As to Nicholas And Alexandra, a superb score, the Bell label went under back in 1974, not long after issuing Bennett's soundtrack. The catalog eventually worked its way over to Arista and ultimately ended up as part of Sony, where I believe the rights currently reside. It is an elusive title to be sure and whether original album masters exist is a query to which I don't know the answer. But I'm guessing they may be missing in action, as are some of the Colgems releases that also worked their way into the Sony properties.
The album rights for Yanks resides with UMG. The master elements to the MCA release most likely do exist. It may just need a few more interested parties financially supporting it to make a CD release viable. By the way, I remember watching the movie way back when and felt cheated because it was a v e r y l o n g WWII movie that had no war sequences. --Doug
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