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Dragon's Domain Records presents THE LEE HOLDRIDGE COLLECTION, VOLUME 4, featuring music composed and conducted by Lee Holdridge (JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, SPLASH, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) for two romantic scores from his extensive filmography.
Airing in 1999, SEALED WITH A KISS is a romantic comedy directed by Ron Lagomarsino, written by Jeff Arch (SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, IRON WILL) and stars John Stamos, Annabeth Gish, Jane Sibbett, Mitchell Whitfield, Robert Stack, Nell Carter, Barry Corbin and Angie Dickinson. SEALED WITH A KISS, also released under the titles LOVE COMES FIRST and LONGFELLOW BRIDGE, follows Boston financial consultant Bennett Blake (Stamos), who is on the fast track to make partner while engaged to his equally career-driven boss's daughter, Christina (Sibbet). Asked to travel to North Dakota to play golf with an oddball wealthy client, he's warned that he must let the client win. Despite his best attempts to fail, he still achieves a hole-in-one, and the angry client pulls his business from the firm.
When a letter meant for someone else is accidentally mailed to Bennett's home, Christina urges Bennett to return the letter to Robbie (Gish). She's a curator of a museum for the poet Longfellow and desperate for funding. At first, she mistakes Bennett for a Washington official bent on shutting the facility down. He finds himself drawn to the down-to-earth Robbie and decides to help save the museum by assembling a financial plan. Working with her, he discovers the need to reevaluate his own soul-less life.
For SEALED WITH A KISS, Holdridge wrote a bubbly score featuring lush orchestrations, allowing the orchestra to boldly project the humorous undertones of Bennett and Robbie's unplanned road to true love.
Released in 1973, JEREMY is a teen romance written and directed by Arthur Barron, starring Robbie Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino, Ned Wilson, Chris Bohn, Patricia Wheel and Ted Sorel. JEREMY follows Jeremy Jones (Benson), a shy, bespectacled, fifteen-year-old living in New York City who is studying cello at a private performing arts high school. One day, he meets Susan (O'Connor) as she is practicing ballet. Despite the fact that she is older and in a higher grade, he is instantly attracted to her. Jeremy attempts to talk to her, but he is too shy to do so. At a school recital where Jeremy plays as a featured soloist, she is impressed by his playing and congratulates him afterwards. This interaction motivates him to finally ask her out.
On their first date, Jeremy finds out that Susan and her father have just moved to New York from Detroit so her father could take a new job. Over the next three weeks, their romance quickly intensifies as they spend a lot of time together. One rainy afternoon while playing chess in Jeremy's room, the teens profess their feelings for each other and then make love for the first time. When she returns home, Susan's father announces that he's been offered a better job back in Detroit, which means they have to leave New York immediately. By happenstance, Jeremy finds himself alone again...
JEREMY is one of Lee Holdridge's earliest film scores. The film won the prize for Best First Work at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and Benson was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance. Holdridge's tender and powerful score for JEREMY is built partially around the film's theme song but features several original emotional cues underscoring the teens' attraction and eventual heartbreak. The cello, Jeremy's chosen musical instrument, features prominently in several cues.
Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1944. He spent his early years in Costa Rica, beginning music studies on the violin at the age of ten with Hugo Mariani, then the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. Later, Holdridge moved to New York to continue his music studies and begin his professional career as a composer. Holdridge's successes in New York came to the attention of Neil Diamond who brought Holdridge to Los Angeles to write arrangements for his forthcoming albums. A string of Gold and Platinum hits followed, which led to Diamond and Holdridge collaborating on the film score for JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL. Since that time, Holdridge has scored numerous film such as SPLASH, BIG BUSINESS, MR. MOM, MICKI & MAUDE, 16 DAYS OF GLORY, SYLVESTER, A TIGER'S TALE, EL PUEBLO DEL SOL, OLD GRINGO, PASTIME and BROTHERS AT WAR. His television work include MOONLIGHTING, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the complete eight hour remake of EAST OF EDEN, DREAMER OF OZ, Hallmark Hall Of Fame's ONE AGAINST THE WIND and THE STORY LADY. Lee also began a very successful collaboration with Moriah Films, the film division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, with the Academy Award winning documentary feature film THE LONG WAY HOME. In addition to his film career, Mr. Holdridge has had an extensive repertoire of concert works performed and recorded. He has also worked with many major recording artists having written, arranged and conducted for Placido Domingo, Barbra Streisand, Brian May of Queen, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Neil Sedaka, Daniel Rodriguez, Al Jarreau, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, Jane Oliver and many others.
Dragon's Domain Records is excited to bring SEALED WITH A KISS and JEREMY to compact disc for the first time as part of THE LEE HOLDRIDGE COLLECTION, VOLUME 4, mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland. The booklet includes liner notes written by author David Hirsch.
- Dragon's Domain Records
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