Deep Blue Sea

I really like Bernard Herrmann's score for the film Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef. Unfortunately the film was really naff.

Anyway rather than share the entire soundtrack recording I've started and finished with two of the best themes from the score and included other tunes which I think reflect the bubbly underwater world. Here it is then with around an hour of great music.

Track list

01. Bernard Herrmann - [Deep Blue Sea #01] The Undersea
02. William Orbit - [Deep Blue Sea #02] Sea Green
03. Paul Ruskay - [Deep Blue Sea #03] Mission 7 - Garden of Kadesh
04. The Future Sound of London - [Deep Blue Sea #04] Spineless Jelly
05. Patrick O'Hearn - [Deep Blue Sea #05] Beneath the Celestial Sphere
06. Walt Rockman - [Deep Blue Sea #06] Nautilus 1
07. Joel Vandroogenbroeck & F. Voelxen - [Deep Blue Sea #07] Cascades
08. The Future Sound Of London - [Deep Blue Sea #08] High Tide On The Sea Of Flesh
09. Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - [Deep Blue Sea #09] Depth Charge
10. William Orbit - [Deep Blue Sea #10] Bubble Universe
11. Bersarin Quartett - [Deep Blue Sea #11] Geschichten Von Interesse
12. Walt Rockman - [Deep Blue Sea #12] Deep Sea Soundings 1
13. Trevor Rabin - [Deep Blue Sea #13] Deep Blue Sea
14. Bernard Herrmann - [Deep Blue Sea #14] The Undersea Forest


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Space Dance

If all aliens were like this we wouldn't mind being abducted and probed!

Groovy bongo music and Raquel in her prime dancing before the Mexico Olympics 1968 sculptures.

Get Smarter

This is a share I found on a forum. I'm excited about this new movie and this soundtrack recording should get us in the mood. I still get goosebumps from the original theme. Not my upload so no complaints eh.

Tracklist:

1. Smart Dreams
2. Get Smart Theme
3. Cake Factory
4. Theme (Look One) featuring Get Smart Theme
5. Max Denied
6. Max Takes A Bow
7. Dropping Like Flies
8. Theme (Look Two) featuring Get Smart Theme
9. Agent 23
10. Max Ejects featuring Get Smart Theme
11. Skydiving featuring Get Smart Theme
12. Laser Hallway
13. Entering Moscow
14. Rooftop Fight
15. Max Calls 99
16. Theme (Look Three) featuring Get Smart Theme
17. The Big Chase featuring Get Smart Theme
18. Wish We Had More Time
19. Smart Exit featuring Get Smart Theme
20. Theme (Look Four) featuring Get Smart Theme


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She hid it where!

Ursula Martinez Hanky Panky NSFW


If you haven't seen this yet this is one great clip. Comedy, magic and stripping combined all to the strains of Mancini's Shot in the Dark and who would believe she's forty plus? Don't watch it if you're easily offended though.

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Its nice to get recognition like this especially as I don't always get as much feedback as I would like.


Here's the link to my page. Its very nicely set out and they've got thousands of other blogs to check out.

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Beyond the Reef

I was looking for some sea related tunes when I realised I had a lot of versions of that moody exotica classic Beyond the Reef. Martin Denny in particular seemed to love the song and did quite a few versions. I've included four of his versions although one sounds like a different song to the original.

Anyway I thought I'd share the versions I have although no doubt there's lots of others.

01. Arthur Lyman - [Beyond the Reef #01] Beyond the Reef
02. Billy Vaughn - [Beyond the Reef #02] Beyond the Reef
03. Chick Floyd - [Beyond the Reef #03] Beyond the Reef
04. Felix Slatkin - [Beyond the Reef #04] Beyond the Reef
05. Frankie Carle - [Beyond the Reef #05] Beyond the Reef
06. George Cates - [Beyond the Reef #06] Beyond the Reef
07. Hal Aloma - [Beyond the Reef #07] Beyond the Reef
08. Henry Mancini - [Beyond the Reef #08] Beyond the Reef
09. Jerry Byrd - [Beyond the Reef #09] Beyond the Reef
10. Kalua Beach Boys - [Beyond the Reef #10] Beyond the Reef
11. Leo Addeo - [Beyond the Reef #11] Beyond the Reef
12. Les Adams & His Fabulous Hawaiians - [Beyond the Reef #12] Beyond the Reef
13. Los Indios Tabajaras - [Beyond the Reef #13] Beyond the Reef
14. Martin Denny - [Beyond the Reef #14] Beyond the Reef'a go go
15. Martin Denny - [Beyond the Reef #15] Beyond the Reef (version)
16. Martin Denny - [Beyond the Reef #16] Beyond the Reef live
17. Martin Denny - [Beyond the Reef #17] Beyond the Reef
18. Marty Robbins - [Beyond the Reef #18] Beyond the Reef
19. Morgan, Tommy and The Warren Barker Orchestra - [Beyond the Reef #19] Beyond the Reef
20. Muzzy Marcellino - [Beyond the Reef #20] Beyond the Reef
21. Paul Page - [Beyond the Reef #21] Beyond the Reef
22. Peter Posa - [Beyond the Reef #22] Beyond the Reef
23. Ray Conniff - [Beyond the Reef #23] Beyond the Reef
24. Rudi Wairata and his Mena Moeria Minstrels - [Beyond the Reef #24] Beyond the Reef
25. The Big Sound - [Beyond the Reef #25] Beyond the Reef
26. The Blue Comets - [Beyond the Reef #26] Beyond the Reef
27. The Hillbilly Soul Surfers - [Beyond the Reef #27] Beyond the Reef
28. The Out-Islanders - [Beyond the Reef #28] Beyond the Reef
29. The Outriggers - [Beyond the Reef #29] Beyond the Reef
30. The Polynesians - [Beyond the Reef #30] Beyond the Reef
31. The Surfmen - [Beyond the Reef #31] Beyond the Reef
32. Tommy Garrett & 50 Guitars - [Beyond the Reef #32] Beyond the Reef

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Futurama remix

Alison wanted a combination of the Futurama theme with J J Perrey's EVA and Pierre Henry's Psych Rock which all sound eerily similar.

I knocked together something, it starts with the Futurama opening theme segues into Psych Rock then a remix of the Futurama theme and finally EVA.

Here it is.

Dave, you're my wife now

Futurama

Well Psych Rock was of course the sixties inspiration for the Futurama theme. Litlgrey gets a cigar for picking that up. Here's the Futurama theme with all those funny opening comments. By the way the two new Futurama films Benders Big Score and The Beast With a Billion Backs are worth seeking out.

Pierre Henry Psych Rock

Can you guess what TV show theme was inspired by this track?

Riding Giants

Watch one minute of this and you're hooked. I had to find a downloadable version when I saw a few minutes of this. It's basically a history of surfing and in particular the chase for the biggest wave.

It all ends up with the biggest wave ever ridden by man using a special board and backup jet skis.

Incredible footage a terrific story, the best surf film I've ever seen and the whole thing is watchable online. Its made my recent purchase of a 42 inch LCD TV worth the money I paid already.

Martin Denny The Versatile

Here's the cover thanks to Paul Troon.

Here's a request Mr Denny's album The Versatile Martin Denny circa 1966 or thereabouts. Mr Denny shows his cocktail piano skills on this disc but there are a couple of nice exotica tracks including a reworking of Quiet Village. No cover for this so instead one of my fave pics of Mr Denny from a couple of years ago.

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Hawaiian Eye

Another nice share courtesy of Paul Troon. Lets enjoy Cricket and the gang from a great 60s show.

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Record Covers Battle

You must see this! A hilarious and very well done battle with some well known record covers. As usual Ozzie out bites everybody.

Airport is landing

Another nice share from Paul Troon. One of the great Alfred Newman's scores.

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Requests and Comments

I thought I would open up a page dedicated to requests and comments. I will check this regularly (in fact I get emails advising me of any comments) so don't be afraid to post here.

Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon

We're on a roll folks. Another stellar offering from Paul Troon. I only had some separate tracks from this so I'm downloading this one myself.

Although the single 'Song of the Second Moon' is from 1957 this lp was released in 1967 in Europe. Dick Raaijmakers who worked as an engineer at the Philips NatLab couldn't use his real name, because he was a Philips employee, so he used the reverse of his nickname natlaB diK: Kid Baltan.

He and Tom Dissevelt really were electronic pioneers, they did everything with tone generators and tapes, no keyboards were used.

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Bob Thompson On the Rocks

One of the great LP covers of lounge music here's On the Rocks.

Bob Thompson (1924-) has been called "an overlooked genius of American pop music." He is most famous for the Space Age Bachelor Pad records he created in the late 1950s. These one-of-a-kind discs feature a singular sound that evokes cocktail glasses, swingin' guys and gals, and all-night mischief. You might imagine "Austin Powers" or Hugh Hefner putting Bob Thompson records on their hi-fis. The albums include radically rehipped standards and daring originals—spiced up with purring girls, mad percussion, or propulsive Atomic Age sound effects. The hot legs, cocktails, and rocket ships make the Living Stereo LP covers stand out.

Sorry folks Mr Thompson's management has requested I remove this share.

Actually this album doesn't seem to be readily available only some music and not the actual album through itunes. I can't really see why Mr Thompson's management should object but he owns the copyright (I presume) so I suppose he has the right to restrict access as he sees fit. I should have thought the more people that access this music the better.

If you really can't find a copy please email me .

Straight to the moon Alice!

Here's a very nice treat supplied by Trustar of Trustar Vibrations one of my favourite sites. Who would have thought that Ralph Kramden was such a romantic shmoozer? This looks like another Ryden cover too.

This Amazon review sums it up better than I can:

Jackie Gleason was one of the entertainment world's renaissance men. He was an accomplished comedian, actor, arranger, and composer. His music will forever serve as his living legacy. His works set the standard for many of the great musicians who followed, including Mantovani, Mauriat, and others. This CD eloquently captures the soft, sultry, and seductive sounds from an era that was Jackie's alone.

Jackie could not read a note of music, yet he composed and arranged some the of finest music ever recorded in America. He was a gifted artist who could blend the sounds from a crystal-clear coronet, with a simmering sax, soaring strings, and a deep, resonant bass to create an ambiance for romance, reflection, and rapture. From his signature work "Melancholy Serenade" to contemporary classics like "Ruby" and "Misty," the music flows like vintage wine...

Track list in comments.

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Martin Denny Hawaii Tattoo

Kindly supplied by Paul and is his own rip. Any albums by the master are always welcome.

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Richard Burmer

Here's another sampling of goodies freely available from the old mp3.com. One area of treasures were groups of artists who shared their work including soundtrack/ambient and space music. I discovered some great artists there including Craig Padilla, Ian Boddy, Tom Aragon, Tony Gerber and perhaps the best of all Richard Burmer.

I was going to do a best of Richard's work but I couldn't really choose as I think there's something worthwhile in all his work. Here then is all of Richard's work he generously made available as free downloads on mp3.com and his web site. Unfortunately Richard passed away prematurely in 2006 a sad loss indeed.

His work is eclectic but to my mind goes way beyond what you would think of as New Age. More like soundtracks for the movie of your mind. Standout tracks include A Book on the Crossroads (which I present here as a separate track) and Kingfisher's Day but they're all great.

"Burmer's music has a timeless quality...it grabs and spins you into one of his journeys, and even when it's over, the memories linger like a vapor trail." - Jazziz Magazine

Track list in comments

Richard Burmer site

Single track A Book on the Crossroads

Here's the album nearly two and a half hours of magical music. Download both parts to extract.

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Sunset on Mars

This just in. If you look carefully you can see a mysterious silver spacecraft and a human visage (not!). Its like the Gobi Desert but much colder and without the fun desert vegetation and creatures and stuff.

The reason I'm so cynical about this is that I eagerly await new photos from Mars and I end up disappointed every time. Even the ones in colour look black and white. Inhospitable doesn't really sum it up.

Or are we missing something?

Is Life on Mars boring?

There's a new Mars lander vehicle called Phoenix which is transmitting pictures from Mars. In common with all other pictures from Mars the Martian landscape is shown as a black and white featureless plain less interesting than the Gobi Desert. The only pictures even remotely interesting are the ones showing some part of the lander like a foot or antenna. Does man really think he'll be able to make a viable environment from this dried up mess of gravel and rocks?

Of course the UFO freaks think they can see spacecraft and human faces in the featureless vistas but they are probably caused by grit on the lens or transmission artifacts. Or is NASA holding back on us? It reminds me of a cartoon where the lander is looking out over the usual boring vista and behind the lander unseen is a whole Martian civilization looking like a 1930s Flash Gordon cover.

Anyhow I thought why not do a Mars inspired compilation but taking inspiration from the traditional view of the red planet. It turned out pretty good if I say so myself. Some reasons to download this are music by Tritonus, Tangerine Dream (really!) , Artie Kane's version of Mars Attacks and lots of others.

Track listing

01. Unknown - [Life on Mars #01] Mars Craters
02. Ferde Grofe (1950) - [Life on Mars #02] Approaching Mars
03. Peter Thomas - [Life on Mars #03] Mars Close Up
04. Vincent Lopez - [Life on Mars #04] Mars goes latin
05. The Special Agents - [Life on Mars #05] Our Man on Mars
06. Sam Paglia - [Life on Mars #06] Good news from Mars
07. Hoodoo Gurus - [Life on Mars #07] Mars Needs Guitars!
08. The Hawaiian Astro Boys - [Life on Mars #08] Sunset on mars boulevard
09. Yann Tiersen - [Life on Mars #09] Life on Mars
10. Jean Jacques Perrey - [Life on Mars #10] Mars Reflector
11. Frankie Camaro - [Life on Mars #11] Mars Patrol
12. Buck Trail - [Life on Mars #12] Knocked Out Joint On Mars
13. Synergy - [Life on Mars #13] phobos and diemos go to mars
14. Mercury Four - [Life on Mars #14] No Response From Mars
15. Tangerine Dream - [Life on Mars #15] Mars Mission Counter
16. Vampires - [Life on Mars #16] Mars Attacks
17. London Symphony Orchestra - [Life on Mars #17] Live On Mars
18. King Crimson - [Life on Mars #18] Mars
19. Big Ray & The Futuras - [Life on Mars #19] Life on Mars
20. Artie Kane - [Life on Mars #20] Mars Attacks
21. Peter Thomas - [Life on Mars #21] Mars Menuet
22. messer fur frau muller - [Life on Mars #22] Acorns from Mars for Pigs from Earth
23. The Raymen - [Life on Mars #23] Man From Mars
24. Sci Fi's Greatest Hits - [Life on Mars #24] Mars Attacks
25. Planet Creep - [Life on Mars #25] Mars Mothership
26. Tritonus - [Life on Mars #26] Mars Detection
27. Ferrante and Teicher - [Life on Mars #27] Man from Mars
28. Church, The - [Life on Mars #28] Field Of Mars
29. Jerry Goldsmith - [Life on Mars #29] A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mars
30. Unknown - [Life on Mars #30] Mars Attack
31. Astronauts Germany - [Life on Mars #31] Rocket to Mars
32. Perrey-Kingsley - [Life on Mars #32] The Little Man from Mars
33. New Composers & Pete Namlook - [Life on Mars #33] Life on Mars
34. Des De Moor & Russell Churney - [Life on Mars #34] Life on Mars

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