BOB THOMPSON SOUND OF SPEED, 180 GRAM VESPA LE MANS ROCKET SOUND EFFECTS LP
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Bob Thompson
The Sound Of Speed
In the days of Esquivel’s Space Age Bachelor Pad Music prime, orchestra leader/composer/arranger Bob Thompson (a long-admired Hollywood music figure who worked with Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland, Duane Eddy, and Bing Crosby, among others) was his stylistic counterpart. They recorded for the same label (RCA Victor), employed many of the same musicians and vocalists, and experimented with sound in the same L.A. studios.
Originally recorded for the Dot label, The Sound of Speed is Thompson’s 1960 “concept” LP. Each composition evokes a different mode of modern transport, from Vespa scooters to Le Mans racers to rocket ships and each is book-ended by authentic sound effects, with vivid stereo motion.
The Sound of Speed is an overlooked gem from a bygone era of orchestral elegance. It has been mastered in wide-angle stereo and pressed on 180 gram vinyl in the year composer/arranger Bob Thompson turns 85.
TRACK LIST:
1. SUPER CHIEF (Diesel Train) / 2. MIDNIGHT SAILING (Ocean Liner) / 3. LA VESPA (Motor Scooter) / 4. SUB-MANHATTAN BLUES (Subway Train) / 5. THREE-WHEELER WALTZ (Tricycle) / 6. COUNT DOWN (Missile) / 7. STAR FIRE (Jet Plane) / 8. SURREY SERENADE (Horse & Buggy) / 9. LE MANS (Sports Cars) / 10. STREETCAR NAMED IRVING (Streetcar) / 11. SEA-SPRAY (Speed Boats) / 12. EARLY-BIRD WHIRLY-BIRD (Helicopter)
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