COOL MIKADO - OST - Orig UK LP - Gold Parlophone John Barry Seven Frankie Howerd

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THE COOL MIKADO

Original Soundtrack Recording

Original UK Mono LP released on Parlophone Records in 1963. Black & gold Parlophone labels. Front-laminated cover with flipbacks on rear. Polylined 'Emitex' innersleeve.

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The 1962 Gilbert & Sullivan film parody The Cool Mikado is not well known, and far more obscure is its rare soundtrack album, originally issued on Parlophone in Britain. It's entertaining in an over-the-top camp sort of way, whether on the instrumental selections or vocals by Kevin Scott, Lissa Grey, Stubby Kaye, and most especially, comedian Frankie Howerd.

Pop and soundtrack collectors will be most interested in the record, though, for the presence of some contributions by the John Barry Seven. These are by far the most palatable excerpts of the disc, as they feature Barry's trademark low-twanging guitar lines. That's not only heard on the sole track credited to the John Barry Seven alone ("Tit Willow Twist"), but also on Kevin Scott's "A Wandering Minstrel," which sounds pretty close to a just-pre-Beatles British teen idol pop record.

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'Cool Mikado' features original music by the John Barry Seven, songs performed in characteristic style by Frankie Howerd, dance routines by Lionel Blair and comic sketches involving Tommy Cooper, Mike & Bernie Winters, Pete Murray and Stubby Kaye. While the film is no cinematic masterpiece, it is an authentic Eastmancolor period piece full of historical interest.

Frankie Howerd of course was hardly less than a comic institution in Britain through the sixties and seventies-his career peaking with the bawdy ancient Greek television romp 'Up Pompeii'. John Barry would go on to become Britain's foremost composer on the international film music scene with credits including the James Bond films, 'The Ipcress File' with Michael Caine and the highly popular 'Persuaders Theme' for the television programme which featured Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. 'Cool Mikado' was also one of the first feature films of Michael Winner who later in the sixties would direct Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford in 'The Jokers' and Orson Welles with Reed again in 'I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name'.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Overture
Gentlemen Of Japan
Three Little Maids From School
A Wandering Minstrel
The Sun's Hooray!
Behold The Lord High Executioner

Side Two

A More Humane Mikado
The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
Tit Willow Twist
Here's A How-De-Do!
Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
Finale: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum

Released on 'Parlophone Records' in 1963

Catalogue No. PMC 1194

Disc is in VG condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition

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