Vampire hunting never sounded so groovy – thanks to a sublime soundtrack by the legendary Krzysztof Komeda! The feel here is a bit like Komeda's better-known score for Rosemary's Baby – a blend of darker themes and lighter 60s styles – handled in a way that brings together ... read moreCD
A weird and wonderful lost soundtrack from Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski – done for a movie that was essentially a children's story, but with a great array of unusual sounds and very cool 80s keyboards! The music is very much in par with some of Korzynski's other classics – and ... read moreCD
Loads of great guitar in this classic 60s western – sometimes twangy, sometimes driving, and sometimes mixed nicely with trumpet – all for a sound that really makes the score one of the best from the spaghetti western generation! There's a bold, fresh approach to the whole thing – ... read moreCD
A totally wonderful package – one that presents a number of full film sountracks by one of our favorite composers ever! We totally love the movie work of Francis Lai to death – and while a few of his big hits have come out on CD over the years, much of his music has been crucially ... read moreCD
An incredible collection – and the first to ever really dig deeply into the rich body of work from soundtrack composer Francis Lai! Lai's known best to the non-French world for a handful of movie hits – music for A Man & A Woman, Love Story, and a few other films – but over ... read moreCD
A nice collection of soundtracks scored by Francis Lai – one of our favorite French composers of the 60s! Mayerling's a bit of a period piece, and as such, is mostly orchestral – but the real gem here is the soundtrack for La Lecon Particuliere – a great little soundtrack that's ... read moreCD
One of the greatest soundtracks ever – an archetypal album from French composer Francis Lai, and a record that set the tone for countless other imitations to come – yet which is still the best! The groove here is really unique – a spare blend of bossa influences, jazzy organ ... read moreCD
A trio of western soundtracks from composer Angelo Lavagnino – one of the lesser-known composers of the Spaghetti years of the genre! First up is Johnny West – a soundtrack represented here by 11 tracks that range from more typical western themes to mellower, more introspective numbers ... read moreCD
Wonderfully playful sounds from composer Raymond Lefevre – penned for two French comedies that starred the legendary Louis De Funes! First up is Jo – a soundtrack that has some very groovy, very swinging action moments – stepping out like the best 60s spy sorts of sounds you ... read moreCD
An amazing side of the many talents of Michel Legrand – his more serious compositional work, presented here in two different concertos – with some surprisingly fantastic piano by the composer himself! You'll know Legrand best for his famous soundtrack material of the 60s and 70s – ... read moreCD
An incredibly groovy late 60s soundtrack from Michel Legrand – presented here with 2 other lesser-known gems as well! La Piscine may well be one of the last under-reissued scores from Legrand's genius period – that time when he was hitting heavily on soundtracks for The Thomas Crown ... read moreCD
Wonderful work from Michel Legrand – the French composer, musician, and singer who first rose to fame in the 50s – and has managed to keep his creativity flowing strongly over the decades! This set is exactly what's promised by the title and cover – an album that features Legrand ... (French, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Quite an unusual album for Michel Legrand – a suite of tracks based around 20th Century standards – starting with older evergreens, and moving into some very hip tunes from the 60s! The orchestrations are amazing – with tones, colors, and rhythmic approaches that surpass ... (French, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(Hybrid Super Audio CD pressing – works on standard CD players too!)
Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion —
Man Of La Mancha ... CD United Artists/Ryko, 1972. Used ...
$14.99
... CD
(Out of print. Enhanced CD. Barcode has a cutout hole.)
Call us corny, but we really love this one! The musical's a brilliant summation of all the energy that went into American business in the postwar years – and offers a great parody on the corporate shenanigans of the Madison Avenue era. Robert Morse is fantastic in the lead role – but ... read moreCD
(Enhanced CD – with archival material! Barcode has a cutout hole.)
Great music from jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe – a set that was originally written as the soundtrack for an early 60s sexploitation film, Satin In High Heels – but which works equally well as a jazz album on its own! Lowe's in a slightly different setting than on some of his earlier ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
2 soundtracks by Lurie. The Down By Law one is a bit more rootsy, with instrumentation that includes harmonica and banjo, in addition to jazz-based musings by a group that includes Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Nana Vasconcelos, and Lurie himself. The Variety soundtrack is more in the mode of work by ... read moreCD
Haunting work by John Lurie – one side the soundtrack to his famous film appearance in Stranger Than Paradise, the other a sute of tracks on the theme of Ayler. The Stranger Than Paradise tunes are performed by The Paradise String Quartet – and are mostly darker atmospheric tunes from ... read moreCD
Wonderfully groovy work from French soundtrack composer Michel Magne – two of his first big league efforts, both penned for director Henri Verneuil! The soundtrack to Melodie En Sous-Sol is lively and filled with jazz – served up here in a mode that echoes some of the uses of the genre ... read moreCD
Henry Mancini —
Great Race ... CD BMG/RCA (Spain), 1965. Used ...
$14.99
Nice 60s crime jazz from Mancini! Although Mancini's fame was made in the late 50s for his work on the classic Peter Gunn TV show, it's less known that he also did the score for the less-than-successful Peter Gunn film. Directed in 1967 by Blake Edwards, the film was a weak attempt to transfer ... read moreCD
Delightful instrumentals – not as jazzy as Mancini's regular soundtrack work, but still pretty nice! The tracks are more in an easy instrumental vein – but given Hank's style, they're still pretty cool, especially as they feature work by west coast jazzmen like Shelly Manne, Victor ... (Now Sound, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A great Mancini score for one of the goofiest films of the 60s! Peter Sellers stars as the sitar-playing Indian actor Hrundi Bakshi – next to the lovely Claudine Longet, who makes one of her few film appearances – and the whole thing's set to one of the greatest scores ever by Henry ... read moreCD
A classic! This is the record that made Mancini's career, and forever transformed the face of crime and jazz. The record's a stunning batch of instrumentals, played by a crack group of west coast players who also performed regularly in the TV show. Titles include the classic "Peter ... read moreCD
A later entry in the Pink Panther soundtrack series – but one that's still got plenty of great Henry Mancini touches! Themes are plenty playful, and also have some slight electric moments alongside the orchestral scoring – although most of the album's best instrumentation comes out in ... read moreCD
A later entry in the Pink Panther soundtrack series – but one that's still got plenty of great Henry Mancini touches! Themes are plenty playful, and also have some slight electric moments alongside the orchestral scoring – although most of the album's best instrumentation comes out in ... read moreCD
One of the darkest, most dramatic Henry Mancini soundtracks of the 50s – music penned for Orson Welles' Touch Of Evil, with a history as checkered as the film itself! Mancini's in his best early mode here – mixing bits of jazz with touches of rock and roll – and often hitting ... read moreCD
A Henry Mancini double-header – two overlooked soundtracks, back to back on a single CD! First up is Two For The Road – a wonderful soundtrack to one of our favorite American films of the 60s – the amazing Two For The Road, scored here beautifully by Henry Mancini! Mancini does ... read moreCD
An overlooked bit of 70s whimsy from Henry Mancini – a set that was recorded after his more famous RCA albums of the decade, for a comedy that disappeared as quickly as the record! Mancini's making the best of his fuller orchestrations here – working a larger woodwind section through ... read moreCD
A great little album, put together to accompany one of Muhammad Ali's finest moments on the big screen – in a blend of music that's way deeper than the usual sounds you'd hear ringside! Michael Masser helmed the set – produced and wrote most of the material – but also with key ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Sweet sexy grooves from Gianni Marchetti – a disco-era soundtrack from the end of the 70s, but one that's also got some of the lighter, slinkier touches of Italian erotic films from a few years before! The main theme – "I Was Made For Dancing" – is an English-language ... read moreCD
A great one from Gianni Marchetti – the Italian composer we know best for his work on The Wild Eye, but who sounds equally great on this set too! The best tracks have a heavy rhythm at the bottom – not really funky, but kind of mod, and a bit more off-kilter on the slower numbers ... read moreCD
A classic take on the "Batman" hit of the 60s – one that moves the tune from camp TV theme to sweet rock instrumental territory – in a manner that prefaces later takes on the tune by The Who and The Jam! The track may well be the biggest ever by The Marketts – and ... (Rock, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Brian May —
Turkey Shoot ... CD Dual Planet (Australia), 1982. New Copy ...
$4.9916.99
Seedy synth soundtrack genius from the early 80s! Turkey Shoot is a pretty notorious slice of early 80s Oz-sploitation cinema – and composer Brian May makes it all the more memorable with his soundtrack work here. It got some brief percussion and strings-heavy bits, but it's main style is ... read moreCD
One of the more laidback western soundtracks we've ever heard – and we mean that in a great way! Franco Micalizzi seems to work here in a way that's more focused on the overall music than the genre of the film – and turns in some really beautiful slow-stepping numbers – some with ... read moreCD
The first-ever issue of a wickedly groovy soundtrack for a weird 70s Italian film – one that's also known under the title of Super Stooges Vs The Wonder Women! Franco Micalizzi always does a pretty darn great job, but he's really outdone himself here – blending together bits of ... read moreCD
A journey into space with a wonderful sound – served up here as a set of cosmic instrumentals from Luciano Michelini, most of which have a pretty groovy vibe! The mix of 60s instrumentation, spacey touches, and light electric moments reminds us of Peter Thomas or Johnny Harris at their best ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Mario Migliardi is one of the lesser-known names from the golden age of Italian soundtracks – a composer we only know from a handful of films, but one who really does a great job with this early 70s western! Part of the music's strength is the presence of Franco De Gemini – whose ... read moreCD
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill —
Moomins ... CD Finders Keepers (UK), 1982. New Copy ...
$14.99
The Moomins comics have delighted the world for generations – but fewer folks have seen the early 80s Moomins TV show – which is a masterpiece of felt-based, stop-motion animation! And while the images on the screen are amazing, the music for the program is equally great – spare, ... read moreCD
One of the richest 60s moments from composer Hugo Montenegro – a soundtrack that's penned with a mix of string styles that are a nice bridge between the differing instrumental styles that Hugo would use in the 50s and the 60s! Some of the numbers showcase Montenegro's strong ability to score ... read moreCD
A pair of RCA Records gems from Hugo Montenegro – back to back on a single CD! First up is Theme From The Godfather – a sweet 70s update of the moogy groovy that Hugo Montenegro first started crafting in the 60s! The album's got both moog and Arp – the latter of which brings in ... (Now Sound, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(Hybrid Super Audio CD pressing – works on standard CD players!)
The kind of sexy Morricone soundtrack we really really love! This overlooked gem is a sweet 70s side – written for a love story starring Marcello Mastroianni and Nastassja Kinski, and done with the lightly erotic touches that make even Morricone's prettiest melodies extremely haunting and ... read moreCD
The legendary maestro – standing strong with the baton in a beautiful concert presentation of some of his greatest themes from films! The album presents a full concert, recorded in Rome in 1998 – with Ennio Morricone conducting the Orchestra Of The Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, ... read moreCD
Two late 60s groovers from Morricone! Grazie Zia is a very short soundtrack – featuring only 4 tracks in all – but it's got some incredible vocals by Renata Cortiglioni, who sings in this mode listed in the notes as a "chorus of treble voices", which makes for a very spooky ... read moreCD
A score that's arguably much better than the movie it was written for – a great Ennio Morricone moment for a 70s thriller that starred Rock Hudson! Morricone's a bit restrained, but in a way that's pretty nice – making for some lighter orchestral numbers that offset the darker mood of ... read moreCD
(Limited edition of 100 copies.)
Ennio Morricone —
La Califfa ... CD EMI/GDM (Italy), 1971. New Copy ...
$18.99
A really moody little record from Ennio Morricone – spare, subtle, and extremely beautiful – touched with notes of sadness and remorse, but also handled with a strong spirit of redemption! The sound here isn't as cold or atonal as that on some of Morricone's horror work – but it's ... read moreCD
A real standout in Ennio Morricone's roster of great work from the time – a record with all the best elements in place – including vocals by Edda Dell'Orso and orchestrations by Bruno Nicolai – but an overall format that's a bit different than usual! Most of the tracks here are ... read moreCD
We're not sure why Ennio Morricone is making the "shush" sound at us on the cover – as the set's such a wonderful celebration of his music, it makes us want to cheer! The performance here is all new – and features Morricone conducting the Czech National Symphony in a ... read moreCD
Spooky sounds from the maestro – an incredible collection of those otherworldly sounds that Ennio Morricone brought to his soundtracks during the golden years of his talents – that time when he could make so many amazing sonic steps from standard, familiar acoustic instrumentation! ... read moreCD
A great Morricone soundtrack for a Jean-Paul Belmondo thriller – a score that starts out spare and brooding, then builds nicely as things move on – with lots of cool bottom-end sounds that make the whole thing really move up from the depths! Some tunes echo the sweeter side of ... read moreCD
A very groovy early soundtrack by Morricone! This one's earlier than many of the reissues we've been stocking – and it's got a groovy sound that's made even groovier by some fab vocal work by I Cantori Moderni, a hip vocalese group that's kind of the Italian version of The Swingle Singers. ... read moreCD
The genius of Ennio Morricone – heard here in 2 different settings! Un Esercito Di 5 Uomini is a late 60s spaghetti western – but as usual with Morricone, the sound is way beyond the obvious – and comes across here with these fierce, dark musical lines that juxtapose sweeter ... read moreCD
A soundtrack for the 21st Century – original film tunes written and scored by il maestro Morricone, re-mixed and re-done by the Compost Records collective! Compost isn't normally as into the soundtrack bag as some of their other contemporaries on the European scene – which is why this ... read moreCD
As any reader of these pages will know, we're nuts about Ennio Morricone – the greatest Italian soundtrack composer ever, and quite possibly one of the greatest composers to have ever walked the face of this planet! Here, a similarly Morricone-mad bunch of folks pay tribute to the maestro, ... read moreCD
(Out of print, promotional stamp on booklet cover.)
2 of Morricone's best soundtracks ever! We mean it! If you've ever wanted to get into Morricone's work, but didn't know where to start, pick this CD. It's got the fantastic score to the film Le Casse (released in the US as The Burglars), with a number of extra tracks that weren't on the original ... read moreCD
John Morris —
Bank Shot ... CD United Artists/Kritzerland, 1974. Used ...
$7.99
A goofy little score to a goofy little heist movie from the early 70s – put together with music that's as playful as the images on the screen! There's a real carnivalesque feel to John Morris' music for the film – and at many points, the tunes almost feel more like the kind you'd get ... read moreCD
A western score, with a twist – the twist being that the music was penned for Mel Brooks' amazing early 70s spoof of the genre! And as such, there's lots of hip twists and turns in the music here – little left turns that take the soundtrack way past obvious expectations – ... read moreCD
A relatively straight score for this early 80s Monty Python side project – a pirate parody film, penned by Graham Chapman! The soundtrack mixes up some familiar pirate/action moments with a few lighter comedic touches – but overall, the drama wins out on most numbers – making the ... read moreCD
A pair of soundtracks from Mario Nascimbene – an Italian composer who handled some important films of the romantic 50s years, but also went on to do some great later work too! First up is Estate Violenta, a soundtrack that's maybe a bit more rich and orchestral than you'd guess from its ... read moreCD
Alfred Newman —
Airport ... CD Decca/Universal (Japan), 1970. New Copy ...
$13.99
One of the best later moments from soundtrack giant Alfred Newman – a stunning score for a star-studded disaster film at the start of the 70s! Newman's still got some of his older sense of orchestration here, but also gets a bit leaner for the modern age too – bringing in some groovier ... read moreCD
A 50s soundtrack classic – even if it was penned for a film that hasn't stood the test of time very well! Alfred Newman's one of those composers who always brings his a-game to the table – for a big film or small – and his music for this film adaptation of Francoise Sagan's ... read moreCD
(Limited edition of 2500 copies. Out of print.)
David Newman —
Kindred ... CD Varese, 1986. Used ...
$14.99
Bruno Nicolai —
El Cisco ... CD Digitmovies (Italy), 1966. Used ...
$16.99
An early western soundtrack from Italian maestro Bruno Nicolai – presented here for the first time ever, complete with a huge number of tracks from this obscure film! Much of the work is in a tense orchestra mode – peppered with western themes, but more conventionally dramatic overall ... read moreCD
A dark dark masterpiece from the legendary Bruno Nicolai – written for an equally dark thriller with a wonderful edge! The work here is on a par with that of Nicolai's frequent partner, Ennio Morricone – often using full orchestrations to score a deeper theme in the film – but ... read moreCD
A rare Bruno Nicolai score for the follow-up to the movie Quando Le Donne Avevano La Coda (aka When Women Had Tails) – and a soundtrack that also includes some melodic elements from the Ennio Morricone music for the first film! As with that one, the style here is pretty playful – maybe ... read moreCD
The contemporary soundtrack is alive and well in the hands of an artist like Oneohtrix Point Never – brought back to a new sense of intensity that it hadn't had since the early days of electronic pioneers like John Carpenter and David Lynch! Tracks are mostly spare, but striking – and, ... read moreCD
Riz Ortolani was a film score giant in the 60s, but he was still going strong well into the 80s, too – as you'll hear on his excellent soundtrack for this film! The story's a relatively serious one, and so is the music by Ortolani – very much in the mode of his most careful, most ... read moreCD
A pair of great soundtracks from Riz Ortolani – back to back on a single CD! Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire (aka A Reason To Live) is a western score, but one that's put together with a slightly different feel than usual – almost more straight dramatic at times, with ... read moreCD
Pan/Scan is a great name for a group like this – given that sound of this album is nicely cinematic overall, and takes us back to the days when larger format films had to be panned and scanned when they were shown on TV! There's a fair bit of electronics in the music – following on ... read moreCD
Frank Perkins/Troy Donahue/Modern Folk Quartet/Con —
Palm Springs Weekend ... CD Warner/Intrada, 1963. New Copy ...
$18.99
A 60s rock and roll soundtrack, but one that's also a cut above the usual mixed-bag bunch – thanks to a nicely cohesive set of charts from arranger Frank Perkins! About half the tracks here are by Frank – and they're nicely groovy instrumentals that have a jot of jerk and twist rhythms ... read moreCD
A double-header of material from Italian maestro Piero Piccioni – presented in a wonderfully rich, heavily-detailed style – the first time we've ever seen his music handled in the lavish Film Score Monthly manner! First up is the obscure soundtrack to Kenner – a late 60s Jim ... read moreCD
One of the darkest soundtracks we've ever heard from Piero Piccioni – written for this 1962 Bernardo Bertolucci film based on an especially dark story by Pasolini! Despite the darkness (or perhaps because of it!), Piccioni's at the height of his early powers here – mixing some gritty ... read moreCD
4 spaghetti western soundtracks on one CD – and all 4 by the great Piero Piccioni! Piero's one of our favorite soundtrack composers from the generation – and he handles the work here with a range of styles that keeps the music from sticking just to the straight "western" ... read moreCD
Sublime work from Piero Piccioni – a really Morricone-like soundtrack, and one that's filled with hauntingly beautiful melodies! There's a lightly gliding feel to the record that's really wonderful – light lines on organ, topped with wordless vocals from Edda Dell'Orso and I Cantori ... read moreCD
A trio of soundtracks from 60s films that starred Italian comedy giant Toto – each of them a bit different, given the change of narrative and composer! Piero Piccioni steps off with 15 tracks from Toto Diabolicus – music that mixes a bit of crime jazz with some of his early ... read moreCD
A great little soundtrack, with almost a Morricone-like vibe – done in a style that shares some of the maestro's talent for isolating a key instrument next to larger orchestrations – all done with a beautiful balance of space and sound that makes even some of the mellower moments sound ... read moreCD
Music from LA Law, Hill Street Blues, Hooperman, the Rockford Files, Sonny Spoon, the White Shadow, Hardcastle & McCormick, Studio 5B, Riptide & more. CD
Film noir to new wave, Italian film scores, cop movies, crime jazz, blacksploitation funk, spaghetti westerns, and more!
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