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User Profile
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| Occupation: |
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Fully Happily Retired |
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| Favorite Score(s): |
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John Barry Bonds, Midnight Cowboy, The Ipcress File, The Knack, Somewhere In Time, more
/ Ennio Morricone -
A Fistful Of Dollars, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Big Gundown, more
/ Michel Legrand -
Summer of '42, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, more
/ Richard Rodney Bennett -
Billion Dollar Brain, Yanks, Return Of The Soldier, more
/ Henry Mancini -
Charade, Two For The Road, Days Of Wine & Roses, more
/ Miscellaneous -
Duel At Diablo, Taxi Driver, North By Northwest, Rocky, The Magnificent Seven, Our Man Flint/In Like Flint, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Graduate, The Sound of Music, more |
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| Favorite Composer(s): |
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John Barry, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Richard Rodney Bennett, Ennio Morricone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bernard Herrmann
/ Non-Films - Antonio Carlos Jobim, great craftsmen of Tin Pan Alley |
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| Interests: |
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Listening to great songs - melodies & words whether from eras of "The GREAT American Songbook" or AM-Radio Top 40 Rock & Roll hits of the 1950's-60's
/ Singers: (particular favorite albums)
Mark Murphy - 'Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields & Cy Coleman,' 'Stolen Moments,' “Rah'
/ Carmen McRae - 'The Great American Songbook, / Anita Ellis - 'A Legend Sings'
/ Frank Sinatra - 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,' 'A Man And His Music - The Collection' DVD
/ Tony Bennett - 'Tony Makes it Happen!,' 'Songs For The Jet Set,' 'I Gotta Be Me'
/ Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane
/ 1960's Bossa Nova:
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66, Tamba Trio, Tamba 4, Marcos Valle, Luiz Eca / Miscellaneous: Film Noir
/ You Tube (A Time Machine!)
/ 1960's Vintage TV - 'Naked City,' 'Mission: Impossible,' 'Twilight Zone,' 'Star Trek,' more
/ Playing 4-Wall and 1-Wall Handball
/ NYC Sports Teams, / Bruce Lee
/ Early Toho Godzilla era films
/ 1960's Marvel Comics featuring Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko
/ 1960's AM Music Radio – WMCA & WABC, WNEW & WQEW
/ NYC Nostalgia 1950s-60's. |
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| About Me: |
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Retired Baby Boomer, lucky son of post World War II very hard working immigrants - through their selfless sacrifices I've enjoyed and still live the American dream of stability, entertainment and recreation. |
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