Music for a Private Eye
Download links and information about Music for a Private Eye by Ralph Marterie. This album was released in 1959 and it belongs to Pop genres. It contains 10 tracks with total duration of 25:55 minutes.
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| Artist: | Ralph Marterie |
| Release date: | 1959 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Tracks: | 10 |
| Duration: | 25:55 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | M Squad | 2:51 |
| 2. | Perry Mason | 3:01 |
| 3. | Richard Diamond | 1:42 |
| 4. | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 2:36 |
| 5. | The Thin Man | 1:49 |
| 6. | 77 Sunset Strip | 2:44 |
| 7. | Private Eye | 3:29 |
| 8. | The D.A's Man | 2:02 |
| 9. | Riff Blues | 3:13 |
| 10. | Peter Gunn | 2:28 |
Details
[Edit]Most of Ralph Marterie's Mercury albums were big-band dance records, but Music for a Private Eye is something different — a concept album comprised of themes from detective movies and televisions shows. The cover shot is a classic, with a trench-coated Marterie lighting a cigarette (his group is called the Marlboro Men) while a couple of painted ladies loiter around a streetlight. The musical selections include "Perry Mason," "77 Sunset Strip," "Peter Gunn," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," and "Riff Blues" (the theme from Mike Hammer), arranged by Pete Rugolo and Skip Martin with more drama and cinematic flair than Marterie's typical dance tunes. Marterie works in his usual horn solos, particularly on the lone original "Private Eyeball," which doesn't sound very much like sleuthing music. Music for a Private Eye is a very well-recorded stereo album that makes one wish that Marterie had strayed from his dance band format more often and recorded other thematic albums.