Al Caiola - Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes -

Al Caiola - Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes

Friday, 2. February 2007, 20:16:53

Al Caiola - Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes
United Artists Records
UAL 3435
Stereo
1965

Caiola served in the Marines during World War Two, where he played alongside Bob Crosby and toured much of the Pacific Theater, until the bandmembers were assigned to active combat in the assault on Iwo Jima. After the war, he used the G.I. Bill to study music composition and theory at the New Jersey College of Music.

Caiola recorded under his own name on a variety of labels: singles on RCA in the early 1950s, small jazz groups on Savoy in the mid-1950s, but he's best known for his very long string of LPs, mostly covers of then-current hits, on United Artists in the 1960s. His covers of the theme songs from "Bonanza" and "The Magnificent Seven" were top 40 hits in 1960 - 61.

Caiola's best album is undoubtedly Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes, which features a stellar Caiola original, "Underwater Swim," that rates as one of the all-time best spy music tunes and has been included on Capitol's Ultra Lounge series of compilation CDs. Most of the other UA albums are worth a listen, and The Power of Brass, which teams Caiola with a Miami-based brass ensemble of the same name, is a terrific example of genuine "now sounds" music. Source: Space Age Pop

More Al Caiola here

Track List

Side A
A1 - Theme From The Man From L.O.U.N.G.E.
A2 - The Fugitive Theme
A3 - Secret Agent Man
A4 - Underwater Chase
A5 - The Third Man Theme
A6 - Slaughter On Tenth Avenue

Side B
B1 - Man Of Mystery
B2 - The Bronze Doll
B3 - Baker Street Mystery
B4 - Goldfinger
B5 - The Eye In Flat Five
B6 - A Quiet Thing

No Password

I Spy For the FBI

Music To Spy By - Volume 3 / Library MiXLeroy Holmes - Sophisticated Strings

Comments

Licorice Pizza / A Taste Of Vinyl is really a good place !!!
Nice music, this one is another good one. I enjoy everytime I come !!! thanks friend !!!
bonjours de La Rochelle !!!

By MANU..., # 3. February 2007, 00:55:51

jason writes:

You can't beat a bit of Al Caiola and his twangy guitar:)

Thanks for the cue files

By anonymous user, # 3. February 2007, 14:15:41

JuancoRocks writes:

Wonderful stuff as usual...
Man where do you find the time?

By anonymous user, # 3. February 2007, 19:17:14

Thanks JuancoRocks, Manu, and Jason! Glad you like it. Time is getting very scarce these days. Timbo

By Licorice Pizza, # 3. February 2007, 19:32:45

Hi Timbo,

Thanks for your kind comments re my blogger site http://oldvinyl.blogspot.com/

I am doing fine, do you like how I have my blog?

I have not forgotten about you, let's keep in touch, and we can all enjoy the chat re the great music on offer.

Greetings

OV

By Vinyl.Deck, # 3. February 2007, 22:56:54

Looking good. Keep up the good posts! LP

By Licorice Pizza, # 3. February 2007, 23:16:01

Coffee Messiah writes:

LP: Never listened to him before. Not bad and Thanks for the share!
Cheers! CM

By anonymous user, # 4. February 2007, 10:01:03

Hey LP!

Swell post & thanks for the promo! This is surely one of Caiola's best, mucho gracias! I've got a few other AC's I'll post shortly. Thanks for the tip on PowerPoint over at Mr. Snookles' Third Island. I'm researching this "stitching" process - it may be a better way but it may also be more work than I have time for, we'll see.

Lounge On
-LT
ps. GO BEARS!

By LoungeTracks, # 4. February 2007, 13:46:47

I just scan the two halves and insert picture from file, position, group and save as jpg. Not to hard really. I heard that the polar bears were endangered. Hope yours aren't!

By Licorice Pizza, # 4. February 2007, 14:01:23

Ah, I'll give it a go - been practicing with my scanner today doesn't look too shabby!
-LT

By LoungeTracks, # 4. February 2007, 21:12:42

Anonymous writes:

very good LP, thanks for this great rip - 3rd island has a very good quality rip of "FUTURE SOUND SHOCK" puts my version to shame - i'm sorry iv'e been really busy at work - i got loads of comments to answer.

regards, mate

RR

By anonymous user, # 5. February 2007, 09:56:17

Nice to hear from you buddy. LP

By Licorice Pizza, # 5. February 2007, 13:15:21

Got to be one of the the coolest covers

Thanks for the grooves , keep on keepin on

By soundsational, # 5. February 2007, 20:54:04

Eye see what you mean! Got some various strings comin at ya shortly. LP

By Licorice Pizza, # 5. February 2007, 21:14:27

jason writes:

LP do you have a good quality scan of the front & back of this album to share with us

By anonymous user, # 6. February 2007, 00:06:16

I include what I can with each post! Did you get burn figured out?

By Licorice Pizza, # 6. February 2007, 00:23:48

jason writes:

I'm out of discs at the moment so I haven't really had a chance to "play" with it, it may just be that my software (Nero) is adding blank spaces inbetween tracks?
Does Burrrn use its own burner or does it make use of what you have installed?

Thanks LP

By anonymous user, # 6. February 2007, 12:54:06

Burrn is a stand alone program.

By Licorice Pizza, # 6. February 2007, 13:31:18

Jack writes:

I think I got this recording from your site...but it is m4a? Won't play on my CD player or windows media...will on real player however. Need to convert it...tried to use Burrrn, but maybe it doesn't convert? Or else I got it from another site...I have a number of Caiola...Otherwise you have had some excellent choices.
Jack

By anonymous user, # 7. February 2007, 01:03:02

Jack, All of my posts are in mp3 format. I'm a PC guy m4a is MAC. You can get an m4a converter for free here.

http://koyotstar.free.fr/indexEn.html

This will do the ever popular ogg and flac as well.

Burrrn is for creating audio cd's using the cue files that come in the MiX posts.

LP

By Licorice Pizza, # 7. February 2007, 04:01:51