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Sex and the Single Girl/The Chapman Report Leonard Rosenman, Neal Hefti

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There isn't very much issued music of Neal Hefti and this is probably one of the best released in the last years. In the 60's Hefti was a famous arranger and composer. He did very good works for Count Basie The Complete Atomic Basie and Frank Sinatra Sinatra and Swingin' Brass or both It Might as Well Be Swing.

Here you find the kind of music Henry Mancini made popular in the decade Breakfast At Tiffany's: Music From The Motion Picture Score. Superb easy listening jazz pieces that enhances the film as a comedy. Anyway the music is worth by itself and you get a plus in the form of "spicy" lyrics sang by Fran Jeffries.

The second part of the CD is the Leonard Rosenman soundtrack for a dramatic film. Is also good music but the style is different.

Good Choice for Hefti's music fans.

Sex And The Single Girl is the first movie score composed and conducted by Neal Hefti: if you like the music of How To Murder Your Wife, Barefoot In The Park, etc, you'll fancy this CD, typical of the light music of the 1960s. Very enjoyable, even more so if you know the movie, which is rather silly but pleasant to watch, featuring elegant style (Edith Head gowns), glamourous actors, etc.

A special mention to the Bossa Nova fanatics: one of the scores (I Must Know) is a lovely piece!

The Chapman Report, although interesting, is a much more difficult kind of music, with its rather sombre style, by Leonard Rosenman. Finally, two bonus songs by the same author, including a lovely version of Rebel Without A Cause rather similar to Percy Faith's A Summer Place, make this an interesting and rather pleasant CD for fans of the 1960 orchestras.