Les Baxter's Jewels of the Sea
As the LP Cover says, "Titillating Orchestrations for Listening and Loving"... well I for one AM titillated after these deep sea adventures of Mr. Baxter's.
The music here is lush and very cinematic. Its like a soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist!
Jewels of the Sea stars Steve McQueen as "Decker" and Ernest Borgnine as his bumbling sidekick, "Spence". Its the tale of two lovelorn sailors on leave on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu. One night, after breaking up a fight at the local cantina, these two meet a beautiful woman wading in the water. As they approach her, a thick, mysterious fog rolls in and when it clears, the woman is gone. Thinking her drowned, Decker dives in tries to save her and he too is pulled down by the tide. What he sees next, he can't believe! Is he hallucinating from a blow to the head that he received in the bar fight? Or, is the woman a mermaid who tells him that the military's presence is disturbing their otherwise tranquil underwater kingdom?Sounds like something I'd get in line for!
Also, I'm not sure if the girl on the cover is a mermaid or just a regular girl who can still look sexy while holding her breath? Though I guess it really doesn't matter!
RATING: 3.5 sea monkeys out of a possible 5
I poked a giant starfish and picked it up on the sand bar, at Bar Harbor, Me. this summer. It let go some spiky things that made my hands itch. you can poke em....but do not hold em.
ReplyDeleteGood advice... thanks!
ReplyDelete