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1. Tom Jones, "What's New Pussycat? (Main Title)," What's New Pussycat?, Rykodisc
2. Teo Usuelli, "Piacere Sequence" (from Alla ricerca del piacere), Beat at Cinecittà Volume 1, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
3. Riz Ortolani, "Il ricordo di Serena" (from Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della Repubblica), Easy Tempo Vol. 1: A Cinematic Easy Listening Experience, Right Tempo
4. Isaac Hayes, "A House Full of Girls" (from Truck Turner), Double Feature: Music from the Soundtracks of Three Tough Guys & Truck Turner, Stax
5. Ennio Morricone featuring Christy, "Deep Down" (from Danger: Diabolik), Canto Morricone: The Ennio Morricone Songbook, Vol. 1, Bear Family
6. Jerry van Rooyen, "The Great Bank Robbery" (from How Short Is the Time for Love), Free Enterprise, Unforscene Music
7. Vampire Sound Incorporated, "Necronomania," Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party, Motel
8. The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra, "The Black Queen's Beads," Barbarella, Harkit
9. Gert Wilden & Orchestra, "Girl Faces" (from Schulmädchen Report 1), Schoolgirl Report, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
10. Gert Wilden & Orchestra, "Follow Me" (from Was Männer nicht für möglich halten), Schoolgirl Report, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
11. Roy Budd, "Envy, Greed and Gluttony" (from The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins), Return of the Budd, Sequel
12. Roy Budd, "Lust" (from The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins), Return of the Budd, Sequel
13. Burt Bacharach, "Stripping Really Isn't Sexy, Is It?," What's New Pussycat?, Rykodisc
14. Francesco De Masi and Alessandro Alessandroni, "Tema di Londra M.1" (from Colpo Maestro al servizio di sua Maesta Britannica), Beat at Cinecittà Volume 1, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
15. Armando Trovajoli, "Sessomatto" (from Sessomatto), Easy Tempo Vol. 1: A Cinematic Easy Listening Experience, Right Tempo
16. Armando Trovajoli, "Blazing Magnum" (from Una Magnum Special Per Toni Saitta), Beretta 70: Roaring Themes from Thrilling Italian Police Films 1971-80, Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
17. Dusty Springfield, "The Look of Love," Casino Royale, Varèse Sarabande
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The 1970 "Great Bank Robbery" instrumental is best known as the opening theme from the 1998 indie romcom Free Enterprise, which starred William Shatner as himself in a great pre-Boston Legal comedic turn. On the college radio version of A Fistful of Soundtracks, I interviewed Free Enterprise co-screenwriter Mark A. Altman about the making of the movie at the time of its release. A fan of the original Star Trek and Deep Space Nine (but very vocal about his displeasure with The Next Generation and Voyager), Altman based parts of Free Enterprise on his experiences as an editor of the Larry Flynt-owned Sci Fi Universe magazine. The part of my interview with Altman that I remember the most was when he recalled how during filming, he attempted to ask his idol about the time he worked alongside actress Angelique Pettyjohn, who played one of Kirk's many friends with benefits on Star Trek, and all Shatner could say to Altman was "Who's Angelique Pettyjohn?"
Issue #31 of Geek Monthly (the one with Anna Faris on the cover) arrived in my mailbox the other day, and because van Rooyen's music, which I'll forever associate with Free Enterprise, has been on my mind lately, I was amused to see that in his column in that issue, Altman talked at length about the 10th anniversary of Free Enterprise's release. One of the Free Enterprise anecdotes Altman recalled in his column involves a Cannes party where Shatner re-encountered his Judgment at Nuremberg co-star Maximillian Schell, and all Altman and his Free Enterprise writing partner Robert Meyer Burnett could think while they saw Shatner and Schell embrace was "Oh my God, it's Captain Kirk and Dr. Hans Reinhardt!"
Repeats of A Fistful of Soundtracks: The Series air Wednesdays at 10am and 3pm.
Oh yeah, Sleazy Listening is back!
ReplyDeleteYou don't know how long it took me to track down all the CDs for this playlist.
The Vampyros Lesbos one was especially a bitch since Motel Records didn't even exist anymore.
I know you love the "Sleazy Listening" playlist and recreated it as a mixtape, but I wish I hadn't put "The Look of Love" on the playlist back in '03. I should have concluded "Sleazy Listening" with a track that's way more obscure and sleazier-sounding than "The Look of Love," like Morricone and Dell'Orso's slightly moany and groany "Sospiri Da Una Radio Lontana (Sighs from a Distant Radio)" (http://mog.com/music/Ennio_Morricone/More_Mondo_Morricone_Revisited,_Vol._2/Sospiri_da_Una_Radio_Lontana_%5BFrom_a_Town_...%5D).
ReplyDeleteMan, just that sample is awesome. Another CD I've got to get!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you mention replacing "The Look of Love" on the playlist because that's exactly what I did on my CD... well, in a way... I replaced Springfield's version with Issac Hayes' boink-tastic 11 minute version.
Hayes' reverbed "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" at the end of the song made a perfect end for the album!
My sister found More Mondo Morricone while vacationing in Europe and gave it to me as a gift in 1997. That CD was my gateway to Morricone's groovetastic side. His non-spaghetti western scores from the late '60s and early '70s are so underrated.
ReplyDeleteGood thing you chose the full version of Hayes' cover instead of the radio edit. His covers are always sweet. I first heard his "Look of Love" cover on the Dead Presidents soundtrack.
Altman started hating TNG when the 1st TNG film killed off his god Kirk in Generations. To hell with the fact that the show itself is (in the minds of some) and even better classic than the first Trek.
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