soundtrack – Page 2 – Robin Johnson

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

Record Mirror, January 24, 1981

19 February, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“All things vaguely sensible suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke.” Chris Westwood’s review of Times Square in the January 24, 1981, Record Mirror was sadly typical, finding it an unbelievable melodramatic mess that “tries too many things and pulls none of them off.” He sees some value

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,

Tiger Beat Vol. 17 No. 2, November 1980

2 March, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The November Tiger Beat also came out before Times Square’s October release, judging by the full-page teaser ad that ran on page 29. In fact we can narrow down the date it came out to sometime between the releases of the first two singles from

Times Square Soundtrack Promotional Video

22 January, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Apparently, in 1980, RSO sent this videotape to record retailers to play in-store to promote the soundtrack to Times Square. It features the two songs performed in the film, “Your Daughter Is One” and “Damn Dog.” The fact that the lyrics to “Your Daughter Is One” consist primarily of curse

From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack TIMES SQUARE (songbook)

24 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

… is exactly what it sounds like, a squarebound book collecting the sheet music for all the songs appearing on the Times Square soundtrack album. This of course excludes “Dangerous Type” by The Cars, which although heard for quite a bit longer in the film than some of the

Trade Magazine Soundtrack Ad

7 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Just like the title says, this is an ad for the soundtrack that ran in 11 x 14 industry magazines. The first one was laminated for display by the person I purchased it from; the yellow border may not be part of the original page. The back is solid yellow,

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – TIMES SQUARE (8-track Version)

28 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

8-track tapes would be pretty much gone from U.S. music stores by 1982 (almost the same time as CD players made their debut), but in 1980 they were still a viable release format. As did the cassette, the 8-track loses the back cover and interior gatefold artwork. The front cover

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Times Square (Cassette Version)

19 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Cassettes may have already overtaken records as the biggest selling format by 1980. They didn’t sound as good, but they were portable and convenient, and that’s always more important. There was rarely an effort to duplicate the full art of a record album on the relatively tiny insert, though. We

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “TIMES SQUARE” (U.K. Edition)

10 November, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The biggest difference here is that Tim Curry is completely gone. There isn’t even a red circle where Nicky’s badge would be. We’ve seen that before on the promotional “slick”, which was displayed in record stores in the United States. Why each country had their own idea as to this

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