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The Candidate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: Jubilee – JGMS 5029 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack A1 Main Title 1:50 A2 Love Theme "No One Has Ever Cried For Me Before" 5:10 A3 Mamie's Van Doren 2:15 A4 Your Barroom Is My Barroom 2:22 A5 Mamie's Van Doren 5:05 B1 The Jazz Waltz From "The Candidate" (Love Is A Reason For Living) 2:47 B2 Mamie's Pensive 3:52 B3 Love Is A Way Of Living 2:49 B4 Love Is A Way Of Living And June Drunk 1:09 B5 The Stag Reel And Reprise Of Love Is A Way Of Living, No One Has Ever Cried For Me Before And Final Credit Titles 4:50 Record Company – Jay-Gee Record Co., Inc. Composed By, Conductor – Steve Karmen Cover – Stephen P. Haas Studios*

Steve Karmen – The Candidate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: Jubilee – JGS 5029, Jubilee – JUBILEE 5029 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack A1 Main Title 1:50 A2 Love Theme "No One Has Ever Cried For Me Before" 5:10 A3 Mamie's Van Doren 2:15 A4 Your Barroom Is My Barroom 2:22 A5 Mamie's Van Doren 5:05 B1 The Jazz Waltz From "The Candidate" (Love Is A Reason For Living) 2:47 B2 Mamie's Pensive 3:52 B3 Love Is A Way Of Living 2:49 B4 Love Is A Way Of Living And June Drunk 1:09 B5 The Stag Reel And Reprise Of Love Is A Way Of Living, No One Has Ever Cried For Me Before And Final Credit Titles 4:50 Record Company – Jay-Gee Record Co., Inc. Composed By, Conductor – Steve Karmen Stereo Cover Variant
The Candidate (a.k.a. The Playmates for the Candidate, Party Girls for the Candidate, & Kisses for the Candidate) is a 1964 low-budgeted film that starred the 1950s sex symbol Mamie Van Doren. Co-starring in the film were June Wilkinson, Ted Knight and Eric Mason; Rachel Romen, Robin Raymond, William Long, Jr. and John Matthews played smaller less meaningful parts. The film had several different filming/release titles like: The Playmates for the Candidate, Party Girls for the Candidate and Kisses for the Candidate; however, it is mainly known as being titled, The Candidate.

Cast
Mamie Van Doren as Samantha Ashley June Wilkinson as Angela Wallace Ted Knight as Frank Carlton Eric Mason as Buddy Parker Rachel Romen as Mona Archer Robin Raymond as Attorney Rogers William Long, Jr. as Falon John Matthews as Sen. Harper
The Candidate (1964) was pitched to me as a sexploitation film staring Ted Knight and my mind rejected that description sight unseen. There can be no such film, said logic and reason. Surely the planet would rip asunder if such a movie existed, said sanity. Ted Knight of The Mary Tyler Moore show engaged in sexual shenanigans? This cannot be true. And in the end this thought process was proven right enough for me to retain my intellect after screening the film. Now, there are sexploitation elements in the film as you might expect with any film that top lines sex kitten Mamie Van Doren, but those are the least interesting parts. (Of the film, I mean…) She plays Samantha, a hard working modern woman who, because of a chance encounter with senatorial candidate Frank Carlton (Ted Knight), is offered a job by conniving campaign runner Eric (Buddy Parker) aiming to work for the prospective senator. She agrees and we are then shown the complicated way various relationships shape the campaign and how it all falls apart. In a strange choice, the story is related as a series of flashbacks as the main characters are grilled in front of a Congressional hearing which causes the film to feel like a mild and overly solemn courtroom drama. It can be pretty entertaining to watch Eric procure ladies for the Washington elite but the film bogs down once the shape of the downfall of Knight's character comes into focus. Parker plays the ruthless Eric as a cynical bastard and he isn't bad in the role but its Knight who is most impressive. As his character meets and falls in love with Angela (June Wilkinson) we see this shy man come alive and have to face the fact that the woman he cares for will destroy his hoped-for career. Knight is exceptional in the role, investing great care in showing very nuanced emotions as he struggles with his options. In the scenes involving his character, the film is solid and the courtroom sequences are very well- scripted.However, the rest of the movie- the sexploitation parts- are dry as dust. This is the film's problem- it has half of a good movie but it has been shackled to a silly lingerie show with Miss Van Doren. In the end The Candidate isn't a bad movie but it isn't very good either, which is a shame.