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 01. "The Batman theme" 02. "Lotta trouble" 03. "Creepy crawlers" 04. "Super chase" 05. "Harry danger" 06. "Bad check" 07. "Good guy" 08. "Irving evil" 09. "Mean and nasty" 10. "Lawyer fraud" 11. "Green hornet theme" 12. "Tijuana harlem" 13. "The good, the bad, and the ugly"
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 | | Description: | From time to time we find a bunch of groovy music in the office that doesnâ??t quite fit in with all the usual ideas of a release schedule. It isnâ??t funk, soul or jazz, but itâ??s certainly valid. It may have been recorded for an easy listening album for a labelâ??s budget arm, it may have been aimed at getting placed on TV, it may be just a passing fancy of a chief arranger or A&R chief â?? who was allowed to indulge himself as a pay-off for discovering the latest money earner for the label. - 2006 reissue of this very rare Maxwell Davis recording from 1966, which was released in the wake of the Batman craze of that year, when the famous pop art TV series was at the peak of it's popularity. This release gathers the 10 tracks from that album plus three related recordings by Maxwell Davis from the period: Green Hornet Theme, Tijuana Harlem and the Good the Bad And the Ugly. BGP. 2006.Tracks 1 - 10 were released on US Crown LP CST 509
and UK Ember LP FA 200
Inner sleeve note:
'Welcome to the BGP Sound Library.
From time to time we find a bunch of groovy music in the office that doesn?t quite fit in with all the usual ideas of a release schedule. It isn?t funk, soul or jazz, but it?s certainly valid. It may have been recorded for an easy listening album for a label?s budget arm, it may have been aimed at getting placed on TV, it may be just a passing fancy of a chief arranger or A&R chief ? who was allowed to indulge himself as a pay-off for discovering the latest money earner for the label.
Much of this sounds like a lost music library of the sort that publishers put together so that TV producers and advertisers could have a cheap source of music to utilise. Our first release in what will be an irregular series, ?BATMAN AND OTHER THEMES? recorded by legendary Los Angeles producer Maxwell Davis in 1966, may well have been recorded for just that purpose.
1966 saw an upsurge of interest in Batman as the ABC TV network started broadcasting, in primetime, a brand new series of the adventures of Batman and Robin. Within months it was an international success story, and its Neil Hefti theme tune and pop art-influenced look became virtually unavoidable. The Who covered the theme song on their ?Ready Steady Who? EP while in Los Angeles Maxwell Davis recorded it for the Crown label. Alongside a cover of the Batman Theme, the LP contained a bunch of pounding go-go instrumentals ? all punchy brass and exciting organs ? given titles that sounded as if they could have underscored specific scenes in the TV series. The LP was also released in the UK on Ember Records in the middle of 1966. The album cover features Maxwell Davis?s name so small that it is very easy to miss it. This was quite clearly a TV cash-in LP.
For the CD release, we found in the Modern vaults three bonus tracks to add to the project, all very much in the spirit of the Bat-songs. Green Hornet Theme and Tijuana Harlem are from an LP | | | No. of tracks: |
13 |
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CDBGPM 173 |
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