I haven't listened to this album in ages, but the film itself is on Turner Classic Movies (EST) Wednesday January 11 @11:45am. I'm curious to hear the score in context with the film.
I haven't listened to this album in ages, but the film itself is on Turner Classic Movies (EST) Wednesday January 11 @11:45am. I'm curious to hear the score in context with the film.
Yeah, I have it scheduled for my DVR. I don't have the album, but 60's Lalo is always interesting.
And most important, it's being shown in it's original aspect ratio of 2.35. I've only recently watched the full screen version. It's a mildly amusing take on the 60s Spy hero and Rod Taylor does a great job. Watch out for Jill St. John. But most of all, the opening Main Titles with that Shirley Bassey vocal and Lalo Schifrin's score makes this film worth watching. This is a rare TV screening.
This turns out to be a great album for the current hot summer evenings. Excluding the marching music (tracks 1 and 4a) the rest is highly enjoyable cool 60's Lalo, lots of great source music, lovely arrangements, great themes and wonderful title song!
This turns out to be a great album for the current hot summer evenings. Excluding the marching music (tracks 1 and 4a) the rest is highly enjoyable cool 60's Lalo, lots of great source music, lovely arrangements, great themes and wonderful title song!
Yes, it is solid top-to-bottom, once you program out the godawful march music which has no business being on the CD.
This turns out to be a great album for the current hot summer evenings. Excluding the marching music (tracks 1 and 4a) the rest is highly enjoyable cool 60's Lalo, lots of great source music, lovely arrangements, great themes and wonderful title song!
Funny to read my own 10 years old post about the score. I watched the film yesterday for the first time and truly enjoyed how well the music fits so many scenes--both the dramatic and source. Lalo must have been proud of his achievement so early in his career.
Lalo was in his early thirties when he scored this film, but he already had a great dramatic sense and a number of adventurous large-scale jazz works under his belt, plus he was well-read and knowledgeable on many subjects.
I read an old (early 70s) interview with Frank Zappa, who had just premiered a convert work with the L.A. Phil and Zubin Mehta. Zappa quoted Stravinsky's Agon ballet in the work, but orchestrated for rock instruments. Zappa said nobody recognized it except Lalo--not even Mehta.
