The David Rose album, Music from Motion Pictures, was one of my first film music LPs. I still have it, but it is in less than pristine condition. Was it ever released on CD? I was never able to find it. I transferred it to CD, but there are lots of clicks and pops.
Heres one I picked up back in the day. At the time it was the only way to get a copy of The Morning After from The Posiedon Adventure. A nice album just the same.
David, the Bennett is a good find - just the sort of thing I started this thread about. Worth a listen though I prefer his later, jazzier albums with his older and more relaxed voice.
I picked up a cd from my library from a singer by the name of Chris Connor. The album is "Chris Connor Sings Gentle Bossa Nova" from 1965. Connor had sung with the Stan Kenton band briefly in early 1953.
On this album are typical songs of the period, like "A Hard Day's Night", "Downtown", "Stranger On The Shore", "Feeling Good" and "Who Can I Turn To". But it does include several movie themes that are not covered by many other artists. And, man are these good.
First reason I picked this up is for the Elmer Bernstein song "Baby, The Rain Must Fall" which I can't stop playing. Love the flute intro that backs Connor through the song.
Then there's "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" by Frank De Vol and Mack David, and "Dear Heart" from Mancini.
Connor also sings "A Taste Of Honey" and "The Shadow Of Your Smile".
A very nice album that provides a fresh take on some tired songs and a great voice to go with it.
Here's Victor Young's "Hollywood Rhapsodies" album from 1954.
While most of the album doesn't do much for me, I have to say that the first cut, an arrangement of Newman's THE ROBE love theme, is downright intriguing.
It also contains the first recording of Hugo Friedhofer's main theme from "The Best Years Of Our Lives" 25 years before the rerecording of the Oscar winning score by Frank Collura conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
I picked up a cd from my library from a singer by the name of Chris Connor. The album is "Chris Connor Sings Gentle Bossa Nova" from 1965. Connor had sung with the Stan Kenton band briefly in early 1953.
On this album are typical songs of the period, like "A Hard Day's Night", "Downtown", "Stranger On The Shore", "Feeling Good" and "Who Can I Turn To". But it does include several movie themes that are not covered by many other artists. And, man are these good.
First reason I picked this up is for the Elmer Bernstein song "Baby, The Rain Must Fall" which I can't stop playing. Love the flute intro that backs Connor through the song.
Then there's "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" by Frank De Vol and Mack David, and "Dear Heart" from Mancini.
Connor also sings "A Taste Of Honey" and "The Shadow Of Your Smile".
A very nice album that provides a fresh take on some tired songs and a great voice to go with it.
And yes, they are on YouTube.
Great find! And the arrangements were done by Patrick Williams, so no surprise (to me) that you liked them.
