An addition to our ongoing series of 50s soundtracks on 12-inch LPs. This time we have 1957's The Strange One, an interesting, jazzy Kenyon Hopkins score for a film about hazing in a Southern military academy. Ben Gazzara is the title character. The title music is one of the best jazz-influenced tunes of the time, with a sinister edge that suits the film's theme very well.
Technical note for those who care about such things: as sometimes happens with records of this vintage, the sleeve says it should be played back with RIAA preemphasis, but the record actually seems to have been processed with NAB preemphasis, which I've used for the transfer. Nice sound on this one - the record had never been played.
REMASTERED VERSION
