EP: MOVIE THEMES BEST 4

PS-192, King Record Co. Ltd., Japan. 33 1/3 rpm, '70-7. Recorded by Riviera (France).

SIDE A:

1. Le Clan Des Siciliens (J.L. Dabadie, E.Morricone) (3:00)
   
2. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head (M. Tezé, H. David, B. Bacharach) (2:35)
   
   SIDE B:
   
3. Isadora (P.Delanoe, M.Jarre) (2:40)
   
4. Adagio Cardinal (M.Vacquez) (2:37)
   

    SLEEVE NOTES:

    The Raymond Lefebvre Grand Orchestra, well-known for hits such as "Queen of Sheba," "La La La La," and "Canon," will play a fresh arrangement and a crisp performance to bring you a taste of screen music.

Le Clan Des Siciliens:
    Starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, and Lino Vancera; directed by Henri Verneuil of "Love with a Past," "Headlights," "Melody in the Basement," "$100,000 in the Sun," etc.; adapted by José Giovanni and cinematography by Henri Decaë of "Plein Soleil" and "Samurai. The music is by Ennio Morricone, who is well-known for his Spagjetti Westerns.

    The film is full of thrills and suspense as Jean Gabin, a mafia boss from Sicily, Alain Delon, a member of his gang, and Lino Vancera, a police inspector, chase after them over a jewel with a market value of 10 million dollars.

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head
    Winner of four Academy Awards in 1969 for Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Composition, and Best Theme Song, "Butch Cassidy" is a western with a modern touch about two men whose infamy spread from the American West to South America around 1890. The film was produced by Paul Newman and John Foreman, the duo behind "Winning," and directed by George Roy Hill ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), and stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Jeff Corey, and others, with music composed by Burt Bacharach, who had composed hit songs such as "(What the World) Needs Now is Love," "Walk on By," and "Make It Easy On Yourself," as well as country western style songs and scat tunes by Burt Bacharach, who had composed music for movies such as "What's New Pussycat," "Alfie," and 007's "Casino Royale. The song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" won the Academy Award for Best Song of the Year in 1969.

Isadora:
    This film depicts the tumultuous life of Isadora Duncan, the world's most beautiful dancer of the 1920s.     Directed by Karel Reiss, who was born in the Czech Republic and showed extraordinary talent in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," the film stars Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora, who won the Best Actress Award twice at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 and 1969, along with James Fox and Jane Robards. The music is by Morris Jarre, who won the Academy Award for "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1963 and "Doctor Zhivago" in 1965, and features many popular hit numbers and classical pieces.

Adagio Cardinal:
    It is the theme song of the poetic film "Les amitiés particulières," which depicts the friendship and pure love between an upperclassman boy and a 13-year-old boy named Georges against the backdrop of a boarding school.

    Directed by Jean Delannoy, who also directed "The Moment of Truth," "Chiens Perdus Sans Collier," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Le Soleil des Voyous," and adapted by Jean Aurranches and Pierre, the duo behind the classic "Jeux interdits," the musical director is Jean Brodromide, who uses "Adagio Cardinal" by Spanish composer Mickael Vazquez to great effect.

Recorded by RIVIERA, France

Note: Translation made by online translator.