I found this album for 99 cents at my local vinyl store, and was surprised when I got home and discovered that it's been re-released on CD. So I'll only offer three songs from it and let you go buy the CD if you like the ones I'm posting.
The album would have a real appeal to fans of library or production music of the era. The 77 Sunset Strip theme song is complete with the cheesy wordless "do dooo do dooo" vocals so popular of this era--such a useful effect for lazy songwriters. "Caper at the Coffee House" has the 60s spy music mood complete with lots of finger snapping (that TV hipsters used to do instead of applause, to show their approval, dontcha know). And the "77 Sunset Cha Cha" reflects the early 1960s penchant for making any damn thing, probably even the Star Spangled Banner, into a cha cha number.
Of course when you buy the CD they probably don't include the back cover info, so here it is, as if you could actually read anything off of the lousy photo I took.
I'll even show you the swell liner depicting the Warner Brothers lot circa 1960.
The show featured three hunks of the 1960s television era--Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, Roger Smith, and Efram Zimbalist jr. (who amazingly kept his real name....at least I think it was his real name.) Hunky when you compare to the competition at the time--such as Ozzie Nelson, Ed Sullivan, and Red Skelton.
Highlights from the 77 Sunset Strip Soundtrack:
77 Sunset Strip Theme
Caper at the Coffee House
77 Sunset Strip Cha Cha
6 comments:
Hi baikinange
I can post the entire album here if you desire ...let me know :)
I thought most of it was pretty forgettable, so I only included the cuts I liked. Feel free to provide a link to the complete album if you want to--I just thought that since it's still available on CD that if someone liked it enough, they could go buy it. But thanks for the offer! What else do you have that you'd be winning to share with the group?
I have pretty diverse taste not sure exactly what your after,do you just want weird or raer, I know one thing I dont have ...vintage calypso music :)
Such a cute little blog.
And such cute little readers I have!
Phil, if you're willing to share stuff, please drop me a note at baikinange at hotmail dot com, we just loves us some diverse.
LOL....too bad Warner Bros. was releasing IMO such one dimensional theatrical cartoons vis a vis their TV shows and records..thanks for posting.
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