VA - Come Spy With Us - The Secret Agent Songbook OST (2014)

Soundtrack

Superb Ace Records 25-track set of espionage-themed classics by John Barry, The Walker Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Lalo Schifrin, Nancy Sinatra, The Ventures, Matt Monro, The Supremes and others!

Product details

Audio CD (31 Mar 2014)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Ace
ASIN: B00IC5IJNK

http://acerecords.co.uk/come-spy-with-us
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Track Listings
1. A Man Alone - John Barry And His Orchestra
2. Deadlier Than The Male - The Walker Brothers
3. Arabesque - The Ventures
4. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
5. Danger Man - Red Price And His Combo
6. The Silencers - Vikki Carr
7. Secret Agent Man - Al Caiola
8. Who Needs Forever - Astrud Gilberto
9. Theme From The Man From U.N.C.L.E - The Challengers
10. The Last Of The Secret Agents - Nancy Sinatra
11. Mission: Impossible - Lalo Schifrin And His Orchestra
12. Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine - The Supremes
13. Our Man Flint - Billy Strange
14. Wednesday's Child - Matt Monro
15. Get Smart - Don Adams
16. We Should've - Cleo Laine & Ray Ellington
17. The James Bond Theme - Johnny And The Hurricanes
18. Burke's Law Theme - Wynton Kelly
19. Where The Bullets Fly - Susan Maughan
20. High Wire - Brian Fahey And His Orchestra
21. Bye Bye (Theme From Peter Gunn) - Sarah Vaughan
22. Theme From Where The Spies Are - Jimmy Smith
23. The Liquidator - Shirley Bassey
24. I Spy - Roland Shaw And His Orchestra
25. Come Spy With Me - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles

Info
These days the cinema is full of rubbish action movies where things blow up improbably and frequently and unfunny romantic comedies that are forgotten as soon as the credits roll. The telly’s not much better, full of “celebrities” whose only real celebrity is that they are famous for … well, you tell us. But it wasn’t always like that.

Once you could take your seat in the one-and-nines and see intelligently plotted thrillers in which a suave hero strove to keep the world safe without blowing half of it up. Or you could switch on the box and watch the exploits of an equally worthy hero for 60 gripping minutes in a series that established many fictitious espionage experts as true celebrities.

“Come Spy With Us” salutes the period in question by bringing together songs and themes from the televisual and cinematic worlds of espionage, paying homage to some of the best – and, we admit, one or two of the worst – TV shows and films of the genre’s golden era. Bulldog Drummond, Boysie Oakes, Harry Palmer, Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, Matt Helm, Modesty Blaise, John Drake, Maxwell Smart, Amos Burke, Derek Flint and, of course, James Bond are among those whose adventures lit up our lives during the 60s and beyond, usually to a soundtrack that remains as memorable as those adventures. Purchase of this compact disc will allow you to relive, if not their adventures, then certainly their theme tunes – many of which have taken on lives of their own outside of the films and TV shows for which they were commissioned.

The 25 individual episodes in our musical mission run the gamut of popular music, from Motown icons (Miracles, Supremes), jazz instrumental maestros (Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Smith), vocal stylists (Cleo Laine, Sarah Vaughan) and twangy guitar kings (Challengers, Al Caiola, Billy Strange) to emperors of honk (Red Price, Johnny Paris and the Hurricanes), 60s pop goddesses (Nancy, Dusty, Maughan and Bassey) and ace orchestrators (John Barry, Roland Shaw, Brian Fahey).

You don’t have to be a member of any secret organisation in order to “Come Spy With Us”. Your license to thrill to the 25 selections you will encounter on this mission – should you choose to accept it – will never be revoked. And we absolutely guarantee this CD will NOT self-destruct within 10 seconds of your playing it.

By Tony Rounce