RSO – Robin Johnson

Música Original de la Película TIMES SQUARE (soundtrack album, Mexican edition, 1981)

24 July, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is the last version of the soundtrack album I have, and the one in the worst condition. I’ve seen one or two other copies and they were as beat up as this one is. They might have had their spines intact, where this one’s is completely worn away (which

Record World, Vol. 37 No. 1729, September 13, 1980

1 May, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Most of the “new” items that turn up now are variations of things we’ve already seen. This Times Square soundtrack ad is identical to the ones shown here, but unlike those two it’s still attached to the magazine it was published

I Wanna Be Sedated

8 October, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I made another exception to my vow not to collect any more soundtrack-related items, because this one has a picture of Robin on it. It’s the UK version of the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” single as released by RSO as a Times Square soundtrack tie-in. I might have bought

Bande Originale du Film Times Square (soundtrack album, French edition)

3 August, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I made another exception to my decision not to collect any more copies of the soundtrack when I saw the bright red labels on this French edition. Sadly we don’t get all the text in French as well. It’s pretty much identical to the Canadian version, with the blank red

TIMES SQUARE IS MUSIC OF THE STREETS

23 July, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

WHAT: A yellow-orange, red, and black sticker, 2¼ inches in diameter, with text reading “Times Square is music of the streets.” WHERE: Australia. The tag line on the Australian posters was “Times Square is the music of the streets.” The sticker omits the first “the.” Also, where the phrase

Screen International No. 276, January 24-31, 1981

18 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The number one film in mid-January 1981 London was, unsurprisingly, Flash Gordon, which had already been open for six weeks to Times Square’s one. Times Square debuted at number seven and was falling fast, but its “tepid” performance hadn’t yet doomed it to closure when this issue of

Musica Original de la Pelicula “Times Square”

26 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I should have posted this along with the other versions of the soundtrack album I have, but I somehow had it in my head that it was released in 1981. It wasn’t; all the international editions of the soundtrack were released in 1980, with only one exception I know of,

Record Mirror, 1980

4 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

No, not the magazine Record Mirror. This was a promotional item given by an RSO music rep to the music director of WLKI in Angola, Indiana, along with 25 copies of the soundtrack album to give away as contest prizes. It was on display as part of his enormous

Times Square UK Press Kit (post 1 of 4)

20 July, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The UK Press Kit is an even nicer package than its US counterpart, with its own logo featuring Nicky atop the theater marquee. Inside the big white folder is a smaller silver folder that holds the materials. (The reflective silver didn’t scan very well, I did what

Soundtrack Ad, Melody Maker, November 15, 1980

11 May, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“AFTER ALL THE MOVIE ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR COMES THE DEFINITIVE ROCK SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ROBERT STIGWOOD FILM ‘TIMES SQUARE'” Even as Times Square was opening and closing in the United States, the mighty RSO promotion machine was hard at work in the United Kingdom,

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