 Originally Posted by See No Evil
I have now added this information into all three lists on my site.
As fas as I know, that's all the cues from dawn that have been commercially released, although there are more than a couple of compilation library CDs, not just De Wolfe either, many are compilations from various labels, so there could be more out there.
Good job. It's easy enough to add more info in this area as it turns up.
Originally Posted by See No Evil
I know the score was released first on an LP, then later on a bootleg CD. I wasn't aware there was anything missing from it even if the proper names of the cues isn't known?
Oh Lordy, where to even begin with NIGHT...? 
There are 45-48 (or more) different cues used in NIGHT depending on how you want to break it down since some of the tracks are composites. The Varese Sarabande LP (listed here) only contains about 24 cues total, and one of those--the posse music--is incorrect due to an error on the original cue sheet that nobody at Varese Sarabande bothered to double check. So what they have listed as "Posse In The Fields/Ben Awakes" doesn't appear anywhere in the film.
Of all the cues used in the film, nearly everything comes from the Capitol Hi-Q library except for two synthesizer tracks used during the feast following the truck explosion, and the scene where Ben confronts the Coopers' corpses in the cellar. There are also three examples of stingers processed through a long tape delay (when the cemetery ghoul attacks Barbra, when Barbra finds the corpse at the top of the stairs and the final shot of the bonfire). Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman claimed to have radically processed the music that was used in the film, but except for the three examples of tape delay mentioned above, the music is identical to the cues found on stock Capitol HI-Q reels.
Capitol Hi-Q reels and LPs are tough to obtain and the actual cue sheet for NIGHT isn't 100% accurate, so it's very difficult to verify which cues were used. There were five series within the library (D for drama, L for light, M for melodic, S for short and X for Experimental) containing hundreds of LPs and none of this music is consistently titled. Unlike the De Wolfe library, the cues are primarily identified by code and the composers aren't always properly credited because a lot of this music was composed for hire (for example, John Seeley and Spencer Moore were not composers, they were publishers yet their names appear all over these tracks).
Also, one of the Hi-Q reels utilized in NIGHT was so old that it had been already replaced with different music within the library several years prior to the film being made, which creates even more confusion in tracking down the correct cues. The Varese Sarabande LP not only retitled all of the original music cues, which is a BIG problem when dealing with previously copyrighted material, but several composers were intentionally not credited because the rights to use their cues had long since lapsed.
One cue that the LP does contain which I haven't found anywhere else is a brass/synthesizer stinger used primarily when the ghouls advance on the house for the last time. I believe Karl Hardman may have created this cue from a Hi-Q track and provided it to Varese Sarabande. Regardless, the source of this cue appears nowhere on the original cue sheet. I'd also assume that Hardman created the other electronic cues described above because he is credited on the LP.
One interesting aspect of the Capitol Hi-Q library is that the reels containing NIGHT cues also contain alternate tracks that were used in Creepshow. 
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Right now, I just use the live audio of the scene which works ok, but obviously the track itself is preferred. I've even tried hunting down info on the arcade itself to try and score their muzak reel, to no avail. This is easily the most wanted track that I still need.
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