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John Barry - On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1969) Expanded Remastered 2003

John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Nina - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Expanded Remastered Reissue 2003

EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 432 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 194 Mb | Scans included
Label: Capitol, EMI, MGM Music | # 72435-41419-2-8 | 01:19:47
Soundtrack, Score, Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Lounge

John Barry's best score for any James Bond movie – including the best song ("We Have All the Time in the World") ever written for any movie in the series – is reasonably well represented on this CD. Barry had already begun adding more diverse and complex orchestral pieces to his underscoring and greater lyricism to his songs with the preceding movie, You Only Live Twice, and he continued the process with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The serious nature of its plot, however, and the unique mood of the movie, dictated that almost an entirely new score be devised: the brassy "007 Theme," which had appeared in three prior films, was absent, and the "James Bond Theme" was re-arranged. Barry also wrote one of his longest and most easily embellished action themes (heavily featuring the synthesizer, an instrument new to film scores), and dressed it up with a string section playing running scales that is startling to hear in stereo, with the discreet separation of the orchestral parts. And then there was "We Have All the Time in the World," the best song ever written for the Bond series; a serious, poignant love song that underscores the doomed romance between Bond and Tracy (Diana Rigg), it was sung by Louis Armstrong in what proved to be the jazz legend's final recording session.
Buddy De Franco Quartet - Blues Bag (1965) & Louis Hayes Quintet - Louis Hayes (1960) [Reissue 1997]

Buddy De Franco Quartet - Blues Bag (1965) & Louis Hayes Quintet - Louis Hayes (1960) [Reissue 1997]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 377 MB | Covers - 18 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Vee Jay/Blue Moon (VJ-010)

In 1997, Blue Moon released Blues Bag/Louis Hayes, which contained two albums on one compact disc - Blues Bag, a 1965 disc originally released on Vee Jay by Buddy DeFranco), and Louis Hayes, a 1960 record also originally on Vee Jay) by Louis Hayes and his quintet.
Blues Bag (1965). For this unusual set clarinetist Buddy DeFranco is exclusively heard on bass clarinet while joined by drummer Art Blakey and an interesting group of players, some of who were with Blakey's Jazz Messengers at the time. DeFranco, Blakey, pianist Victor Feldman, and bassist Victor Sproles are featured as a quartet on four numbers while the other three songs add trombonist Curtis Fuller and either Lee Morgan or Freddie Hill on trumpet…
John Barry - Chaplin: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

John Barry - Chaplin: Music from Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 214 Mb | Artwork included | 00:49:33
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Epic Soundtrax | # EPC 472602 2

Even though it relies heavily on film scorer John Barry's by-now formulaic (if no less effective) methodology of fusing his distinctively luxuriant string arrangements with the music of whatever time or locale the score sets out to evoke (in this case, largely the Hollywood of the 1910s and '20s), the composer triumphed once again, garnering his second Academy Award nomination of the 1990s. Perhaps because of the years he spent dues-paying with English pop and jazz combos, Barry gets inside this period jazz and ragtime with both enthusiasm and, more importantly, taste, recalling similar effective efforts on Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club.
John Barry - Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1965) Expanded Remastered 2003

John Barry - Thunderball: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1965/2003)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 443 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 193 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: EMI, Capitol | # 72435-80589-2-5 | 01:19:04

If Goldfinger proved that the James Bond franchise was box office dynamite, 1965's Thunderball cemented the British super-spy's international appeal–and further forged a set of pop culture cliches that both inspired and endured even Mike Meyer's modern, multi-chaptered Austin Powers spoofing. While Goldfinger also marked composer John Barry stamping his enduring influence on the series' music, this fourth installment finds his big band and jazz-inspired arrangements pulsing with confidence, stripped down rhythmic tension and exotic elegance. Tom Jones follows up Shirley Bassey's previous larger-than-life title track performance with a worthy rival of his own, its dramatic, Barry-composed melody interpolated throughout the composer's masterful score.
John Barry - King Rat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1965) Reissue 1995

John Barry - King Rat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1965) Reissue 1995
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 168 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 91 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Legacy | # JK 57894 | 00:35:35

John Barry's musical sixth sense is legendary. Though he eschewed the wishes of director Sydney Pollack to score Out of Africa with indigenous tribal sounds (and garnered an Academy Award in the process), it wasn't from lack of musical range, as Barry had previously demonstrated so effectively on this score. The composer's work for the gritty World War II Japanese POW camp drama features a jaunty, if typically Barry-idiosyncratic, march and a string-dominated title theme unusual for the genre. The composer infuses his distinctively adventurous arranging skills with percussive elements that give the music a sense of place. It's a score that cuts against expectations and traditions in much the same way as Hans Zimmer's score for The Thin Red Line would 30 years later.
John Barry - The Quiller Memorandum: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1966) Reissue 2012

John Barry - The Quiller Memorandum: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1966) Reissue 2012
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Intrada | # ISC 201 | 00:35:12

Cool, classic John Barry soundtrack for superb Michael Anderson spy thriller starring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max Von Sydow, Senta Berger. Music first appears on LP from Columbia label in 1966. Inspired by fresh script from Harold Pinter, drawn from Adam Hall best seller, Barry avoids James Bond style of spy music, nods instead towards atmospheric West Germany locale, bleak theme of rising neo-Nazi movement. For the record, composer produces perfect album offering majority of his score in vivid stereo sound. Haunting main waltz-theme "Wednesday's Child" anchors, suspenseful cues play in contrast. Album also features Matt Monro in vocal version of theme. Intrada CD features album program in stereo from Columbia master tapes, courtesy Sony. For album fans, original artwork features on one side of booklet, all new artwork features on other side. Take your pick! John Barry conducts.
John Barry - Dances With Wolves: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1990) Expanded Edition 2004

John Barry - Dances With Wolves: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1990) Expanded Edition 2004
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 362 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Sony Music Soundtrax | # EPC 515132 2 | 01:15:46

Original soundtrack of the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film Dances with Wolves produced, directed, and starring Kevin Costner. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by John Barry. John Barry won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television".
John Barry - Hammett: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982) Limited Edition 2000

John Barry - Hammett: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982/2000)
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 262 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 140 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Jazz | Label: Prometheus | # PCR 506 | Time: 00:43:37

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Hammett is the fictional story about a time in real-life writer Dashiell Hammett's ("The Maltese Falcoln") life. Directed by Wim Wenders, the 1920's era noir mystery contained an equally noir score by veteran composer John Barry. Fresh off of Body Heat and Somewhere in Time, Barry had no problem writing the jazzy score, which contains an interesting combination of slinky jazz numbers and ethnic Chinese cues. Beginning with the "Main Titles", which is performed by a single piano and clarinet, Barry immediately draws the listener in to this dark seductive world. The theme is simple and elegant, yet has an underlying sensuality about it. That sensuality is never fully realized in full orchestral form - except for a small moment in "The Wrap Up / Finale" - but it's still a very enjoyable theme.
John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003

John Barry - Moonraker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979) Remastered Reissue 2003
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 174 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 82 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: EMI/Capitol | # 7243 5 41425 2 9 | 00:30:51

The release of re-mastered editions of the James Bond scores offered up some great albums that expanded the original soundtracks with extra cues ("Thunderball" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" are particularly superb). However, "Moonraker," one of the best scores of the series and one of the most lyrical and unusual (especially when you consider what a silly slapstick film it accompanies) arrived on CD in a bare-bones 30-minute edition that replicates the original LP version with no extra tracks.
John Barry, Dana Kaproff - The Golden Seal: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) Intrada, Limited Edition 2009

John Barry, Dana Kaproff - The Golden Seal: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983)
Intrada Special Collection – Volume 89, Limited Edition 2009
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 328 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 194 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Intrada | # ISC 089 | 01:02:15

Treat for John Barry fans! World premiere release of complete original soundtrack Barry scored with co-composer Dana Kaproff for Frank Zuniga adventure about family living in Aleutian islands, starring Steve Railsback, Michael Beck. Barry supplied several impressive cues, Kaproff worked with those themes plus created several ideas of his own. Results are coherent, beautiful, exciting music! Main theme is warm, other ideas range from pastorale to dramatic. Barry's "The Frolic" is outstanding sequence melding both warm theme for strings with dynamic, regal splendor for brass. Intrada newly masters entire CD from actual 1/2" 3-track stereo session masters vaulted at MGM in mint condition, includes all original LP contents plus several previously unreleased cues. Amongst new highlights is Barry's lengthy, dramatic "Broken Promise". CD also has original End Title song "Letting Go" by John Barry & Don Black, sung by Glen Campbell plus both LP version of Main Title (with water & bird effects), premiere of newly remixed version without effects. Complete breakdown of each composer's work plus informative notes by Jeff Bond complete generous package. John Barry supervises, Dana Kaproff conducts. Intrada Special Collection release limited to 2000 copies!