Music composed and conducted by Peter Best

Music digitally recorded at A.A.V. Australia

The score - thought by many to be one of composer Peter Best's most lyrical and moving works - was never released on LP or CD.

In the DVD commentary track, producer Tony Buckley says that the score wasn't originally released because the production didn't have enough money to pay the musicians for the recording rights, but says it was later released by 1M1 on CD.

However a search of 1M1 only finds the score mentioned as one of a number scheduled for release in March and April 2003 newsletters:

Never-before-released scores coming soon from 1M1 Records: "Bliss" (Peter Best), "Tom Sawyer" and "The Last of the Mohicans" (Simon Walker), "The Irishman" (Charles Marawood), "" and "Grendel Grendel Grendel" (Bruce Smeaton) and the scores from Ruth Park's famous "Harp in the South" and "Poor Man's Orange" (Peter Best).

The score isn't listed online at 1M1, though Best's scores for Crocodile Dundee, Dad and Dave: On Our Selection, Doing Time for Patsy Cline, TV shows Heroes and Heroes II, Muriel's Wedding, The Leaving of Liverpool, We of the Never Never and Rebel have at various times been released - see here.

This is a pity for anyone interested in collecting one of the better moments in Australian composition for the screen.

Composer Peter Best

Peter Best cut his feature film teeth as a composer by working with feature film producer Phillip Adams on the low budget experimental 1970 drama Jack and Jill: a postscript.

Best went on score the two Barry McKenzie films, produced by Adams.

Best would become one of the major contributors to the revival of screen music in Australia, with scores for films such as Muriel's Wedding, the first two Crocodile Dundees and Bliss. He has also had a successful career in the advertising game.

He did several scores for 's films, starting with the score for Burstall's The Child episode of the four part portmanteau feature Libido, followed by Petersen and then End Play.

Best had taken a break from composing for the screen after doing the SAFC telemovie The Sound of Love in 1978, but after doing We of the Never Never in 1982, he followed with Goodbye Paradise, the Alex Stitt animation Abra Cadabra, Rebel, The More Things Change, Bliss, and then in 1986, Crocodile Dundee.

Best has a short (at time of writing) wiki here, and he should not be confused with the original drummer for The Beatles.

(Below: Peter Best)

(Below: Best as he appears in the DVD 'making of' for We of the Never Never)