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Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
The best thing about this movie!!
Interesting that a film like this would contain what I feel is the make-up of the most definitive Bossa Nova singer and jazz sideman ever in history!! Astrud Gilberto with her drier than a dustbowl martini voice...beautiful; the illustrious and late great Stan Getz on tenor, Gary Burton vibes (Berklee School of Music VP), Gene Cherico, bass, and Joe Hunt, drums...Buy the movie just for "The Girl From Ipanema"!! Well worth it!! Musical history!! I've met Astrud after a Midwest concert--she's as wonderful and unassuming in person as is her sweet, sparkling voice!! The best recorded rendition of "Girl From.." is the 1964 recording from Greenwich Village in New York city.
The Killers (1964)
Interest fact re Ronald Reagan
This was Reagan's last movie....In the closing scene, you will recognize the Universal Studios back-lot, if you've ever taken the tour.
Interestingly, from a musical perspective, Nancy Wilson does a fine job interpreting a Henry Mancini original "live" on film in a club...Music by "Johnny" Williams (of course, 'John' Williams) of later "Star Wars" and other great film scores. This film was shot during his "jazz" days. Williams is a fabulous jazz pianist, a fact that many fans are not aware of. Angie Dickinson and John Cassavettes appear in other Lee Marvin films, (Dickinson-"Point Blank" and Cassavettes-"The Dirty Dozen"). The music of this era of 'film-noir' is always dark, jazzy, and intriguing. Check out the music of "M-Squad" (Stanley Wilson), a late 50's, early 60's cop thriller also starring Lee Marvin.