(Columbia)
Herald rating: * *
Review: Russell Baillie
A second instalment in yet another lounge-easy listening compilation series and as its cover cast of Marilyn Monroe, Steven McQueen and Audrey Hepburn might indicate, the two CDs do quite a line in songs from your favourite old Sunday afternoon movies.
That includes Born Free, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, Que Sera Sera, Windmills of Your Mind (revived for the remake The Thomas Crown Affair) as well as Bond tunes Casino Royale and From Russia with Love.
So among the 40 tracks means the names Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, and John Barry pop up frequently, as do Andy Williams, Tony Bennett and Doris Day.
Elsewhere, it's all over the (second hand) shop with a smattering of mambo (Perez Prado), jazzpop (Mel Torme, Georgie Fame, Louis Armstrong), and musical kitsch both amusing (Richard Harris' hilarious Macarthur Park) and awful (Harper's Bizarre 59th Street Bridge Song/Feeling Groovy).
Just the thing for those supermarket aisle cocktail hours.
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