Intrada returns with its fifth Kickstarter campaign and its 12th album recording project. As with the their previous crowdfunded projects, the label is engaging the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of William T. Stromberg to create an all-new digital recording. This time around, they are answering the call from many collectors who have been asking for a revisit of Jerry Goldsmith's 1969 political thriller score for The Chairman.
While a soundtrack album was released at the time of the film on the Tetragrammaton label, the album masters and film recording sessions both vanished over the years. Several CD reissues appeared, but they were vinyl rips taken straight from the Tetragrammaton album, featuring the limited range and distortion inherit in the format. While a short mono selection of cues in superior sound surfaced several years ago and was released on the prestigious Goldsmith at Fox box set released by Varese Sarabande, that was it. As such, collectors have often imagined what a completely new, state-of-the-art recording would sound like, a hint of which was provided when Tadlow recorded a suite for their The Blue Max album.
As a stretch goal, if the label can raise an additional $10,000, they will also record the end title to Rambo II, the original of which only exists in a poor-sounding cassette dub; "Alex's Death" from Under Fire, the set piece action cue from the film, left off the original soundtrack and now lost to time as the sessions are missing; "The Flag" from Not Without My Daughter. The film version includes a militaristic trumpet solo, a favorite Goldsmith sound of our late founder Douglass Fake that is missing from the original soundtrack, as well as "Homer Writes" from Lilies of the Field, another track long since lost and not included on the original soundtrack.
The goal is to raise $73,000, with a stretch goal of $10,000 to include the bonus tracks. To check out the campaign and contribute, please visit the Kickstarter campaign here.