Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

***************************Sunday, 1-10-10Talking Herrmann: chandosReply by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________No. In my opinion, it is not a great idea to include Citizen Kane ("Been-There-Done-That" resistance of most people) with Hangover Square. It is a poor combination--at leastas a selling lure to prospective buyers of this new cd. The producers chose poorly. Iwould've been sold to the cd if it had an unreleased score of Herrmann, whether completeor not; for instance, A Hatful of Rain or On Dangerous Ground--two scores that are alsoas heavily dramatic as Hangover Square. Or Chandos could've gone a bit out on the limband provide one or two World Premiere Herrmann scores for television. "Nightmare"from The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater comes to mind, or Companions in Nightmare.The idea is to make a smart combination decision that would attract both the classicalaudience that doesn't know the material and the fans (who already have enough of KANEand may be easily turned off by the inclusion of it in the new cd). Make an appealingpitch to both audiences; have a great selling point to increase the potential pool of buyers.But of course they are the producers, not Bill Wrobel; they are paying the manythousands of dollars into the project, not the posters and fans in Talking Herrmann. Theycan do what they want. But it doesn't mean I am willing to fork my money over to them...Probably what I will do at the release date is check out SAE and see if there are sampletracks to be heard over the Internet. I'll make my final decision then. I like to feel thefruits and vegetables at the farmer's market before I buy them!_______________________________________________talkingherrmann mailing list***************************************1-11-10:Talking Herrmann: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Was Herrmann Considered byDisney?Reply by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________Welcome, Elnaz. Hope you like it here.I am watching on the Westerns Channel the "Big Day, Great Day" episode of TheVirginian starring Aldo Ray (he got pudgier since Naked & the Dead four years earlier,and I'd swear that if somebody said that Paul Smith composed the music, I would believeit. No credit was given for the score (typical for the first season so far except for PercyFaith) but apparently Faith composed it. There were many "mickey-mousing" instancesof falling strings or trombones (etc.) when Trampis would fall, and so forth, so it is anoriginal score. But a lot of the music sounds like Paul Smith's style. It was as if I was195