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Various - Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack - The Lost Weekend / The Night Of The Hunter
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Main Title
New York Skyline
Alcohol
The Barge Of Cleopatra
Night At The Opera (Love Theme)
Hotel Lobby
The Hospital
Escape
The Mouse And The Bat (Delirium)
Don's Decision
Resolution & Finale The Night Of The Hunter By Walter Schumann Narrated By Charles Laughton
The Night Of The Hunter (Part 1)
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| The Lost Weekend and The Night of The Hunter are important milestones in the history of American Cinema. Two powerful and disturbing films brilliantly acted and directed with great intensity and style. The Lost Weekend first to portray the devastating effects of alcoholism. Ray Milland gives the finest performance of his career and the film was the best of 1945 picking up five oscars. The soundtrack (the first to deploy the use of the theramin) was composed by the great Hungarian Miklos Rozsa. Throughout, Rozsa's music is punctuated by the use of the theremin which adds to the disturbed, hallucinogenic mood of the film and get's across Milland¹s endless yearning for a drink. The Night of the Hunter, an outstandingly original fairytale nightmare features a memorable, chilling performance from Robert Mitchum. Far ahead of it¹s time, the film and is now regarded as one of the best two or three movies made in America in the fifties. The soundtrack of The Night of the Hunter integrates the film's music with a reading by Charles Laughton of the story, beautifully written for the recording itself. The result is magical and not a little unsettling.
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Original Soundtrack - Pufnstuff featuring Jack Wild & Mama Cass
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If I Could (Sung By Jack Wild)/ Fire In The Castle/ Living Island (Sung By Jack Wild & The Entire Cast)/ Witchiepoo¹S Lament/ Angel Raid/ A Friend In You (Sung By Jack Wild)/ How Lucky I Am/ Pufnstuf (Sung By Jack Wild)/ Charge/ Different (Sung By Mama Cass)/ Zap The World (Sung By Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye)/ Leaving Living Island/ Rescue Racer To The Rescue/ Finale
A.If I Could (Sung By jack wild) b. Living island (sung by jack wild & the entire cast) |
| The soundtrack to the film version of Sid & Marty Kroffts gigantic children's tv hit 'HR Pufnstuf'-the programme that introduced psychedelia into the diet of English and American children in the late 60s/ early 70s. It starred of course, the most famous English boy actor of all, Jack Wild (straight from the highly-acclaimed Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's 1968 film musical smash 'Oliver!'), alongside the great Cass Elliot from the Mamas And The Papas (whose film debut this was), So a unique anglo-american appeal. Pufnstuf was a smash hit in America and is today an institution. Still remembered fondly by those that were touched by it as children and now enjoyed by younger viewers through cable transmissions. Pufnstuf was also a hit here in the uk where like 'The Simpsons' it enjoyed prime airtime slot at 6pm in the evening. The soundtrack written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel ('Barbarella' 'Happy Days' 'Laverne & Shirley) is a remarkable amalgam of bugglegum, psychedelic instrumentation and joyful knockabout songs including ‘Zap The World’ and the fine Cass solo number ‘Different’ which is exclusive to this record. Pufnstuf is full of great, clever, funny songs sung by Jack Wild, Cass Elliot, Witchiepoo and the cast.
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The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T
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Opening Credits
Butterfly Ballet
Ten Happy Fingers
Piano Concerto (Ten Happy Fingers Variation)
Dream Stuff
Hypnotic Duel
Get Together Weather
Because We're Kids
Dungeon Ballet
We Are Victorious
Elevator Song
Dressing Song Do-Me-Do Duds
End Credit
My Favorite Note
Oh! We Are The Guards
I Will Not Get Involved, Part 1
I Will Not Get Involved, Part 2
Grindstone
Money
Terwilliker
I Will Not Go To Sleep
Many Questions
One Moment Ago
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| 5000 fingers of Dr T is Alice In Wonderland meets The Wizard Of Oz meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a quite astonishing surrealistic children's fantasy and arguably the most genuinely psychedelic pre-sixties film. Written by the ever-popular Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who was responsible for the story, screenplay, and lyrics. The original soundtrack of this film is an impossible rarity that has been out of print for decades and never before released on compact disc. This film affected generations of people growing up in America in the fifties and culturally it is taken very seriously. The Dr Seuss penned songs are as beguiling today as they ever were.
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Original Soundtrack - The Cool Mikado
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Overture
Gentlemen of Japan
Three Little Maids From School
A Wandering Minstrel
The Sun's Hooray!
Behold The Lord High Executioner
A More Humane Mikado
The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
Tit Willow Twist
Here's A How-De-Do!
Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
Finale: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum |
| To celebrate the forthcoming reactivation of el records, the label is pleased to be instigating a programme to re-release authentic, stylish, highly regarded and long deleted original film soundtracks from the sixties beginning with Michael Winner's 1962 Glbert & Sllivan film parody 'The Cool Mikado'. 'Cool Mikado' features original music by the John Barry Seven, songs performed in characteristic style by Frankie Howerd, dance routines by Lionel Blair and comic sketches involving Tommy Cooper, Mike & Bernie Winters, Pete Murray and Stubby Kaye. While the film is no cinematic masterpiece, it is an authentic Eastmancolor period piece full of historical interest Frankie Howerd of course was hardly less than a comic institution in Britain through the sixties and seventies-his career peaking with the bawdy ancient Greek television romp 'Up Pompeii'. John Barry would go on to become Britain's foremost composer on the international film music scene with credits including the James Bond films, 'The Ipcress File' with Michael Caine and the highly popular 'Persuaders Theme' for the television programme which featured Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. 'Cool mikado' was also one of the first feature films of Michael Winner who later in the sixties would direct Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford in 'The Jokers' and Orson Welles with Reed again in 'i'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name'. The soundtrack, initially released on Parlophone, has been deleted almost four decades and is a highly prized collectors item with original copies (if they can be found at all) fetching in excess of £100. Therefore, this stylish re-issue of 'The Cool Mikado' is sure to be welcomed by film buffs el aficionados and (indeed) the record-buying public alike.
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