Right, Meco did a lot of those albums back then. When a big SF movie came
out, you almost waited for the Meco album that would pop up on AM radio the
same week.
But some may remember that the original LP version of the CE3K soundtrack
came with a 45 RPM of a pseudo-disco version of the theme that John Williams
himself did! Ripe with "wakka-wakka" guitar and everything. Strangely (or
not) this cut hasn't made it onto any subsequent release, no matter how
otherwise complete it may be.
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From: The Old Crow [mailto:
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> Anybody remember the disco synthesizer version of the Close
> Encounters theme? I can remember thinking that it was cheesy even
> back then - so it's got to be pretty horrible!
Well, there were the Meco Monardo albums, a sort of jazz/disco
contemporary ensemble with Suzanne Ciani using Buchla synthesizers for the
electronic stuff. I think I read somewhere that Meco runs a software
publishing company now.