Make-a-soundtrack: hypothetical Tarantino Swinging London movie...

Awesome, Thunderball is Perfect! Almost too perfect....

 

Salena Jones with the Keith Mansfield orchestra

 

*cracks knuckles*. Okay, it’s time for me, the guy who started this thread; to pull my guns and keep the train ‘a rollin’ all night long. Here’s my selection of hits, odds and ends to curate the grooviest, furthest-out hypothetical movie soundtrack set to Carnaby London in the late-‘60s.

1. Empty Heart by The Rolling Stones
2. War Or Hands Of Time by The Masters Apprentice
3. I Know There’s An Answer by The Beach Boys
4. Mr. Carpenter by The Fox
5. Time Will Tell by The Kinks
6. He’s Got No Love by The Searchers
7. Imposters Of Life’s Magazine by The Idle Race
8. Sunshine Superman by Donovan
9. Look Through Any Window by The Hollies
10. Come Again by Billy Nicholls
11. Run Much Faster by Matchbox
12. Little Girl by John Mayall & The Blues Breakers
13. Bee-Side by Tintern Abbey
14. She Was Perfection by Murray The Head
15. Love by Virgin Sleep
16. Red Chair Fade Away by The Bee Gees
17. Mr. Evasion by The Pretty Things
18. Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire by The Small Faces
19. Love-Maker by Calum Bryce
20. Grocer Jack (Excerpt From A Teenage Opera) by Mark Wirtz
21. Fredereek Hernando by One In A Million
22. Painting Box by The Incredible String Band
23. I’m So Glad by Cream
24. ‘ Cello Song by Nick Drake
25. Do You Like Worms by The Beach Boys
26. London Boys by David Bowie
27. Can You See Me by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
28. Home And Away by Humble Pie
29. Life Is Just Beginning by The Creation
30. Lazy Old Sun by The Kinks
31. Woman Of Distinction by Caleb Quaye
32. Another Game by Grapefruit
33. Let Me Love You by The Jeff Beck Group
34. I Can Hear The Grass Grow by The Move
35. Crawdaddy Simone by The Syndicats
36. Boris The Spider by The Who
37. If You Think You’re Groovy by P.P. Arnold & The Small Faces
38. Pink, Purple, Yellow And Red by The Sorrows
39. Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd
40. Night Time Girl by Twice As Much

 

Alma Cogan - I Knew Right Away (1964) [featuring an uncredited Paul McCartney on Tambourine I believe].

 

England Swings - Roger Miller
It’s A Sign Of The Times - Petula Clark
Doctor Robert - Beatles

 

Great list! Gotta look up a number of them. The ones I know are sounding like a great fit.

Here’s one

 

Make-a-soundtrack: hypothetical Tarantino Swinging London movie...

I'll take a stab at it...
Under the cascading light of a full moon I have consulted my Ouija board... slowly but surely my planchette has revealed the following details...
-- Quentin Tarantino's new movie, "Honeymoon in Hackney", is a revisionist gangster flick set in Swinging London in 1969 and tells the alternate history story of the Great Train Robbery.
A team of gangsters from London's East End plot to rob £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London. One of their team members is a struggling washed-up East End stage actor with mob ties who has tried but failed to break into the motion picture industry & another member is an undercover policeman who risks his life as an informant trying to bring these criminals to justice. After the robbery, the gang hide out at Leatherslade Farm in Aylesbury and the police are soon tipped off as to the whereabouts of this hideout. A fierce 'Tarantino-esque' shootout soon follows, with some gang members killed & some making a clean getaway. The soundtrack of this film is a follows... --

Without any doubt the opening music has to be The Shadows - Apache, this sets the overall tone of the film perfectly...

1 ; The Shadows - Apache
2 ; Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over
3 ; Adam Faith & The Roulettes - Only One Such As You
4 ; The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampire
5 ; Dusty Springfield - Easy Evil
6 ; Engelbert Humperdinck - A Man Without Love
7 ; The Chris Barber Band - Cat Call
8 ; The Merseys - Sorrow
9 ; Lulu - Try To Understand
10 ; Tom Jones - Ring Of Fire
11 ; Linda Thorson - Better Than Losing You
12 ; The Tornados - Jungle Fever
13 ; Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
14 ; Sandie Shaw - Reviewing The Situation
15 ; Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
16 ; The Nightmares - Greyhound
17 ; Georgie Flame and the Blue Flames - Yeh, Yeh
18 ; The Zombies - She's Not There
19 ; The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - Play With Fire
20 ; Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
21 ; David Bowie - Janine
22 ; Cream - I'm So Glad
23 ; The Tornados - Telstar (End Credits Music)

 

It’s Not Unusual - Tom Jones
Georgy Girl - Seekers
Mellow Yellow- Donovan
A Well Respected Man - Kinks
My Little Red Book - Manfred Mann
A Hard Day’s Night - Beatles
I’m Free - Rolling Stones
Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) - George Martin & His Orchestra

 

At The Scene - DC5

 

That "Arthur" sound

 

OK! I compiled a 53 song playlist for this - CURRENTLY- fictitious movie by Tarantino about Swinging London in the 60’s.

Basically, a 3 disc Soundtrack comprised of mostly British artists, circa mid to late 60’s.

This was way too much fun! Some songs I knew from release, some discovered over the years, some were directly selected or inspired by your suggestions and some were the results of recent research.

Feel free to copy it And adjust to make it your own by additions , deletions.

If this thread, it’s subject or 60’s Music is of interest - give it a listen!


Tarantino's Swinging 60's London, a playlist by zkiwi on Spotify

QT PM me ! LOL!

 

........and of course- please continue to share your ong selections!

 

Here’s one of the softer songs from the era that made my Soundtrack from Marianne Faithful.
Beautiful.

 

All-Kinks, all the time.

 

I don't know about the rest of the movie, but the super dramatic long push or tracking shot at the end symbolizing the 60's moving into the 70's has to be done to the last chorus of The Real Me by The Who.

Actually, that might be more of a Scorsese move.

 

My first thought was England Swings by Roger Miller, which has already been suggested.

So, another Everly number, The Price of Love. It was actually a big hit in Britain.

 

I put this on the Soundtrack.

 

Maybe it could just use the same soundtrack as The Limey:


The Limey [Original Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic

 

Nice one.
Maybe a song or two, but let’s do much better.

 

This made my Soundtrack

See post # 86 for Spotify link of 53 songs

Great track.

 

Spotify Playlist ALERT!

Made and posted a 53 - song playlist , based on “Swinging London” in the 60’s, If Tarantino made a movie of it and made a Soundtrack for it.

Add, subtract from it, but enjoy it! Let us know what songs you select.

Here is the link:


Tarantino's Swinging 60's London, a playlist by zkiwi on Spotify

 

1. 
   
   
   I put up a 53 song Playlist on Spotify, I think you might like a lot of it!
   
   See link below:
   
   Tarantino's Swinging 60's London, a playlist by zkiwi on Spotify
   
   

 

Pink Floyd-Arnold Layne
The Electric Prunes-I Had To Much To Dream Last Night
The Doors-Strange Days
Tin Tin-Astral Taxi
The Hollies-Bus Stop
Gerry And The Pacemakers-Ferry Cross The Mercy
Manfredd Mann-Up The Junction
The Rolling Stones-Play With Fire
Simon And Garfunkel-Old Friends
The Hobbits-Dafodil Days
I'd explain the plot, and scenes attached to each song, but better you dream it up in your head.

 

Thank you so much! I will definitely get back to you on that.

 

Fleetwood mac - Albatross
T.rex - Telegram Sam