The Enchanted Sea
Produced by Dave Dexter, Jr.
Album Title: Courtesy Rose Marie Reid Swimsuit
Capitol Records ST 1537
1961
The song "Jewels of the Sea" was composed originally by Les Baxter as "Katia's Theme" for the American International picture, Black Sunday.
Sunken City
Stars In The Sand
Sea Nymph
Singing Sea Shells
Dolphin
Dawn Under The Sea
The Enchanted Sea
The Girl From Nassau
The Ancient Galleon
Dancing Diamonds
Jewels Of The Sea
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ReplyDeleteMark, howdy! John Bender here, fellow retro-cult movie and film score connoisseur! I thought you might appreciate finding out that Baxter did not compose the Jewels of the Sea track. A guy named Roberto Nicolosi composed the original score for Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY. Baxter was hired on after this by AIP to write a brand new score for the English dubbed release of the film. Les did write a whole new score - except for the love theme! For this he stole / borrowed / recapitulated Nicolosi's beautiful piece for SUNDAY called Tema di Katia. Not only did he incorporate this Nicolosi piece into his score for SUNDAY but he also gave it a flashier arrangement for inclusion in his JEWELS OF THE SEA record album. Curiously (and depressingly) when Nicolosi's score for BLACK SUNDAY finally got released on CD a few years ago the only theme not included was Tema di Katia - the most beautiful part of the entire score! Because of this tragedy we all should be grateful to Baxter because it is only his fine versions of this beautiful theme that still exist as recordings and are available to us today. Thank you for posting it for all to enjoy! - JB
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect album. It's exquisite, mysterious and dreamy.
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