Vinyl buying

Some Vinyl

 

Bought some vinyl at the London Film Fair.

 

I am a sucker for those odd Japanese 7-inch releases of film tie-ins that quite often don’t make sense. For example, in the James Bond section is the Nancy Sinatra single of ‘You Only Live Twice’ – a favourite song – with Sean Connery Bond emblazoned prominently on the cover. And the b-side is… ‘Jackson’, her duet with Lee Hazelwood? It's true that I am more an admirer of Bond Music than the films themselves (although 2006's 'Casino Royale' is the pinnacle for me) and I am a fan of the Sinatra/Hazelwood output, so it's all good.

 

 

 

And how about singles of the themes to coming-of-age classics ‘A Swedish Love Story’ of ‘Forbidden Games’? The latter especially gives 'The Third Man' competition in its jangliness.

 

 

 

And to ‘Melody’, which I have written about here. To repeat: I’m not a Bee Gees fan but can’t deny this song gets to me, where the orchestration swells and threatens to overwhelm with its longing; although it’s the Nina Simone live version that devastates. Must be one of the greatest songs of unrequited love ever written in an endless list. And it comes with a mini lyric sheet? When did we ever get that with our 7-inches?

 

 

 

And also Fumio Hayasaka’s score for ‘Seven Samurai’. This is the sound directly transferred from the film and put on vinyl (rather than taken from recordings), so plenty of dialogue clips. Reminds of when I used to record scores from VHS onto tape. The music ranges from percussive to choral to wind instruments.