Title:North To Alaska
Artist:Lionel Newman
Year:1960
Label:Intrada Special Collection Vol.168
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:320Kbps
Size:62MB
Tracks:10

Track Listing:

1. North To Alaska 2:49
2. Go North 1:47
3. Angels Theme 3:20
4. Scenic View 2:11
5. Plie D’Amour 1:19
6. Baked Alaska 1:48
7. Love In The Air 2:48
8. Northern Lights 1:46
9. If You Knew 1:27
10. End Title 2:13


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Intrada Special Collection Vol.168 is a 2 Soundtrack release which includes Two Flags West (1950) & North To Alaska (1960).

**Please note that fellow member tri2061990 has posted this set in FLAC as well.**

Not one of the greatest scores ever written. But it's fun to listen to. Thanks.

But why is the theme song mono?

Never mind. Here's the stereo version:

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Thanks Matewan..the Intrada version is supposed to be taken from the remaining stereo cues but it sure looks mono to me when analyzing it.

Hello,would it be possible to get ''two flags west'' soundtrack ? Many thanks in advance This is a great post

I already posted Two Flags I will send you the link via PM.

Thanks Matewan..the Intrada version is supposed to be taken from the remaining stereo cues but it sure looks mono to me when analyzing it.

Oh, it's mono for sure. But someone has tried to "enhance" it.
It might be that Columbia Records (or rather Sony today) sits on the original stereo mix and won't let Intrada use it. But I'm just guessing here.

I don't see why it matters if the cue is mono or stereo. The sound quality is still fantastic for its age.

Yeah, why worry about Stereo ?. Play everything in Mono. In fact its perfectly acceptable to just play the film with ad breaks on a small screen !.

Well the point is there are plenty of older scores that only survive in mono and yet still have great sound, like the recent Black Sunday from Kritzerland or The Spiral Road released last year by Varese Club. While it is nice when they survive in stereo, I wont avoid great music simply because it is only in mono.

Personally I prefer the mono version to the stereo version for this release, the stereo version sounds too processed almost like pseudo stereo.

Sorry. Just wanted to be helpful by supplying an additional choise. Won't happen again.

Thanks Matewan, I kept the track as a bonus track, so seriously thank you.

Thanks Matewan, I kept the track as a bonus track, so seriously thank you.

I'm not pissed at you, my friend. You're not the only one in this thread.

About the stereo mix; It's a typical pop music stereo-mix from the early sixties. You might call it the "Elvis Presley school" of stereo-mixes. The rhythm track on one side, the choir (The Jordanaires with Elvis) and the soloist in the middle. And these mixes were practically unuseable on movie soundtracks. Instead they took the mono-mix and added various echo-effects and other "enhancements" to them. Just to simulate a stereo effect.

Another example of the same is Elvis Presley's Flaming Star. RCA:s stereo-mix is rhytm track on the left, The Jordanaires on the right and Elvis in the middle. The same way most of his recordings were mixed, even into the seventies. But the version during the movie's main title is an "enhanced" mono version.

About the stereo mix; It's a typical pop music stereo-mix from the early sixties. You might call it the "Elvis Presley school" of stereo-mixes.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I listened to this, see I have a complete Elvis Presley movie compilation and that's exactly what they did with the sound and I have to admit like on Fun In Acapulco and G.I. Blues as example the sound is quite good.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I listened to this, see I have a complete Elvis Presley movie compilation and that's exactly what they did with the sound and I have to admit like on Fun In Acapulco and G.I. Blues as example the sound is quite good.

Yes and if that is how they are going to mix the stereo, I'll stick with mono :) I do appreciatie that Matewan posted an alternate version in Stereo though. It's not your fault if it is not what we modernly consider stereo.

Yes and if that is how they are going to mix the stereo, I'll stick with mono :) I do appreciatie that Matewan posted an alternate version in Stereo though. It's not your fault if it is not what we modernly consider stereo.

I gave you a choice and you complained. That pisses me off. If I'm given the opportunity to choose, I appreciate it. I didn’t find any kind of appreciation in your first posting.

If a genuine stereo recording exists, I think it’s historically interesting. Not necessarily better sounding than mono, but still interesting. Getting the opportunity to choose is what I always search for. So, if I get a chance to give someone the same opportunity, I do. Take it or leave it. When you complain over that, you’ve crossed the line as far as I’m concerned.

But I also dislike any kind of tampering with a recording. The Main Title song on this record is not the optimal one when it comes to sound quality. It’s consistent with the movie soundtrack. And that’s what the album is supposed to be. But it’s still tampered with. So, when you claim that the sound quality is good for it’s time, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. And alternate versions are common on score albums. That’s the reason I found it peculiar that the 45rpm version was not included. Sound quality has nothing to do with that.

A final note: If you really want to hear a great recording “for it’s time”, I recommend “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall”. Recorded live in April 1959 and released in October the same year. It is, to this day, one of the best stereo recordings - ever. Not only that. Post mixing was virtually nonexistent. And the general sound quality is excellent. (Unfortunately, BMG have “remastered” the original recording for their CD release in the US. And that’s not all. They also cut one third of the original Double LP. In short, they ruined it. However, BMG in Germany has released the original and complete concert master. And it’s absolutely fantastic.)

Beautiful! Thank you so much!

Many Thanks for This!

Matewan - I'm sorry if you interpreted my original comment as negative. It seemed to me like there was disagreement as to whether the song on the Intrada release was stereo or mono. I merely suggested that to me it doesn't matter if intrada provided me with stereo or mono because I love the way whatever they gave us on the release sounds. That isn't to say I don't lovingly embrace any release from the 50s or 60s that is provided in stereo, in fact I am more likely to buy a new Intrada release from those years if their original PR states that they were able to release it in stereo. To me though, this usually comes down to sound quality because most often a score surviving in stereo from that era has amazing sound (see The War Wagon).

I also thought it was important to voice that to me mono is great as well if that is what we are given because I've seen so many people on other forums who seem dead set on rejecting any recording that is in mono as if it is unlistenable trash when there is a huge range of sound quality we can see from mono releases from the archival sound of something from Chelsea Rialto Studios to the beautiful mono sound of The Spiral Road.

Can someone please post a new link to the "North To Alaska" soundtrack that is active? Thanks.

New Link Added.

Thanks!!!

Welcome.

thank you

I can not find the link? Can you please add it here. Thanks

The link is one this page .

can you mail me the link. Thanks

PM For New Link.

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No. "PM For Link" means you have to send Wildwood a PM, and not post a request here.

GRACIAS

Thanks for this fun score.

Welcome.

Link received. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.