The Vintage Soundtracks Collection - Roy Budd

 

Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947 – 7 August 1993) was an English jazz pianist and composer primarily known for his film scores of the 1970's and 1980's.

Born in South Norwood, South London, Budd became interested in music at an early age and began to play the piano when he was two, initially by ear and then by copying various melodies he heard by listening to the radio. When he was six, two Austrian music experts visited him at home and after various tests, found that he had perfect pitch. In 1953, he made his public concert debut at the London Coliseum. By the age of eight, he could play the Wurlitzer organ and four years later he was appearing on television at the London Palladium.

He composed over 30 movie scores in his career and played jazz shows at Duke's Bar in Marylebone, London, partnering with harmonica player, Larry Adler. He also arranged for and accompanied Bob Hope, Tony Bennett, and Charles Aznavour.

These are four of his scores from the 1970's:

Get Carter (1971)

Fear Is the Key (1972)

Paper Tiger (1975)

Diamonds (1976)

Betty Grable – The Pin-Up Girl

 

Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer.

Her 42 films during the 1930's and 1940's grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942–1951) she placed among the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars (a feat only matched by Doris Day, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, although all were surpassed by Mary Pickford, with 13 years). The U.S. Treasury Department listed her as the highest-salaried American woman in 1946 and 1947, and she earned more than $3 million during her career.

Throughout her career, Grable was a celebrated sex symbol. Her bathing-suit poster made her the top pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. The photo was later included in the Life magazine project "100 Photographs That Changed the World". Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the ideal proportions of Grable's legs and thighs (18.5 in (47 cm)), calf (12 in (30 cm)) and ankle (7.5 in (19 cm)). Her legs were insured by her studio for $1 million as a publicity stunt. Describing her film career, Grable said: "I became a star for two reasons, and I'm standing on them."

1-1 Cowboy Number 2:04

1-2 Snake Dance 3:00

1-3 Let's K-nock K-nees 3:28

1-4 Music In My Heart 2:29

1-5 Boys Will Be Boys 3:16

1-6 What Goes On Here In My Heart 1:53

1-7 Down Argentine Way 2:38

1-8 Two Dreams Met 3:31

1-9 Hawaii-A 2:22

1-10 The Sheik Of Araby 2:39

1-11 You Started Something 2:10

1-12 Loveliness And Love 2:43

1-13 Kindergarten Conga 1:48

1-14 Hi Ya Love 1:46

1-15 Another Little Dream Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm 1:06

1-16 Are You Kidding? 1:37

1-17 I'm Still Crazy For You 2:08

1-18 I Heard The Birdies Sing 1:24

1-19 Sing Me A Song Of The Islands 2:17

1-20 Down On Ami Ami Oni Oni Island 3:54

1-21 O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian 2:05

1-22 Run Little Raindrop Run 2:40

1-23 Pan American Jubilee 2:40

1-24 Cuddle Up A Little Closer 2:15

1-25 Pretty Baby 2:57

1-26 Miss Lulu From Louisville 2:32

2-1 Take It From There 2:36

2-2 Beautiful Coney Island 1:17

2-3 There's Danger In A Dance 3:02

2-4 Waiting At The Church 2:15

2-5 My Heart Tells Me 3:04

2-6 Sweet Rosie O'Grady 2:01

2-7 Going To The County Fair 1:20

2-8 You're My Little Pin-Up Girl 2:41

2-9 Don't Carry Tales Out Of School 2:35

2-10 Once Too Often 5:22

2-11 Song Of The Very Merry Widow 3:23

2-12 Welcome To The Diamond Horseshoe 2:34

2-13 In Acapulco 3:13

2-14 Medley: Play Me An Old-Fashioned Melody / A Nickel's Worth Of Jive / Let Me Call You Sweetheart / You'll Never Know / Sleep, Baby, Sleep / Shoo Shoo Baby 6:34

2-15 I Wish I Knew 2:18

2-16 Cooking Up A Show / The More I See You 3:41

2-17 The Vamp 1:24

2-18 We Have Been Around / Carolina In The Morning 2:49

2-19 Powder, Lipstick And Rouge 2:54

2-20 I'm Always Chasing Rainbows 3:06

2-21 The Darktown Strutters' Ball 3:36

2-22 I Can't Begin To Tell You 1:38

Betty Grable – The Pin-Up Girl

Marilyn Monroe – The Great Marilyn Monroe

 

1 Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

2 Bye Bye Baby

3 Every Baby Needs A Da Da Daddy

4 Happy Birthday (For President Kennedy)

5 A Fine Romance

6 River Of No Return

7 I'm Gonna File My Claim

8 After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It

9 Heat Wave

10 You'd Be Surprised

11 I'm Through With Love

12 I Wanna Be Loved By You

13 My Heart Belongs To Daddy

14 When I Fall In Love

The Great Marilyn Monroe

Louis Levy & The Gaumont British Symphony – Music From The Movies

Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film music director and conductor who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films.

He started his career in 1910 arranging and performing music for silent films. In 1916, he became musical director for the New Gallery Cinema in London. In 1921, he became Music Chief at the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion and is credited with being the first to develop the theme song in movies, and one of the first musicians to tackle difficulties that were holding back the progress of sound recording in films.

At the beginning of talkies, he joined the Gaumont British studios at Shepherd’s Bush, where he was musical director for Gaumont's earliest sound picture, High Treason (1929). He became the head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards. The rich sounds emanating from his large orchestra are all the more impressive when one realises that electrical sound industry was barely ten years old. He worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films, directing the music for The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes.

Through the sheer necessity of having to produce so much music he established his own studios (The Levy Sound Studios at 73 New Bond Street) in the 1930s. He later had a long running BBC radio series Music From the Movies, which started in 1936 and lasted until the 1950s, and also toured the provincial theatres with his orchestra. The Music From the Movies March, reputedly composed by Levy, was the theme tune for the radio show, and opened all of the Gaumont newsreels of the time. He is also said to have composed the orchestral piece Maltese Entr’Acte.

 Tracklist:
1        Strike Up The Band
        It's Love Again    
2        It's Love Again/Tony's In Town
3        Got To Dance My Way To Heaven/Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Gingers
        Swing Time    
4        The Waltz In Spring Time/A Fine Romance
5        Never Gonna Dance/The Way You Look Tonight
        Broadway Melody Of 1938    
6        Your Broadway And My Broadway/I'm Feeling Like A Million
7        Everybody Sing/Yours And Mine
        Gangway    
8        Gangway/Lord And Lady Whoozls
9        When You Gotta Sing/Moon Or No Moon
        Pennies From Heaven    
10        So Do I/One, Two, Button Your Shoe
11        Pennies From Heaven/Let's Call A Heart A Heart
        Gone With The Wind    
12        Battle Hymn Of The Republic/My Old Kentucky Home/Marching Through   Georgia/Massa's In The Cold Cold Ground
13        Camptown Races/Old Folks At Home/When Johnny Comes Marching Home/Dixie
        Pinocchio    
14        Give A Little Whistle/Turn On The Old Music Box
15        Little Wooden Head/When You Wish Upon A Star
        Alexander's Ragtime Band    
16        Alexander's Ragtime Band/When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabama/Blue Skies/Everybody's Doing It
17        Easter Parade/Now It Can Be Told/Alexander's Ragtime Band
        Limelight    
18        Farewell Sweet Senorita/Whistling Waltz
19        Stay A While/Celebratin'
        Shall We Dance    
20        Shall We Dance/Let's Call The Whole Thing Off/They All Laughed
21        They Can't Take That Away From Me

22        Joy Of Living (What's Good About Goodnight/You Couldn't Be Cuter)
23        Music From The Movies March

 Louis Levy

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