This is an update on the availability of Mitch Miller’s recording of the theme from The Guns Of Navarone.

Since I originally posted about Mitch Miller’s recording of the theme from Guns Of Navarone, I noticed that the search terms “Mitch Miller” and “Guns Of Navarone by Mitch Miller” are both among the top five search terms that lead to this blog, and that the post about Guns Of Navarone is among the top five viewed pages at StereOldie.com, so I decided to resume hunting.

I’m happy to report that the original recording of Guns Of Navarone by Mitch Miller is available on CD, but the news isn’t ALL good.

Depending on your budget and on exactly what other music you’d be interested in owning, you can find the recording on two different CD’s. That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s not cheap either way.

A few copies of the original 1961 soundtrack recording of The Guns Of Navarone composed by Dimitri Tiomkin, which – according to the cover artwork – contains the Mitch Miller track, is available, but they are all used copies. It may be worth looking into, though, if you want to own that original soundtrack album.

The other CD I found is the more reasonably priced of the two. It’s a 2003 Japanese import on the Sony label titled Star Box Mitch Miller and containing 20 tracks of Mitch Miller & The Gang‘s hits, and includes both Guns Of Navarone and The Longest Day – another recording I’ve wanted for a long time. It’s nice to find them both on a single disc!

Star Box Mitch Miller is also available at reasonable prices (as of this writing) from Collector’s Choice and CDUniverse. CDUniverse had a few sound samples from the disc at last visit, but claimed to have only one copy available.

Last week I noted the passing of Mitch Miller in a post. I’m back with some more notes now.

I loved Mitch Miller as a kid. I remember some of my fondest memories as a pre-teen were gathering around the Zenith black-and-white television watching Sing Along With Mitch. Some of my favorite childhood songs were courtesy of my mother’s old Decca Phonograph and Mitch Miller LP’s and 45′s.

In that post I mentioned that one of my favorite songs by Mitch Miller was his rendition of the theme to the movie “The Guns Of Navarone.” The music score and the song were composed by Dimitri Tiomkin, who also composed the scores for such highly-acclaimed movies as “The High and The Mighty,” “High Noon,” and “The Alamo.”

In my post, I lamented that that original recording by Mitch Miller was apparently unavailable today in its originally recorded form. Well, I found it, and I invite you to here it, exactly as I did, in 1961. Click below and here it.

The Guns Of Navarone (Theme) by Mitch Miller The Guns Of Navarone by Mitch Miller

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