Shots in the Dark

Shots in the Dark Artist: Various Artists
Label: Donna Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 714997211324
EAN: 0714997211324
ASIN: B000003QSW


Release Date: 1996-04-02

Shots in the Dark


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Tracks:

  1. Banzai Pipeline - The Boardwalkers
  2. Baby Elephant Walk - The Jigsaw Seen
  3. Peter Gunn Theme - Poison Ivy (Of The Cramps)
  4. Charade (Instrumental) - The Blue Hawaiians
  5. Something For Cat - Four Piece Suit
  6. Mr. Lucky - Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods
  7. The Pink Panther Theme - Oranj Symphonette
  8. Lonesome - Friends Of Dean Martinez
  9. The Party - The Wondermints
  10. Monkey Farm - The Tiki Tones
  11. A Shot In The Dark - Whiskey Biscuit
  12. Touch Of Evil - Man or Astroman?
  13. Days Of Wine And Roses - Wonderful World Of Joey
  14. Dreamsville - Br. Cleve & His Lush Orchestra
  15. Push The Button, Max! - Del Noah & The Mt. Ararat Finks
  16. Charade (Vocal) - Farina
  17. Mr. Yunioshi - Insect Surfers
  18. Arabesque - The Huntington Cads
  19. Experiment In Terror - Davie Allan & The Arrows
  20. Moon River - Nan Vernon
  21. Untitled Track # 21 - Artist Not Available

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Album Description

1996 release (featuring the lovely Rose McGowan on front & back covers) on Donna Records/Del-Fi, a full color picture CD featuring '90s surf & instrumental acts covering 20 of Mancini's finest and best known. Includes Poison Ivy (of The Cramps 'Peter Gunn Theme', The Blue Hawaiians 'Charade', Wonderful World Of Joey 'Days Of Wine And Roses', Wiskey Biscuit 'A Shot In The Dark', Nan Vernon 'Moon River', Man Or Astroman? 'Touch Of Evil' & more.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Pink Colored Vinyl LP has just 15 tracks.......2007-04-29

The pink-colored vinyl LP has just 15 tracks: Side One: 1. Banzai Pipeline - Boardwalkers; 2. Baby Elephant Walk - The Jigsaw Seen; 3. Peter Gunn - Poison Ivy of the Cramps; 4. Monkey Farm - Tiki Tones; 5. Charade [Instrumental] - The Blue Hawaiians; 6. Lonesome - Friends of Dean Martinez ; 7. Arabesque - The Huntington Cads; 8. Push the Button, Max! - Del Noah & The Mt. Ararat Finks; Side Two: 1. Shot in the Dark - Wiskey Biscuit; 2. Touch of Evil - Man or Astro-man?; 3. Mr. Yunioshi - Insect Surfers; 4. Experiment in Terror - Davie Allan & The Arrows; 5. Mr. Lucky - Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods; 6. Pink Panther Theme - Oranj Symphonette; 7. Moon River - Nan Vernon

5 out of 5 stars The music box played on.......2004-05-26

This is one of the best tribute albums ever released. It features "hip" young musicians interpreting the music of Henry Mancini. This CD is just plain fun. The songs are played in a variety of styles, with 16 instrumentals and four vocals. Mancini wrote some of the best melodies of his time period, and these performers give an exciting new spin to his material. This is far removed from Andy Williams! It's hard to pick a favorite, because there are so many good tracks here, but special mention has to go to Nan Vernon, who sings an absolutely mesmerizing version of "Moon River". There is also an unlisted bonus track where she sings the song in Japanese. I highly recommend this CD.

5 out of 5 stars A Mindblower!.......2003-02-18

Stumbled across this CD in a used record store years ago and the cover and title caught my eye. Being familiar with a previous Del-Fi compilation album of this sort, "Pulp Surfin" (a conscious, semi-irreverent knock-off of the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack which is well worth the purchase itself) my interest was piqued enough for me to lay out a few bucks for this. It was, without a doubt, the best spur of the moment, "what the hell", blindly optimistic music purchase of my life.

This is one of the most addicting albums ever recorded and though the songs were around thirty years old when this was released it was by far the freshest release of 1996, perhaps the entire decade.

Henry Mancini's songs remain theoretically intact but are presented in such a different context, mostly a hard edged, surf rock reverb guitar meets late 50's space-age, bachelor-pad swing sound, that it instantly became one of the most ambitious tribute albums ever contemplated. There are plenty of musical quirks that would seem absurd but work to perfection: a laughing clown (don't ask) in the midst of "The Pink Panther Theme", a "space phone" (again, don't ask) on "Lonesome", and best of all, actual vintage NASA transmissions floating through the mesmerizing "Dreamsville". Each group went out on a limb with their interpretations and somehow it pulled together to form a cohesive and deviously entertaining whole.

Unlike many instrumental albums, either compilations or by a single group, the songs don't all blend into one another. Each is unique unto itself and the album is aided by three vocal tracks, all sung with a sort of half-drunk casual lounge cool, that further serve to break up the flow nicely, with the most haunting version of "Moon River" ever heard to close the album out. Add to the mix excellent packaging, great liner notes with background on Mancini, plus bios and pics of each of the performers and how they approached these songs, and you have an indispensable album. If I could recommend one CD that most people, regardless of overall music taste and knowledge, probably never heard of, this would be it. However you came across this, accept it as fate and buy a copy.

Listen with the lights off as you go to sleep and you're sure to have wild dreams tonight.

5 out of 5 stars Nice Interpretations! Mr. Lucky Worth Price of CD!.......2002-01-25

Well, considering that Mancini's "Mr. Lucky" remains out of print (RCA, wake up, duh) this is the best version of that wholly intoxicating tune on the planet. And it rocks!

Additionally, Nan Vernon's version of "Moon River" is downright affecting, as it sounds like it was rerecorded through a scratchy vinyl 45 playing on an old Wurlitzer jukebox (there's even a Japanese vocal version on the hidden track number 21).

World of Joey's "Days of Wine and Roses" detours for twenty seconds into a bit of needless camp, but he's got a great lounge voice, and those lyrics.... you can't beat 'em.

The Jetson's-like version of "Dreamsville" here could have been less gimmicky, but it's such a pretty tune that the approach works, anyway.

5 out of 5 stars

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