The third Star Wars movie Return of The Jedi contained quite a few interesting music tracks, the master tapes of which have actually been lost for at least 30 years now after being last used on a UK documentary called “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga” and no real recovery efforts have been made. They include:
-Lapti Nek: the original Annie Arborgast version. The rumour is it was destroyed by George Lucas after their relationship went sour. A close recreation can be found on YouTube.
-Fancy Man: an alternate English version of Lapti Nek. The background music for this track was last heard on the ROTJ radio drama from the mid 90’s.
-Galactic Dance Blast: the most infamous of the lost tracks. Can be heard twice in the film. The versions on YouTube are just endless loops of the expanded soundtrack version which was ripped exactly from the film itself. The mostly complete version can only be heard in the documentary
There's apparently a whole Jabba the Hutt concert suite, only the last part of which still exists.
Funny how Lucasfilm hold onto all sorts of random asset stuff for the purpose of remastering movies and reusing them for new projects, like the original filmed explosions composited into The Phantom Menace and alternate audio takes of Carrie Fisher from the very first movie, but somehow loses master tapes for the actual soundtrack.
I assume this is the recreation you're talking about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zghC6UgcV4 I remember it when it was posted in 2015; I'm convinced that it's the real deal. The vocals sound identical to the film. Not sure how he would've obtained it... I feel like I asked him about it, but that's an old conversation.
I assume this is the recreation you're talking about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zghC6UgcV4 I remember it when it was posted in 2015; I'm convinced that it's the real deal. The vocals sound identical to the film. Not sure how he would've obtained it... I feel like I asked him about it, but that's an old conversation.
Yep that’s it. It’s actually spliced together from various sources (The “oooooh” is from the “Making of a Saga” documentary, then the film version with noise reduction, then the extended instrumental from the LP single).