SPY NOTES, PART TWO

By Scott Bettencourt

In Part One, we covered spy movies and their scores up through 1959. But it was in the nineteen sixties that the genre became a pop culture juggernaut, on both the big and small screens.

But first, an addition:

FROM: "Ken Longworth"

The theme from Highly Dangerous (4:00) is on a 1997 recording, Music of Richard Addinsell (Royal Ballet Sinfonia, cond. Kenneth Alwyn), on the ASV label.

It also has the Prologue from Sea Devils (3:16), a 1953 film set in the Napoleonic era, with Rock Hudson and Yvonne De Carlo, the latter, if my boyhood memories serve me correctly, playing a French spy. Despite the Hollywood stars and director Raoul Walsh, it was made in Britain, thus explaining Addinsell's presence.

A CIRCLE OF DECEPTION - Clifton Parker

ARMORED COMMAND - Bert Grund

"THE AVENGERS"
John Dankworth's original theme for the series is featured on the Mercury CD Mission Impossible and Other TV Themes. Laurie Johnson's later, more famous theme was featured on the Varese CD The Avengers, along with music from the episodes "THE JOKER" AND "PANDORA."

THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR - Alfred Newman

DR. NO - Monty Norman
Song CD on EMI, to be rereleased Feb 11, 2003

THE MIND BENDERS - Georges Auric

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - John Barry
Score CD on EMI, to be rereleased Feb. 11, 2003

THE PRIZE - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on FSM

CARRY ON SPYING - Eric Rogers

GOLDFINGER - John Barry
Expanded score CD due from EMI on Feb. 25, 2003

HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE - Muir Mathieson

"THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E."
Music from the following episodes available on the imminent 2-disc CD from FSM:

THE ALEXANDER THE GREATER AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE ARABIAN AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE CHERRY BLOSSOM AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE DEADLY GAMES AFFAIR - Jerry Goldsmith
THE DIPPY BLONDE AFFAIR - Robert Drasnin
THE DISCOTHEQUE AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE DOUBLE AFFAIR - Morton Stevens
THE FIDDLESTICKS AFFAIR - Lalo Schifrin
THE FOXES AND HOUNDS AFFAIR - Robert Drasnin
THE HER MASTER'S VOICE AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE "J" FOR JUDAS AFFAIR - Richard Shores
THE KING OF KNAVES AFFAIR - Jerry Goldsmith
THE MONKS OF ST. THOMAS AFFAIR - Gerald Fried
THE POP ART AFFAIR - Robert Drasnin
THE PROJECT STRIGAS AFFAIR - Walter Scharf
THE RE-COLLECTORS AFFAIR - Robert Drasnin
THE SUMMIT-FIVE AFFAIR - Richard Shores
THE TIGERS ARE COMING AFFAIR - Robert Drasnin
THE VULCAN AFFAIR - Jerry Goldsmith

"SECRET AGENT" - Edwin Astley
Score CD on Collectables, paired with The Saint

36 HOURS - Dimitri Tiomkin
Expanded score CD on FSM

THE DIRTY GAME - Robert Mellin, Giampiero Reverberi
Score LP on Laurie, unreleased on CD

"GET SMART" - Irving Szathmary
Theme available on the TVT compilation TV's Greatest Hits

"I SPY" - Earle Hagen
Score CD on FSM, featuring music from the following episodes:

MAINLY ON THE PLAINS
SO LONG PATRICK HENRY
THE TIME OF THE KNIFE
TURKISH DELIGHT
THE WARLORD

THE IPCRESS FILE - John Barry
Score CD on Silva

THE LIQUIDATOR - Lalo Schifrin
Score LP on MGM, unreleased on CD, featuring the theme song by Shirley Bassey!

MASQUERADE - Philip Green

MIRAGE - Quincy Jones
Score LP on Mercury, unreleased on CD; 2:32 released on the Hip-O CD The Reel Quincy Jones

MORITURI - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on FSM, paired with David Shire's Raid on Entebbe

OPERATION C.I.A. - Paul Dunlap

OPERATION CROSSBOW - Ron Goodwin
2:34 available on the British EMI CD Battle of Britain and Other Films

OUR MAN FLINT - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on Varese Sarabande, paired with In Like Flint

THE SATAN BUG - Jerry Goldsmith

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD - Sol Kaplan
Score LP on RCA, unreleased on CD

THUNDERBALL - John Barry
Expanded score CD on EMI due Feb. 25, 2003

WHERE THE SPIES ARE - Mario Nascimbene
4:47 available on the DRG CD A Mario Nascimbene Anthology

AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. - Gene Kauer, Douglas M. Lackey

ARABESQUE - Henry Mancini
Score CD released in Spain on RCA

BLINDFOLD - Lalo Schifrin

CITY OF FEAR - Johnny Douglas

DEADLIER THAN THE MALE - Malcolm Lockyer

THE DEADLY AFFAIR - Quincy Jones
Score CD on Verve, paired with The Pawnbroker

FUNERAL IN BERLIN - Konrad Elfers
Score CD released in Spain on RCA

"THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E."
This spinoff series featured a jazzy Dave Grusin arrangement of Jerry Goldsmith's theme from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; MGM released an LP of music from the series, unavailable on CD; FSM is planning a CD of music from the series, paired with more music from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT - Frank DeVol

THE LAST OF THE SECRET AGENTS? - Pete King
Score LP on Dot, unreleased on CD

A MAN COULD GET KILLED - Bert Kaempfert
Score released in Germany from Bear Family, on the CD Bert Kaempfert Filmmusik

"THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS" - Frank Cordell, Gerald Fried, Nelson Riddle

MATCHLESS - Ennio Morricone

"MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" - Lalo Schifrin
The GNP Crescendo CD The Best of Mission: Impossible, Then and Now features music from the following episodes:

THE CONTENDER
THE KILLER
SUBMARINE
TAKEOVER
UNDERGROUND

MODESTY BLAISE - John Dankworth
Score CD on Harkit

MURDERERS' ROW - Lalo Schifrin
Score LP on Colgems, unreleased on CD

THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM - John Barry
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

SECRET AGENT SUPER DRAGON - Benedetto Ghiglia

THE SILENCERS - Elmer Bernstein
Score LP on RCA, unreleased on CD

SPY IN YOUR EYE - Riz Ortolani

THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE - Riz Ortolani

TORN CURTAIN - John Addison
Score CD on Varese Sarabande; Varese also released a Joel McNeely conducted rerecording of Bernard Herrmann's rejected score for the film

AGENTE SPECIALE L.K. - Bruno Nicolai
Score CD released on Dagored

THE AMBUSHERS - Hugo Montenegro

BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN - Richard Rodney Bennett
Score LP on United Artists; 2:37 released on the Sony CD Themes by Hollywood's Great Composers

"CALLAN" - Jack Trombey

CASINO ROYALE - Burt Bacharach
Score CD on Varese Sarabande

COME SPY WITH ME - Bob Bowers

THE DOUBLE MAN - Ernie Freeman

FATHOM - John Dankworth
Score CD due on Harkit

IN LIKE FLINT - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on Varese Sarabande, paired with Our Man Flint

KISS KISS BANG BANG - Bruno Nicolai
Score CD on SLC in Japan

A MAN CALLED DAGGER - Steve Allen, Ronald Stein
Score LP on MGM, unreleased on CD

THE MILLION EYES OF SU-MURU - John Scott

THE NAKED RUNNER - Harry Sukman

OPERATION KID BROTHER - Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai

THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST - Lalo Schifrin

"THE PRISONER"
Music from the series, including the main theme by Ron Grainer and episode scores by Albert Elms and others, has been rereleased on three new CDs from Silva

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - John Barry
Expanded score CD due from EMI on Feb 25, 2003

ASSIGNMENT K - Basil Kirchin

A DANDY IN ASPIC - Quincy Jones

DANGER ROUTE - John Mayer

HAMMERHEAD - David Whitaker
Score LP on Colgems, unreleased on CD

ICE STATION ZEBRA - Michel Legrand
Score CD on PEG

"IT TAKES A THIEF" - Dave Grusin
Theme available on the Mercury CD Mission: Impossible and Other TV Themes

SEBASTIAN - Jerry Goldsmith
Score LP on Dot, unreleaesd on CD

THE CHAIRMAN - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on Silva, paired with Ransom [aka The Terrorists]

HOUSE OF CARDS - Francis Lai

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE - John Barry
Expanded score CD due from EMI on Feb 11, 2003

OTLEY - Stanley Myers
Score LP on Colgems, unreleased on CD

SOME GIRLS DO - Charles Blackwell

"THE SPY KILLER" - Philip Martell, Johnny Perarson

SUBTERFUGE - Cyril Ornadel

TOPAZ - Maurice Jarre
2:34 rerecorded for the Silva CD A History of Hitchcock: Dial M For Murder

WHERE EAGLES DARE - Ron Goodwin
Score CD on Chapter III

THE WRECKING CREW - Hugo Montenegro

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