Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra "Come Spy With Me" 2004

Pretty good covers of themes from 1960s Spy Movies and Hugo Montenegro's original composition "Come Spy with Me".

What a great collection of classic spy music. The one drawback is that the selections are entirely out of order! I'm not sure there's a single track here that is labeled correctly in the liner notes, so if you're unfamiliar with these musical gems just be aware that most if not all are out of sequence. I am planning to keep this among my prized CD's, but will have to go through the trouble of re-sorting to match the track numbers to their actual corresponding pieces. That having been said, there's not much to dislike about this album. Yes, the James Bond theme send-up is a little weak--too much synthesizer, not enough guitar. All else is great. And the overweening irony is that the best selection of all, in my humble opinion, is Montenegro's own composition, the titular "Come Spy With Me." What a towering accomplishment that one is. It may not exceed but certainly approaches the stirring quality of the far better-known Mission Impossible theme. - Pen Scepter

trax:
01 Secret Agent Man 02 Theme From I Spy 03 Theme From The F.B.I. 04 Thunderball 05 The Silencers 06 Get Smart Theme 07 Come Spy With Me 08 Goldfinger 09 Theme From The Spy Who Came In 10 Our Man Flint 11 The James Bond Theme