1960's & 1970's Songs From Films Released on 7" vinyl

[Joe Fraguela]

I have been meaning to start this thread for ages.



I have a large collection of 45s from the 1960's and early part of the 1970's some of which include songs featured in films and film title songs. Here's a few samples and I hope to upload more over the coming weeks.







The above is the 1969 Pye Demo single release by the Max Harris Orchestra of the film title to the 1968 film Baby Love starring Linda Hayden, Keith Barron, Ann Lynn and Diana Dors







The above is the 1970 Warner Brothers Demo single release by the Johnny Harris Orchestra of the film title to the 1970 film Fragment of Fear starring David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Daniel Massey, Flora Robson & Arthur Lowe.







The above is Heinz's first solo single release 'Dreams Do Come True' on the Decca label in 1963 from the film Farewell Performance which aside from featuring Heinz & The Tornados starred Delphi Lawrence, Frederick Jaeger, Alfred Burke & David Kernan







The above is the film title song by The Niteshades on the CBS label to the 1965 film Be My Guest which starred David Hemmings, Andrea Monet, Steve Marriott, Joyce Blair, Avril Angers, David Healy, Pamela Ann Davy & Ivor Salter. Aside from The Nite Shades also featured was Jerry Lee Lewis, Nashville Teens, The Plebs, Kenny & The Wranglers.







The above is the 1969 film title release by the very good American harmony group Association on the Warner Brothers label entitled Goodbye Colombus. The film starred Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman







The above is a 1968 release on the Parlophone label by Cliff Bennett of the film title track from the 1967 film House of a 1000 Dolls which starred Vincent Price, Martha Hyer, George Nader, Maria Rohm and Ann Smryner.







The above is a 1969 Decca Demo release by The Dudley Moore Trio entitled Keep it Up. The B-Side track is called Gently. Both tracks were from the 1968 film Inadmissible Evidence which starred Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan, Jill Bennett, Peter Sallis and Eileen Atkins.







The above is the 1962 film title song Some People sung by Valerie Mountain on the Pye label. The film starred Kenneth More, Angela Douglas, David Hemmings, Ray Brooks, Harry H Corbett & Anneke Wills. Angela Douglas's voice is dubbed by Valerie Mountain.

[vincenzo]

name='Joe Fraguela']The above is the 1969 film title release by the very good American harmony group Association on the Warner Brothers label entitled Goodbye Colombus. The film starred Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw and Jack Klugman.

The album is also well worth getting. Released on UK WB the same year. Charles Fox provides the incidental music.

[darrenburnfan]

The label of this forty-seven years old single has been scanned in a flat bed scanner, which doesn't give good results as far as scanning record labels are concerned, so I have increased the contrast on the resultant image so that the shiny silver lettering shows up better. I intend to buy myself a digital camera later this year.



The song on this record, released in April, 1963, was not featured in the film Sammy Going South, but was written to promote the film. The lyrics were set to one of the peices of music from the film, "Cocky's Theme", composed by Tristram Cary. The then twelve years old Fergus McClelland, who starred as Sammy in the film, sings the song on the record. The single didn't chart and the regular pressing must be pretty rare by now and this demo copy, which is in excellent condition, even rarer.



Originally, it had been arranged for Decca to release this single in time for the film's Royal Film Performance premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, on Monday, March 18th, 1963, so that it would be on sale in the foyer. But the release of the record was subsequently held back until April 1963, so that put paid to that.

[darrenburnfan]

Black lettering on a white background works better as far as flat bed scanning of record labels is concerned. Here is another rare single from 1968 that got nowhere chart-wise.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above 3 tunes were taken from the 1967 film Stranger In The House starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, Bobby Darin, Moira Lister, Paul Bertoya, Megs Jenkins, Ian Ogilvy, Pippa Steel, James Hayter and Lisa Daniely.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single by The Peddlers 'Tell The World We're Not In' was from the 1970 film Goodbye Gemini which starred Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Alexis Kanner, Michael Redgrave, Peter Jeffrey, Mike Pratt, Freddie Jones, Terry Scully and Marian Diamond.



Also included with The Peddlers 7" inch single release came the above flyer advertising the release of Goodbye Gemini.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above A-side single by The Johnny Spence was the theme title song to the 1968 film The Limbo Line which starred Craig Stevens, Kate O'Mara, Vladek Sheybal, Moira Redmond, Norman Bird, Robert Urquhart, Jean Marsh, Eugene Deckers, Yolande Turner and Ferdy Mayne.



The B-side was a tune by Bob Britton entitled 'Here I Go Again' which also featured in the film.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above Mike D'Abo single was released in 1970 and both tracks were featured in the 1970 film There's a Girl in my Soup which starred Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Tony Britton, Judy Campbell, Gabrielle Drake, John Comer, Nicola Pagett & Thorley Walters.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single by Matt Monro was released in 1966 and was the theme title song to the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum which starred George Segal, Alec Guinness, Senta Berger, Max von Sydow, George Sanders, Robert Flemyng, Peter Carsten, Robert helpmann, Philip Madoc and Gunter Meisner

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single Do the Clam was taken from Elvis Presley's 1965 film Girl Happy which aside from Elvis also starred Shelley Fabares, Harold J Stone, Mary Ann Mobley, Jackie Coogan and Gary Crosby.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single 'I Will Wait For Love' recorded by the powerful voiced Vikki Carr was the opening song to the 1969 film A Nice Girl Like Me which starred Barbara Ferris, Harry Andrews, Gladys Cooper, Joyce Carey, James Villiers, Fabia Drake, William Hinnant and Christopher Guinee.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single by Lee Vanderbilt was recorded in 1968 and was the theme title track to the film Some Girls Do which starred Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar, Robert Morley, James Villiers, Sydne Rome, Adrienne Posta, Vanessa Howard, Ronnie Stevens and Maurice Denham.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single by Traffic released in 1967 was the theme title song to the 1967 film Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush which starred Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Adrienne Posta, Angela Scoular, Denholm Elliott, Vanessa Howard, Christopher Timothy, Maxine Audley, Michael Bates, Moyra Fraser, Diane Keen and Nicky Henson. Although Traffic did not feature in the film the Spencer Davis Group did.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single was released on the Verve record label in 1966 by Astrud Gilberto who sings the song Who Needs Forever which was from the 1966 film The Deadly Affair which starred James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximillian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Haigh, Robert Flemyng, Max Adrian, Roy Kinnear, Lynn & Corin Redgrave and Gunter Meisner.

[darrenburnfan]

I notice the definition of your images isn't very sharp, Joe. Could this be because ordinary digital cameras are not very good at taking close-up shots of something the size of a record label or did you perhaps not hold your camera steady enough?

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single which was released by Susan Maughan in 1966 was the theme title song to the 1966 film Where The Bullets Fly which starred Tom Adams, Dawn Addams, Michael Ripper, Maurice Browning, Tim Barrett, Heidi Erich, Suzan Farmer, John Arnatt and Ronald Leigh Hunt. It also featured guest star roles for Sidney James and Wilfrid Brambell.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single by Peter & Gordon was released in 1967 and was the film title song to the 1967 film The Jokers which starred Oliver Reed, Michael Crawford, Harry Andrews, Gabriella Licudi, James Donald, Daniel Massey, Edward Fox, Ingrid Brett and Michael Hordern.

[Joe Fraguela]

The above single released in 1966 by Jimmy Smith was the theme title tune to the 1965 film Where The Spies Are which starred David Niven, Francoise Dorleac, Ronald Radd, Nigel Davenport, Paul Stassino, Cyril Cusack, Noel Harrison and Eric Pohlmann.

[Joe Fraguela]

name='darrenburnfan']I notice the definition of your images isn't very sharp, Joe. Could this be because ordinary digital cameras are not very good at taking close-up shots of something the size of a record label or did you perhaps not hold your camera steady enough?

I don't have a digital camera so I use my mobile phone camera. My hand was a bit shaky so my apologies if the images aren't as sharp as others.

[darrenburnfan]

Oh, I see, Joe, thanks. For a moment, I was put off buying a digital camera. But I will have to make further enquiries to see if they're any good for such close up work.