Mondo Hollywood: Ultra Lounge 16

Ultra Lounge (series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Original Release Date: June 3, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002UFM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,228 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Experiment in Terror - Al Caiola

2. A Man and a Woman/Live for Life - Billy May/Leroy Holmes

3. Barbarella - Ferrante & Teicher

4. Cool - Martin Denny

5. Hot Rod Rumble - Sandy Courage

6. Pink Panther/It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Sta Sera) - Plas Johnson

7. Beat Girl - John Barry

8. You Gotta Taste All the Fruit - Leroy Holmes

9. The Shadow of Your Smile/Days of Wine and Roses - Ray Anthony/George Shearing

10. Theme from "The Apartment" - Tito Rodriguez

11. Watch What Happens - Denny Mclain

12. I, A Lover/De Sade - Leroy Holmes

13. Seance on a Wet Afternoon - John Barry

14. Girl Talk - Billy May

15. Moon River - Henry Jerome

16. You Only Live Twice/Thunderball - Sir Julian/Elliott Fisher

17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Leroy Holmes

18. Your Zowie Face - Nelson Riddle

19. Town Without Pity [*] - Gene Pitney

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of the series, October 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mondo Hollywood: Ultra Lounge 16 (Audio CD)

The is the most wonderful and mindmelting of the lounge series. Maybe because I, late boomer that I am, can remember some of these movie tunes on the radio or belting out of my mom's old Phillips Hi-Fi. Yes, the theme from "A Man and a Women" and "The Shadow of Your Smile" still stirs me in all it kitchy, gooey glory! The Bond and spaghetti western tunes are always energizing and, well, how could you NOT love the theme from the "Flint" movies - "Your Zowie Face"?!?!?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lights, Camera, Insanity, May 4, 2003

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winkingtiger ";oD" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mondo Hollywood: Ultra Lounge 16 (Audio CD)

One of the weirdest and most fun entries in the series. 'Seance On A Wet Afternoon' & 'Experiment In Terror' sound like what the Addams family might play at their twist parties; spooky yet very danceable! Other highlights include: a swingin', Tijuana Brass-style version of 'Moon River', funny teen exploitation movie music like 'Hot Rod Rumble' & 'Beat Girl', the smooth as silk Billy May take on 'Girl Talk', the proto-muzak 'Man And A Woman', and one of my personal favorites... Ferrante & Teicher's 'Barbarella'! The strange 'whooshing' voices at the end of the track really take you to outer space!

So, if you like the campier and stranger enries in the series, you'll love this one!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit shaky, but some can't-miss tracks, June 29, 2004

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Duante Beddingfield "hamactor1" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mondo Hollywood: Ultra Lounge 16 (Audio CD)

Despite what some Ultra-Lounge purists might say, this is a very wholly enjoyable entry into the collection that does a good job of establishing a feel all its own, not an easy task given the motley collection of themes gathered here.

The disc starts off well with Al Caiola's uber surf-rock "Experiment in Terror," and goes surf again for John Barry's "Beat Girl" with Vic Flick's machine-gun guitar. Martin Denny does a nice "Cool," and ditto with Plas Johnson's 'Pink Panther' medley.

The disc does have way more than its share of clunkers--Larry Holmes' "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" cover (which is, frankly, just ugly); the hideous disco "De Sade" that mars the track it shares with the sexy, sassy "I, A Lover"; the tepid Bond medley; and the truly AWFUL disco-cheese "Moon River"--which may be the worst track on ANY Ultra-Lounge disc.

BUT, the good outweighs the bad. The bouncy piano of Ferrante and Teicher's terrifically campy "Barbarella" theme; the hard-driving bass tones of "Hot Rod Rumble"; Denny McLain's uber-loungey but unexpectedly passionate "Watch What Happens"; Holmes' chorus-line-kicking "You Gotta Taste All the Fruit." Barry's fiercely unsettling "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" isn't conventional lounge by a long shot, but is quite good on its own. The easy Basie swing of May's "Girl Talk" is one of the disc's best pleasures (check out Howard Roberts' version on Volume 6). The sunny waltz rhythm of Nelson Riddle's "Your Zowie Face" is a total delight from end to end, but the best track hands down is number 9: Ray Anthony's huge, golden trumpet sound on his tremendous rendition of "The Shadow of Your Smile," followed by George Shearing's legendary jazz combo doing an irresistibly lighthearted treatment Mancini's "The Days of Wine and Roses." Oh...and then there's the bonus track--Gene Pitney's classic "Town Without Pity."

This may not be the best entry in the Ultra-Lounge canon, but it's got heart, and some real gems. Go Hollywood!