This August there will be a concert fully devoted to John Barry at the Film Music Festival in Kraków, Poland.
Sunday 29 August 2021
20:00h
Program:
From Russia with Love / 007 Theme
Somewhere in time
The Black hole
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Zulu
Chaplin
Mary, Queen of Scots
Diamonds are Forever - a song from the movie Diamonds are Forever
You Only Live Twice - a song from the movie You Only Live Twice
Dances with Wolves
Out of Africa
Raise the Titanic
Indecent Proposal
Marcin Maciejczak - vocal
FMF Youth Orchestra
Monika Bachowska - conductor
Details here:
http://fmf.fm/program/
and the page in English:
May 11, 2021 • Available in US & Canada
Scream Factory
Product Note: Extras in progress and will be announced at a later date.
Region A, 2 discs, 136 / 182 min, 2.35:1, color, English
More information on the Shout Factory / Scream Factory website
The MIT Awards Dinner 1999.
The Music Industry Trusts award has two aims: to raise money for the nominated charities, and to honour an individual who has made a significant contribution to the UK music industry.
Originating in 1992, the winner in 1999 was John Barry OBE, who joined an exclusive band which now includes Andrew Lloyd Webber; Alan “Fluff” Freeman; Sir George Martin; Sir Elton John and his partner in song, Bernie Taupin; Sir Michael Parkinson; Kylie Minogue OBE; Sir Tom Jones; Annie Lennox OBE; and that bastard Michael Eavis CBE.
Held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London, where John Barry and his group, The John Barry Seven, had entertained New Year revellers in the late 1950s, many photos of the occasion were taken and can be seen here, courtesy of ......... :
Attended by Adam Faith, Sir Michael Parkinson, Don Black and Bill Kenwright with performances by David McCalmont and David Arnold.
Friday, Oct.22, 1999.
The Dove
5 April 2021
Network
1974, 1080p HD 2.35:1, Mono / English, subtitles English, Region B, 105 mins.
"An uplifting family drama based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham who, at the age of sixteen, began a solo circumnavigation of the world in his small boat – the youngest person ever to do so."
"Kritzerland is proud to present a new 2-CD set, a live soundboard recording of the infamous musical:
LOLITA, MY LOVE - Music by John Barry Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
Back in the 1970s, producer Bruce Kimmel came into possession of a complete soundboard tape in pretty decent sound. And it is from that tape, possibly first generation, from which this CD has been mastered. For this release, all the major songs have separate tracks and all the dialogue has separate tracks. That way, one can program the CD however they like � just the score or hearing it all. Mastering engineer, James Nelson, has worked his magic, smoothing out the levels and making it all of a piece."
"Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Capitol Records, Universal Music Enterprises and the Phil Ramone estate, present an expanded 2-CD edition of the iconic score for the landmark film MIDNIGHT COWBOY, directed by John Schlesinger in 1969, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, and winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
For this new Quartet release, the classic 1969 soundtrack album has been mastered from first-generation master tapes on Disc 1 and supplemented with new mixes made from recently discovered multi-track tapes, that includes some alternate song versions, different vocals of the Nilsson song, and alternate and single versions prepared by John Barry of his famous original theme. On Disc 2 we have included the music (both songs and score) as it appears in the film, mastered from mono elements vaulted at MGM. Score and album were in part different recordings; the harmonica solos, played by Toots Thielemans in the film, were played by Tommy Reilly on the album.
This collection has been produced, restored, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone, and the 24-page booklet includes authoritative and exclusive in-depth liner notes by Jon Burlingame."
Laurence Maslon has produced and hosted a radio program/podcast in the United States called "Broadway to Main Street" that celebrates theater music in all its various incarnations.
Occasionally, he does a throw to music from the cinema. He wanted to do a John Barry episode for a long time, where he could share some of Barry's stage music with his audience.
This episode can be found on various platforms at: https://broadwaytomainstreet.libsyn.com/john-barry
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The Stringbeat Years: Songs accompanied by John Barry
Now available, a 4-CD box-set comprising of 144 tracks, a 24-page booklet (replete with period photographs and comprehensive notes) and including ten bonus tracks (among them the CD debut of the first ever cover version of a John Barry instrumental composition).
Featuring – for the first time – the film versions of ‘Mix me a Person’, ‘The Time has Come’, and ‘What a Whopper’ (slightly shortened). There’s also an unique opportunity to hear the original version of ‘Ah, Poor Little Baby’, making its premiere appearance on CD.
The box-set is limited to 500 copies and is only £16.99 post-free in the UK, so don’t miss out! It is available direct from this website!
£16.99 post-free in the UK
£19.99 anywhere else in the world
Order now!
Let us know if you aren’t able to do this and we’ll work out another way.
CD ONE
1. Tall Paul (Roberts-B & D Sherman) – The Three Barry Sisters 1959
2. Till then (Seiler, Marcus, Wood) – The Three Barry Sisters 1959
3. Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy (D & B Sherman-Roberts) – Three Barry Sisters 1959
4. I ay ove-lay oo-yay (Brout-Lasky) – The Three Barry Sisters 1959
5. Nowhere in this world (Hart) – Derry Hart and The Hartbeats 1959
6. Come on baby (Baldock-King) – Derry Hart and The Hartbeats 1959
7. Ah, poor little baby! (Falk-Koury) – Adam Faith 1959
8. I vibrate (Twitty) – Adam Faith 1959
9. She said yeah (Jackson) – Roy Young 1959
10. Baby talk (Schwartz) – Bill & Brett Landis 1959
11. Say mama (Earl-Meeks) – Adam Faith 1959
12. C’mon everybody (Cochran-Capeheart) – Adam Faith 1959
13. Believe what you say (J & D Burnette) – Adam Faith 1959
14. I go ape (Sedaka-Greenfield) – Roy Young 1959
15. It’s late (Burnette) – Vince Eager 1959
16. Fallin’ (Sedaka-Greenfield) – Sylvia Sands 1959
17. Slippin’ & slidin’ (Penniman-Bocage-Collins-Smith) – Roy Young 1959
18. It doesn’t matter anymore (Anka) – Vince Eager 1959
19. Good rockin’ tonight (Brown) – Roy Young and Company 1959
20. What do you want? (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1959
21. From now until forever (Nesbitt-Venis) – Adam Faith 1959
22. Moonbird (Barry) – Des Lane 1959
23. The Clanger march (Braden) – Des Lane 1959
24. Big blon’ baby (Roberts-Jacobson) – Larry Page 1959
25. I vibrate (Twitty) – Larry Page 1959
26. Throw all your lovin’ my way (Barry) – Larry Page 1959
27. How’m I doing, hey, hey (Fowler-Redman) – Larry Page 1959
28. Little old fashioned love (Barry) – Larry Page 1959
29. Marilyn (White) – Larry Page 1959
30. Poor me (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1959
31. The reason (Barry) – Adam Faith 1959
32. Be mine (Menke-Panas-Luth-Stellman) – Lance Fortune 1959
33. Action (Barry-Peacock) – Lance Fortune 1959
34. Made you (Barry-Peacock) – Adam Faith 1959
35. I did what you told me (Barry-Peacock) – Adam Faith 1959
36. Can’t forget (Hawker-Shakespeare) – Johnny Gavotte 1960
37. It’s not too late (Sheridan) – Johnny Gavotte 1960
38. Boston Tea Party (Vandyke) – The Five Dallas Boys 1960
39. Ramona (Wayne-Gilbert) – The Five Dallas Boys 1960
40. The Beat Girl song (Barry-Peacock) – Adam Faith 1960
41. It’s legal (Barry-Maccoby) – Shirley Anne Field 1960
All tracks in mono
CD TWO
1. Someone else’s baby (Vandyke-Ford) – Adam Faith 1960
2. Big time (Bart) – Adam Faith 1960
3. Youthful years (Napper) – Danny Williams 1960
4. It doesn’t matter (Raysor-Barrett) – Danny Williams 1960
5. You’re my only girl (O’Mahoney) – Danny Davis 1960
6. Love me (Stoller-Leiber)- Danny Davis 1960
7. Johnny comes marching home (Trad. arr. Barry-Maitland) – Adam Faith 1960
8. Carve up (Bart) – Adam Faith 1960
9. Little child (Cowen) – The England Sisters 1960
10. Heartbeat (Montgomery-Petty) – The England Sisters 1960
11. How about that! (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1960
12. With open arms (Bacharach-David) – Adam Faith 1960
13. Wonderful time (Howard Guyton) – Adam Faith 1960
14. Diamond ring (J & R Isle) – Adam Faith 1960
15. Summertime (Gershwin-Heyward) – Adam Faith 1960
16. Piper of love (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1960
17. A girl like you (Bacharach-Croswell) – Adam Faith 1960
18. Turn me loose (Pomus-Schuman) – Adam Faith 1960
19. So many ways (Stevenson) – Adam Faith 1960
20. Singin’ in the rain (Freed-Brown) – Adam Faith 1960
21. Fare thee well my pretty maid (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1960
22. I’m a man (Pomus-Schuman) – Adam Faith 1960
23. Hit the road to dreamland (Mercer-Arlen) – Adam Faith 1960
24. Lonely pup (in a Christmas shop) (Alexander) – Adam Faith 1960
25. Greenfinger (Lewis) – Adam Faith 1960
26. Pepe (Wittstart) – Russ Conway 1960
27. Matador from Trinidad (Boyd-Stanford) – Russ Conway 1960
28. Not guilty (Peacock) – Johnny De Little 1960
29. They (Barry-Russell) – Johnny De Little 1960
30. Who am I? (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
31. This is it (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
32. Big wheel (Vandyke) – Gerry Dorsey 1961
33. Over and over (Bart) – Bobby Shafto 1961
34. I want my bed (Bart) – Bobby Shafto 1961
35. Django’s Castle (Reinhardt) – Diz Disley and The Downbeats 1961
All tracks in stereo, apart from nos. 3-6, 9, 10, 28, 29, 32-35
CD THREE
1. Where you are (Ornadel-West) – Dennis Lotis 1961
2. Love’s a secret game (Wakley-Inman) – Dennis Lotis 1961
3. Easy going me (Bart) – Adam Faith 1961
4. Wonderin’ (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
5. What a Whopper (Vandyke) (film version) – Adam Faith 1961
6. The Time has Come (Vandyke) (film version) – Adam Faith 1961
7. Don’t you know It? (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
8. My last wish (Barry-Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
9. I haven’t got you (Bart) – Anita Harris 1961
10. Mr. one and only (Lordan) – Anita Harris 1961
12. I’ve just fallen for someone (Askew) – Adam Faith 1961
12. I’m coming home (Johnson-Rado) – Adam Faith 1961
13. All these things (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
14. It’s all over now (Whyton) – Adam Faith 1961
15. Come to me (Cenci-Carr) – Adam Faith 1961
16. If I had a hammer (Hays-Seeger) – Adam Faith 1961
17. Sho’ know a lot about love (Mize-Paxton) – Adam Faith 1961
18. Second time (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
19. I’m gonna love you too (Maudlin-Sullivan-Petty) – Adam Faith 1961
20. Little yellow roses (Peacock) – Adam Faith 1961
21. As long as you keep loving me (Peacock) – Adam Faith 1961
22. You and me and the gang (Peacock) – Adam Faith 1961
23. The time has come (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1961
24. A help-each-other romance (Singleton) – Adam Faith 1961
25. Lonesome (Pellish) – Adam Faith 1961
26. Watch your step (Parker) – Adam Faith 1961
27. You’re following me (Hilliard-Bacharach) – Peter Gordeno 1962
28. I got eyes (Smith-Jones-Dixon-Keyes) – Peter Gordeno 1962
29. You know what I mean (Vandyke) – Johnny Worth 1962
30. All these things (Vandyke) – Johnny Worth 1962
31. Stalemate (Martin-Rocco) – Tony Rocco 1962
32. Keep a walkin’ (Sedaka-Greenfield) – Tony Rocco 1962
33. As you like It (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1962
34. Face to face (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1962
All tracks in stereo apart from nos. 1, 2, 5-8, 23, 25, 27-30, 32-34
CD FOUR
1. Uptown (Mann-Weil) – Peter Gordeno 1962
2. The makings of a man (Stallman-Jacobson) – Peter Gordeno 1962
3. My tears will turn to Laughter (Askew) – Darren Young 1962
4. I’ve just fallen for someone (Askew) – Darren Young 1962
5. Opposites (Bart) – Bill Cotton and Kathie Kay 1962
6. If the young ones can be happy (Bart) – Bill Cotton 1962
7. The coffee grinder (Manzo) – Van Doren 1962
8. La Bamba (Valens) – Adam Faith 1962
9. You can do it if you Try (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1962
10. The river’s run dry (Vandyke) – Adam Faith 1962
11. I know what I want (Unknown) – Adam Faith 1962
12. That’s what love will do (Peacock) – Adam Faith 1962
13. Mix Me a Person (Vandyke) (film version) – Adam Faith 1962
14. Someone nice like you (Newley-Bricusse) – Kathie Kay and Bill Cotton 1962
15. No love but your Love (Scharfenberger-West-Busch) – Marion Ryan 1962
16. Caravan of lonely men (Jeff Barry-Pretlow) – Mark Tracey 1962
17. Never ending (Carr-Newell) – Mark Tracey 1962
18. Down by the riverside (Trad. Arr: Barry) – Peter Gordeno 1962
19. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) – Johnny De Little 1962
20. You made me love you (Monaco-McCarthy) – Johnny De Little 1962
21. White Christmas (Berlin) – Nina and Frederik 1962
22. Silent night (Gruber) – Nina and Frederik 1962
23. Away in a manger (Kirkpatrick) – Nina and Frederik 1962
24. Santa Claus is coming to town (Coots) – Nina and Frederik 1962
Bonus tracks composed by John Barry
25. Rock-A-Billy Boogie (Barry) – The Rock’n Rollers 1958
26. Rodeo (Barry) – Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra 1958
27. Bee’s knees (Barry) – John Barry Seven & Bob Miller and The Millermen 1959
28. Arrivederci Baby (Barry-Good) – Little Tony and his Brothers 1959
29. Made you (Barry-Peacock) – Fabian 1960
30. Easy beat (Barry) – Bert Weedon 1960
31. Made you (Barry-Peacock) – Don Duke 1960
32. Black stockings (Barry) – Stu Phillips and his Orchestra 1961
33. Trouble shooter (Barry) – Bob Miller and The Millermen 1961
34. Sweet talk (Barry) – Van Doren 1961
All tracks in mono apart from nos. 9-12
Recently published in the US is Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950–1970: A History and Discography, by the appropriately named Derrick Bang.
It has 312 pages, and, apparently, devotes more space to John Barry than any other composer in the book!
At $45 it is not exactly cheap, but when has that ever worried anybody who browses on here. :)
There's also a companion book entitled Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971: A History and Discography.
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