This is a fun album! It not only boasts that great album cover with the director's clapboard and all the titles listed, but the sound is fantastic - Rene Touzet mixes the musical style of Les Baxter with Peter Nero to get a uniquely Touzet sound.
Rene Touzet was a Cuban bandleader and pianist so these covers of popular movie themes of the early 1960s definitely have a Latin rhythm to them. Can you imagine "Small World" in the style of Perez Prado's "Patricia"? That's what it does sound like. "Maria" is delightfully Spanish-sounding, "Exodus" becomes danceable, and "Moon River" was turned into a bossa nova - neato! Best of all - "Till There Was You" was transformed into a cha-cha!
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Track Listing
Side One:
Theme from The Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm
Tender is the Night
Small World
Maria (West Side Story)
Baby Elephant Walk (Hatari)
Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffanys)
Follow Me (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Side Two:
El Cid
My Romance (Jumbo)
Never on Sunday
Till There was You (The Music Man)
Tonight (West Side Story)
Invitation
Side Two:
El Cid
My Romance (Jumbo)
Never on Sunday
Till There was You (The Music Man)
Tonight (West Side Story)
Invitation
Exodus
Top Picks: Brothers Grimm Theme, Small World, My Romance, Till There Was You, Exodus
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