recording engineer was John Richards, assisted by Tim Pennington and James Abramson, and the music editor was Bob Hathaway. Leitmotifs Composer/arranger Ken Thorne was mandated to reuse the first film's themes for Superman II. He based the music for the Kryptonian villains on the Williams material associated with Krypton and the Fortress of Solitude. He also added a descending three-note motif for the villains and a briefly heard ominous melody associated with General Zod. Source music "Pick up the Pieces", by Average White Band, can be heard in the East Houston sequence. This replaced a piece called "East Houston Café" composed by Ken Thorne, which was not used. Thorne had been asked by director Richard Lester to write a "sound-alike" version of "Pick Up the Pieces", but this was used for the scene in Don's Diner at the end of the film. Thorne wrote a few other pieces for various radios as well as "Honeymoon Hotel", a piece played as Clark Kent and Lois Lane are shown around a tacky hotel suite at Niagara Falls. Soundtrack releases Warner Bros. Records 1980: Single LP from Warner Bros. Records. This album and the original album for Superman III were combined for an out-of-print Japanese CD release. Film Score Monthly February 29, 2008: part of Superman: The Music (1978-1988) 8-CD set from Film Score Monthly. This release restores the complete score, which is presented on disc 3 of the 8 disc set, with additional music presented on disc 8. La-La Land Records October 30, 2018: 3-CD set from La-La Land Records. This release is presented on discs 1 and 2 of this 3-disc set, with source music from Superman, Superman II and Superman III filling the rest of disc 2, and the score for Superman III on disc 3. Superman III The score was composed, conducted and orchestrated by Ken Thorne (with original Superman themes by John Williams). Recording took place on February 14–16; March 7–9 and 18, 1983 at CTS Studios (The Music Centre) in Wembley, Middlesex, England. The recording engineer was John Richards and the music editor was Bob Hathaway. Leitmotifs Ken Thorne was given a freer hand in the scoring of Superman III in accordance with the series' change in direction and more comedic tone. His new thematic material consisted of related themes for Gus Gorman and a general theme for computers, plus an ominous "Supercomputer" theme heard in the