This is a new radio show that we only became aware of a few weeks ago. At the same time, in another form, it is a show of which we have been aware since our research began. This Is the Story is an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) program which was a part of their…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Movie Soundtracks by Bernard Herrmann
This 4-LP set was issued in 2010 on the Doxy Label (DOY 003LP). The three soundtracks included were Vertigo, The Wrong Man and North by Northwest. The jacket was a deluxe 4-fold gatefold design featuring extensive sleeve notes about each score and pictures of the original movie posters. The albums were all pressed on HQ…
Vertigo Soundtrack (Mercury SRI 75117, The Netherlands)
When released in The Netherlands, the packaging for the Vertigo soundtrack was very much different than that of most other countries. Most releases around the world utilized the iconic swirl design like the example below. However, the Dutch used a completely different design. The reverse of the jacket had information about each song. Like the…
Vertigo – Soundtrack
When the film Vertigo, released in 1958, a soundtrack album featuring the music of Bernard Herrmann was also issued (Mercury MG-20384). The album cover carried a photo of the film’s stars, James Stewart and Kim Novak. You can see that Stewart, Novak and Alfred Hitchcock are also mentioned on the record label, as well as…
