A great little soundtrack – even if it looks a bit snoozy from the outside! Don Costa's usually not our favorite arranger, but he does a great job with this one – laying out some hard blacksploitation grooves that have funky keyboards, sweet sitar, and lots of nice cop show grooves to... read more
An obscure soundtrack with music by Howard Roberts – not the guitar player, but the arranger who also directed the Howard Roberts Chorale. The album is a weird blend of funk, African leanings, and gospel influences – with a heavy full-on approach that makes the best cuts groove like... read more
A very strange album, and one of our favorite scores by Nino Rota! Written for a film in which a disfunctional orchestra stands in as a metaphor for the Italian government, the music has a lot of stopping and starting and talking and disruption – all of which has a very comical effect. The... read more
A very strange album, and one of our favorite scores by Nino Rota! Written for a film in which a disfunctional orchestra stands in as a metaphor for the Italian government, the music has a lot of stopping and starting and talking and disruption – all of which has a very comical effect. The... read more
Includes selections from Knight Without Armour, Tribute To A Badman, Asphalt Jungle, Moonfleet, Double Indemnity, Lust For Life, and Men Of The Fighting Lady.... read more
A beautiful later score from the legendary Miklos Rosza – a masterpiece that draws on all of his many years in film, yet serves things up with a more subtle approach than before! There's a sense of space here that we don't always hear in Rosza – almost a pausing between the notes,... read more
Miklos Rozsa —
Quo Vadis ... LP
Phase 4/Decca (UK),
1978. Near Mint- ....
$28.99
Carlo Rustichelli —
Bebo's Girl ... LP
Capitol,
Mid 60s. Very Good+ ....
$4.99
A wonderfully groovy score from Carlo Rustichelli – best known to the world for his famous score for Divorce Italian Style, and working here in a style that mixes tight jazzy numbers with sparer themes in kind of a Nino Rota mode! There's some nice organ in the background on some of the best... read more
(Cover has a promo punch out, some tape and peeling on the spine, and WGN Library letters in marker on back.)
Philippe Sarde —
Tess ... LP
MCA,
1979. Very Good+ ....
$1.99
A relatively traditional score – with warmly sentimental themes that capture the emotion of the settings in that wonderful Philippe Sarde manner!... read more
(Cover has a gold promo stamp and a piece of tape on the spine.)
This one's got a bluesy jazz approach – set by Ray Charles' version of the title theme, and followed through by Lalo's great instrumental tracks – which mix strings, soul, and just the right jazzy touches to keep things moving along with a subtle groove. Ttiles include "The... read more
One of Lalo Schifrin's greatest soundtracks ever – a gem of a TV score that's been lost for years – and not nearly as famous or well-reissued as Mission Impossible, Bullitt, or Enter The Dragon! The tunes are pure Schifrin all the way through – a mix of jazz, bossa, and funk... read more
Lalo Schifrin —
Sol Madrid ... LP
MGM,
Late 60s. New Copy (reissue)....
$9.99
A pretty darn rare Lalo Schifrin soundtrack – to a lost crime thriller that starred David McCallum, Stella Stevens, and Telly Savalas – all of whom are pictured in a nice collage-type movie painting on the front cover! The tracks run from mellow bossa to fast and jazzy, and the album... read more
A creepy 70s Italian zombie film soundtrack by Guiliano Sorgini – his atmospheric and clearly influential score for Living Dead At The Manchester Mourge! It's an eerie mix of spare, chilling elements and more driving, psych-influenced bits – kind of like a less proggy version of the... read more
(Comes with a full-sized poster with the Death Waltz album cover art!)
Source Family —
Source Family ... LP
Drag City,
1973/1974. New Copy (reissue)....
$18.99
A tightly-curated soundtrack for the Source Family documentary – a film the looks at the California commune and spiritualist refuge of Father Yod and his followers – and creative engine for the psych folk sounds of Father, The Source Family, Ya Ho Wa 13 and others! It features 1973 and... read more
Bruno Spoerri —
Teddy Bear/Lilith ... LP
Finders Keepers/Cache Cache (UK),
1978. New Copy ....
$22.99
Two rare soundtracks from the quirky Bruno Spoerri – both of them a very cool blend of jazzy reeds and lots of electric touches! Teddy Bear is from the early 80s, and is one of the later records we've heard from Spoerri – a set that definitely bears the pedigree of its time, through... read more
Probably the best record the Staple Singers ever cut during the 70s – as it makes a genius move by taking their rich vocal style and laying it over some excellent tracks written by Curtis Mayfield! The record's quite different than their usual Stax numbers, and has a Curtom groove that's hip... read more
An excellent blacksploitation soundtrack – and every bit as funky as any of Willie Hutch's work for other Motown soundtracks at the time! Larry Mizell and Dennis Coffey help out on the instrumentation – giving the album an extra funky instrumental edge, one that takes it way past Edwin... read more
(NOTE: The label and the sleeve list the song "Don't It Feel Good To Be Free", but it's actually not on the reissue.)
(Cover has a split top seam and a partially split spine.)
Mikis Thedorakis —
Serpico ... LP
Paramount,
1973. Very Good ....
$12.99
Mikis Thedorakis might seem an odd choice to score a film set on the mean streets of New York – but he gets some wonderful help here from Bob James, who helps ensure that the funky tracks come off nice and sweet! Thedorakis serves up the main theme with a haunting, slightly "ethnic"... read more
A pretty darn psych/groovy soundtrack – to what looks like a very strange film! The music is by Ken Thorne – and the tracks are a mix of mod rhythms, instrumental groovers, and some very trippy numbers that use echoey percussion and some electrified instrumentation. A few cuts have... read more
A bit less groovy than some of the other Armando Trovajoli scores of the late 60s – but a soundtrack that's still got some wonderful musical moments! The film's a period piece, and the instrumentation is somewhat more traditional than some of Trovajoli's modder or bossa moments – but... read more
(Gatefold cover has one spot of wear on the back, but is wonderful otherwise.)
Armando Trovajoli —
Parfum De Femme ... LP
King (Japan),
Late 70s. Very Good+ ....
$28.99
A fab little soundtrack from one of our favorite Italian composers – a lost gem originally issued in 1971, with a very groovy sound! The score has Piero Umiliani picking up a bit more funk than usual – working with electric bass and keyboards to come up with some totally great tracks... read more
One of the best blacksploitation soundtracks of the early 70's – not only for the great title cut by Bobby Womack, "Across 110th Street", but for the excellent hard-hitting instrumentals by J.J. Johnson, which are perfectly in the groove of the blacksploitation generation! Lots of... read more
This sequel to Breakin was pretty bad, with an even more tenuous relationship to hip hop, but the soundtrack was saved from total ruin by George Kranz "Din Daa Daa", that has gone on to be subsequently sampled, and is a pretty fat 80s dance track on its own. The rest of the LP has that... read more
Indian music with a Nigerian twist – heard here in a set of recordings from the Hausa cinematic scene! At first listen, you can hear the Bollywood influence right away – both in the rhythms of the tunes, which have that festive, bouncing quality of an Indian film music number –... read more
Includes compositions by Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Scriabin, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Gluck Sgatmbati, plus themes and title music by Gerald Gouriet.... read more
Totally great – an amazing collection of music from the Tamil Film Industry in India – also known as Kollywood in some circles, and home to sounds that are quite different from more familiar Bollywood modes! The styles here are great – often a lot more offbeat and less straight... read more
England was a surprisingly funky place in the 60s and 70s – home to a rich array of great grooves created by the scene's important sound library labels – staffed by the cream of the crop of the British jazz musicians and soundtrack composers of the time! The work of these cats often... read more
England was a surprisingly funky place in the 60s and 70s – home to a rich array of great grooves created by the scene's important sound library labels – staffed by the cream of the crop of the British jazz musicians and soundtrack composers of the time! The work of these cats often... read more