Teasing the Korean Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 Not jazz per se, but a really heartbreaking story. https://www.kmfa.org/pages/2888-somewhere-under-a-golf-course-the-destruction-of-mgm-s-musical-legacy?fbclid=IwAR1nuVdfVBGls76gYgG4k8CucMQ9-Qwdmy29BbJhKgXtxoZJ9PN7rEkxq8s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzcorner Posted August 16, 2021 Report Share Posted August 16, 2021 Have many MGM vinyls and agree that the music on this label is great ans listenable even today. Wizard of Oz is one of my favorites (music and movie). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, jazzcorner said: Have many MGM vinyls and agree that the music on this label is great ans listenable even today. Wizard of Oz is one of my favorites (music and movie). The written scores for countless films are lost, not the recordings. Edited August 16, 2021 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 8/15/2021 at 4:47 PM, Teasing the Korean said: Not jazz per se, but a really heartbreaking story. https://www.kmfa.org/pages/2888-somewhere-under-a-golf-course-the-destruction-of-mgm-s-musical-legacy?fbclid=IwAR1nuVdfVBGls76gYgG4k8CucMQ9-Qwdmy29BbJhKgXtxoZJ9PN7rEkxq8s Very good article! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Bluesnik said: Very good article! People wonder how something like the Universal fire can happen, and then you read accounts such as this, and it all makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) Reading the article made me think of Tarantino's last movie, the great Once upon a time in Hollywood. Which depicts the end of Hollywood's golden period. In parallel to the Manson story, which is only minor. It made me laugh a lot and also discover Leonardo di Caprio's comedy style. Edited August 17, 2021 by Bluesnik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopkins Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 7 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said: People wonder how something like the Universal fire can happen, and then you read accounts such as this, and it all makes sense. The same thing happened with silent films, many of which were just discarded by the production companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 Every time I see this thread title, I think of Harold Arlen… 🎶 Somewhere, Under a Golf Course…🎶 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Rooster_Ties said: Every time I see this thread title, I think of Harold Arlen… 🎶 Somewhere, Under a Golf Course…🎶 For some reason I think of Jimmy Hoffa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rooster_Ties said: Every time I see this thread title, I think of Harold Arlen… 🎶 Somewhere, Under a Golf Course…🎶 Um, that's precisely the point of the article's title. 7 hours ago, hopkins said: The same thing happened with silent films, many of which were just discarded by the production companies. By the early 70s, though, the historic preservation movement had gotten underway in the US. You wonder if they even tried to donate the music library before destroying it. Edited August 18, 2021 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 It happened to video games too, I think. There was a dramatic slump in the early 1980s, and Atari notoriously just dumped a huge shipment of E.T. games straight into landfill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 Those Atari games have been at least partially retrieved. Some guy actually went on a dig and found the spot. Those Paramount 78s that supposedly got thrown into the river, not so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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