SERIAL THRILLER

From the French "Kosinus Production Music Library" comes this great little homage to the crime music of the sixties. Featuring ten standard length tracks plus the usual collection of variations found on these collections. It's a great listen and is a very welcome addition to the lounge. Many thanks to Isbum for thinking of us when he found it!

MARC DURST : SERIAL THRILLER
KOSINUS (K MUSIC) PRODUCTION LIBRARY
KOS 32
STEREO
1996

ANOTHER HARRY IN YOUR POCKET!

Thanks to Isbum for this (and to his buddy for sharing it with him) dialogue free bootleg of a Lalo Schifrin score featured elsewhere in the Crime Lounge archives. With a slightly different track selection, including the vocal version of the Main Title, this is a nice companion piece to the other bootleg posted HERE.

LALO SCHIFRIN : HARRY IN YOUR POCKET!

BOOTLEG SCORE

1973

SPIES AND DOLLS

I would first of all just wish to thank NLGBBBBTH from the excellent SPIRAL blog for kindly allowing me to share his rip of this amazing LP here at the lounge. I've been looking for this album for a long time and it's great to finally have a copy featured here. We have a few other albums by the incredible John Gregory (aka Chaquito) in the archives here and also a number of his arrangements feature throughout the Crime Jazz series we produce. So sit back and enjoy the big big sound of the action-packed Chaquito Big Band!

THE CHAQUITO BIG BAND : SPIES AND DOLLS

PHILIPS

6308 111

STEREO

1972

MOVIE HITS

One of the greats now with Enoch Light casting his finely tuned musical style over the world of Film music. Not many people do it better than Mr. Light so sit back and enjoy the sounds!

ENOCH LIGHT & THE LIGHT BRIGADE : MOVIE HITS

PROJECT 3 RECORDS

PR 5063SD

STEREO

1972

GOLDEN HOUR PRESENTS : SCREEN MUSIC BEST HITS

Another choice slice of Stapleton now with the PYE "Golden Hour" release. A couple of tracks are replicated from the previous post but this collection also includes some great Easy Listening versions of classic Film themes including The Sting (as pictured), the ever popular Never On A Sunday, Le Casse (The Burglar) and my personal pick of the bunch, the theme from Borsalino (listen to it on the Crime Files jukebox) Thanks again to Isbum for ripping the LP.

CYRIL STAPLETON & HIS ORCHESTRA : GOLDEN HOUR PRESENTS SCREEN MUSIC BEST HITS
PYE RECORDS
GH-23-Y
STEREO

GREAT FILM AND TELEVISION THEMES

Anyone who has delved into my "Crime Jazz Collection" will know that I am a fan of Cyril Stapleton and his big bombastic orchestra. Although the LP cover (featuring the sixties icon "Twiggy") would suggest a collection of twenties flavoured compositions, it in fact contains some supreme arrangements of classic themes. Cyril lends his considerable skill to the likes of, Diamonds Are Forever, The French Connection and the always popular Persuaders theme. There are also some choice selections from other genre's covered too!

This great album was released in the "QS" quadraphonic sound! unfortunately we only have the two channels featured here :)

CYRIL STAPLETON & HIS ORCHESTRA : GREAT FILM AND TELEVISION THEMES

PYE (QUAD SOUND)

QPS-5002-Y

STEREO

LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC PLAYS 007 CLASSICS

Here we have the Las Vegas International Philharmonic performing their own versions of the Bond themes. For the most part these are pretty faithful arrangements but still manage to be quite unique compared to other versions. Not exactly in the same league as John Barry or Roland Shaw but very listenable none the less!
Cover scans included.

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC PLAYS 007 CLASSICS
KOCH RECORDS
KOC-CD-8648
2003