Schifrinwatch

Here are three new Schifrin downloads from the net:

Isbum posted on the film music forum Mannix (the original LP that still hasn't been released on CD) (http://rapidshare.com/files/1760213/Mannix.zip).

On the fantastic X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut's CosmoBlog (http://my.opera.com/xyzcosmonaut/blog/) there has been a 20 min-Starsky and Hutch suite (including minor dialogue and sound effects): http://rapidshare.com/files/3390394/S_H1.rar
By the way, this is one of the best film music blogs ever. If you like Japanese anime and British TV and library music, this is the place to go.

Hazelkirk posted a transfer from the LP of Boulevard Nights (1979) (very good sound, and also not available on CD so far), which is half songs and half instrumental (both written by Schifrin). Get it while you can: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S7EBMHTQ

And today I got my copy of the french biography of Lalo Schifrin (see the picture above). I ordered it on Wednesday and three days later, voila ! Buy it at Amazon France, too: http://www.amazon.fr/Lalo-Schifrin-Entretiens-musique-cinéma/dp/2915083169/sr=11-1/qid=1163862388/ref=sr_11_1/171-3183050-2056202
Unfortunely, I can't read French so I just can hope that someone in the States will publish it, too, someday. There's a saying in Germany "The prophet is not valued in his own country", that seems to apply here. It's also a shame that there have been glorious Tex Avery and Betty Boop editions in France that still have not seen the light in the U.S.