Track Listing

1. Casino Royale - Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass
2. Look Of Love - Springfield, Dusty
3. Moneypenny Goes For Broke
4. Le Chiffre's Torture Of The Mind
5. Home James Don't Spare The Horses
6. Sir James' Trip To Find Mata
7. Look Of Love
8. Hi There Miss Goodthighs
9. Little French Boy
10. Flying Saucer/First Stop Berlin
11. Venerable Sir James Bond
12. Dream On James You're Winning
13. Big Cowboys And Indians Fight At Casino Royale/Casino Royale - Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99130 in Music
• Released on: 2002-12-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Customer Reviews

Glaring ommision
I was disapointed when I bought this. The song that accompanies the end credits ("The formula is safe with old 007...") isn't on it.

Probably one of the finest soundtracks ever!
As a total experience, Casino Royale promises much but delivers little. A sprawling mess that proves a big budget, star names (Sellars, Allen, Andress, Welles and Niven) and a collection of quality directors (Guest, Hughes and Houston) can still result in little more than a minor note in the history of cinema. It really is a film that generates strong feelings; you either love it or hate it.

One of the few redeeming features is the combination of Burt Bacharach's amazing score and Hal David's lyrics. Dusty Springfield sings The Look of Love while Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass play one of the most enduring themes in cinema history. The recurring brass sound that appears throughout the film is simple but memorable - fitting drama, comedy, action and chase scenes alike.

Bacharach is the only man who could produce appropriate music for scenes in which an ageing James Bond fights off airborne robot grouse bombs, armed with only a set of braces and a homing device, aided by an ex-paramour who will soon take holy orders.

Special. Buy it and make the first step towards a classic soundtrack collection.

One of the Best Film Soundtracks of the 1960s
The 1967 film CASINO ROYALE did less than big business at the box office, and it would be a decade or so before the public really learned to appreciate its charms and turn it into a cult-favorite--but even while the film was struggling in theatrical release the Burt Bacharach soundtrack was very much admired, and to my mind it remains one of the best film soundtracks of that decade.

This is not the 1960s of Haight-Ashbury, Jimi Hendrix, and Grace Slick; it is instead the playboy-ish, tuxedoed-swinger 1960s: hip, sophisticated, and playful. And Bacharach not only does an over-the-top riff on the scores for the Sean Connery "Bond films," he also cleverly gives the whole pastiche a surprisingly retro feel; with such hits as "Winchester Cathedral" popular on the radio, 1920s musical idioms were all the rage in 1960s instrumental music, and Bacharach neatly filters those idioms into his "swinging spy" tone to create some truly unique musical moments.

Like most good soundtracks, the music for CASINO ROYALE rings changes on a precious few themes--and in this case there are three basic ones: the "Casino Royale Theme," recorded by Herp Albert and The Tijuana Brass, which pops with a harpsichord lead-in to one of the most memorable trumpet solos going; the "Miss Moneypenny Goes for Broke" theme, which uses hard brass and percussion to create a slightly humorous, slightly sleazy tone; and the soundtrack's centerpiece: the absolutely stunning Dusty Springfield interpretation of "The Look of Love." This is a knockout piece of music with a great lyric, and Springfield's full-throated, dreamy, and super-steamy vocal is quite possibly the single best thing she ever did in her long and distinguished career.

I did have a few issues with the CD, however. The selections are not in the sequence in which they are used in the film; at least one of the more memorable bits of music--the vocal for the closing titles--is not included; and the titles of the selections (and the way they are described in the otherwise amusing notes) are somewhat misleading re how they were actually used in the film. But on the whole, this is one knockout CD. If you're a fan of the film, or of Burt Bacharach, Herp Albert, or Dusty Springfield, it's also a must-have for your collection.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer