The German film and television composer Peter Thomas (1925-2020) is hugely popular and quite beloved in his home country, but he remains bafflingly little known elsewhere. Unlike Italy’s Ennio Morricone, France’s Georges Delerue and Michel Legrand or even the great contemporary Spanish film composer Alberto Iglesias, Thomas rarely helmed big-budget international co-productions and Hollywood never…
Berto Pisano & Elsio Mancuso – “Nude per l’assassino” (1975/2025)
Finally. The classy Italian cult music specialists Four Flies Records have issued the soundtrack to the deliciously sleazy, sexy and seductive 1975 Italian giallo film Nude per’lassassino, otherwise known as Strip Nude for Your Killer. Neither the original soundtrack nor its intoxicating main theme were ever previously issued in an official capacity. Long thought lost,…
Empire Jazz (1980)
Empire Jazz was part of an extensively-targeted multi-media marketing blitz by 20th Century Fox, the distributor of the 1980 Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, and RSO, the record label that originally released composer John Williams’s double-disc soundtrack album from the film. RSO, which stands for the Robert Stigwood Organization, it should be remembered,…
Lalo Schifrin – “The Mask of Sheba” (1970)
A good half of Lalo Schifrin’s film music has found its way to some sort of a release outside of the original film, including the composer’s most memorable scores for such films as Bullitt, Enter the Dragon. and after a whopping four decades later, Dirty Harry, But apart from his TV work on “Mission: Impossible”…
The 10 Best Lalo Schifrin Soundtracks
While pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Lalo Schifrin got his start in jazz, he was best known for his extensive work in film and TV. Indeed, the composer scored over 100 films and TV programs, and countless episodes in his half-century Hollywood career. Schifrin, who passed away on June 26, 2025, at the age of…
Lalo Schifrin – “Che!” (1969)
Although the 1969 feature film Che! is unremarkable and not particularly memorable, it boasts a superb score by the legendary composer Lalo Schifrin that is as exceptional as it is timeless. The controversial Che! dramatized the rise of Cuban revolutionaries Ernesto Che Guevara (Omar Sharif) and Fidel Castro (perennial movie baddie Jack Palance) as they…