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Mister Fantasy
Music To Read JAMES BOND By United Artists (UK) A compilation of hip, spy movie music by the likes of John Barry, Neil (sic) Hefti, Billy May, Al Caiola, Perez Prado, Riz Ortalani. Cool instrumentals for those wanting to get into James Bond’s shoes for the night. Songs to set the mood include: “The Coolest Pad”; “Love Goddess”; “Pin Up Girls”; “Johnny Cool”; “Goldfinger”; “Scene of the Crime”; etc., etc. Bachelor Pad meets How to Pick Up Girls with a literary premise. There are many, many of these spy-themed and James Bond inspired LPs from the sixties and seventies. There are even two volumes from United Artists with the same title released in the US that have a different track listing. This is a recent discovery and one of our favs!
James Bond Theme
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Spy vs. Spy
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. “Theme Song” b/w “The Vagabond” by the Gallants (l-r) Leo G. Carrol, Robert Vaughn (Napoleon Solo) and David McCallum (Illya Kuryakin) The series which ran on NBC stations from 1964 – 1968 included contributions from James Bond creator Ian Fleming, Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Sci-fi author Harlan Ellison. U.N.C.L.E. of course stands for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. U.N.C.L.E.’s archenemy was a vast organization known as THRUSH. The original series never explained what the acronym THRUSH stood for, but in several of the U.N.C.L.E. novels it was expanded as the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. THRUSH’s aim was to conquer the world. I learned about the cold war from watching TV like this. (I’ll post the equally awesome “Girl from U.N.C.L.E.” album soon)
Cat power
Here’s the soundtrack EP for Josephine Siao’s 1967 film The Golden Cat (飛賊金絲貓), another one of her sadly unavailable “Jane Bond” movies. (Pathe/EMI Records) (China) “Hear this at Soft Film and Explore the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.”
Goldfinger
Shirley Bassey sings “Goldfinger” from the quintessential James Bond film of the same name from 1964. Pictured is Sean Connery (the only real 007) with his trusty silencer. This EP is from Mexico.