Casino Royale 1967 Soundtrack

Casino Royale (1967) Release date = 14th April 1967 Directed by = Kenneth Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Richard Talmadge Official Bond Music Other Bond Music Never Say Never Again Bond Music Related Bond Music Cover Versions. Lyrics to Casino Royale Theme (Main Title) by Herb Alpert from the Casino Royale 1967 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more!

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Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a very special new edition of Burt Bacharach’s timeless classic soundtrack for the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Casino Royale 1967 Soundtrack Song

The infectious main theme performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass is just the starting point of an epic comedy ride that includes such highlights as the unforgettable “The Look of Love,” sung by Dusty Springfield, or the epic fight music at the end of the film. Produced by record industry legend Phil Ramone, the original soundtrack LP offered selected highlights, expertly edited to showcase the best parts of the entire score. Thanks to the legendary sound quality of the stereo copies, this record became one of the most highly sought-after collectibles in the industry.

Previously released on CD by several labels, including us (twice, both now out of print), this edition is an important landmark for this legendary score, and we can proudly say that it now sounds better than ever. This new edition has been produced, restored and mastered by Chris Malone, rebuilding the score from the ground up. Malone’s work has focused on addressing unintended technical anomalies (such as filling dropouts and covering analogue splices) rather than broadly applying a modern sound palette. He has eschewed dynamic range compression and retained the brilliance of the original recording. Because the LP program derived from the original film recordings (with some edits made for a more pleasure listening), we have included it on our CD and added all the music composed by Bacharach that was not on the LP to make a 77-minute CD. The bonus tracks are in mono (music stems are still the only available source to date), but Chris has worked them in a very different mood from our previous edition, respecting the mono without adding any stereo reverb and carefully restoring each track in a very warm way. We can say the sound is day and night compared with our previous edition. Live and learn.

This release includes a bonus track making its CD debut: the promo-single version by Mike Redway, and arranged by Bacharach, of the song “Have No Fear, Bond Is Here.” The CD also showcases all-new, exclusive liner notes from film music writer Jeff Bond, and new art design by Nacho B. Govantes in a 20-page full-color booklet.

27th December 2010

Screen Archives Entertainment
In 1953, British author Ian Fleming created one of the most enduringcinematic characters with the publication of his first007 novel,Casino Royale. Thirteen years later, producer Charles K. Feldman(of What’s New Pussycat? fame) reimagined Fleming’sstory as a large-scale, star-studded spy spoof inspired by theBond mania that swept across the world in the 1960s. While notexactly delivering the kind of James Bond films audiences hadloved and come to expect, CasinoRoyale has became a cult classicin the ensuing decades, a colourful addendum to the history ofthe 007 legacy. With an all-star cast that included David Niven,Deborah Kerr, John Huston, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, cameosby Jean-Paul Belmondo and Peter O’Toole,and even featuring an authentic Bond girl, UrsulaAndress (fromDr. No), the rag-tag craziness on view was directed by severaldifferent directors – John Huston, Joseph McGrath, RobertParrish, with Val Guest overseeing the entire production. Aswould be expected, the end result was eclectic, sometimes veryfunny, and sometimes just plain weird.

One person who immensely helped tie the wholething together was the brilliant Burt Bacharach, who providedone of the mostpopular and universally applauded features of Casino Royale:its musical score. Hired on the strength of his music for What’sNew Pussycat?, the composer was expected to bring the same kindof cheek to Feldman’s latest picture, offering a colourfulkaleidoscope that went on to define the Swingin’ Sixtieswithout referencing the typical musical spy vernacular. In fact,Bacharach’s approach is much closer to the Henry Mancini/BlakeEdwards song scores such as The Pink Panther or The Party, whichmay explain the soundtrack’s extraordinary success on itsown. The score was nominated for a Grammy and “The Lookof Love” received an Oscar nomination. Bacharach had, ofcourse, had countless hits by the time of this film, and wouldgo on to have countless more (one of the only pop song composersto have hits in every decade since the 1950s), as well as providingthe soundtracks to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Arthur,and many other films.

This is the third CD release for Casino Royale (although bothreleases on Varese Sarabande were pretty much identical) – theoriginal LP has long been considered one of the great audiophilereleases, thanks to a nod in The Absolute Sound. But due to anunfortunate accident, just prior to the transfer of the mastertape, the tape was rewound too quickly and stripped of iron oxide,thereby compromising and damaging the tape. The transfer couldstill be made and the CD came out – but anyone expectingit to sound like the LP was disappointed, and for obvious reasons.For this release, we have spent much time in trying to alleviatesome of the effects of the tape damage – our masteringengineer, James Nelson, has painstakingly and lovingly repairednumerous dropouts and other anomalies and we’ve workedvery hard to get this to sound as good as it ever has or will,and the result is pretty amazing. We’ve also added threeshort bonus cues, available on CD for the first time, includingthe original end credits vocal. And, of course, we get the greatperformances of Dusty Springfield and Herb Alpert and The TijuanaBrass.

But one of the main reasons for doing this third CD releasewas to offer as a bonus a straight transfer of that originalrecord – done from several pristine copies of the LP – sothat the original sound, with no additional processing or EQ,is captured on CD for the very first time. We leave it for othersto judge whether that sound holds up for today’s listeners.Given what happened to the master tape, this is as close to thatoriginal LP sound as we’re ever going to get.

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PLEASE NOTE: This item has a planned release date of mid-January2011 and is only available for pre-order at this time via www.screenarchives.com

Casino Royale Full Soundtrack Album 1967 Stereo

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