I vividly remember watching the truck scene and having my first cinematic orgasm. I was 4 ½ years old and my uncle took my sister and I to see it at the La Reina theatre in Sherman Oaks. What is the first film score you ever noticed? Writing and directing are my true passion, but since that was not panning out, I turned my attention to my other love: film music. While neither one of my parents were in the « business », I felt it flow through my veins. I was born in Burbank, CA… I went to school there and now work there. Gerhard, answered with openness and enthusiasm to our questions. and Seconds, all three from Jerry Goldsmith, Nate & Hayes by Trevor Jones, the complete scores from The Fugitive by James Newton Howard and Mars Attacks! by Danny Elfman or, more recently, Alex North’s Dragonslayer. La-La Land got its share of the pie as well, releasing famous scores, both from the Paramount catalog and other rightholders, titles such as Innerspace, I.Q. The release of Elmer Bernstein’s Airplane! opened a breach for all film music labels to use, offering fans numerous scores they wished for in vain for ages. In 2009, La-La Land has finally secured his place in the pantheon of specialized labels, gaining access to the Paramount Pictures archives deemed inviolable for decades. At first mostly issuing or reissuing scores from horror movies ( Re-Animator, From Beyond, Creepshow or Christopher Lennertz’s Saint Sinner), the small label has gradually grown and gained a well-deserved place amongst the bigger players such as Varèse Sarabande, Film Score Monthly and Intrada. At the end of 2002, film music aficionados discovered in their favorite record stores or on the internet the CDs from a new, small label: La-La Land Records.
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