© 2014 Lawrence Tuczynski

Info and scans courtesy of David Hirsch

Title	GODZILLA (1954)
CD Label	Harkit Records
CD Number	HRKCD-8495
Music by:	Akira Ifukube
Number of tracks	26
Running time	46:28
Number of discs	1
Year of release/manufacture	May 12, 2014

REVIEW

July 24, 2014 Info courtesy of David Hirsch Harkit Records web site: http://www.harkitrecords.com/main.html This is actually a re-issue of the La-La Land Records CD (LLLCD-1022) I assembled for them 10 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary. For that release, I re-edited the cue "Tragic Sight of the Imperial Capital" to remove the crying baby FX that had been presented on all the previous Japanese releases. I sent them four tracks from the isolated score for James Nelson to re-master so that we could showcase the main title and Godzilla's attack on Tokyo in their edited film presentations. Harkit chose not to re-issue the original Futureland (TYCY-5345) or Toho (G-001) CDs, but ours, which is kind of flattering. It's important to note that this is not considered a bootleg, despite the lack of proper copyrights and credits. In the EEC, this music is now in the public domain, which explains Harkit's ability to re-issue expanded soundtracks to the James Bond films "Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love". Several other Ifukube scores saw limited releases as well, like "Battle in Outer Space".

GODZILLA (1954 GODZILLA MAIN TITLE SHIP MUSIC/SINKING OF EIKO-MARU SINKING OF BINGOU-MARU ANXIETIES ON OOTOJIMA ISLAND OOTOJIMA TEMPLE FESTIVAL STORMY OOTOJIMA ISLAND THEME FOR OOTOJIMA ISLAND JAPANESE ARMY MARCH -1 HORROR OF WATER TANK GODZILLA COMES ASHORE GODZILLA’S RAMPAGE DESPERATE BROADCAST GODZILLA COMES TO TOKYO BAY INTERCEPT GODZILLA TRAGIC SIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL OXYGEN DESTROYER PRAYER FOR PEACE JAPANESE ARMY MARCH – 2 GODZILLA AT THE OCEAN FLOOR ENDING GODZILLA LEAVING * Bonus tracks MAIN TITLE (FILM VERSION)* FIRST LANDING (FILM VERSION)* TOKYO IN FLAMES (FILM VERSION)* LAST ASSAULT (FILM VERSION)*