Hey, group. Local Jack Shaindlin/Mozart Edition/all things American or German library fanatic apmnut here, and the reason I'm making this topic is to share with you my library dream. This is an idea that's been brewing in my head for quite some time now, and I thought that you nice people might be interested, and maybe even support my idea.
What I'd really like to do someday, when I get out of college (or maybe I can get this started when I'm already in college), I'd really like to form my own library. This would be a free or royalty-free library, like the dozens (maybe even hundreds) that are out there nowadays on the Internet, like AudioMicro and Incompetech, preferably 100%, totally free; targeting mostly Youtubers and independent filmmakers. Much of the tracks offered will be compositions done for my own in-house cue library devised for the cartoons I'd also like to make when I get older, along with other tracks submitted by e-mail by other people, but there is one thing I'd really like to do that would separate my library from the other free libraries: a diverse, large archival catalogue spanning the 1940s-80s, all lovingly remastered from original tapes whenever possible. This might be impossible, but I'd like to use this library to get a lot of rare stuff out there, some potentially never heard by the general public in years. I'd really like to get everything in here: 50s neutrals, orchestral dramatic and sci-fi tracks straight out of old B-movies, groovy 60s, 70s funk, kitschy German lounge, and even 80s music.
Here are the catalogues I'm thinking about trying to acquire for this project:
American Image (Money Machine, Music Explo, Wizard) (maybe)
Century 21 Productions (likely)
every Shaindlin track not on APM (Langlois/Cinemusic)
Gene Kauer/Doug Lackey (maybe?)
Gordon Zahler/General Music (definite)
Hanna-Barbera Productions (not library, but a lot of great stuff that needs to be released)
Jay Ward Productions (also not library, but there's some great Fred Steiner and Dennis Farnon stuff from this company floating around)
Kristinaar Records (possibly)
Mozart Edition (definite)
Robert Hall (maybe, not sure, might be toooooo difficult)
Spectrum Mood Music (likely)
WinWalt Productions (likely)
Winston Sharples/Scroll Productions (possibly)
a German catalogue (but maybe not, since ME has a LOT of tracks from German composers)
Not to worry, I'm not thinking of retitling any of these tracks when they're added to the library, UNLESS they don't have actual names, just code numbers (there's a lot of H-B cues with codes instead of names) or if what we've listed as "titles" are but descriptions of the cues (Money Machine, Wizard, Music Explo, Century 21). If I can't find composer info, I'll probably just put the label as the composer.
Like I said, some of these catalogues might be extremely difficult or IMPOSSIBLE to find, because who knows where the reels and master tapes with these are now, plus I don't know who might have them. There are likely warehouses and private collections of this stuff somewhere which might never be accessed by the public. But I'll still do whatever it takes to find these tracks once I decide they'll be in the library, with the right-holder's permission, of course. But it'll all be worth it once they're found and I've gotten permission from the right-holder(s).
Well--- that's my music library dream. What do you think? Oh, and if you have leads for who might have these catalogues, or who the right-holders are, either comment below or PM me.
