Francis Lai's score for the Peter Sellers comedy, THE BOBO, was unfortunately never part of FSM's Warner Bros. 1960s LPs reissues on CD, but now it's available digitally at Amazon:
Just a few days ago my copy (CD) arrived from Quartet Records.
I loved the music.
The first three tracks (The Blue Matador, Olimpia's Theme, Imagine) are so light hearted, easy going, full of melody that it was pure fun to listen too. Besides an excellent production with very good sound.
Especially "Olimpia's Theme" (both versions including the Bossa Nova Version) is astonishing. Lai had almost the same talent like the great Henry Mancini in writing these "catchy themes".
Total Disc Time: 30:35 minutes.
As a huge fan of the sixties and seventies this was a treat.
I still have hopes of a CD release of Francis Lai's, Hello-Goodbye (1970). The (Fox) album is now with UMG (that's if they have the tapes), & Quartet is the favourite to release it. Oh well, it'll even happen or it won't.
