I’m thrilled to help get La La Lands back off to the release races as I stow my liner notes for Elmer Bernstein’s now-heard score for RAT RACE into the train station locker! As perhaps the wackiest comedy music the great composer wrote in his second score for his Airplane! co-director Jerry Zucker on his solo fight (not to mention the second score of Bernstein’s to bear that name), I chronicle this zany discovery with the reminiscences of Peter and Emilie Bernstein, along with Elmer’s protege Bear McCreary and music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg. While you really should have bought a squirrel, you can enjoy the madcap Bernstein gem now on sale at La La Land Records HERE!
