Thanks for the information, August. You are right about that trumpeting "Godzilla Theme." That's the main reason I never bought the score -- it's the only one of all the Godzilla scores I don't own. I even avoided buying the box-set that included it, whereas I did buy the other boxes even though I already had all the scores. It was my form of personal protest to that theme! I will admit that I like some of the vampire music you mentioned, although I haven't seen the films to know how the music works in them -- just heard some of Manabe's music on the KING OF MONSTERS box-set. And his music from GEKIDO NO SHOWA-SHI: GUNBATSU on the Toho War Music collection, while having a "taste" of that wacky brass from "Smog Monster" at a few points, is enjoyable, especially cue 26 with the prominent piano and xylophone. Usually, his writing is a little too simplistic for me overall, and when it's on the same CD as music by Ikuma Dan and Masaru Satoh, well, it doesn't hold up quite as well. But while I definitely like some of his work, that Godzilla theme is possibly the worst "theme music" I've ever heard, with the possible exception being Mischa Bakaleinikoff's Superman "theme" from the Columbia serials. Hopefully, Manabe didn't compose anything worse during his career than that particular G-theme!

Just a guess here, but if "Save the Earth" was a hidden track on Russ's CD, it's possible that it wasn't licensed. If a song had never before been released on CD or album, you would have to get permission from all the publishers to include it for a first-time audio release. After it was released legitimately once, then anyone could release the song on CD provided they pay the proper mechanical royalties.