Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Tracklist

• CD 1: Expanded Soundtrack Presentation
• 1
  Main Title and The Vision
  1:28
• 2
  Navy Planes
  2:13
• 3
  Lost Squadron
  2:33
• 4
  Trucking
  2:08
• 5
  Into the Tunnel and Chasing UFOs
  3:55
• 6
  Crescendo Summit
  1:24
• 7
  False Alarm and The Helicopter
  4:20
• 8
  Barry’s Kidnapping
  6:23
• 9
  Forming the Mountain
  1:56
• 10
  TV Reveals / Across Country
  2:52
• 11
  The Mountain
  3:37
• 12
  The Cover-up and Base Camp
  3:55
• 13
  The Escape
  2:19
• 14
  Climbing the Mountain
  2:35
• 15
  Outstretched Hands
  2:51
• 16
  The Light Show
  3:46
• 17
  Barnstorming
  4:31
• 18
  The Mothership
  4:36
• 19
  The Dialogue
  4:28
• 20
  The Returnees
  3:56
• 21
  The Appearance of the Visitors
  4:55
• 22
  Contact
  3:21
• 23
  End Titles
  4:26
• CD 2: Alternates and Additional Music
• 1
  Main Title
  1:16
• 2
  Roy’s First Encounter
  2:43
• 3
  Encounter at Crescendo Summit
  1:24
• 4
  Chasing UFOs
  1:21
• 5
  Watching the Skies
  1:20
• 6
  Vision Takes Shape
  0:41
• 7
  Another Vision
  0:42
• 8
  False Alarm
  1:44
• 9
  The Abduction of Barry
  4:36
• 10
  The Cover-up
  2:31
• 11
  TV Reveals
  1:52
• 12
  Roy and Jillian on the Road
  1:20
• 13
  I Can’t Believe It’s Real
  3:24
• 14
  Across the Fields
  1:20
• 15
  Stars and Trucks
  0:49
• 16
  Who Are You People?
  1:38
• 17
  The Escape (alternate)
  2:41
• 18
  Climbing Devils Tower
  2:11
• 19
  Dark Side of the Moon
  1:34
• 20
  The Approach
  4:31
• 21
  Night Siege
  6:26
• 22
  The Conversation
  2:23
• 23
  Inside
  2:34
• 24
  Contact (alternate)
  2:52
• 25
  Eleventh Commandment
  1:58
• 26
  TV Western
  1:06
• 27
  Lava Flow
  1:48
• 28
  The Five Tones
  2:24
• 29
  Advance Scout Greeting
  2:58
• 30
  The Dialogue (early version)
  3:10
• 31
  Resolution and End Title
  6:54

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Release credits

• John Williams
  conductor [2.2-4, 2.8-13, 2.15-18, 2.21-22, 2.31, 1.2-4, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13-15, 1.17-18, 1.20-21]

Issues

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  C
  (Combined release view)
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  12" Vinyl
  1977
• C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  12" Vinyl, 7" Vinyl
  1977
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  12" Vinyl
  1978
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  12" Vinyl
  1978
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  CD
  1989
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  CD
  1990
• 

  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector's Edition Soundtrack

  CD
  28 April 1998
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  DVD-Audio, DVD-Video
  2004
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  27 November 2015
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  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 40th Anniversary Remastered Edition

  2x CD
  28 November 2017
• 未
  未知との遭遇 オリジナル・サウンドトラック〜コレクターズエディション

  CD
  5 December 2018
• 

  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 45th Anniversary Remastered Edition

  2x CD
  26 August 2022
• 

  C
  Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector's Edition Soundtrack

  Digital Media
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  C
  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Unreleased Cues And Alternate Music

  CD