There’s been a hole in the fabric of the film/music world for many, many, many years: late-great director Hal Ashby’s bizarre, romantic masterpiece Harold and Maude was blessed with a Cat Steven’s soundtrack (one that featured two songs written specifically for the film) that never truly saw the light of day. Yes, “Don’t Be Shy” and “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out” were released on the Footsteps in the Dark compilation in ‘84, but besides that the original sound track of the film has gone unreleased.
Until now.
Cameron Crowe (yes, that Cameron Crowe) has a little company called Vinyl Films and they’ve put together one of the better LP packages we’ve ever seen. Compiling the entire soundtrack, plus the most extensive interviews about the film, well, ever, Crowe has put together a fantastic package for this never-before released gem. It’s got posters, booklets, a limited edition 7-inch, and, best of all, a multi-colored record. And you can only get it from Light In The Attic.
Pick it up, there’s only 2500 copies, and when they’re gone … they’re gone.
The full details after the jump.
Vinyl Films Records has just release the Holy Grail of unreleased soundtracks, Harold and Maude!
Thirty-six years after its initial release, every one of Cat Stevens’ masterful songs from the film are compiled in one incredible package. In addition to such classics as “Miles From Nowhere”, “Where Do The Children Play?” and “Trouble”, the album includes the two songs written specifically for Harold and Maude, “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out” and “Don’t Be Shy”, along with alternate versions of both Harold and Maude tracks.
Over two years in the making, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Harold and Maude comes with an extensive 36-page full-color booklet filled with never-before-seen photographs and an oral history of the making of the film and the music, as told by the filmmakers and participants. Also included is a bonus 7″ single with unreleased versions of “Don’t Be Shy” and “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out”, two suitable-for-framing posters, and much more!
Available only on 2500 copies of Limited Edition Vinyl.
LP Package also includes -
- 2 foldout 18″ x 24″ posters
- Bonus 7″ with previously unreleased tracks
TRACKLIST -
1. Side One:
2. Don’t Be Shy
3. On The Road To Find Out
4. I Wish, I Wish
5. Miles From Nowhere
6. Tea For The Tillerman
7. I Think I See The Light
Side Two:
1. Where Do The Children Play?
2. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
3. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out (banjo instrumental)*
4. Trouble
5. Don’t Be Shy (alternate version)*
6. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out (instrumental version)*
Bonus 7″
a) Don’t Be Shy (demo version)*
b) If You want To Sing Out, Sing Out (alternate version)*
I heard on the radio today Feb 07,08. That this soundtrack was available on your site. I got online immediately and it is not available. I MUST have this special edition or my collection will not be com plete. PLEASE for the sake of my sanity alert me when they are available. I want 2 please!!!!
I just read about it in Paste magazine. Please-I want just one copy!
Thanks-David
I can’t believe this was finally officially released, and that I missed it! Please make a second run!
I need this!
If anyone is still looking for it, they appear to have it here:
http://www.musicdirect.com/product/80976
It’s time to put an end to the PROFIT-TAKING of the various sellers of this LP from $199 up…..please make a reissue for all those unfortunates (such as myself) WHO HAD NO CLUE THIS GREAT LP WAS EVEN OUT THERE UNTIL IT WAS GONE!!!
Bruce
This has been my emotional go-to movie since… forever. Glad this LP was made…. sad that I missed out. Back to my pieced together playlist….
Please let me know when this becomes available and at hopefully at a resonable price!
Hi, I am also hoping for a reissue of the vinyl at some point in the future…………….
Yes, I agree.
Cameron Crowe please rerelease this. So many people miss out on this because we where unaware, despite that we are all great fans of
Harold and Maude and or Cat Stevens.
Somehow, a few greedy animals bought allot of these copies only to profit by selling them on ebay and the like,
at 4 to 5 times what they originally sold for. How’d this happen??
Please rerelease this, Or Make some slight changes so that the ones who got ripped off don’t feel cheated. Please Do A Rerelease.
http://www.cameroncrowe.com/
omg i want this .
i need this!<3
Please re release
this is one of the only movies I own
Please please please – I MUST have this album. I have been looking for it for years and now I find out I missed the boat??!!
Please do another run…… :-(
Again, just to keep the request active as time goes by, PLEASE re-release this record. I saw it on the shelf at Amoeba in San Francisco around the time it came out, had no idea of its limited status, and thought “O man, I don’t have the $30 or a card on me. Shit. Better come back tomorrow.” It wasn’t in stock the next day, or after, but I didn’t think to look into it online until much later– the anguish went deep. PLEASE re-release this record!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE re release this!
why not offer this on a CD?
i purchased a copy awhile ago and paid $35 on EBay, I adore the film. now i see the price is $199.00.
The film is wonderful as is the music. Terrible that the price has gone sky high. Maude wouldn’t agree to this.
Any plans for a re-release – aw, c’mon, PLEASE!
I TOO, WOULD LOVE THIS ALBUM !!JUDGING FROM ALL THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS…..CAN YOU SEE HOW MUCH MORE MONEY YOU COULD MAKE IF YOU RE-RELEASE THIS EXCELLENT ALBUM? I EVEN GOT MY YOUNG BEST FRIEND INTERESTED AND SHE WANTS IT TOO. ANXIOUSLY AWAITING!
THANKS
Yes! Please, in love’s name, re-release this LP.
I just found out about this… Yes, three years after the release. Any chance of this being re-released???
Thank you!
Pretty please re-re-release?
come on cameron!!! don’t be a dick, be like maude and print some more!! i know you can’t do the same package but another vinyl issue would be greatly appreciated.
Vinyl or CD, either would be wonderful – please re-release this!!
Fine weblog,have a good day
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 8. I loved the music and wanted the soundtrack ever since then, that was 25 years ago. I couldn’t afford the $100plus prices I’d seen on ebay. I hope I get a copy if its ever re-released.
I just happened to see this on the shelf in Amoeba Records in Berkeley, CA. Got it for about $30 I think. Man did I luck out!
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