SONY CALLS GHOSTBUSTERS

June 7, 2019

GHOSTBUSTERS™ 35th Anniversary Edition of Elmer Bernstein Score Includes Previously Unreleased Tracks, Essay from Son, Peter Bernstein

75 - Album Artwork - Elmer BernsteinIn honor of the 35th anniversary of GHOSTBUSTERS’ 1984 theatrical debut, Sony Music announces a special reissue of the GHOSTBUSTERS Original Motion Picture Score with music by legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, AIRPLANE!). 

The anniversary edition arrives in digital formats for the very first time (in both standard and hi resolutions), on CD Friday, June 7 and on vinyl Friday, July 19.  The collection features music from the iconic blockbuster, newly mixed and remastered from the score’s original multi-tracks, as well as new artwork, commentary from Elmer Bernstein’s son, Peter, and four previously unreleased tracks.

Of the 35th anniversary edition, Peter Bernstein, son of the late Elmer Bernstein, says, “As one of the original orchestrators on GHOSTBUSTERS, it has been very satisfying and also very moving to work on this soundtrack release 35 years down the road. It is a great movie with great music and we had a whole lot of fun creating it. I am very pleased to see it released in its original form.”

With a star-studded cast, GHOSTBUSTERS follows four men on a mission to save the world.  Fired from university research jobs, Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler set up shop as “Ghostbusters,” hiring Zeddemore and, together, ridding Manhattan of bizarre apparitions. But even the spirit exterminators are severely tested when beautiful Dana Barrett and her nerdy neighbor Louis Tully become possessed by demons living in their building. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face their supreme challenge at a rooftop demonic shrine.

Tracklisting –

  1. Ghostbusters Theme
  2. Library
  3. Venkman
  4. Hello
  5. The Best One in Your Row
  6. Get Her!
  7. Plan
  8. Dana’s Theme
  9. Fridge and Sign
  10. Attack
  11. Client
  12. Dana’s Apartment
  13. Same Problem
  14. We Got One
  15. Zuul Part 1
  16. Meeting 1
  17. I Respect You
  18. Who Brought the Dog
  19. Zuul Part 2
  20. Steel Drum
  21. Cross Rip
  22. News
  23. Judgment Day
  24. Mistake
  25. Halls
  26. Ballroom
  27. Trap
  28. Meeting 2
  29. Earthquake
  30. Stairwell
  31. Gozer
  32. Let’s Go
  33. We’re Going to Save the World
  34. Mr. Stay Puft
  35. Final Battle
  36. Finish
  37. Zuul (Album Version)
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