SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL / THE CHAPMAN REPORT

Deux b.o. sur un CD : "Sex and the Single Girl" (Richard Quine, 1964), première b.o. de Neal Hefti (qui dirige ici l'orchestre de Count Basie), mieux connu pour sa musique pour la série "Batman", et "The Chapman Report" (George Cukor, 1962) par Leonard Rosenman. (CT)

"Sex and the Single Girl marked the feature debut of Neal Hefti, best-known today for his memorable TV themes to Batman and The Odd Couple. Hefti made a lasting mark in the Mancini era of sophisticated adult comedy, and Sex and the Single Girl is chock-full of delightful pop confections with jazzy grooves and irresistible melodies. The re-recorded Warner Bros. album includes Hefti's vocal and instrumental arrangements of the film's title theme composed by director Richard Quine."

"Scoring The Chapman Report was the excellent symphonic composer Leonard Rosenman, who blended his usual expertise with modern atonality (for the psychological aspects of the characters' neuroses) with driving jazz (as if a nod to the conventional association of jazz with sex), particularly for the driving main title and a terrifying gang-rape of Bloom at the hands of jazz musicians. Rosenman wrote distinct themes for the four women, ranging from pathos to comedy to atonality, and blended jazz, melody and avant garde expressionism with his usual panache. It is a terrific score." (www.screenarchives.com)