Sydney Forest, where are you?
I'm surprised I've not watched Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no takkyûbin @ IMDB) since the wife and daughter have been in China. I do need to watch A Mighty Wind and return it tomorrow, so I shouldn't be posting now, but I am. Thinking about Kiki made me think of the new beginning and ending music for the Disney VHS release back on 1 September 1998. (That version was Pan and Scan. On 29 September they released the widescreen and I should have waited. Of course there was also the subtitled widescreen VHS that I didn't get either.)
The songs Soaring, used for the opening, and I'm Gonna Fly, used for the ending, were sung by Sydney Forest. I like the songs in the original Japanese but these are good too. One of the things Disney/Buena Vista did right. (Some of the other musical changes are good too.) Back in 2000, you could order a CD from her site called "Collected Film and Television Works" for $5 that had those two songs and three others by her. The CD is listed at here at nausicaa.net at the bottom.
I went out and using the mp3 search on AltaVista, you can find very good quality (192 k) versions of these two songs:
- Soaring - you need to search the page
- I'm Gonna Fly
Her IMDB page shows nothing since 2004. I wish I could find her site.
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A few years back I tried to locate the Sydney Forest CD and had no luck. I hope you find her. I hope she knows how big her song has become.
Ace
Same here! I also tried getting her CD to no avail about 4 years ago. Any links to the other songs on her album?
I also noticed that the mp3 version you have is missing a verse compared to the film version. Any idea what happened to it?
The link to Soaring no longer works, sadly.
I just added a link to Soaring here.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LHFNF820
works right now for that song
I REALLY hope you're still here, because she's now selling her albums digitally, as name-your-price downloads. I'm happy, too! http://sydneyforest.bandcamp.com/
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