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Always love talking about Love but perhaps more lovers of Love might chime in if the thread title was a bit more specific?
One of the intriguing things about the series of his discs was how the cover art changed from accurate representation of the films to "disguised" or fanciful versions, after (or rather during!) Big Bond. I guess the Bond people must have told MFP that they did not have a licence to copy...
http://xylem.web44.net/Big_Bond/big_bond_movie_themes.html
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interesting spot, Nick.
If I recall rightly the War films and Terror themes had a montage of drawn famous images from the films eg: eg: The Bridge of the River Kwai from the poster and the shark from jaws, etc but the Suspense and Western themes were cheap stock pics (a black glove peeking out an open door and two blokes over a park dressed as cowboys?)
go on, as a project so everyone can see visually how the covers changed, let's have the LP cover pics from the full set then (someone with better computer skills than me!!).
Bit of a trip down memory lane.
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If I recall rightly the War films and Terror themes had a montage of drawn famous images from the films eg: eg: The Bridge of the River Kwai from the poster and the shark from jaws, etc but the Suspense and Western themes were cheap stock pics (a black glove peeking out an open door and two blokes over a park dressed as cowboys?)
I'd say the Westerns ones were OK. I think all the covers (exc the amended Bond) are here:
http://www.geofflove.biz/
The site is a bit scrappy and unfortunately the covers are in alpha order when chrono would have been more interesting. A lot of the early covers were cheesey, the later just tacky or crude.
Of course Love also produced some terrible discs (Mrs Mills anyone?) and fell prey to the deadly fashion of disco.
The one that surprises me is "Music at War" - I had no idea he had conducted the LPO at some point.
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Thanks Nick - I was wrong about the gloved hand coming out the door for suspense films - no sign of a glove on that hand!
strange how memory can play tricks on you.
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I think it was probably Geoff Love's film music albums that actually got a lot of people (at least in the UK) interested in film music in the first place.
I'm mystified as to why the majority have never been re-released on CD. They'd make a great box set.
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They would! BOND was my first; STAR WARS came soon after (great version of SPACE 1999 on there). Even though they were cover versions for the easy listening market ("The Morning After" rather than Williams' main title to THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE) I'd certainly buy a complete box of the film and TV albums.
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I'm not sure how many of the arrangements were actually done by Geoff Love though for any of these albums - I suspect he didn't do many.
Nick Ingman was certainly responsible for several of the later arrangements. I think Geoff in a lot of cases just came in and conducted.
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Will no one speak up for "Sing-a-long Wartime Favourites" by the Geoff Love Banjos? 
Guess not.
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His albums under the name MANDINGO got released on CD a few years back; these are pretty funky.
If you google mandingo the first result is, er, not Geoff Love (tho' a form of love may be involved...).
I'd either forgotten or never known that he'd recorded under that alias. I'm guessing we're talking "exotica" here...?
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If you google mandingo the first result is, er, not Geoff Love (tho' a form of love may be involved...).
I'd either forgotten or never known that he'd recorded under that alias. I'm guessing we're talking "exotica" here...?
Hah!
Yes, MANDINGO certainly has various other connotations, all of which I assume Geoff was never involved with
Exotica *could* be a word to describe this music - brass and loads of percussion and synths - much of which was written by various library music composers. It's certainly quite funky stuff.
I remember seeing these albums on vinyl when I was a kid; it's only in the Internet age that I finally discovered that MANDINGO (well, 'that' particular MANDINGO...) was one of Geoff's incarnations!
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Apr 6, 2009 - 10:01 AM
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I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster* Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
* in fact, Terror rather than Disaster
And a Suspense one, with Rififi, Frenzy and others.
I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
Wow! Never heard of that double LP?
Geoff Love was so much a part of my childhood, I had almost all the albums mentioned and even got to see Geoff conduct once, at the Filmharmonic 80 concert ( John Williams being the star attraction ), such great memories.
I never had the Star Wars "Disco" album, can you tell me what the track listing on that one is Chris?
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