Star Wars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ? Rare 1977 First Press Dbl LP NM

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Star Wars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Cover of the original 1977 release. Film score by John Williams Released 1977, 1997, 2004 Recorded March 1977 Studio Anvil Studios, Denham Genre Classical Length 74:58 Label 20th Century Records (later by RSO Records, RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Walt Disney) Producer George Lucas, Nick Redman (2004) John Williams chronology Black Sunday
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John Williams' score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12, 15 and 16, 1977. The score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Williams himself conducting. The score was orchestrated by Williams's frequent associate Herbert W. Spencer, who also orchestrated The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The score was recorded by engineer Eric Tomlinson and edited by Kenneth Wannberg, and the scoring sessions were produced by Star Wars director George Lucas and supervised by Lionel Newman, head of 20th Century Fox's music department.

The film premiered on May 25, 1977 and by late summer a disco version of the film's theme by Meco became America's number one song. In 2005, the American Film Institute named the original Star Wars soundtrack as the most memorable score of all time for a U.S. film. In 2004, it was preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry, calling it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

In 2016, the album was re-released by Sony Classical Records on vinyl, CD, and digital formats alongside Williams' other Star Wars soundtracks. The vinyl release is pressed on 180g vinyl, and features the original 20th Century Records logo. Unlike all of Sony Classical's previous releases, however, the vinyl version is a remastered version of the original 1977 release, not the Special Edition. In 2017, the soundtrack was re-released by Walt Disney Records; in digital formats on January 1 and on vinyl LPon December 1.

Original pressing

The original 1977 release of the soundtrack, entitled Star Wars - Original Soundtrack, included a poster of a painting by science fiction artist John Berkey, depicting the final battle over the Death Star from the film's end. The album was released as a double LP which was formatted for an autochanger record player; one disc had sides one and four with the other having sides two and three. This allowed a person to stack sides one and two on the player, then flip the stack over for sides three and four, allowing the listener to have over half an hour of uninterrupted music interspersed with key bits of dialog before they needed to flip the discs over.

Track listing for the first release on LP

• First release on LP by 20th Century. For the original soundtrack, John Williams selected 75 minutes of music out of the 88 minute score. To provide musical variety, it did not follow the film's chronological order.

This track listing is also shared by Sony Classical's 2016 LP release.

Side one No. Title Length 1. "Main Title" 5:20 2. "Imperial Attack" 6:10 3. "Princess Leia's Theme" 4:18 4. "The Desert and the Robot Auction" 2:51 Side two No. Title Length 5. "Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack" 3:46 6. "The Little People Work" 4:02 7. "Rescue of the Princess" 4:46 8. "Inner City" 4:12 9. "Cantina Band" 2:44 Side three No. Title Length 10. "The Land of the Sandpeople" 2:50 11. "Mouse Robot and Blasting Off" 4:01 12. "The Return Home" 2:46 13. "The Walls Converge" 4:31 14. "The Princess Appears" 4:04 Side four No. Title Length 15. "The Last Battle" 12:05 16. "The Throne Room and End Title" 5:28

Total Time: 74:58