1980 – Page 6 – Robin Johnson

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “TIMES SQUARE”

23 October, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Finally, here’s what all the fuss was about. The 2 record set containing all but one of the songs from the film. In their haste to load the film with soundtrack material, they actually added one too many, and for some reason lost to time, the excellent “Dangerous Type” by

Times Square – DJ Copy

14 October, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

… was the title of the soundtrack sampler released in Japan. The picture sleeve is very thin paper, practically newsprint. The image is one used in the film strip on the UK soundtrack sampler. Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese, and Google Translate does a very bad job of translating Japanese;

TIMES SQUARE Trailer

5 October, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

… was, for some reason, the title of the promotional soundtrack sampler in the UK. It’s a much more attractive package than the US sampler, with a strip of stills across the top emphasizing that yes, there’s a movie involved, as opposed to the US white sleeve that seemed to

“Special Preview of Selected Cuts”

26 September, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This 6-track, white-labelled, white-sleeved record was used by RSO to promote the Times Square soundtrack in the U.S. As there was no art, it may be the most boring promotional item released. It would have been distributed to radio stations, and copies were later handed out at the film’s premiere

Singles Going Steady

17 September, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The singles from the soundtrack started coming out before the album, which came out before the film. It was here that I realized collecting everything to do with Times Square would be hideously expensive, so since my focus was Robin Johnson, items connected to the movie but which didn’t have

Soundtrack Promotional Poster OP-200

8 September, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“O” is for “oversized,” I assume. This image is the same size as the image of the last poster, but trust me, the actual poster is double the size — just as tall and twice as wide. At four feet wide, it may be the largest poster in my collection;

Soundtrack Promotional Poster P-201

30 August, 2015 Sean 2 Comments 1 category

The top of this poster uses the elements of the album cover art. The text strips have been moved, and the title has been enlarged, tilted to the right rather than the left, and has had most of its color removed, all to take advantage of the larger space

Original Soundtrack Album Cover Promo Display

21 August, 2015 Sean 2 Comments 1 category

This was the very first item of Times Square memorabilia I ever got (although, like the double-sided poster, not this specific copy of it). I saw the film twice at the Quakerbridge Mall, which had two record stores in it (later there were three, if you can imagine such a

AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 7-20)

12 August, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The remaining 14 pages of the AFD Campaign Pressbook consist of the poster reconfigured to fit every imaginable size of newspaper movie advertisement. I’m not posting all of them (because webspace is neither infinite nor free), just enough to give you an idea. The back cover gives a contact at

AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 5 & 6)

3 August, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“TIMES SQUARE. It’s a movie. It’s a musical. It’s a way of life.” The photos on Page 6 of the AFD Campaign Pressbook are a cropped version of TS-104-17A/7, and TS-28-28/7. There, now that’s out of the way… Pages 5 and 6 breathlessly present all sorts of fantastic ideas

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