The Return of the Jedi score was recorded at the Abbey Road studios in January and February 1983. Again, John Williams conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and served as producer. Orchestrator Herbert W. Spencer, engineer Eric Tomlinson, music editor Kenneth Wannberg, and record supervisor Lionel Newman again reprised their respective duties. The score won another Oscar nomination for Williams. Return of the Jedi, which is the longest score of the Original Trilogy, was only released on a single LP instead of a double set like the Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back soundtracks before it.
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In 1993, 20th Century Fox Film Scores released a four CD box set containing music from the original Star Wars Trilogy. This release marked the first time that the complete contents of the original double-LP releases of the scores from the first two movies became available on CD. Disc three in the set was devoted to Return of the Jedi, with further tracks on disc four.
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Currently, several source cues and other material is unavailable. Many of these master tapes could not be located in time for the Special Edition release of
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