This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
An orchestral film scorer / composer like John Williams might seem like an unlikely candidate for a two-CD best-of compilation.
But think about it: I bet the themes from Star Wars, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Jaws are lodged in your head just as indelibly as Hey Jude and Satisfaction. All of those (except, of course, the last two) are included here, along with pristinely re-recorded themes from pretty much every other Steven Spielberg and George Lucas flick, from Sugarland Express and Raiders Of The Lost Ark to Saving Private Ryan and The Phantom Menace. Two CDs might be a bit much — are songs from 1941 and Hook really “hits?” — but the film buff in your family would probably love to find this under the Xmas tree.
