Somewhere Under a Golf Course

[Teasing the Korean]

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

[jazzcorner]

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).

[Teasing the Korean]

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

[Bluesnik]

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!

[Teasing the Korean]

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.  

[Bluesnik]

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

[hopkins]

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. 

[Rooster_Ties]

Every time I see this thread title, I think of Harold Arlen…

🎶 Somewhere, Under a Golf Course…🎶

[jlhoots]

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.

[Teasing the Korean]

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

[Rabshakeh]

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. 

[JSngry]

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.