Film Music Site - Elmer Bernstein: The Ava Collection Soundtrack (Elmer Bernstein)

#	Track	Duration
	Walk On The Wild Side
1.	Walk On The Wild Side	2:43
2.	Somewhere In The Used To Be	2:02
3.	Hallie�s Jazz	3:35
4.	Rejected	4:05
5.	Doll House	2:37
6.	Teresina	1:53
7.	Night Theme	2:19
8.	Walk On The Wild Side Jazz	2:18
9.	Dove	2:31
10.	Kitty	2:37
11.	Oliver	2:28

	Movie and TV Themes
12.	Reminiscence	1:42
13.	Finale	1:36

	The Carpetbaggers
14.	The Carpetbaggers	2:31
15.	Love Theme From The Carpetbaggers	2:40
16.	Speak Of The Devil	2:01
17.	Forbidden Room	2:19
18.	The Carpetbaggers Blues	3:52
19.	Main Title From The Carpetbaggers	2:10
20.	New Star	2:16
21.	The Producer Asks For A Divorce	2:39
22.	Jonas Hits Bottom	2:50
23.	Finale	1:44
		57:28

#	Track	Duration
	The Caretakers
1.	Black Straight-Jacket	2:08
2.	Blues For A (4-String Guitar	2:37
3.	Take Care	2:03
4.	Birdito	2:26
5.	Party In The Ward	2:00
6.	The Caretakers (Main Title)	2:17
7.	The Cage	1:59
8.	Electrotherapy	2:02
9.	Day Hospital	1:41
10.	Seclusion	1:40
11.	Finale	2:14

	Baby The Rain Must Fall
12.	Baby The Rain Must Fall	2:28
13.	Henry�s Heap	2:48
14.	Shine For Me (Sung By The We Three Trio)	2:34
15.	Travelin� Lady	2:40
16.	Treat Me Right (Sung By Jim And Johnny)	2:02
17.	Gospel Time	2:36
18.	Pecan Grove Rock	2:47
19.	Baby The Rain Must Fall (Sung By The We Three Trio)	2:27
20.	Wagon Wheel Watusi	1:54
21.	Main Title Theme From Baby The Rain Must Fall	2:44
		48:07

#	Track	Duration
	To Kill A Mockingbird
1.	Main Title	2:57
2.	Roll In The Tire	2:08
3.	The Search For Boo	2:44
4.	Jem�s Discovery	3:24
5.	To Kill A Mockingbird	2:12
6.	Tree Treasure	3:52
7.	Lynch Mob	2:55
8.	Footsteps In The Dark	2:00
9.	Children Attacked	2:06
10.	Scout & Boo	2:37
11.	Summer�s End	2:52

	Movie And Tv Themes
12.	Rat Race (From The Paramount Picture)	2:12
13.	Three Time Blueser (From The TV Show Take Five)	3:08
14.	Radio Hysteria (From The R.K.O. Picture Sudden Fear)	2:03
15.	Anna Lucasta (From The United Artists Picture)	3:50
16.	Hop, Skip But Jump	3:18
17.	Saints And Sinners (From The Four Star TV Production)	1:59
18.	Sweet Smell Of Success (From The United Artists Picture)	3:19
19.	The Man With The Golden Arm (From The United Artists Picture)	2:47
20.	Jubilation	4:20
21.	Walk On The Wild Side (From The Columbia Picture)	3:39
		60:22

Anna Lucasta (1958)

Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

The Caretakers (1963)

The Carpetbaggers (1964)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

The Rat Race (1960)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

In 1961 a group of individuals spearheaded by Fred Astaire (including Jackie Mills, Thomas Wolf and Elmer Bernstein) formed the AVA record label, and in its brief four years focused primarily on the film music of Elmer Bernstein. The most famous of these were To Kill a Mockingbird and Walk on the Wild Side. Each album was meticulously recorded in superb three-channel stereo using top Hollywood and West Coast symphony musicians, jazz, performers and soloists. In addition to using his original scores with their expert orchestrations by Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes, the composer employed top arrangers like Shorty Rogers and conducted each of the albums himself. All the records were relatively brief, with running times of 24 to 33 minutes.

A variety of reissues have appeared over the years, yet none of these were sourced from the first generation 1/2' three track masters. The first to appear during the LP era were To Kill a Mockingbird and Walk on the Wild Side�both from Citadel Records. These LP releases were, in fact, transferred from vinyl, with generous noise-reduction circuitry dampening the surface noise�along with much of the orchestral nuance and fidelity. The subsequent CDs from the Japanese SLC label followed suit by using the same sub-standard master sources. The audiophile CD label Mobile Fidelity reissued Movie and TV Themes, and while the CD was subtitled an �original master recording,� it was actually presented in mono. The Mainstream label also reissued some of the catalog on CD, sometimes padding the short releases with mostly unrelated material, but still presenting the albums either in mono or from second-generation stereo tapes. Mainstream also deleted some tracks, such as on their truncated To Kill a Mockingbird and Baby the Rain Must Fall releases. In spite of all those decades of reissue activity, not one of these legendary albums has ever been sourced from its original three-channel masters. Until now.

A two-decades-long search by Intrada has yielded every one of those precious rolls of tape (including the source for Intrada's earlier release of the complete Carpetbaggers) �intact and in pristine condition, with every vibrant audio channel present and every cue Bernstein recorded playing back in some of the most stunning audio quality of the sixties. This 3-CD set presents two albums per CD, in a musically balanced order. It is a treat to be able to preserve and present to a whole new generation of listeners this incredible set of recordings made half a century ago.