Roy made the trek down to Princeton yesterday. I showed him around the town and campus and introduced him to Princeton Record Exchange, the Holy of Holies for savvy record collectors. Even just to get through the classical music section can sometimes take me a couple of hours, if I comb through everything, so there’s often little energy left to check out the other sections.
Yesterday, even though I felt the perspiration beading on my forehead, I deliberately didn’t look too closely as we passed through. However, I had to fight hard not to grow roots when I happened to glance at the soundtracks and noticed a mother lode of classic film scores!
Not wanting to waste our time together, I came back later and cleaned the place out. I filled up a bag with Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer, Victor Young, George Duning, Alex North, André Previn, Bronislau Kaper, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Gold, Laurence Rosenthal, John Barry, Ron Goodwin, Ennio Morricone, Mario Nascimbene, Pino Donaggio, and Jerry Goldsmith (among others). I even found a suite from “The Skull” by Elisabeth Lutyens, some French scores for the films of Marcel Carné, and Alessandro Cicognini’s music for Kirk Douglas’ “Ulysses!”
Roy, you’re my good luck charm!