Roy Budd - "Diamonds" 1975

Investigando los favoritos de Mike Alway me he topado con esta maravilla. Es la canción que da título a una de las muchas bandas sonoras que compuso el inglés Roy Budd. Cantan el trío vocal -sonido Philadelphia- The Three Degrees. 100 % Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick

(From Blaxploitation.com): Only issued in Italy (as 'Colpa Da Un Miliardo Di Dollari', shown here) and the UK, this is without doubt Budd's finest soundtrack. Elements of his earlier work can be clearly heard in the Middle Eastern segments of the LP and use of distinctive instrumentation. The album features music from a surprisingly good heist movie starring Richard Roundtree, shot in Israel. Many of the best tracks were not included in the movie. The album contains raw funk ('The Thief'), jazz ('Party Piece'), an easy listening-with-wah bossa nova ('Brauty And The Bass') and a sentimental soulful theme by the Three Degrees in addition to some excellent atmospheric Eastern-influenced tracks. Look out for Budd's trademark use of deep bass to underpin his dark, menacing funk themes. Quite superb.

(from http://www.cherryred.co.uk/el/artists/roybudd.htm: Roy Budd is best known for his brilliant score for the Michael Caine gangster movie 'Get Carter' one of the most popular British films of modern times and one that is regularly shown on television and spoken of both as Caine's best. Roy Budd was a virtuoso pianist often seen on British television in the sixties/early seventies when Budd was a major figure at the centre of the London jazz/mod scene. Like the voices of Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield, Budd's piano is one of the distinctive sounds of the sixties and this album should be classified soundtrack first, then pop/lounge, then jazz.