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Post by jk on Jan 28, 2021 5:47:51 GMT -5
Friendships can take you into areas you would never dream of embracing otherwise. My blogger friend opened up for me an entire new world of music used to accompany "adult" (in almost all cases sexually explicit) movies, most of them hailing from ltaly in the late '60s and the '70s. There is this misconception that all such films are sleazy and so their OSTs must be sleazy as well (think David Rose's "The Stripper"). Not so -- many such soundtracks are a feast for the ear and I shall be posting excerpts from them over the coming weeks. As films go, it's not a genre I have ever felt drawn to. (My one concession, if you like, was the mildly erotic Barbarella years ago.) The music and my friend's reviews and musings (see my signature) really are enough for me. If anyone wants to discover more about the films, Wikipedia is your friend (much of the time). The gorgeous track that prompted this topic comes from the 1969 film Femina Ridens (The Laughing Woman). "Mary's Theme" is outstanding but * the entire OST* is worth investigating. Its composer is Stelvio Cipriani, a name you will doubtless come across again in this thread: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelvio_Cipriani |
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Post by pendlewitch on Jan 28, 2021 16:12:41 GMT -5
jk, I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! 
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Post by jk on Jan 28, 2021 17:39:08 GMT -5
jk , I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! And here's me thinking you were unshockable, pw.  Anyway, this thread is about the music, the whole music and nothing but the music. Okay?  |
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Post by Al S on Jan 28, 2021 17:55:28 GMT -5
jk, I look forward to the links, but you’ll have to give us some tips on how to search for this material without (again) alerting household or workplace authorities - I’m cautious about typing “Italian Adult Movie soundtrack” into a search engine, it took me years to clear my name last time.
Great link, some Bacharach influence, and quite soothing to listen to!
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Post by jk on Jan 28, 2021 18:29:21 GMT -5
jk, I look forward to the links, but you’ll have to give us some tips on how to search for this material without (again) alerting household or workplace authorities - I’m cautious about typing “Italian Adult Movie soundtrack” into a search engine, it took me years to clear my name last time. Great link, some Bacharach influence, and quite soothing to listen to! Hi Alan. Glad you like it. Sorry to hear this has got you into trouble in the past! I'd say leave the music aspect up to me -- that's why I'm here. I'll link what I can, including the entire OST if there is one (as I did in the first post, between asterisks), so really there's no need for you or anybody else to risk their job and/or relationship by having to google questionable strings. |
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Post by jk on Jan 30, 2021 13:57:59 GMT -5
If "Mary's Theme" was my blogger friend's all-time favourite movie track for a while, another Stelvio Cipriani composition, "Antla" from 1972's To Kill in Silence (original Italian title: Uccidere in Silenzio), was soon to eclipse it: It is indeed a gorgeous track, but once again, * the entire OST* is worth investigating ("Antla" is #22 in the playlist).  |
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Post by jk on Feb 1, 2021 5:43:31 GMT -5
Barbarella (1968) is my one viewing concession to the genre. Actually, I have no idea when I saw it and with whom. I do remember it was a most engaging film full of wry humour. Indeed, Jane Fonda is, to my knowledge, the only actress (or actor) in an erotic movie known to the public at large. The OST, composed by Bob Crewe and Charles Fox (seen in the video in that order), has been arranged into this colourful suite. Conducted by Fox, it is performed by the Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra (songs by Bob Crewe and The Glitterhouse). Crewe will be a familiar name to Four Seasons fans, as he wrote most of their classics, many with FS member Bob Gaudio (see the wiki). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crewe
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Post by jk on Feb 8, 2021 8:51:05 GMT -5
Eek! I've been depriving you of your daily dose of smut. Seriously though, Check to the Queen ( Scacco Alla Regina, 1969) has some gorgeous background music penned by Piero Piccioni. The stunning "Capriccio", the opening track in this suite, is just one of the tunes to feature a wordless soprano: |
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Post by jk on Feb 11, 2021 15:30:00 GMT -5
First off, my signature no longer includes the blog in question (a question of current priorities) but you'll get there soon enough if you google "the carbon freeze" "eclectic essays & art". Ennio Morricone is virtually a household name these days largely thanks to his work with the film director Sergio Leone. A lesser known earlier score from his pen is that for La Voglia Matta ( Crazy Desire, 1962). This is the gorgeous "Sole e sogni", although * the entire OST* is worthy of your attention (Morricone like Cipriani and Piccioni scarcely if ever puts a foot wrong): |
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Post by jk on Feb 16, 2021 15:10:17 GMT -5
From La Matriarca ( The Libertine,* 1968) this is [or rather was, before it was taken down] "L'Amore Dice Ciao" (literally, love says hello), sung by Andee Silver, a very vague name from my past (my spies tell me the video image is of Catherine Spaak, who played the lead in the film): Born Andrea Hilary Silverstein (London, 1951), Andee Silver recorded a song when only 13 called "Too Young To Go Steady" (1964), which I must have heard at the time (I heard everything in those days). The soundtrack album of La Matriarca, composed, arranged and conducted by Armando Trovajoli, has much to recommend it, although it doesn't seem to include the version of "L'Amore Dice Ciao" with lyrics. Life is full of little mysteries... * My friend prefers the literal translation The Matriarch, as it makes more sense in the context of the film. |
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Post by jk on Feb 19, 2021 6:24:53 GMT -5
I get the impression from the plot that there's nothing overtly erotic about La Parmigiana ( The Girl from Parma, 1963). Still, it's an early example of a film (shot in black and white) starring a teenage Catherine Spaak, my friend's favourite actress (see the previous post). This is a 15-minute suite drawn from its soundtrack, one of literally hundreds penned by the prolific Piero Piccioni: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Piccioni |
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Post by jk on Feb 21, 2021 5:58:44 GMT -5
Here's one I bumped into by sheer chance. The film Sesso Matto (1973), with music by Armando Trovajoli, definitely fits the bill! This is the instrumental title theme -- you can find the entire OST * here*: |
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Post by jk on Feb 23, 2021 10:35:26 GMT -5
I see that Syd Dale (1924–1994), the composer of this moody guitar-driven theme tune to the supernatural erotic thriller Venus in Furs (1969), played a modest part in my TV-watching life when I lived in the UK. Some of the shows mentioned on his wiki page (and often their theme tunes) are familiar to me from my youth. This instrumental is the only available music from the movie soundtrack (other composers mentioned at IMDb are Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann, Stu Phillips and Keith Mansfield):
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Post by jk on Feb 25, 2021 7:35:02 GMT -5
I remember a colleague in the music business enthusing about a romantic erotic movie he'd just seen called Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger, 1968). In fact he almost had to excuse himself from our company he was enthusing so much. Interestingly, the film's soundtrack was written by Georges Auric, a former member of the famous French group of composers Les Six: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Auric |
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Post by jk on Mar 2, 2021 8:14:46 GMT -5
The Opening of Misty Beethoven must be one of the most bizarre film titles ever. I remember being amused by it in the '70s after seeing the name somewhere. My spies tell me the film, which dates from 1976, is pretty raunchy stuff! Like its predecessor in this thread, it was produced by Radley Metzger, who also wrote the script (as Jake Barnes) and directed it (as Henry Paris). The * OST* may well suit the film but it's nothing special music-wise, except for "The Fuzz", a guitar-driven instrumental by Duncan Lamont that packs quite a punch:
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Post by jk on Mar 5, 2021 7:05:18 GMT -5
We're nearing the end of our journey in the blue bus (driver, where you taking us?). In fact we are now true to the topic title and out of the blue. "Arrivederci", as sung by Don Marino Barreto Jr., can be heard issuing from a jukebox playing in a bar in the Italian movie Sweet Deceptions ( I dolci inganni) as the heroine, Francesca (played by Catherine Spaak, my blogger friend's current favourite actress), enters and listens as she mulls over a romantic situation she has got herself into ( here). Made in 1960 in black and white, the movie is much more about sexuality than about sex. And, of course, these days there's the nostalgia component -- it's close enough to relate to in some ways (as in "the Sixties") but so far away in others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marino_Barreto_Jr. |
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Post by jk on Mar 6, 2021 17:10:04 GMT -5
Let's end this topic with a lively song ("Cantata") written by Stelvio Cipriani for the soundtrack of the movie we started with, Femina Ridens. You can leap around to it if you like. And feel free to sing along:
"A man like you is not for me
A man so bad
I don't want more to waste my time always with you
"And if you think to have me like a slave
You are wrong, my crazy man
Maybe you feel to be the first one for me
You don't know how many, how many men I had, mind yourself! [twice]
"You think to joke like cat and mouse and then to hit?
The poor mouse, crush it in your hands
Without the book [!]
"Oh my poor man, you don't know how much I hate you
You are wrong, my crazy man
Maybe you feel to be the first one for me
You don't know how many, how many men I had, mind yourself!
"A man like you is not for me
A man so bad
I don't want more to waste my time always with you" [repeat and fade]
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Post by jk on Mar 7, 2021 4:59:54 GMT -5
As a postscript to the previous post, I've unearthed more information about this song ("Cantata") and the OST in general at Discogs (see link below). Interestingly, it took two people to supply the simplistic if beguiling lyrics, Giulia De Mutiis and the film's director Piero Schivazappa. Maybe one wrote them in Italian and the other translated them -- who knows? One discrepancy causing confusion in the info on the song concerns the name of the singer. It turns out there was a 45 released two years ago of it and "Sophisticated Shake": SIDE A: Femina Ridens Song (sung by Olympia) SIDE B: Sophisticated Shake (vocals by Edda Dell'Orso) "The two most danceable tracks taken from Cipriani's cult OST, now finally for the first time on a 7-inch record. "Femina Ridens" features an exhilarating and 'arioso' orchestration which accompanies the beguiling voice of Olympia (one of the female vocalists of I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni), whose awkward British diction turns a feminist lyric into a powerful and irresistibly sensuous song. On the flip side, "Sophisticated Shake" is a sumptuous jewel of psychedelic jazz in which Edda Dell'Orso's vocal is perfectly nested. A must have for collectors and DJs!" [ Source] Here's the flip: www.discogs.com/Stelvio-Cipriani-Femina-Ridens-Original-Soundtrack/release/1722261 |
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Post by jk on Apr 16, 2021 7:54:00 GMT -5
This seems the best place to post this, despite unofficially closing down this thread. Listening to a playlist of compositions written for Italian films, the most intriguing track so far is Ennio Morricone's title song from Le foto proibite di una signora per bene (Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, 1970), sung by Edda Dell'Orso, who sings wordlessly on countless Italian movie soundtracks (think Once Upon a Time in the West). This time she steers a course somewhere between singing wordlessly and singing actual lyrics. One reviewer describes it as "what sounds like some French cooing lyrics, that picks up the pace with every growing instrumentation and the cooing takes flight into song." I'd swear I hear real words at times and other times gibberish and/or scatting. Quite extraordinary! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda_Dell%27Orso |
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Post by jk on Aug 5, 2022 3:57:16 GMT -5
Once again, I'm at a loss at where else to post this. No way am I adding it to the Brian Jones thread and I see little point in starting a Stones topic! This is for CB and kinky folks everywhere: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Whip_Comes_Down |
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