Tony Crombie Arranged Conducted Composer (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm stereo television soundtrack album, RS 627, near-mint vinyl in a near-mint cardboard jacket which has been opened but still wears its original shrink-wrap. It says here "'Man From Interpol' is the title of the new and exciting television series made in Britain for simultaneous release in this country. . . . Hollywood's Richard Wyler plays the star role of Anthony Smith. . . . The music for 'Man From Interpol' was specially composed by ace British jazzman Tony Crombie," who was -- who would have guessed? -- "hailed by many as Europe's top drummer." Produced by the American-born Danziger brothers, who were famed for "shooting at a variety of British studios, ordering their writers to concoct a screenplay to use the standing sets," thus typically "shooting television episodes in two-and-a-half to three days and a feature film in eight to 10 days with a budget of L17,000," this winter replacement series lasted nine months in 1960; the British Film Institute concludes: "This uneasy attempt to graft a youthful hero (Wyler's boyish projection) on to a rugged crime-buster framework usually associated with more mature leading characters . . . gave 'The Man from Interpol' little more than an air of tired hysteria." Additionally, "Hollywood's Richard Wyler" appears to have sprung full-grown from the foreheads of the producers for this role -- he was actually British-born Richard Stapley, a sometime novelist and playwright who played "dashing action" (though presumably secondary) roles in such films as "Charge of the Lancers" with Paulette Goddard, "King of the Khyber Rifles" with Tyrone Power, and "Jungle Man-Eaters" with the post-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller. After this dalliance with the small screen, he went on to play in such celebrated "European action films" as "The Rattler Kid," "The Exterminators," "The Bounty Killer," and "Two Pistols and a Coward." As for Tony Crombie, he was indeed a jazz drummer, though he's probably better known for the 1956 release of "Teach You to Rock," by Tony Crombie and his Rockets, often cited as "the first British rock and roll record." Crombie's work here is considered "British television's first attempt to follow the 'Peter Gunn' lead of underscoring adventure with jazz," resulting in "a popular soundtrack album." There are catalogs which contend this television soundtrack album is worth $60, but we'd like to know where. Here reduced from $27.50.