Lounge Music of the Sexy ’60s and Swingin’ ’70s (and some Fabulous ’50s too!):
Spys, Sex, and Intrigue, Sci-Fi, Adventure, and Exotica, Groovy Tunes, Jazzy Vibes, and Psychedelic Soundtracks!
Let’s get this Sexadelic Dance Party started!
Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party Manfred Hüber & Siegfried Schwab – (1969)
“There’s No Satisfaction” is a lounge take on the Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
Executive Party Andre Previn – from Rollerball OST – (1975)
Now this is the kind of party and music 00 could groove to – in the future!
(Actual scene from the Exec Party – turn volume up all the way to hear voices and music)
This is a terrific film predicting a corporate run world with a fanatical worldwide sport better than any Base, Basket, or Foot ball – Rollerball!
00 saw this at the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Blvd. opening day in ’75.
With the Dome’s curved theater screen, the Rollerball scenes with motorcycles and skaters on the curved track was like being there as action went from one side of the screen to the other – trippy!
Back then seeing a good movie meant going back and seeing it again before it left the theater never to be seen until years later, edited, and with commercials on TV – so 00 would go back again, and in this case, the next night – as this was a really powerful and entertaining film – right up to the end – up to the very last frame. Excellent!
James Caan was the Man! Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!
Music Out of the Moon: Music featuring the Theremin – Les Baxter – (1947)
The THEREMIN!
Lounge Air – Soft Tempo Compilation
The Way Things Were – In-Flight Lounge – Groovy!
Harry Revel’s “Music from Out Of Space” feat Stuart Phillips and his Orchestra (1955)
The ’50s an ’60s were spacier than 2021!
Sid Bass – From Another World (1956)
Even the album covers were psychedelic!
Quiet Village (Original Mono Version) · Martin Denny – (1958)
Had to include the penultimate Tiki / Exotica Lounge instrumental that popularized the genre.
Russ Garcia – Fantastica (1959)
00 still has this album from 00’s Dad’s LP collection!
Song of the Sun – Paul Dupont and his Orchestra from “5 bambole per la luna d’agosto” (1970)
Great mellow representation of Lounge Music – regardless of the poster image.
Frank Comstock- Music From Outer Space (1962)
LAX Encounter restaurant serves as an excellent image for an excellent album!
The Avengers Theme – Laurie Johnson – (1960s)
A tad upbeat for Lounge purists but quite an impressive ditty and too cool to be omitted.
Our Man Flint – Jerry Goldsmith – (1966)
Taught martial arts by Bruce Lee, James Coburn balanced sophisticated camp with dead-on seriousness on par with Connery.
Great Espionage Lounge music.
“Striptease” from “Machine Gun McCain” – Ennio Morricone – (1969)
Enticing Morricone Lounge.
SOUNDPROOF – Ferrante and Teicher – (1956)
The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!
When 00 dabbled in oil painting in the ’70s, he was always captivated by the “Forbidden Planet” movie spacecraft and environment of this album cover and painted it sans text. Not a great accomplishment of mainly aqua-blues, but still a “foreboding and beautiful image”. Once again from 00’s Dad’s LP collection which 00 still has.
Here’s the oil painting – 00’s interpretation – while in his 20s.
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Three Days of the Condor – Dave Grusin – (1975)
Saved the best for last – this movie and soundtrack are the absolute best example of why the ’70s were the height of movie-making history and the creme de la creme of Spy Lounge and Adventure Intrigue soundtracks.
See the film and enjoy the soundtrack – whenever, wherever, you can – you will be thoroughly entertained by both – and can also vicariously groove to the Big Apple’s cool kick-ass gritty, groovy sexy, noir vibe of the ’70s – a long gone but not forgotten time, place, and era.
