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Disney Haunted Mansion Orchestral Soundtrack

MacEricG
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Just found out about this on Wikipedia:

When Walt Disney Pictures released a Haunted Mansion movie, composer Mark Mancina was asked to write the film's music. Like Phantom Manor's soundtrack, the movie score is orchestral and uses "Grim Grinning Ghosts" frequently. However, Mancina used "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in somewhat different ways from Debney, focusing more on relatively light-hearted background music and ominous crescendos of orchestra and organ than on waltz-like passion.

Cues such as the film's overture allowed Mancina to work with both "Grim Grinning Ghosts" and a theme of his own invention. A scene in the mansion's graveyard also features the attraction's singing busts, whose musical selections include a few lines from the song. The vast majority of the film's music, though, was never officially released as a soundtrack, though copies of a complete album given to staff and orchestra members can occasionally be found for sale.

Four minutes of the score did make it onto the "Haunted Hits" CD release, which groups "Sara Passes Out," the overture, and "Going to Heaven" into one track entitled "Overture from The Haunted Mansion." However, none of the orchestral and/or organ statements of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" are heard on this album.
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So of course my question is: Does anyone have a copy of the Haunted Mansion Orchestral Soundtrack that Disney originally only gave to staff and orchestra members?
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MacEricG

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Hey repo-man:

I have easy access to the commercially-released "soundtrack" that included tons of songs "inspired" by the movie, such as Superstition by Raven-Symoné and Grim Grinning Ghosts by The Barenaked Ladies (bleh :p). Not too interested in that.

But if you have the actual, unreleased soundtrack that mainly contains the scores by Mark Mancina, I'd love to hear it. Please let me know.
 
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