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Mar 9 09 9:18 AM
Uchujin65 wrote: Did anyone here actually see Smog Monster at the grindhouse or drive-in in the early 70s on the infamous double bill with Frogs?
Mar 9 09 10:54 AM
David Schecter wrote: If you look at those American International record label scans (of GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW), you'll note that the music publisher of those songs is Dijon Music. Dijon Music is the BMI publishing company for Sony pertaining to DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (BMI is a performing rights organization, and you needed a BMI publishing company because Guy Hemric belonged to BMI). Sony now owns Dijon Music. Dijon Music is the specific Sony Music publishing company that owns the BMI writer contributions of "Save the Earth." Sony also owns the ASCAP publishing company pertaining to DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (OPC Music Publishing), which owns the music/songs written for that film by Ronald Stein and Jim Gordon, who are both ASCAP writers.
Mar 9 09 10:59 AM
Mar 9 09 11:47 AM
Hachigatsu wrote: The trumpeting "Godzilla Theme" for this film completely undermines Manabe's score, which is actually quite good (his score for Toho's vampire trilogy is quite effective, IMHO). Manabe was not only one of Akira Ifukube's pupils, but he also provided the scores for two important post-war films directed by Nagisa Oshima, CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari) and NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Nihon-no Yoru to Kiri), both 1960. If you'd like, David, I can burn a CD for you of the complete HEDORAH score. As for "Give Back the Sun!" (Kaese! Taiyo-o!), the original title of "Save the Earth", Manabe wrote, composed and arranged the song (with Japanese lyrics by director Yoshimitsu Banno). For the US version, Adyran Russ sings over the absent vocal of karaoke track provided by Toho to AIP for the opening and club scenes. Other interludes in the last part of the film are different arrangements of Manabe's song, which must be the work of Hemric. Manabe is a member of JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers), and the song must be registered with them. Several of Manabe's works and scores are registered with ASCAP via JASRAC, including SMOG MONSTER: ASCAP ACE: MANABE RIICHIRO.
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Mar 9 09 6:32 PM
Gorilla At Large wrote:
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Mar 10 09 12:33 AM
David Schecter wrote: 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.
Mar 10 09 12:41 AM
Mar 10 09 5:11 AM
Hachigatsu wrote: Manabe uses a much more tolerable variation in MEGALON, but despite this, some of the music is wonderful, trippy electronic jazz-fusion -- and I've always loved the Jet Jaguar theme!
Mar 10 09 9:23 AM
Uchujin65 wrote: I love how AIP promoted their films in such a lurid way. Always promising so much more in terms of exploitative content than what the film actually delivered (such as in their infamous ad campaign for Godzilla vs. the Thing). It was false, dishonest advertising in many ways but it was fun, good natured false advertising, if that's even possible.
Mar 10 09 12:15 PM
Gorilla At Large wrote: Uchujin65 wrote: I love how AIP promoted their films in such a lurid way. Always promising so much more in terms of exploitative content than what the film actually delivered (such as in their infamous ad campaign for Godzilla vs. the Thing). It was false, dishonest advertising in many ways but it was fun, good natured false advertising, if that's even possible. Talk about false advertising - I was so disappointed as a kid when this movie did not deliver this scene from the poster!
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