Hugo Montenegro - Lady in Cement (1968)
Time for another album share here at Ultra Swank, this time featuring the groovy beats and melodies of Hugo Montenegro. This is the original soundtrack to the movie Lady in Cement starring Frank Sinatra as a private eye working in the swank (and not so swank) settings of Miami, Florida in the late 1960s. The movie is pretty nice, not a very original story - but you get to see some interesting locations. Such as the same great looking hotel that was featured in the James Bond movie Goldfinger made four years earlier.
The music is mostly upbeat with some groovy guitars and basslines, but there are also some laidback lounge type songs such as "The Shark" and "Again". The sound quality on the original vinyl was dull and had alot of pops and clicks. So I took the time to clean up all the songs and remastered all of them all in crisp, clear digital sound. Enjoy!
01) Lady in Cement
02) Jilly's Joint
03) Kit
04) Love is a many - Splendored Thing
05) Yales Pool Room
06) The Shark
07) Tony's Theme
08) Give Me the Simple Life
09) Rubys Burlesque
10) Again
11) Sugar Seymour
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Posted at 4:34 AM | 7 comments | links to this post 
My name is Chris and I live in Sweden. I love the 50s and 60s lifestyle and design. I am very fascinated by the architecture of the period too, for instance googie, modernism, the work of Joseph Eichler, John Lautner and Arne Jacobsen's international style. I have a large archive with space-age, library, bossa, cocktail, retro soundtracks and exotica music. I also believe that things were better in the old days.
7 Comments:
Läcker blog! Hit kommer jag definitivt åter. Utmärkt layout. En hel del Jacques Tati över det hela.
June 25, 2006 11:15 PM
Tackar, alltid kul när folk uppskattar det man gör!
June 26, 2006 12:30 AM
This soundtrack is awesome but didn't care for the movie so much. The first movie "Tony Rome" is much much better but there was no soundtrack. The setting is the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. They did use "background footage" of this hotel in Goldfinger. Here is a link for the hotel it was recently renovated so it's lost its 50's look. It was designed by the great architect Morris Lapidus and built in 1954.
http://www.fontainebleau.com/
June 29, 2006 3:03 PM
Bare for fedt. Thanks, I'm rockin' out in my Palm Springs pad now thanks to you! - Jon (http://www.desertmodernism.com/blacklagoon/)
July 3, 2006 4:27 AM
an excellent album chris, please visit me as I've got some rather choice retro music too.
Regards, George
July 15, 2006 7:14 PM
My girlfriend in high school had a cameo in "Lady in Cement". She was a girl in a phone booth. Her father ran the sound system for some of Sinatra's shows in Las Vegas. I never got to meet Sinatra, but we did get free tickets to a few rock concerts.
Nice blog! The views of Sweden are facsinating to me.
Marble River
August 2, 2006 6:42 AM
thanks for sharing this great soundtrack by a master Montenegro! :) Anyone know who plays in the band on this album? Like the searing guitar lines???
June 5, 2007 3:22 AM
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