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Animalympics | ||||
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Released | March 1980 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Studio | Strawberry Studios North and South; A&M Studio, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 35:41 | |||
Label | UK version - Mercury US version - A&M | |||
Producer | Graham Gouldman | |||
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Singles from Animalympics | ||||
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A&M Records in the US, and Mercury Records in Europe released an Animalympics soundtrack album, which has long been out of print. [11] The music on this soundtrack was written and produced by Graham Gouldman, who performed the tracks himself along with other members of 10cc (Gouldman is the bassist and co-founder of the band). [12] The soundtrack was recorded primarily in Strawberry Studios North and South, used extensively by 10cc, as well as in Los Angeles. [13]
Pieces of classical music play in the film. "The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)" from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky plays during Tatyana Tushenko's floor exercises. "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz plays during the couple's figure skating. The 3rd movement from Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms plays during Dorie Turnell's skating performance. [14]
All tracks are written by Graham Gouldman [15] [16]
Side 1
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Go For It" | 3:34 |
2. | "Underwater Fantasy" | 3:18 |
3. | "Away From It All" | 2:32 |
4. | "Born To Lose" | 4:04 |
5. | "Kit Mambo" | 4:30 |
Side 2
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Z.O.O." | 3:29 |
2. | "Love's Not For Me" | 2:42 |
3. | "With You I Can Run Forever" | 4:04 |
4. | "Bionic Boar" | 3:35 |
5. | "We've Made It To The Top" | 3:53 |
Per vinyl liner notes [16]
Despite the 1980 NBC premiere being cancelled midway, Lisberger Studios prepared a theatrical version for overseas markets by editing together the Summer and Winter Olympic Games sections, alongside other additions and changes to increase its run-time for theatrical exhibition. Though Animalympics never found a theatrical distributor in the U.S., Telepictures did acquire US home video and pay-TV distribution rights to it shortly after the NBC cancellation. It eventually got a full US TV premiere on NBC affiliate WPTZ on July 4, 1982. Animalympics also aired in its theatrical form on HBO [17] [18] [19] and Showtime nationwide in summer 1984, [20] as well as intermittently during the early to mid-1990s on The Disney Channel. [21]
The film was released on VHS by Warner Bros., Family Home Entertainment and UAV Corporation. [22] [23] [24]
On April 3, 2018, Hen's Tooth Video put out the first-ever region 1 DVD release. [25] [26] In 2019, German label WinklerFilm put out a remastered DVD alongside the first-ever Blu-ray release worldwide. [27]
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