Great Motion Picture Themes

So - my parents had this album when I was growing up. I LOVED this music and I was excited to find the CD version here on Amazon, so immediately ordered it. My roommate and I listened to it in my car on a road trip, and after the songs I was most familiar with were over, a bunch of strange, added songs started playing - none of them favorites, to be sure.So, putting a positive spin on it, I guess it's good that I got more songs than I bargained for. But in the future I'll be happy just to listen the songs that were originally on the album and skip the lagniappe.

like others i was in jr. high band when i heard this album. i hadn't seen any of the movies but i was captivated by this music. i had just started taking piano and i wanted to play "exodus" and "the apartment" just like ferrante and teicher. also, as noted, these songs got played on the radio back in those innocent days.next faves were "never on sunday" and "the magnificent seven" along with "digging in the morning" from "god's little acre" which i watched the other night on tcm starring tina louise before she moved to the island.they're all golden including "on the beach". funny to know all the themes and then see the movies years later.i bought this album back then and wore the vinyl to shreds. the album just popped into my head tonight and so i went to amazon, and, thank you, thank you, there it was. i'm waiting and anticipating for the return of a childhood friend

I bought this album in the early 60's on vinyl. It was one of the most popular LPs out at that time. I think the fact that two of the bands on the LP were Ferrante & Teicher playing the theme from Exodus and theme from The Apartment (both played often on the radio in those days)....along with Al Calola'ss The Magnificent Seven and the wonderful Green Leaves of Summer from The Alamo. So when I saw that some intelligent being had the foresight to transfer it to CD was completely genius. Plus with this CD they have added a second album released with movie themes as well....so the buyer is getting two great movie theme albums for the price of one. I love this music....and listening to it takes me back to my high school years of the early 1960's. If you loved this music then.....you will find that it is just as wonderful today!

Having this album on vinyl (both mono and stereo) as well as the follow up album"Original Motion Picture Hit Themes" (United Artists UAS 6197), I was curious tosee how it stood up to the original vinyl. First of all, it would have been better if they had combined both albums instead of just taking other themes at random. One glaring error is that the cut "I Want To Live" by Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne, is not the same one as on the vinyl album. That being said, the CD is not as sonically "warm" as the original vinyl (which is true of almost all CD's takin from vinyl of this period). It is a good album however, and I enjoy listening to it. It has great performances from the original soundtracks as well as popular versions by the outstanding artists of the day. Buy it, you'll enjoy it.

I first heard this at a summer camp in 1966 when I was a child. They just had a so-so phonograph and I really wanted to hear this on the hi-fi system we had at home. Several times I heard this on the radio (Magnificent Seven by Al Caiola) and looked high and low for this in record stores, but to no avail. Of course at the time I was not old enough to drive, and we did not have the internet. I did find an Al Caiola LP in 1983, but it was not the same renditon of The Magnificent Seven, but good all the same. But Eureka! Found it AND on CD!! 46 YEARS LATER and still sounds as good or better! Brings back a lot of memories!!!

I have been desirous of replacing the old Great Motion Picture Themes record album that I have owned for decades. Other reviewers have explained that this is really a combination of two record albums from the 60's. I own the first of these and its cover is reproduced on the CD. I will leave it to the audiophiles to determine the sound quality. I can only say that it sounds a heck of a lot better than my old worn out record. I don't know why it took so long to make a CD copy but I am thankful it was finally done.

Note that the cut on the LP for "I Want To Live" was different. Instead of the jazz theme now on the CD it used to be the dreamy almost disconnected music of time ticking away that she experiences in the background during the hopeless appeals and letter writing from prison as time runs out.

Have this vinyl record as well! That should tell you how long I have kept this because I loved the music.