CD REVIEW - NON C E DUE SENZA QUATTRO


NON C E DUE SENZA QUATTRO
Music by Franco Micalizzi
Beat Records CDCR 81 (Italy)
13 Tracks 31:54 mins

This 1984 action comedy vehicle for the popular Terence Hill and Bud Spencer features a score by Franco Micalizzi, whose music is at last getting the overdue attention it deserves, with numerous recent CD releases, this being the latest.
The film finds Hill and Spencer as two lookalikes for wealthy Brazilian cousins under threat of death. Action and comedy of course ensue.
Micalizzi's score is of course reflective of the film's setting, the album commencing in fine samba style with the catchy song "What's Going On In Brazil," featuring lyrics by Albert Douglas Meakin. "The Mysterious Man," another, more suspenseful, variation of which appears later on the album, follows on in the same rhythmic style, giving way to the synthesized caliope waltz stylings of "Flying Carousel." This is followed by a bossanova instrumental version of the opening song, labeled the "Double Trouble Theme," which is also given jazz band and samba-styled instrumental treatments later in the disc. A kind of variation on the theme can also be heard in the easy source-like "Mississipi Dream," with its clarinet lead.
A change of pace and style arrives with the easy listening pop stylings, complete with subtle contributions from a wordless vocal group, of "A Guy With It's Pretty Girls." "Hear It Tonight" is a disco dance number, very much of its time, and again the vocal group subtly feature.
The album concludes with a sax-lead samba version of the "Double Trouble Theme."
Accompanying this tuneful and enjoyable disc is a colourful 8-page booklet, featuring stills and poster artwork from the film, together with notes (including a comment from the composer) in both Italian and English. Go to www.beatrecords.it for information on all the label's fine releases.