The Trial LP

[71-1045893605]

I just woke up, checked out eBAY for a minute, even though I despise the whole company (high fees and no communication for starters) and noticed that a French, SUPER, ULTRA-RARE LP Soundtrack for THE TRIAL with Tony Perkins on the cover went for $11.00!!!!!!!! You've got to be frikkin' kidding. I would've paid over a $100 for it. Oh well, some doofus in Kansas City will be listening to the holy-grail of soundtracks for a measely $11.00. Lucky for him, I overslept. It only had 3 bids over a 7 day period. How pathetic!

[blunted by community]

if you contact that dufos in kansas, and and get him to trade you a copy of that lp, for anything from my welles collection, i will send him a tape, and make you a cd of that lp. i have lots of commercial, and under the counter welles stuff.

[71-1045893605]

I attempted to contact Mr. Doofus on "just that" and he replied, "Not interested". Lucky bastard.

[blunted by community]

DAMN..

you are right about him lucking out on that purchase. would love to hear that. i found the touch of evil soundtrack before all the touch of evil hoopla. maybe the trial could be found on the web. kane and ambersons are available.

would love to find soundtrack for cat on a hot tin roof.

in used record stores movie sound tracks from classic films go for about $80. if the film is rare, double the price. one with richard burton, forgot what movie, ALEXANDER THE GREAT maybe, was $400! of course, if you don't need it right away you can find it for a buck at a library sale.

[Lance Morrison]

I live just over 2 hours away from Kansas City, perhaps I should break in? Heck I'll even leave him $15 out of kindness, that's what kind of a thief I am.

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[Jeff Wilson]

I didn't get around to responding to this thread earlier, but I was going to say that people might choose their comments more carefully, given that people just might be reading them. And so I received an email from the purchaser of the Trial EP (not an LP) who asked me to clarify a couple things. Namely, and I quote from his email:

"1. The item was for the EP not the LP as stated.
2. Rather than sleeping through the auction as posted it was a mistimed attempt to bid at the last moment
3. Given the language in the email I received I have made no reply to this individual
4. I certainly did not reply "not interested"
5. Where Kansas came from I don't know.
6. The final bid was for $11.50"

Given that the email he received contained comments like "Consider yourself one, lucky, motherfucker" and so on, why would anyone expect this person to happily agree to make a copy?

[71-1045893605]

It was stated:

>>And so I received an email from the purchaser of the Trial EP (not an LP) who asked me to clarify a couple things.>>

Why would the purchaser of THE TRIAL EP contact YOU out of the blue, Jeff? I think you're the purchaser!

>>Rather than sleeping through the auction as posted it was a mistimed attempt to bid at the last moment>>

I, myself, slept through the auction and just missed it. Next time, I'll be wide awake though.

>>Given that the email he received contained comments like "Consider yourself one, lucky, motherfucker" and so on, why would anyone expect this person to happily agree to make a copy?>>

Why not? Hell, I'd be a lucky mo-fo if I won the EP for dirt-cheap too.

>>The final bid was for $11.50>>

Still a frikkin' steal!

GA

[Jeff Wilson]

The purchaser contacted me because he lost his password to his account on the board and he asked me to post his clarifications. I've reset his account, and he can post his own comments now if he so wishes.

[Glenn Anders]

Dear Jeff: Sounds like a job job for Guy van Stratten.

I agree fully with your position.

Glenn

[Jeff Wilson]

I appreciate the support, but I don't see anything constructive remaining to come out of this thread, so I'm closing it.

[Jeff Wilson]

Limited edition of 1000 copies from Kritzerland Records.

http://www.kritzerland.com/trial.htm

[Le Chiffre]

Thanks for the tip, Jeff. I definitely want one.

[Terry]

I've managed to never come across this OST before. Apparently it was released on LP by Philips in 1962 and reissued on CD by Kritzerland in 2012 and Doxy Music in 2017. Perhaps it was a cut from this that Welles remembered was "played all over like a hit tune."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXHvxXVLoQA

I see that Ledrut also scored White Comanche, starring Bill Shatner and Joseph Cotten.

[Le Chiffre]

The piece that became "like a hit tune" was undoubtedly Albinoni's Adagio, which has been used in numerous movies since, including Oliver Stone's THE DOORS and, just a couple of years ago, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. That piece has a fascinating history, according to its Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_G_minor:

The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings, and organ continuo is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment by Albinoni. There is a continuing scholarly debate about whether the alleged fragment was real, or a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto, but there is no doubt about Giazotto's authorship of the remainder of the work.

According to Giazotto, he obtained the document shortly after the end of World War II from the Saxon State Library in Dresden which had preserved most of its collection, though its buildings were destroyed in the bombing raids of February and March 1945 by the British and American Air Forces...Giazotto never produced the manuscript fragment, and no official record has been found of its presence in the collection of the Saxon State Library.

Sounds like Giazotto may have been pulling an Elmyr de Hory.

[Terry]

Apparently that's the only piece of music Giazotto ever wrote, though as Welles said, you only need one masterpiece. I listened to other things by Albinoni, but they don't sound like the Adagio. The hoax must have been in full swing when Welles stated it was curious for a Baroque piece, being full of ideas which wouldn't recur in music for another century.