Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs

Subscribe to feed

Soundtracks

You are currently browsing the archive for the Soundtracks category.

Polo anyone?

scan0018

Ennio Morricone “Vamos A Matar, Companeros”  (Italy)   Inspiration for “Maggot Brain”?

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (24 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Secret Asian man

7m39

Bond, Mat Bond!  Music from a 1967 movie spoof from Singapore  (“Casino Royale” came out the same year in the U.S.)

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (20 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Serial life

IMG_5086

The Official Adventures of Flash Gordon Starring Buster Crabbe  (Astonishing tales on the Planet Mongo!) Leo Records  Not to be confused with Flesh Gordon the X-rated, 1974 remake.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (28 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Basketball Jones

IMG_5090

IMG_5089

Some of you may remember the Saturday morning animated cartoon series The Harlem Globetrotters as I surely do.  (1970-1972 on CBS)  Hanna-Barbera meets Meadowlark Lemon and “Curley” Reese and the high-flyin’, high-fivin’, slam-dunkin’est squad ever to cross 125th street!  And don’t forget their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot.  Josie and the Pussycats, Hanna-Barbera’s other 1970 series, premiered 30 minutes earlier on the same day and network. 

This soundtrack album, The Globetrotters, was produced by Jeff Barry and released in 1970 by Kirshner Records.  It includes tunes heard in episodes of the series (during the basketball game sequences). Don Kirschener served as music supervisor for both the series and the record. Globetrotter frontman Meadowlark Lemon was the only member of the team to be actually involved with the project, adding occasional background vocals to some tracks.  Among those actors also providing voices for the series are Scatman Crothers, Stu gilliam and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson.

Check out the cartoon series here!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (26 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

“Hurrah for Santy Claus”

scan0084

“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” Kapp Records Mexico  From the 1964 Film.   With music by Milton DeLugg.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (19 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Today’s sports page headline?

IMG_4492

The Tiger Tamer Monitor Records (1958) The Georgian Radio Symphony Orchestra

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (25 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

It’s a Revolution Mother

IMG_4431

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “It’s A Revolution Mother”  “Recorded on the scene where the action is”  An Entertainment Systems, Inc. Release  Here’s an odd but nonetheless fascinating time capsule of late- Sixties social unrest filtered through the mind of Florida-based sexploitation producer-director HARRY KERWIN. Yup, the man who made Strange Rampage, My Third Wife George, and Girls Come Too.  But lacking the funds to make something along the lines of an Easy Rider or a Wild in the Streets, Kerwin blissfully dispensed with both fiction and actors and, instead, went out and filmed The Real Thing. Combining (rough, raw) authentic footage of bikers, peace protestors, and the crowd at a rock festival, he created the mondoesque It’s a Revolution Mother! a self-described “Documentary of Love” tied together with an exuberant (and often hilarious) anti-government-anti establishment-anti-Vietnam-war-pro-rebel lion rant delivered by an uncredited narrator who sounds like an AM disk jockey on speed. THE ALIENS are a biker gang who let Kerwin photograph them on the highway, inside their squalid headquarters, at a weekend beach party, and a clubhouse. “They candidly discuss their lifestyle (“I’d say Jesus died so we could ride’”); order drugs (“An ounce of speed and 200 trips’”); bitch about hassles with the cops, the courts, and their landlord; and explain the difference between “mamas and old ladies.” One of’ em even pisses in a beer can for us. “Don’t let it snap your mind. You’ve got to groove with the biker crowd to know where it’s really at’” – Something Weird

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (25 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Cycle-delic Sounds

IMG_3595

The Arrows Featuring Davie Allan  Tower Records  Includes “Devil’s Angels Theme” and “The Born Loser’s Theme” two biker movie classics from the Arrow’s surf-psych guitars.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (36 votes, average: 4.28 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Star dreck

scan0012

The Green Slime (from the 1968 MGM Motion Picture)

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (58 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Rebel rebel

james-dean-45

james-dean-45-back1

Tribute to James Dean on Philips   He only made three movies!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (20 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...