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La-La Land Records (which is nothing to do with the movie) is an American record label specializing in soundtrack albums launched in 2002. Among their releases:

TV Soundtracks

• Archer - not that one.This was a short-lived 1975 series based on Lee Macdonald's literary creation of private eye Lew Archer (This time keeping his name). This featured Jerry Goldsmith's series theme and pilot score, paired with an expanded and better-sounding version of 1968's Warning Shot.
• Arrowverse
• Barnaby Jones - as part of their 2-disc set The Quinn Martin Collection: Volume 1 - Cop and Detective Series (Cannon is there as well)
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collection also includes some of Carter Burwell's score for the movie.
• Charmed (1998)
• Days of Our Lives - yes, you read that right.
• Family Guy
• The Flash (1990)

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) a 2-CD set.
• Jonny Quest
• Land of the Giants a 4-CD set.
• Lost in Space a 40th anniversary 2-CD set in 2005... and a 50th Anniversary 12-CD set.
• Mission: Impossible - a 6-CD boxset of music from the original series, and a 2-CD set from the 1980s version.
• The Invaders - 2-disc set which also serves as The Quinn Martin Collection: Volume 2
• My Favorite Martian - yes, you read that right as well.
• The Orville
• The Outer Limits (1963) - a 3-CD set.
• Planet of the Apes - A 2-CD expansion of Intrada's 2005 release, which focused on Lalo Schifrin's contributions (he wrote the theme and three scores) with the score for "The Legacy" by Earle Hagen the only non-Schifrin music heard. apart from the 20th Century Fox Television logo music which ends the disc. The expansion features all the original music for the series. This a series from the early-to-mid 1970s; a lot of music was reused throughout the series.
• The Rat Patrol - 2 volumes.
• Riverdale - The score albums, not the songs.
• Space: Above and Beyond - a 3-CD set.
• Star Trek (up to Star Trek: Enterprise, that is).
• Terra Nova
• The Wild Wild West - a 3-CD set.
• Wonder Woman - 3-CD set.
• The X-Files - several volumes.
• The Young Riders

David Arnold

• Die Another Day (expanded) - without Madonna's song, by the way.

The World Is Not Enough (expanded)

• Independence Day (expanded)
• The Stepford Wives - the 2004 version.
• Godzilla (1998)

Elmer Bernstein

• Airplane! - the soundtrack album released in 1980 was more of an aural souvenir of the movie with lots of the movie's dialogue along with music. This CD was the official score release.
• The Shootist - Because Bernstein's score for was John Wayne's last bow was so short, the label paired it with the CD premiere of the 1965 Columbia Records soundtrack album for the title beneath.
• The Sons of Katie Elder - This release has the score has as recorded for the movie (this doesn't contain Johnny Cash, mind.
• True Grit - This has the music as heard in the movie. You do get the Glen Campbell song.

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Danny Elfman

• Big Top Pee-wee - Expanded from the Arista Records album, and without the dialogue clips.
• Scrooged - Until this album came out in 2011, there was only an 8:44 suite available on Music for a Darkened Theatre - Film and Television Music Volume One
• Batman (1989) - Expanded with the complete score on CD1 and the 1989 Warner (Bros.) Records score album on CD2, with extras.
• Batman Returns - Complete score over 2 CDs.
• Black Beauty - the 1994 version had a soundtrack album on Giant. This release was a generous expansion.
• Mars Attacks! - Expanded from the Atlantic Records album.
• Planet of the Apes (2001) - The complete film score over the first 2CDs, then the Sony Classical soundtrack album on CD 3.
• Taking Woodstock
• Restless
• Mission: Impossible (1996) - a 2-disc expansion; the 1996 score album on CD 1 With the film score itself on the second disc.

Jerry Goldsmith

• Warning Shot twice. See TV Soundtracks for the second time.
• Sleeping with the Enemy - This release expands^note in terms of Goldsmith content; it doesn't include Van Morrison's "Brown-Eyed Girl." on the Columbia Records album issued along with the movie in 1991.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The definitive release. The complete score plus alternates and extras, and a remastered version of 1979's Columbia Records album.
• Bad Girls - expands on the 1994 album on 20th Century Fox Film Scores.
• Rio Lobo - expansion of the Prometheus release.
• The Sum of All Fears - this expands on the Elektra Records album issued in 2002 with the movie.
• First Knight - this 2-disc release expands on the Epic Soundtrax release.
• The Edge - As you've probably guessed, expands on the RCA Victor album released with the movie in 1997.
• Seconds - Released on an album paired with his score for 1994 romcom I.Q. Mood Whiplash-phobes, beware.
• Dennis the Menace - Expanded from the Big Screen Records release in 1993.
• Breakheart Pass
• Innerspace - The Geffen Records soundtrack album that came out with the movie in 1987; gave Goldsmith all of Side B (or if you were able buy and play compact discs in 1987, 25:32 after the songs).Needless to say, the geatly expanded edition doesn't include the songs.

James Horner

• Commando - one of the fastest ever sell-outs, plus you get the Power Station's end title song.
• Jack The Bear - slightly expanded from its previous Intrada release.
• Krull - expanded.
• The Pagemaster - expanded the 1994 album on 20th Century Fox Film Scores.
• Project X - not that one. The 1987 movie with Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt as an Air Force pilot and Friend to All Living Things respectively who want rescue chimps from cruel flying experiments.Slightly expanded from Varèse Sarabande CD Club edition.
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (expanded from the 1993 album on Big Screen)
• Titanic his complete score and alternates over 4 discs. Also, no Céline Dion.
• Unlawful Entry (expanded)

Michael Kamen

• Die Hard - Their release of the score was a 2-CD expansion of Varèse Sarabande's CD Club single-disc release in 2002 (there was no soundtrack album released in 1988).
  • Then there was a 3-CD 30th anniversary edition with many extras such as the tracked-in music from John Scott's score for Man On Fire (Not this one.) and James Horner's score for Aliens - and some of the songs used like Run–D.M.C.'s "Christmas In Hollis." and Vaughn Monroe's version of "Let It Snow."
• Die Hard with a Vengeance - The RCA Victor soundtrack album wasn't a satisfactory experience for fans, with many key cues missing. One Amazon.co.uk reviewer described it as an effing disgrace. The 2-CD expansion jettisons most of the non-Kamen material (it does retain The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City.")

• The Last Boy Scout
• The Lethal Weapon Soundtrack Collection (Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton and David Sanborn) - This 8-CD boxset contains remastered editions of the first three movies' soundtrack albums and expanded score presentations for the first three movies, and the first officially sanctioned soundtrack release for Lethal Weapon 4. Also, some of the proceeds go to The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (set up by Kamen to benefit musical education).
• Road House (Michael Kamen) - Expands on Intrada's incomplete release.

Bear McCreary (he also has a section to himself on the label's site...

• Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• The Cape
• Caprica
• Eureka
• Human Target
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

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Thomas Newman

• Less Than Zero - none of his score appeared on Def Jam's soundtrack album.
• The Man with One Red Shoe - the movie didn't have a soundtrack album in 1985.
• The Shawshank Redemption a 2-CD expansion.

John Williams

• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence a 3-disc expansion.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - a 2-CD expansion for its 40th anniversary.
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial a 2-CD edition for its 35th anniversary.
• Harry Potter – The John Williams Soundtrack Collection - a 7-CD set of Hogwartian music.
• Home Alone: a 2-CD release for its 25th anniversary. This release has the complete score on CD 1(which La-La Land issued by itself in 2010) and the 1990 soundtrack album from CBS is on CD2.
• Home Alone 2: Lost In New York: This is slightly expanded from the Varèse Sarabande CD Club release. Which itself expands on the score album that came out on 20th Century Fox Film Scores (unlike the first movie, there were separate song and score albums from Fox).
• The John Williams Jurassic Park Collection. With 2-CD expansions of both his scores for the series.
• 1941 - a 2-CD expansion.
• Superman: The Movie a remastered 3-disc set for its 40th anniversary^note Complete film score presentation, with the 1978 soundtrack album included.. Fans' collective squeeing was audible in The Phantom Zone.
• Schindler's List: a 2-CD release for its 25th anniversary.

Hans Zimmer

• Black Rain: a 2-CD set with Zimmer's score on the first disc and the 1989 soundtrack album (which had a 21:35 suite from the score along with songs), plus bonus score cuts on the second disc.
• Broken Arrow (1996): a 2-CD expansion.
• Days of Thunder
• The Peacemaker: another 2-CD expansion.
• The Thin Red Line: an expanded 4-CD edition.

James Newton Howard

• Primal Fear - expanded from the Milan album.
• Waterworld a 2-disc expansion of the MCA album.
• Wyatt Earp - 3-disc expansion of the Warner (Bros.) Records album.
• The Fugitive - 2-disc expansion of Elektra Records album.
• Grand Canyon - Expands on the Milan album but it omits the Warren Zevon song.

Alan Silvestri

• Dutch
• Eraser- expanded from the Atlantic Classics album.
• The Bodyguard - Yes, there was other music in the movie other than that song. Silvestri's score got an album of its own in 2012.

John Barry

• The Golden Child - While the movie was almost completely rescored by Michel Colombier. Both composers' scores were included on La-La Land's three-disc set. As were the songs, duh.
• First Love(1979) - Like the above, almost all of Barry's original scoring was thrown out of the movie and replaced with pre-existing pieces. He took his name off the movie in protest.
• Dances with Wolves - a 2-disc expansion of this beloved music was issued by the label in 2004.

Other Notable Titles In Their Catalogue

• Aquamarine (David Hirschfelder)
• Dragonslayer (Alex North) longer than the previous release on Southern Cross Records.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Ira Newborn/various artists) - The movie didn't have a soundtrack album for decades because Hughes himself blocked one back in the 1980s, because he felt the movie's music was too eclectic to make a coherent album. Many were delighted when this official album (there have been bootleg releases) in 2016^note Yes, this was copied from the film's Trivia tab.
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Lorne Balfe) - a 2-disc set.
• The Naked Gun Trilogy (Ira Newborn) - A three-disc set giving each movie its due(Varèse Sarabande only released a soundtrack with the second film, and it blended cues from The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! and The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear.)
• Ladyhawke (Andrew Powell) - This 2-disc expansion demonstrates that the score isn't all Alan Parsons-produced Prog Rock.
• Police Academy (Robert Folk) - The first movie of the series wouldn't get a soundtrack album until 2014!
• Speed (Mark Mancina) - The label greatly expanded the 30-minute 20th Century Fox Film Scores score album that was issued in 1994, but the score in chronological order rather than have "The Rescue." be the second cue on the album. The La-La Land release also concludes with Billy Idol's end credits song.(just about the only song on Fox Records' "songs from and inspired by" album that was actually written for the movie and noticeable.
• Bad Boys (also Mark Mancina)

• Escape from L.A. (Shirley Walker & John Carpenter) An expansion of the original Milan Records release in 2014, featuring unused cues.
• Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbird 6 (Barry Gray) This contains the film recordings for both movies which weren't released alongside the movies (which came out respectively 1966 and 1968). The former's United Artists Records album contained some re-recorded music from the film, along with some themes from the TV series. The latter never got soundtrack release until MGM Music released a limited edition CD In 2004, possibly because Thunderbird 6 like its predecessor was a box office dud. Which is one area where Thunderbirds definitely matched the original...
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Alexander Courage; with new themes by John Williams) There was a soundtrack release planned in 1987 but it was cancelled when the scenes containing the chosen cues were cut from the movie. The music saw its first release as part of the 2008 8-disc boxset Superman: The Music (1978-1988); in 2018 it received a solo release as a 2-disc album (the planned 1987 album would have much shorter); it includes original songs written for the club scenes.
• Friday the 13th Parts 1-6 (Harry Manfredini) This 6-disc set marked the debut release of the original scores to the first 6 Friday the 13th movies released on Friday January 13th, 2012. It was limited to 1,300 Units, however, and sold out within less than a day, making it a highly sought after collectors item. Fortunately they’ve been reissuing each score individually on separate CD releases.
  • Friday the 13th: The Game (also by Manfredini) Was originally a crowdfunding exclusive before receiving a 2-CD release in 2018.
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Shirley Walker) Almost double the length of the album that Reprise Records issued alongside the movie in 1993.
• Alien³ (Elliot Goldenthal) The long awaited expanded set on 2-CDs, features both the complete score and the original MCA Records Soundtrack album remastered.
• The Planet of the Apes Soundtrack Collection (Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman & Tom Scott) A team up with Varèse Sarabande as part of their 500th release, this 5-CD box set brings together all the film scores from the original Apes series.
• Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter & Alan Howarth) 2-CD set, it’s the definitive version of the score outdoing both 1986 and 1999 releases.
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Joe Kraemer)
• Masters of the Universe (Bill Conti) - this 2-CD set includes the complete score and the remastered 1987 Varèse Sarabande soundtrack album.
• Godzilla:
  • Godzilla (1954) (Akira Ifukube) - 50th Anniversary Edition.
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla (Akira Ifukube) - The U.S. debut of the original film score that was mostly completely omitted from the American theatrical release.

• Bram Stoker's Dracula (Wojciech Kilar) - This 3-CD set has an expanded presentation of Kilar's music on the first two discs and an expanded edition of the Columbia Records soundtrack album released with the movie.

• Bride of Frankenstein (Franz Waxman) - As part of the Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection line started in 2019.
• Colossus: The Forbin Project (Michel Colombier) - This was also part of the Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection.
• Used Cars (Ernest Gold/Patrick Williams) - Featuring Gold's rejected score and the replacement by Patrick Williams, as Robert Zemeckis hadn't met Alan Silvestri at the time (1980).