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Various Artists - The Magic Christian

Track listing:
  1. Introduction Ken Thorne
  2. Come And Get It Badfinger
  3. Hamlet Scene Ken Thorne
  4. Hunting Scene Ken Thorne
  5. Carry On To Tomorrow Badfinger
  6. Lill Marlene Ken Thorne
  7. Flip Your Wig Ken Thorne
  8. Magic Christian Waltz Ken Thorne
  9. Come And Get It Ken Thorne
  10. Rock Of Ages Badfinger
  11. Newsreel March Music Ken Thorne
  12. Mad About The Boy Peter Sellers
  13. Something In The Air Thunderclap Newman

Notes

This is the original motion picture soundtrack to the British comic film, The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr and directed by Joseph McGrath. The score by Ken Thorne (who also did Help!) consists mostly of incidental music played under scenes in the movie and included here with dialogue, such as bump-and-grind music played along with a moment in the film in which Laurence Harvey plays the "To be or not to be" soliloquy in Hamlet as a strip routine. Also included, Sellers singing Noel Coward's "Mad About The Boy," the ubiquitous "Something In The Air," by Thunderclap Newman (which seemed to be in just about every counterculture movie made in the early '70s) and three numbers by Beatles proteges Badfinger including their debut hit, "Come And Get It," although the haunting "Carry On To Tomorrow" is also notable.