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from cinescape.com:
England’s Harkit Records have announced their latest releases of terrific 1960’s film music with two new scores from popular television shows of the era. BURKE’S LAW starred Gene Barry as the millionaire police captain, Amos Burke, who turned up at crime scenes in a suave suit and a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. Herschel Burke’s jazzy music with its distinctive theme was a hallmark of this 1963 production. HONEY WEST was a 1965 spin-off from BURKE’S LAW about a beautiful private investigator played by Anne Francis and also featured a distinctive jazz based scored by Joseph Mullendore. Both scores epitomize the early to mid ‘60s trend of tuneful pop/jazz and secret agent suspense and action.
http://www.harkitrecords.com
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Are these legitimate releases, or bootlegs?
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Yes, I think they are re-releases of the old vinyl albums. I don't *think* Harkit is a 'bootleg' label by the way, although there have long been claims that it is...
Anyway, if this is the road they are going down then I hope they re-release the two I-SPY vinyl albums on CD, which would go very well with the superlative FSM release of the original scores.
Of course, ultimately I'd prefer an I-SPY vol 2 from FSM - the preferred option!
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Anne Francis is my dream girl. endquote]
She had an uncredited role in Portrait of Jennie... one of three school girls at the end.
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May 13, 2013 - 12:31 PM
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riotengine
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I do not have this combo CD (yet), but I do have the earlier Harkit CD that had only BURKE'S LAW on it, and it sounds just fine. It's pretty cool that they also included about half of the rather rare stereo version of the Dot LP DICK POWELL PRESENTS THEMES FROM THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF FOUR STAR TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS, as well as that cut from THE ROGUES, which I think comes from an RCA soundtrack LP. I will say, however, that they could have chosen better on the FOUR STAR cuts, and left off something like the TOM EWELL SHOW, and included either Rosenman's THE PLAINSMAN theme or Rudy Schrager's WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE instead.
Thanks for the info. 
I just checked Amazon, and it's a bit pricey, but I'll likely get it when I have some spare cash.
http://www.amazon.com/Burkes-Honey-West-Other-Four/dp/B009R4KVRW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1368472883&sr=1-1&keywords=burke%27s+law
Greg Espinoza
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May 18, 2013 - 5:24 AM
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skyross
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I do not have this combo CD (yet), but I do have the earlier Harkit CD that had only BURKE'S LAW on it, and it sounds just fine. It's pretty cool that they also included about half of the rather rare stereo version of the Dot LP DICK POWELL PRESENTS THEMES FROM THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF FOUR STAR TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS, as well as that cut from THE ROGUES, which I think comes from an RCA soundtrack LP. I will say, however, that they could have chosen better on the FOUR STAR cuts, and left off something like the TOM EWELL SHOW, and included either Rosenman's THE PLAINSMAN theme or Rudy Schrager's WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE instead.
Thanks for the info.
I just checked Amazon, and it's a bit pricey, but I'll likely get it when I have some spare cash.
http://www.amazon.com/Burkes-Honey-West-Other-Four/dp/B009R4KVRW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1368472883&sr=1-1&keywords=burke%27s+law
Greg Espinoza
I picked this up from Amazon UK quite cheap.
Very enjoyable music and good sound quality.
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Well, I bought a copy of this CD and I'm quite happy with it. All the cuts are in stereo, and though they may be lifts from LPs, the sound is just fine. At the very most, they may be lacking just a tad of high end, but nothing worth complaining about. Both shows feature great jazz scores, alternately slinky and punchy/dynamic. A perfect pairing. The extra themes from various television shows produced by Four Star Television are also mostly top notch.
A side note: Under the track listings for H.B. Gilbert's BURKE'S LAW is a notice, "* Composed by Joseph Mullendore," but no tracks are listed with an asterisk. My guess is that at least track 8, "Blues for a Dead Chick" is Mullendore, as the exact same melody appears in Mullendore's HONEY WEST score as track 20, "Sweet Honey."
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