Dusty Springfield - Bacharach: Casino Royale Soundtrack

The Classic Hybrid DVD Audio Disc (HDAD) is a two-sided DVD disc with 24/192 PCM data playable on DVD Audio players on one side, and 24/96 PCM data playable on DVD Video players on the other side. The Classic HDAD is a truly universal DVD disc playable on all DVD players. So if you have a DVD video player, you can play the DVD Video side of the HDAD - insert the disc with the Blue center ring facing up and enjoy 24/96 playback resolution. On a DVD Audio player, simply flip the disc over with the Red ring facing up and enjoy 24/192 playback resolution.

One of the most debated and sought after audiophile titles that has graced many Top Ten high-end lists for decades. This quirky soundtrack, to the equally quirky James Bond spoof by director John Huston features the music and arrangements by the prolific and very hip Burt Bacharach. The highlight of the set is the breathy rendition by the late Dusty Springfield on The Look Of Love. The main theme and supporting incidental music by a young engineer, but soon to be super-producer Phil Ramone, is still stunning even thirty years later.

1. Casino Royale Theme

2. The Look of Love

3. Money Penny Goes for Broke

4. Le Chiffre's Torture of the Mind

5. Home James, Don't Spare The Horses

6. Sir James' Trip to find Mata

7. The Look of Love

8. Hi There Miss Goodthighs

9. Little French Boy

10. Flying Saucer - First Stop Berlin

11. The Venerable Sir James Bond

12. Dream On James,You're Winning

13. The Big Cowboys and Indians Fight At Casino Royale

14. Casino Royale Theme (Reprise)

Customer Reviews (4.50 Stars) 6 person(s) rated this product.

Fantastic posted on 02/21/2007 5 Stars What a wonderful album, it is so fun and sounds so great! Having never heard it before, I took a gamble (no pun intended) and it payed off big time. The instrumentals are exciting, inventive, and so uplifting- a true dose of acoustic happiness. Dusty Springfield's contribution is also extraordinary. Highly recommended, there most likely will not be a better transfer so just go for it.

Better first time? posted on 11/14/2006 5 Stars New Bond remake of this old, off-kilter classic movie due out soon. I doubt if the soundtrack will match this one's ,bright and bouncy take - all the more appreciated in a well remixed 5.1 version.

Maybe this just isn't my kind of music posted on 11/04/2006 3 Stars Reviewer: Cosmic Cowboy I bought this for the Dusty Springfield vocal on 'The Look of Love". Once again the engineers did a wonderful job of caputuring the sound of master tapes. However, this is a movie sound track and I don't think the quality of the original recording is all that great. It is not terrible, it's good enough for a movie theater, but when played at home with a high end home theater rig ... Well, I just was not enthused. I also have to admit this is not my favorite musical genre. Bottom line; I just feel that to expose the capabilities of HDAD it is better to start out with a higher quality recording. Do not misunderstand what I'm saying. This is not a 'bad' recording, but it is not an awesome recording.

Just how good can digital sound? posted on 03/29/2005 4 Stars For now this is it, easily the best two channel digital recording I have heard. Produced wonderful soundstage and amazing realistic qualities to the music and vocals. Gave it four stars for the fact that there are basically two songs on the disk (theme to the movie and look of love) the rest are instrumental repeats. Why can't they make more of these!

casino royale HDAD posted on 03/10/2005 5 Stars This has to be the closest in sound quality to my reel to reel and vinyl copy. A lot better than the 16 bit CD.

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