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Title: Not the originals but not too bad a substitute
Review: I knew in '94 when I bought this CD that these were not the original recordings. Yet the themes of the vast majority of the films featured on this CD are from soundtracks that were or are out of print. As a huge war movie and movie soundtrack fan I was looking for a reasonable fascimile of some of my favorite film scores. This CD provided the next best thing to those unavailable soundtracks.In the last few years movie soundtracks have become big business with every year seeing the re-release of some of the old classics. The original soundtrack recordings for A Bridge Too Far, Midway, The Great Escape, and others have recently been released on CD. If you have been looking for that opening theme to a favorite war film then you might be able to at last get the original soundtrack on CD; but if that soundtrack is still out of print, "The Longest Day: Music from Classic War films" is not a bad alternative.
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