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Neil Simon ~ The Odd Couple
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February 29, 2020
February 20, 2020
20,000 vinyl LPs 209: Candy soundtrack
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Viewfinder links:
Marlon Brando
The Byrds
Richard Burton
Walter Matthau
Ringo Starr
Steppenwolf
YouTube links:
Candy ~ complete soundtrack
Birth By Descent
Styrous® ~ Thursday, February 20, 2020
On the 20th of February in 1968 the film Candy
was released. The basic story line is: Candy Christian, an innocent
high school girl, who encounters numerous humorous sexual situations and
colorful
characters while attempting to find
meaning in life.
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
photo of album cover by Styrous®
The star of the film is Ewa Aulin who never did many more or memorable films but the backing cast is astounding! They include Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr in a non-singing role. It has cameo roles by Sugar Ray Robinson, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan, Marilù Tolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Umberto Orsini, and Enrico Maria Salerno.
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
As with many soundtrack albums I have, I never actually saw the film; I am only familiar with the music from the film.
Birth By Descent is a pretty cool cut; it starts out sounding very Spanish then goes into a very short but trippy instrumental segment, with trumpet by Don Ellis. then back to a Spanish feeling.
Birth By Descent is a pretty cool cut; it starts out sounding very Spanish then goes into a very short but trippy instrumental segment, with trumpet by Don Ellis. then back to a Spanish feeling.
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cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument starts very slow with a Spanish guitar then gets trippy with great effects
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
photo of album cover by Styrous®
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
cover design & photo by
Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
detail photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 - Child Of The Universe, Performer – The Byrds, Vocals [Vocal] – The Byrds, written by Dave Grusin, Roger McGuinn - 3:10
A2 - Birth By Descent - 3:21
A3 - Opening Night: By Surgery - 2:10
A4 - Spec-Rac-Tac-Para-Comm - 2:37
A5 - Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument, Trumpet [Uncredited] – Don Ellis - 2:47
A6 - Magic Carpet Ride, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay, Rushton Moreve - 4:25
Side 2:
B1 - Constant Journey - 2:11
B2 - Every Mother's Daughter - 2:04
B3 - It's Always Because Of This: A Deformity - 2:30
B4 - Marlon & His Sacred Bird - 3:05
B5 - Ascension To Virginity - 5:05
B6 - Rock Me, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay - 3:41
Companies, etc.
Record Company – ABC Records, Inc.
Published By – Pamco Music Inc.
Published By – Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc.
Published By – Ampco Music, Inc.
Engineered At – Goldwyn Studio
Lacquer Cut At – Bell Sound Studios
Mastered At – Longwear Plating
Credits:
Co-producer [In Cooperation With] – Peter DeAngelis*
Composed By, Conductor – Dave Grusin
Cover, Design [Liner Design] – Daniel Pezza, Henry Epstein
Engineer – Kevin Cleary
Music By – Dave Grusin
Performer – Steppenwolf, The Byrds
Producer – Dave Grusin
Notes:
Made in USA
Published by: Ampco Music, Inc. - ASCAP
Except A1: Published by Pamco Music, Inc. - BMI
and A6, B6: Published by Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc. - BMI
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): ABCS-OC-9-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): ABCS-OC-9-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): ABCS-OC 9A Bell Sound LW
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): ABCS-OC 9B Bell Sound LW
Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
The Byrds And Steppenwolf, Dave Grusin – Candy (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: ABC Records – ABCS-OC-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Soundtrack
Side 1:
A1 - Child Of The Universe, Performer – The Byrds, Vocals [Vocal] – The Byrds, written by Dave Grusin, Roger McGuinn - 3:10
A2 - Birth By Descent - 3:21
A3 - Opening Night: By Surgery - 2:10
A4 - Spec-Rac-Tac-Para-Comm - 2:37
A5 - Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument, Trumpet [Uncredited] – Don Ellis - 2:47
A6 - Magic Carpet Ride, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay, Rushton Moreve - 4:25
Side 2:
B1 - Constant Journey - 2:11
B2 - Every Mother's Daughter - 2:04
B3 - It's Always Because Of This: A Deformity - 2:30
B4 - Marlon & His Sacred Bird - 3:05
B5 - Ascension To Virginity - 5:05
B6 - Rock Me, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay - 3:41
Companies, etc.
Record Company – ABC Records, Inc.
Published By – Pamco Music Inc.
Published By – Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc.
Published By – Ampco Music, Inc.
Engineered At – Goldwyn Studio
Lacquer Cut At – Bell Sound Studios
Mastered At – Longwear Plating
Credits:
Co-producer [In Cooperation With] – Peter DeAngelis*
Composed By, Conductor – Dave Grusin
Cover, Design [Liner Design] – Daniel Pezza, Henry Epstein
Engineer – Kevin Cleary
Music By – Dave Grusin
Performer – Steppenwolf, The Byrds
Producer – Dave Grusin
Notes:
Made in USA
Published by: Ampco Music, Inc. - ASCAP
Except A1: Published by Pamco Music, Inc. - BMI
and A6, B6: Published by Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc. - BMI
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): ABCS-OC-9-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): ABCS-OC-9-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): ABCS-OC 9A Bell Sound LW
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): ABCS-OC 9B Bell Sound LW
Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
The Byrds And Steppenwolf, Dave Grusin – Candy (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: ABC Records – ABCS-OC-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Soundtrack
Viewfinder links:
Marlon Brando
The Byrds
Richard Burton
Walter Matthau
Ringo Starr
Steppenwolf
YouTube links:
Candy ~ complete soundtrack
Birth By Descent
Styrous® ~ Thursday, February 20, 2020
August 27, 2018
20,000 Vinyl LPs 146: The Odd Couple ~ Neil Simon
Neil Simon died yesterday. He was an American playwright, screenwriter
and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of
movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. Of all of them, my favorite was The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. In 1968 the play was adapted into a film. The roles of misfits Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison were brilliantly cast with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. What a fantastic team they made.
The score for the film was written by Neal Hefti who wrote scores for many other films and television shows.
Neil Simon was born on the fourth of July in 1927, in New York City. He began writing comedy scripts in the 50's for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were the Sid Caesar Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond) and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959 (link below).
He wrote his first play, Come Blow Your Horn, in 1961. It ran for 678 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
During 1966, Simon had four shows playing at Broadway theatres simultaneously: Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park.
For most of his career Simon's work has received mixed reviews, with many critics admiring his comedy skills, much of it a blend of "humor and pathos". Other critics were less complimentary, noting that much of his dramatic structure was weak and sometimes relied too heavily on gags and one-liners. As a result, notes Kopince, "literary scholars had generally ignored Simon's early work, regarding him as a commercially successful playwright rather than a serious dramatist. Clive Barnes, theater critic for The New York Times, wrote that like his British counterpart Noël Coward, Simon was "destined to spend most of his career underestimated", but nonetheless very "popular". He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.
Simon died on August 26, 2018, after being on life-support while hospitalized for renal failure. He also had Alzheimer's disease. He was 91. The cause of death was complications with pneumonia, according to his publicist, Bill Evans. Simon died around 1 a.m. Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
The score for the film was written by Neal Hefti who wrote scores for many other films and television shows.
Neil Simon was born on the fourth of July in 1927, in New York City. He began writing comedy scripts in the 50's for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were the Sid Caesar Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond) and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959 (link below).
He wrote his first play, Come Blow Your Horn, in 1961. It ran for 678 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
During 1966, Simon had four shows playing at Broadway theatres simultaneously: Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park.
For most of his career Simon's work has received mixed reviews, with many critics admiring his comedy skills, much of it a blend of "humor and pathos". Other critics were less complimentary, noting that much of his dramatic structure was weak and sometimes relied too heavily on gags and one-liners. As a result, notes Kopince, "literary scholars had generally ignored Simon's early work, regarding him as a commercially successful playwright rather than a serious dramatist. Clive Barnes, theater critic for The New York Times, wrote that like his British counterpart Noël Coward, Simon was "destined to spend most of his career underestimated", but nonetheless very "popular". He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.
Simon died on August 26, 2018, after being on life-support while hospitalized for renal failure. He also had Alzheimer's disease. He was 91. The cause of death was complications with pneumonia, according to his publicist, Bill Evans. Simon died around 1 a.m. Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
Net links:
Neil Simon ~
Theatre
Screenplays
Television
YouTube links:
The Odd Couple - movie trailer
Remembering Playwright Neil Simon
Johnny Carson ~ Neil Simon interview
Charlie Rose ~ Neil Simon interview on "Rewrites" (1996)
Neil Simon ~
Theatre
Screenplays
Television
Steyn At Sea ~
The Odd Couple - movie trailer
Remembering Playwright Neil Simon
Johnny Carson ~ Neil Simon interview
Charlie Rose ~ Neil Simon interview on "Rewrites" (1996)
The Odd Couple soundtrack
Credits:
Arranged By, Conductor, Composed By – Neal Hefti
Art Direction – Christopher Whorf
Engineer – Bob Doherty
Liner Notes – Howard W. Koch
Producer – Tom Mack
Neal Hefti – The Odd Couple (Music From The Original Motion Picture Score)Label: Dot Records – DLP 25862, Dot Records – DLP 25,862
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Indianapolis
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Non-Music, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Dialogue, Easy Listening, Lounge
Credits:
Arranged By, Conductor, Composed By – Neal Hefti
Art Direction – Christopher Whorf
Engineer – Bob Doherty
Liner Notes – Howard W. Koch
Producer – Tom Mack
Neal Hefti – The Odd Couple (Music From The Original Motion Picture Score)Label: Dot Records – DLP 25862, Dot Records – DLP 25,862
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Indianapolis
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Non-Music, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Dialogue, Easy Listening, Lounge
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