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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re listening to music from The Spy Who Loved Me!
Born in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian immigrant parents, Marty Gold spent his early musical career in regional novelty groups, including the Schnickelfritz Band and its spinoff band the Korn Kobblers. Gold co-founded, composed, arranged, and played piano for the Korn Kobblers, describing them as “America’s most nonsensical band” with performances incorporating comedy and odd instruments such as car horns, jugs, mouth harps, and washboards. The band played clubs in the New York area from 1939 through the mid-1950s and starred in one of the earliest weekly television shows, Kobb’s Corner, broadcast on CBS.
Gold used orchestras consisting of New York’s best musicians, often including lush string sections and with as many as 50 or 60 players; he pushed the boundaries of ‘easy listening.’ His arrangements of familiar tunes featured extensive original passages, intricate counter melodies, and unexpected styles and instrument combinations. Gold frequently included improvised sections, which helped distinguish his music from the more predictable sounds within the covered genre.
Beyond his own albums, Gold arranged, produced, and conducted for recording sessions of singers such as Lena Horne, pianist Peter Nero, and many others. He even collaborated with artists popular with his audience’s children, writing music for recordings by the television host Shari Lewis and the author Theodor Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss.
One album by Marty Gold and His Orchestra is this 1978 release by Peter Pan Records, ‘Themes From The Movies.’ Originally released the year before as ‘Music From Star Wars,’ the album was re-released with a more comic-book-style cover design rather than a large Star Wars logo. The record includes covers from films released in 1976 and 1977. Not all of these were hits with all ages; for example, Star Wars included the theme from the Jaws rip-off film Orca: The Killer Whale. Thankfully, the album contains a jazzy cover of Marvin Hamlisch’s theme from The Spy Who Loved Me.
145. The Marty Gold Orchestra – Themes From The Movies
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