestration, this amazing music will have you thumping your chest like a gigantic irate ape! As a bonus, this suite contains a “special musical guest appearance” by Harryhausen himself!

Next comes a suite from Harryhausen’s beloved 1957 monster-from-space film 20 Million Miles to Earth, scored from the Columbia music library circa 1957. In addition to lovely and atmospheric cues written especially for the picture by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, this recording contains famous library cues re-used in dozens of Columbia films. Composers like Max Steiner, David Raksin, Daniele Amfitheatrof, George Duning, David Diamond, Frederick Hollander, and Werner Heymann are represented in this varied score that evokes a wide range of dramatic situations and memorable films.

Finally, there’s a four-minute suite from the Holy Grail of Harryhausen films: The Animal World! This 1956 documentary by Irwin Allen featured animated dinosaurs by Ray, and Paul Sawtell’s pulse-pounding music recreates the prehistoric thrills!

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THIS ISLAND EARTH (and other alien invasion films) (MMM-1954), contains never-before-released music from four outer space films of the 1950s and ’60s.

This Island Earth was Universal-International’s only big-budget color sci-fi thriller of the fifties, and it’s one of the classics of the genre. This recording features the entire unforgettable score by Herman Stein, with minor assistance from Henry Mancini and Hans Salter, and it includes music cut from the film and heard for the first time since the original scoring sessions. The music ranges from beautifully-evocative passages to mysteriously atmospheric cues, not to mention some amazingly inventive musical sound effects sequences and cues of pure action and terror.

Next is a lengthy suite from Ron Goodwin’s masterful The Day of the Triffids, a 1962 British film about killer plants who attack when a meteor shower renders most of humanity blind. Goodwin’s exceptional music includes lovely pastoral cues, shock hits, and one of the most powerful Main Titles in all of monsterdom! This unique score stands apart from most monster movie soundtracks.

Closing out the album are two Main Titles of note. 1958’s War of the Satellites is a breakneck excursion into low-budget film scoring, so evocative of the era. And then there’s the opening from Ray Harryhausen’s 1956 classic Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, which perfectly sets the stage for the alien menace that will follow.

Each CD includes 40-page liner books, complete with never-before-released photos, music scores, and approximately 20,000 words of text! Lovers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror films and their music will not want to miss these two classic releases.

Our breathtaking performances have been vividly recorded through close-miking techniques to recapture the dynamic full-orchestral sound heard at the original Hollywood scoring sessions. They’re so authentic, don’t be surprised if a giant scorpion scuttles out from behind your speakers!

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Monstrous Movie Music is the only CD label dedicated to music from classic science fiction, fantasy, and horror films! Our earlier releases -- Monstrous Movie Music, More Monstrous Movie Music, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Mighty Joe Young, and This Island Earth (with music from Them!, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarzan, Tarantula, and more) -- are considered to be among the finest soundtrack re-recordings ever done.

The Monstrous Movie Music releases contain music never-before-released on album or CD, include bonus tracks, music cut from the films, and state-of-the-art liner books that will tell you more about monster music than you ever dreamed possible! (Assuming you dream about such things...)

Our liner books are packed full of never-before-seen photos, copies of music scores, and so much fun and factual information you’ll have to call in sick at work just to take it all in! The text includes timings that match the digital read-out on your CD player -- so you can follow along with the music while you read about it.

For our re-recordings, conductor Masatoshi Mitsumoto leads the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cracow and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Slovakia in vibrantly-authentic performances. The music has been faithfully restored by composer Kathleen Mayne. Our original soundtrack releases are made from the best surviving music elements and mastered to sound as glorious as possible! Our striking cover images are by renowned horror artist Robert Aragon and legendary science fiction illustrator Vincent DiFate.

Click on one of our album covers to learn more about each release, or click on our liner book to see a close-up of our extraordinarily-detailed line notes.

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