Editing Soundtrack (section)

===Film score albums===
Film score albums did not really become popular until the [[LP album|LP era]], although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums.  [[Alex North]]'s score for the 1951 film version of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' was released on a 10-inch LP by [[Capitol Records]] and sold so well that the label rereleased it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of [[Max Steiner]]'s film music on the reverse.

Steiner's score for ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' has been recorded many times, but when the film was reissued in 1967, MGM Records finally released an album of the famous score recorded directly from the soundtrack. Like the 1967 rerelease of the film, this version of the score was artificially ''enhanced for stereo''. In recent years, [[Rhino Records]] has released a 2-CD set of the complete ''Gone With the Wind'' score, restored to its original mono sound.

One of the biggest-selling film scores of all time was [[John Williams]]' music from the movie ''[[Star Wars]]''. Many film score albums go out of print after the films finish their theatrical runs and some have become extremely rare collectors' items.