20 December 2000

It ain't a dinosaur but it is prehistoric and dead. Is that good enough for you? It's got long claws, lived in the water and chased beautiful girls all around Florida (or the Amazon or someplace). Can you guess what it is? No? Actually, we didn't think so. In case you haven't read the title on the photograph yet, it's the Creature From The Black Lagoon. And here, for the first time, is a terrific recording of the complete score from that classic 50's 3D spectacular. 

As we've said before, these MMM recordings are first rate. Just to make things more interesting, there's music from The Alligator People and Tarzan!  This photo shows one of the Alligator People preventing an otherwise normal adult from buying this CD. She'll get even we'll betcha. 

In the meanwhile, you can buy this directly from the publishers by clicking on http://www.mmmrecordings.com/ and hunting around for their order form

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Here are all the movies represented on this disk. There's not one single dinosaur in any of them! What were they thinking about?

 

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How many times have you found yourself out in the Gobi desert chipping through that ancient rock, and just, well, bored silly? Sound familiar?

Now here's something to bring a little excitement to those agonizing stretches.

So imagine this: The chisel in one hand, the goggles on your eyes, earphones on your ears, whacking away with a hammer and listening to the original score for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms or Gorgo or even It Came from Beneath the Sea? That'll make those bones come to life! (Heh Heh!).

It's got music by Henry Mancini, Herman Stein , Bronislau Kaper and other famous composers of the 1940's and 50's. The scores were meticulously (That means someone was more than a little careful.-- Vera) restored and re-recorded with a full orchestra. 

These swell CD's run over an hour (well if you add the times together and average them out, they each run over an hour) and contain scores of eight movies. They're actually the first nearly complete recordings of these rare movie scores. Old people saw these movies when they were kids.  Smart kids watched them on TV. That's probably why kids don't have grey hair and stuff. Each CD comes with a kewl color booklet with tiny print that old people can't read and lots of awesome pictures of Gorgo and Ray Harryhausen's Rhedosaurus and some giant Tarantulas and Giant Ants and lots of really disgusting bugs. Now if those monsters had just eaten all the old people, then definitely kids could have all of these CD's, but the way it looks, y'all will have to share or buy your own.

Now we have to admit that we've been listening to this music in our DVD player and that we weren't out in the Gobi, but we figure that if we were out in the Gobi it would be more than our nervous system could handle. This music makes it so real and exciting that those bones might just get up and eat you! So if you are old, just watch out, because this music is so awesome that it might be part of a plot by young people to take over paleontology. 
 

Resources

The producers of this album have their own website where you can read more about the CD. It's pretty kewl, so we stole lots of pictures from them. You can even buy it directly from them which is probably a good idea because otherwise it's hard to get.
http://www.mmmrecordings.com/

A list of all the movies on these CD's.
We've warned you before! Not enough dinosaurs here. Once we get a time machine, we'll tell those composers what's what.