John Takis

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Liner notes writer and occasional album producer, specializing in film and television music.

ALBUMS

John Leipold, Victor Young, Leo Shuken, Charles W. Bradshaw, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Manos Hadjidakis, Cyril Mockridge, Franz Waxman, Nathan Van Cleave, Elmer Bernstein, Gerard Carbonara, Adolph Deutsch, David Buttolph, Howard Jackson

Union Pacific: The Paramount Westerns Collection, Volume 2

2025, 4xCD, Comp, Ltd, RM, La-La Land Records

Hook (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [The Ultimate Edition]

2023, 3x CD Expanded,

Soundtrack/Score/Musical

Stephen Warbeck, Shirley Walker

Mystery Men (Music From The Motion Picture)

2020, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Soundtrack/Score

The Bad Seed (Music From The Sound Track)

Score/Soundtrack

Batman: The Animated Series, Volume 4 (Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series)

2016, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Lolita Ritmanis

Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman (Music From The DC Universe Animated Original Movie)

2016, CD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis & Michael McCuistion

Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders (Music From The DC Classic Original Movie)

2016, CD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records, WaterTower Music, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Animation,

Score/Soundtrack

Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion & Kristopher Carter

Justice League (Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series)

2016, 4xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Soundtrack/Score

Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 3 (Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series)

2014, 4xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Comics,

Soundtrack/Score

Shirley Walker, Kristopher Carter, Harvey R. Cohen*, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis

Superman: The Animated Series (Original Television Soundtrack)

2014, 4xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Alfred Newman, Nelson Riddle, Walter Scharf, Johnny Douglas, Paul Dunlap, David Raksin, Harry Sukman, Roy Webb, Franz Waxman, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Victor Young

Nevada Smith: The Paramount Westerns Collection, Volume 1

2019, 4xCD, Comp, Ltd, RM, La-La Land Records,

APPEARANCES +

The Three Musketeers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Score/Soundtrack

The Patriot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

The Reivers (Expanded and Remastered Original Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Laurence Rosenthal

A Raisin In The Sun / Requiem For A Heavyweight (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)

2024, CD, Album, Comp, RE, RM, Intrada

Resurrection (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2024, CD, Album, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Ennio Morricone

Il Deserto Dei Tartari

Don Davis (4), John Williams

Jurassic Park III (Remastered And Expanded Original Soundtrack)

Score/Soundtrack/Theme

Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer

Darling Lili (Music From The Paramount Motion Picture)

Heidi / Jane Eyre (Original Soundtrack)

2023, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, RE, RM, Quartet Records

The Mask Of Zorro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Expanded Edition)

Shattered (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (Music From The Motion Picture)

Michael J. Lewis

Theatre Of Blood (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Ennio Morricone

Bloodline (Music From The Motion Picture)

John Powell, John Williams

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Another 48 Hrs. (Music From The Motion Picture)

2022, CD, Album, Ltd, Exp, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack/Theme

Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Jerry Goldsmith

Seconds (Music From The Motion Picture)

Soundtrack/Score

Jumanji (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Basil Poledouris

Conan The Destroyer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

James Horner / The BusBoys*

48 Hrs. (Music From The Motion Picture)

Soundtrack/Score/Contemporary

Jerry Goldsmith

Matinee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Jerry Goldsmith

Extreme Prejudice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Company Business (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Jerry Goldsmith

Take Her, She's Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2020, CD, Album, Mono, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis

Young Justice: Outsiders

2020, CD, Album, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Swashbuckler (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Christopher Young

Virtuosity (Music From The Motion Picture)

Modern Classical/Score/Industrial/Ambient

Iron Will (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Jerry Goldsmith

The Great Train Robbery (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Apollo 13 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Score/Soundtrack

Georges Delerue

Love Thy Neighbor / Sin Of Innocence (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)

2018, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Arthur B. Rubinstein

Another Stakeout (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2018, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Christopher Young

Hider in the House (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Arthur B. Rubinstein

WarGames: 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Masquerade (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Batman (Expanded Motion Picture Score)

DuckTales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2017, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel, Johnny Harris

Wonder Woman: Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series

2017, 3xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records

Alex North / David Newman

Good Morning, Vietnam / Operation Dumbo Drop

2017, CD, Comp, Intrada,

Mackenna's Gold / In Cold Blood (Original Music From The Motion Pictures)

2017, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Sometimes A Great Notion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Troy (Music From The Motion Picture)

2017, 2x CD Expanded Edition,

Score/Soundtrack

Jerry Goldsmith

Papillon (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

The Twilight Zone (Original Television Soundtrack)

2016, 3xCD, Comp, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score/Neo-Classical/Neo-Romantic

Unidentified Flying Oddball (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016, CD, Album, S/Edition, Intrada

Walter Murphy And Ron Jones

Family Guy: Movement I (Original Score From The Television Series)

2016, CD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Christopher Young

The Monkey King 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016, CD, Album, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Basil Poledouris

Return To The Blue Lagoon (Original Music From The Motion Picture)

2016, CD, Album, RM, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Jerry Fielding, Craig Safan, Paul Chihara

The Bad News Bears Trilogy (Music From The Motion Pictures)

2016, 3xCD, Album, Ltd, Quartet Records,

Score/Soundtrack/Romantic/Opera/Neo-Romantic/Vocal

Frederik Wiedmann

Justice League Vs. Teen Titans

2016, 2xCD, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

W.C. Fields And Me

Batman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Last Valley (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Basil Poledouris

The Blue Lagoon (Original Music From The Motion Picture)

Bruce Broughton

Homeward Bound II: Lost In San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2016, CD Expanded Edition,

Soundtrack/Score

Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion & Lolita Ritmanis

Batman: The Killing Joke (Music From The DC Universe Original Movie)

Score/Soundtrack

Shuki Levy, Haim Saban & Erika Lane*

He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Music From The Television Series

2015, 2xCD, Album, Mono, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Soundtrack/Score

Christopher Young

Killing Season (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2015, CD, Album, S/Edition, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Adventures In Babysitting (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2015, CD, Album, RM, S/Edition, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Christopher Young

The Monkey King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2015, CD, Album, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Laurence Rosenthal

The Return Of A Man Called Horse / Inherit The Wind (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtracks)

2015, 2xCD, Album, RE, RM, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Michael McCuistion

Time's Up! (Music From Griffith Observatory's Samuel Oschin Planetarium)

2015, CD, Album, La-La Land Records,

Ambient/New Age/Score

Malcolm Arnold, Jerry Goldsmith

The Heroes Of Telemark / Stagecoach

2015, CD, Album, Comp, RE, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

The Last Starfighter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2015, CD Expanded Edition,

Soundtrack/Modern Classical

Stephen King's Cat's Eye (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

John Williams (4), Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman

Tom Sawyer (A Musical Adaptation Of Mark Twain's)

The Danny Elfman Batman Collection

2014, 4xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Contemporary/Score/Soundtrack

Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis & Kristopher Carter

Batman: The Brave And The Bold (Music From The DC Comics Animated Television Series)

2014, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Bruce Broughton, Stu Phillips, John Cacavas, Herbert Don Woods

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century - Season Two (Original Television Soundtrack)

2014, 4xCD, Album, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Mandingo / Plaza Suite (Music From The Motion Pictures)

2014, CD, Album, Ltd, Two, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Sounder / Decision For Chemistry

2014, CD, Comp, Intrada

Child's Play / Firstborn

2014, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Joshua, Then And Now

2014, CD, Album, Quartet Records,

Soundtrack/Score

Gorky Park (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score

Laurence Rosenthal

Meteor (Original Soundtrack Recording)

Terms Of Endearment (Music From The Motion Picture)

A Far Off Place (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score/Contemporary

Jerry Goldsmith

King Solomon's Mines (Expanded Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Bruce Broughton

Young Sherlock Holmes (Music From The Motion Picture)

Score/Soundtrack

Willard (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2013, CD, Album, La-La Land Records,

Soundtrack/Score

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century - Season One (Original Television Soundtrack)

2013, 3xCD, Album, Intrada,

Blown Away (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2013, CD, Album, Dlx, RE, RM, S/Edition, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis

Young Justice (Music From The DC Comics Animated Television Series)

2013, CD, Album, La-La Land Records,

Score/Soundtrack

Remo Williams (Original MGM Television Soundtrack)

2013, CD, Album, RE, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

The White Dawn (Music From The Motion Picture)

2013, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Jerry Fielding, Leonard Rosenman

Escape From Alcatraz / Hell Is For Heroes (Music From The Motion Pictures)

2013, CD, Comp, Intrada

2013, CD, Album, Ltd, Quartet Records

Laurence Rosenthal

2013, CD, Album, Intrada

Sunflower (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Clear And Present Danger (Music From The Motion Picture)

Soundtrack/Score

Elliot Goldenthal

Pet Sematary (Music From The Motion Picture)

Elmer Bernstein

The Carpetbaggers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Score/Soundtrack

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek: Insurrection (Music From The Motion Picture)

2013, CD Expanded Collector\u0027s Edition,

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best Of Both Worlds Parts I And II (Original Television Soundtrack - Expanded Collector's Edition)

The Beastmaster (Expanded Original Picture Soundtrack)

Turbulence (Music From The Motion Picture)

Modern Classical/Contemporary/Minimal/Ambient/Soundtrack

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2012, 2xCD, Album, Intrada

Battlestar Galactica Volume 3 (Original Television Soundtrack)

2012, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

Battlestar Galactica Volume 4 (Original Television Soundtrack)

2012, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 2 (Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series)

2012, 4xCD, La-La Land Records,

Soundtrack/Score

Condorman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2012, CD, Album, Intrada,

King Kong - Deluxe Edition - Music From The Motion Picture

Hook (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Elliot Goldenthal

Batman Forever (Original Motion Picture Score Album)

Modern Classical/Score

Speed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Modern Classical/Score

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek: First Contact (Complete Motion Picture Score)

Soundtrack/Score

Revenge Of The Pink Panther (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Dennis McCarthy

Star Trek Generations (Music From The Motion Picture)

Hatari! (Music From The Motion Picture)

Laurence Rosenthal

21 Hours At Munich (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2011, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary/Soundtrack

Battlestar Galactica Volume 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)

2011, 2xCD, Album, Mono, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary

The Moneychangers (Original Television Soundtrack)

2011, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2011, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary

Laurence Rosenthal

The Comedians/Hotel Paradiso

2011, CD, Album, Dou, Film Score Monthly,

Trevor Jones, London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By David Snell

Cliffhanger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Score/Contemporary/Soundtrack

Stu Phillips, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Battlestar Galactica Volume 1: "Saga Of A Star World"

Score/Contemporary

Sleuth (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Laurence Rosenthal

A Raisin In The Sun / Requiem For A Heavyweight (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)

2010, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Soundtrack

The Mean Season (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2010, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Bruce Broughton And Steve Bramson

J★A★G (Judge Advocate General) (Original Television Soundtrack)

2010, CD, Album, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary

Cervantes: The Young Rebel From LaMancha (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2010, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

The Sender (Music From The Motion Picture)

Laurence Rosenthal

The Miracle Worker (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score/Contemporary

Batman Returns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack/Score/Contemporary

Laurence Rosenthal / London Symphony Orchestra

Clash Of The Titans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Extreme Close-Up (Original Television Soundtrack)

2009, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

Braddock: Missing In Action III (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2009, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

Missing In Action (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2009, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

Carmine Coppola

The Black Stallion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Georges Delerue

The Black Stallion Returns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Laurence Rosenthal

Who'll Stop The Rain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2008, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Soundtrack/Score

Bruce Broughton

The Blue & The Gray

2008, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary

Bruce Broughton

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

2008, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Intrada,

Score/Contemporary

Fires Within (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2008, CD, Album, Ltd, Intrada

Dominic Frontiere, Bill Conti

The Stunt Man / An Unmarried Woman

2008, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Intrada

James Clavell's Shōgun (The Original Soundtrack From The Television Motion Picture)

Bitterblue (Original Motion Picture Score)

2007, CD, AcoustiMedia

Christopher Komeda*

Rosemary's Baby (Music From The Motion Picture)

2012, CD Expanded Edition,

Score/Soundtrack