What's New Pussycat? (1965 Film) [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]

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Burt Bacharach put aside the drama of his work with Dionne Warwick for a romp through the sex farce that made Woody Allen a hit screenwriter. The giddy playfulness and tongue-in-cheek sensuality of the music is put aside only once, for Warwick's "Here I Am." Other songs, of course, include Tom Jones's title tune and Manfred Mann's read of "My Little Red Book," which inspired Love's hit version the next year. One caveat: even with two versions of "Book," the total audio playing time is just under half an hour. Still, this is a rich period piece. --Rickey Wright

From the Label
The title for this swinging '60s comedy starring Peters O'Toole and Sellers was supposedly Warren Beatty's standard greeting to the many girlfriends the legendary womanizer consorted with. With a script by Woody Allen (his first) and music by the legendary Burt Bacharach and his lyricist collaborator Hal David, this is a classic sexually obsessed comedy of the period, and Peter Sellers is in top form as a sex-crazed German analyst named Dr. Fritz Fassbender who is clearly much more in need of therapy than his patients.

Sample dialogue:"Did you get a job?" Michael James (Peter O'Toole) queries VictorShakapopulis (Woody Allen, who makes his screen acting debut also). "Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress andundress.""Nice job.""Twenty francs a week.""Not very much.""It's all I can afford."

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What's New, Pussycat? Lisa B Manufacturer: Piece of Pie Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Modern Romance Smoke 'N' Mirrors Half the Perfect World ASIN: B000GFK8M4 Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

1. What's New, Pussycat?
2. Slay Me (My Young Cat)
3. Cha Cha de la Gata (Kitty-Cat Cha Cha)
4. Our House
5. Night and Day / The Cat Goddess
6. Crazy Cat
7. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
8. The Home Inside
9. Warrior Cat
10. When Malika Sleeps

Product Description

For lovers as well as cat-lovers. In her third CD, jazz-pop-soul singer-poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) uses cats as a metaphor for relationships and the contrasts displayed by humans and other domesticated, sensuous creatures. "What's New, Pussycat?" explores the wild and the cozy, the passionate and the independent, the playful and the fierce. The CD combines original compositions with Lisa B's refreshing take on songs by Burt Bacharach/Hal David, Graham Nash, and Cole Porter. "What's New, Pussycat?" opens with the tune made famous by Tom Jones in the swinging 1960s. Lisa B's seductive vocals play against her trio's swinging rendition. Lisa's poetic and vocal talents are strong in "Slay Me (My Young Cat)," its spare groove animated by funky (former Isaac Hayes) pianist Ben Flint. Lisa B keeps exploring the rhythm of relationships on "Kitty-Cat Cha Cha (Cha Cha de la Gatita)," co-written with Latin jazz trombonist/arranger Wayne Wallace. While Graham Nash's sweet "Our House" only mentions cats in one memorable line, its mood is cat-like contentment. Next is Cole Porter's classic "Night and Day." Its passionate yearning, according to Lisa B, seems as spiritual as it is erotic, and she melds the standard with her magical spoken-word piece, "The Cat Goddess." The playful samba rhythms of "Crazy Cat," another original, echo the motifs of the CD: the tension between the domesticated and the wild personified by the cat. The CD's next two tracks address the related theme of home. In one, she interprets another Cole Porter song, turning "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" into a sensuous bossa nova. The poetry-rap "Warrior Cat" moves from a commentary on life in wartime to a meditation on the true warrior nature of the cat. The CD closes with "When Malika Sleeps," a lullaby for her aging cat and the slippery slope between life and death that we creatures all must face.

Average customer rating: Fun music Still Crazy After All These Years

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Tracks:

1. Russian Dance
2. Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy
3. Dance Of The Reed-Pipes
4. Dialogues For Piano And Two Loudspeakers
5. Episodes For Piano And Electronic Sound
6. Geodesic Dance (Electornic Etude)
7. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 In F Major (1st Movement)
8. 'Little' Fugue In G Minor
9. What's New, Pussycat?
10. Eleanor Rigby
11. Wedding March
12. Pompous Circumstances

Customer Reviews:

Fun music.......2006-06-28

Now, with so many electronic musical instruments, it is fun to listen to one of the origanals.

Still Crazy After All These Years.......2004-01-21

As the Ultimate Carlos Fan and an analog synthesist, I was elated to discover that By Request, which I've had since it appeared on vinyl, was at last available on CD. I'm happy to report that it is just as good now as it was almost three decades ago. That's right--three decades!

The music on this well-remastered CD still shines even though songs like "What's New Pussycat?" are no longer in vogue. The CD is a hodgepodge of various tunes from Bach to Beatles supposedly requested by listeners after The Well Tempered Synthesizer was released. The result may only only be mildly interesting to the occasional listener, but to followers of electronic music, it's like rediscovering a lost gem.

The three dances from The Nutcracker aren't particular standouts by Carlosian standards, nor are some of the other selections. Suffice it to say of the album that when it is good, it is very very good, and when it is bad it is merely good. Here are random notes on some of the more interesting pieces:

"Dialogues" and "Episodes" are early piano/synth pieces in the academic style. They will NOT appeal to some listeners, but they are well composed and extremely well performed, given the difficulty of creating electronic music back then.

"What's New Pussycat?" of Bacharach fame is another early Moog piece that is about as "Moogy" as Carlos has ever gotten. The Moog waa-waa filter cliche normally shunned by Carlos is here put to playful use in a chorus of drunken cats. I can't listen to this piece without smiling at the obvious good humor and sense of fun behind it.

"Geodesic Dance" remains one of my all-time favorites and appears here in all its modernistic glory. The piece is beautifully composed and full of the spatial and dynamic subtleties that set Carlos' analog work leagues above the rest. It ranks with "Timesteps" and "Country Lane" from the later Clockwork Orange album as thoroughly competent and quintessentially Carlos.

The CD's Big Finale, of course, is "Pompous Circumstances," a playful send-up of the Elgar classic performed in a wide variety of styles. Once again, Carlos' talent as a composer and consummate synthesist shine through, along with a dose of good humor. It's a pastiche, but not without it's serious moments, which might be why it's such a satisfying work.

Given the extreme difficulty and tedium of recording on a monophonic analog synthesizer--where changing a sound means striking a patch that may have taken hours to create and starting all over again--it's a wonder that the outcome could sound so good. But Carlos is a perfectionist and it shows on this album as it does on all of the Moog works. I confess that Carlos' digital music sounds flat and mundane to me and doesn't stand up to repeated listening. The analog works, for all their difficulty, continue to sound fresh and spirited. My request for Wendy's next "By Request" album would be to do another one like this--all analog.

Average customer rating: What Is New Pussycat? What Is New Pussycat? Maybe the archetypal 60s movie? Excellent,albeit short soundtrack

What's New Pussycat? (1965 Film) Burt Bacharach Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1960s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: After The Fox: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] What's New Pussycat Casino Royale Lost Horizon: Original Soundtrack (1973 Film) ASIN: B00000DCWH Release Date: 1998-10-13

Tracks:

1. What's New Pussycat? (Main Title) - Tom Jones
2. School For Anatomy/Bookworm (Medley)
3. High Temperature, Low Resistance
4. Downhill And Shady
5. Stripping Really Isn't Sexy, Is It?
6. Marriage, French Style/Here I Am (Medley)
7. Here I Am - Dionne Warwick
8. Marriage, French style
9. My Little Red Book - Manfred Mann
10. Pussy Cats On Parade
11. A Walk OnThe Wild Wharf
12. Chateau Chantel
13. Catch As Catch Can
14. Bonus Track: My Little Red Book (Film Version)

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Burt Bacharach put aside the drama of his work with Dionne Warwick for a romp through the sex farce that made Woody Allen a hit screenwriter. The giddy playfulness and tongue-in-cheek sensuality of the music is put aside only once, for Warwick's "Here I Am." Other songs, of course, include Tom Jones's title tune and Manfred Mann's read of "My Little Red Book," which inspired Love's hit version the next year. One caveat: even with two versions of "Book," the total audio playing time is just under half an hour. Still, this is a rich period piece. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

What Is New Pussycat?.......2000-10-13

Note: this review is for the SOUNDTRACK, not the video!

This is a great 1960's score from composer Burt Bacharach. The main title song sung by Tom Jones and composed by Bacharach and Hal David is a classic. Bacharach's music perfectly goes with the story of Peter O'Toole, as a troubled fashion editor, who visits psychiatrist Peter Sellers for help with his fanciful and complicated love life (Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss and Capucine). However, Sellers has problems of his own and at time the roles become reversed. Ursula Andress also drops into the fray. Woody Allen is present in what I believe is his first film as both actor and writer. The film shifts back and forth from sophisticated comedy to slapstick, as does the music. I always liked this funny and outlandish album and movie. The original artwork was retained for this CD. Bacharach's companion score for Peter Sellers and "AFTER THE FOX" is also equally good if not better.

What Is New Pussycat?.......2000-10-11

This is a great 1960's score from composer Burt Bacharach. The main title song sung by Tom Jones and composed by Bacharach and Hal David is a classic. Bacharach's music perfectly goes with the story of Peter O'Toole, as a troubled fashion editor, who visits psychiatrist Peter Sellers for help with his fanciful and complicated love life (Romy Schneider, Paula Prentiss and Capucine). However, Sellers has problems of his own and at time the roles become reversed. Ursula Andress also drops into the fray. Woody Allen is present in what I believe is his first film as both actor and writer. The film shifts back and forth from sophisticated comedy to slapstick, as does the music. I always liked this funny and outlandish album and movie. The original artwork was retained for this CD. Bacharach's companion score for "AFTER THE FOX" is also equally good if not better.

Maybe the archetypal 60s movie?.......2000-06-13

When Mike Myers wrote the first Austin Powers script, surely he had to be thinking of two films of the 60s: "Casino Royale" and "What's New Pussycat". They're overwhelmingly silly, just a bit risque for the times, and make no sense whatsoever. Yes, there's always the suggestion of some sort of a plot, but nothing that would get in the way of the action. Whatever the story, pretty soon everyone is running around in circles chasing everyone else, great quantities of soap bubbles are coming out of womewhere, girls are losing bikini tops and a Bacharach and David song is playing in the background. What makes "What's New Pussycat" better than most is of course the contribution of a rather young Woody Allen to the script and the cast. It's inspired silliness and great fun.

Excellent,albeit short soundtrack.......2000-03-02

This is one of the MGM series of movie soundtracks that Rykodisc has recently released on CD.It features 13 songs written by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David.This film score fits the movie perfectly.There are 3 songs with vocals and 10 instrumentals.The highlight of the CD is the great vocal performance by Tom Jones on the title track.Other highlights are Manfred Mann's version of "My Little Red Book",which is vastly superior to Love's version that came a year later.The best instrumental is "Downhill And Shady",featuring some great electric guitar in the "British Invasion" style.This enhanced CD also has a funny 3 minute film clip from the beginning of the movie,where Peter O'Toole has his first therapy session with the deranged shrink played by Peter Sellers.I recommend this CD for anyone who liked the movie or the early days of the glorious British Invasion.

Average customer rating:

What's New Pussycat Tom Jones Manufacturer: Double Gold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Welsh Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005A1BW Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

1. What's New Pussycat?
2. Green, Green Grass Of Home
3. Unchained Melody
4. Till Then
5. Keep On Rocking Me Baby
6. Romance Of Love
7. Fame
8. Oh, Pretty Woman
9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
10. Yesterday
11. Show Me
12. Ain't Gonna Bump No More
13. Streets Of Laredo
14. Baby Face

Average customer rating: TRACK LISTINGS

{40 Greatest Hits on 2 CD's} "What's New Pussycat / Green, Green Grass of Home / Delilah / Please Release Me / Streets of Laredo... & Many More ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B000E8DYIS

Customer Reviews:

TRACK LISTINGS.......2006-01-18

DELILAH
PLEASE RELEASE ME
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
STAGGER LEE
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
SAY YOU'LL STAY UNTIL TOMORROW
OH PRETTY WOMAN
SPANISH HARLEM
SPANISH EYES
I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT
FOOLS RUSH IN
STREETS OF LAREDO
PICTURE OF YOU
I'M WALKING
I WISH I WAS 18 AGAIN
FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
IF I RULED THE WORLD
DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA
YOU'RE MY WORLD
GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME
UNCHAINED MELODY
DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
DO YA THINK I'M SEXY
HONKY TONK WOMAN
TILL
HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
RELEASE ME
IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
ALL BY MYSELF
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
SHE'S A LADY

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