There are a lot of different legal contracts, but I personally don't understand why R&H doesn't control the rights to this one. It may have something to do with it being the first of the team's works to be filmed after Hammerstein's death -- Rodgers may have agreed to sell the rights, or...
Could you really do that, David? I don't have the laserdisc, but if somebody sent me the complete soundtrack, I could probably put it together on my Mac.
Speaking of Camelot... (weren't we?) :) I have recorded the high-def version off of HDNet movies, and the soundtrack does sound different than the DVD. I wouldn't swear to it, but it sounds like the soundtrack has been redone. Anybody have this experience? or some more information...
For whatever reason, the copy I got off of TCM is mono. I just checked it. Perhaps my cable blew it, or something. Maybe some prints were mono, some were 3ch stereo, I don't know the ultimately truth here. But my copy, gotten off of cable, is mono.
Flower Drum Song is not in stereo. I have recently recorded it, twice, off of TCM, both times told that it was in stereo, but both times, all I got was mono. On IMDB, it says this film is in mono. The TCM print is very good, though, and I would recommend recording it (if that's something you...