Music Album Review: 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Original Music Soundtrack'
In the summer of 1984, British-based Polydor Records released Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, an 11-track album with selections from composer-conductor John Williams’ score for the second chapter of the Indiana Jones saga. The album was issued in three formats – vinyl long-play (LP), audio cassette, and the then-new compact disc (CD) – but due to the limitations of how much content a single LP record can hold, Polydor and Maestro Williams – who is credited as the album producer – chose only 40 minutes’ worth of music from his score for the 118-minutes-long film. The resulting Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom soundtrack was a “sampler” of action cues and leitmotivs from the film, including Short Round’s Theme, Fast Streets of Shanghai, and the film’s dazzling opening number – Kate Capshaw’s cover – in Mandarin Chinese – of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. However, due to Polydor’s decision to release the soundtrack as a single LP album