“Cheap Phil’s Sunset Ride” is an original instrumental intended to sound like something the Ventures might have done in the early to mid 1960s. It is also intended to sound similar to the sound track of a Western.
This is my arrangement of the main theme from the 1970 movie “La Califfa” which was composed by Ennio Morricone. The film was an Italian language social drama film written and directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. It starred actress Romy Schneider.
This is my instrumental cover of “Kicks”, which was Paul Revere and the Raiders first top-10 hit. Composed by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, it was originally intended for the Animals, but Eric Burdon turned it down. Subsequently recorded by Paul Revere and the Raiders, it peaked at #4 in the USA in 1966.
“Phil’s Phunk” is an original, 12-bar blues instrumental intended to evoke the feel of a mid 1960s Ventures album track used to “fill out” an album or serve as a “B-side”. Both the Ventures and Shadows discographies are full of tracks like this. In many, many cases, I actually prefer these tracks to the “featured” ones.
This is my cover of the “Third Man Theme” – also known as the “Harry Lime Theme”, which was composed and performed by Anton Karas for the 1949 film noir movie “The Third Man”. Originally played on a zither, the song is harmonically and melodically fairly simple — and is/was fairly well-known. However, the Ventures never released a version, and the Shadows didn’t until 1980.
“Eleuthera” is an original instrumental with a bit of a Caribbean lilt. It is also intended to sound similar to something the Ventures might have done in the mid 1960s.
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