The films in the festival spotlight an astonishing array of British and American music-makers. In most cases the musicians are involved playing on the soundtrack or as a composer. Some of them are also seen performing - in living Technicolor! So - check out the movies featuring your favorites!

Some of the musicians are associated with more than one film in the festival - and you can check out each film.

There are capsule descriptions to provide background on some of the musicians - particularly those who have had a lower profile in recent years - or who never achieved the highest pinnacles of fame.

Herb Alpert &The Tijuana Brass

Casino Royale

Burt Bacharach

Casino Royale
What's New Pussycat?

John Barry

The brilliant composer/arranger associated with the James Bond movies. (Little-known trivia: Barry did not actually write the distinctive Bond theme - he was that tune's arranger. Composer was a chap called Monty Norman.) Barry DID compose or co-write most of the subsequent Bond scores and theme songs.
Beat Girl

Don Black

Talented lyricist. His work includes "To Sir With Love" and he co-wrote the show "Aspects of Love" with Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Work Is A 4-Letter Word

Cilla Black

The cloakroom gal at Liverpool's Cavern Club was a pal of the Beatles and under the skillful handling of Beatles manager Brian Epstein became a hugely successful pop singer. Paul McCartney wrote songs for her "Love Of The Loved," "It's For You" and "Step Inside Love" and she recorded the original theme song for the movie "Alfie" amid her recordings of many other Bacharach-David songs. George Martin produced and Burt Bacharach arranged and conducted the recording.
Work Is A 4-Letter Word

Country Joe & The Fish

Captain Milkshake
Revolution

Bob Crewe

A major writer-producer in the 60's and 70's. Greatly responsible for success of the Four Seasons ("Sherry" and "Rag Doll") and Frankie Valli hits such as "My Eyes Adored You." In the 70's wrote and produced hits for Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes among many.
Barbarella

Johnny Dankworth

One of the pioneers of British modern jazz with pals Ronnie Scott and Benny Green. Wrote and recorded numerous jazz suites combining jazz with classical and pop themes. Created scores for noted films such as "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning" and "The Servant." Married to jazz singer Cleo Laine.
Modesty Blaise
Morgan!

Hal David

The genius wordsmith behind Burt Bacharach.
Casino Royale
What's New Pussycat?

David and Jonathan

A two-hit wonder - the David & Jonathan name was actually a performing outlet for two of the UK's most prolific songwriters - Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. They penned "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" for The Hollies, "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" (for The New Seekers and Coca-Cola - not necessarily in that order!) and hits for Gene Pitney, Engelbert Humperdinck, Blue Mink and many others. David & Jonathan released the first single version of the Beatles' "Michelle" and had a huge UK hit with it in early 1966.
Modesty Blaise

Duran Duran (!!)

The heroes of Britain's new romantic movement are NOT featured in this movie - or in this festival. But they are listed because they took their name from the Milo O'Shea character in "Barbarella."
Barbarella

John Fahey

Utterly brilliant American acoustic guitarist - blending folk, blues, jazz and country sources into his own unique style.
Zabriskie Point

Adam Faith

Pre-Beatle era English teen idol - with clean-cut looks. Vocally - a British Buddy Holly - complete with hiccoughing vocals. In terms of success, second only to Cliff Richard in the early 60's. His mid-60's beat-group persona featured a backing group The Roulettes which featured future Argent members Russ Ballard and Bob Henrit. In the early 70's Faith (who was born Terry Nelhams) discovered and produced rock singer Leo Sayer. He became a successful actor - teaming up with David Essex in the 1974 retro pop story "Stardust."
Beat Girl

Marianne Faithfull

This little bird was a discovery of original Stones manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham. She became his songbird after she had become Mick Jagger's regular 'bird' - 60's parlance for a girlfriend. Her initial tunes were waif-like ballads such as "This Little Bird" and Jagger-Richards' "As Tears Go By." In the 80's she reinvented herself as an Edith Piaf for the post-rock era. But whatever her musical style - she has always looked great in black leather!
Girl On A Motorcycle
I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name

Jerry Garcia

The Grateful Dead guitarist was a huge movie buff - and he recorded several solo guitar improvisations for this movie. All the surviving versions can be heard on the excellent Rhino Records soundtrack album for this movie.
Zabriskie Point

David Gilmour

Zabriskie Point

The Glitterhouse

The group used by music producer Bob Crewe to record the songs he wrote for the Barbarella soundtrack. They were under contract to Crewe at the time - and recorded all the songs in New York.
Barbarella

Jerry Goldsmith

Very successful and prolific movie composer. He graduated from TV - where he had written themes for Dr. Kildare, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. His top movie scores include The Omen, Chinatown, Star Trek, Papillon, Gremlins, Rambo.
Sebastian

Grateful Dead

Zabriskie Point

Benny Green

Highly-respected British jazz composer, musician and journalist. Frequent collaborator with Johnny Dankworth.
Modesty Blaise

Anita Harris

English balladeer who had chart success with schmaltzy songs - quite incongruously in the middle of the halcyon hippie-dippy days of 1967. Managed at the time by one "Harvey Fried" - who later changed his name and became Brian Lane - manager of progressive art-rock band Yes. (Usually its the artists who change their name and image. Fried-Lane pioneered the manager makeover.)
Sebastian

Paul Jones

Original lead singer of Manfred Mann. He sang on the Manfred Mann recording of Bacharach-David's "My Little Red Book" for the "What's New Pussycat?" soundtrack - which was an inspiration for Love's 1967 cover of the song.
What's New Pussycat?

Tom Jones

What's New Pussycat?

Kaleidoscope

Captain Milkshake

Francis Lai

Prolific composer of movie scores for films such as "A Man And A Woman" "Three Into Two Won't Go" and most notably "Love Story" - for which he won the Academy Award.
I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name

Lovin' Spoonful

John Sebastian's group were highly-prized by filmmakers in the mid-60's. Woody Allen chose them for this 1966 spy spoof. And a young director named Francis Ford Coppola commissioned Sebastian to write the songs for his first film - "You're A Big Boy Now" - which resulted in a great soundtrack album with the Spoonful playing those songs.
What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Manfred Mann

The 1966 incarnation was the best-known lineup of this group formed by South African keyboard player Manfred Mann (who selflessly gave his name to the band!) A year later, singer Paul Jones split for a solo career and film stardom - to be replaced by Mike D'Abo (who later co-wrote "Handbags And The Gladrags" for Rod Stewart) That next version of Manfred Mann had hits with "Mighty Quinn" and "Ha Ha Said the Clown" - but nothing rivaled the earlier lineup. Interestingly - most of the members of the various lineups from the 60's now tour UK and Europe in a revival band - including both Jones and D'Abo. The key missing player is the dour Manfred Mann himself!
What's New Pussycat?

The Steve Miller Band

Captain Milkshake

Revolution

Mother Earth

Revolution

Stanley Myers

Film and classical composer - who later wrote "Cavatina" - otherwise known as "Theme From The Deerhunter"
Otley

Patti Page

Celebrated country star.
Zabriskie Point

Don Partridge

Don Partridge was briefly a phenomenon in late 60's Britain. He was a busker - the English term for a street singer. He was also a one-man band. On his first TV appearances promoting his first single "Rosie" - viewers were startled to see a man playing acoustic guitar while simultaneously playing a drum on his back (he used beaters attached to his elbows!) Partridge followed up his top five debut with an even stronger tune - "Blue Eyes" which was another top five hit. At this point he announced his intention of creating a package tour of himself and other itinerant buskers and street singers. A sort of Lillith Fair of street singers.... a Busker-palooza.... It worked perfectly... Within months the idea - and his career had collapsed! Shame really - because his songs were very good. This was his only film soundtrack.
Otley

Pink Floyd

Zabriskie Point

Quicksilver Messenger Service

San Francisco acid-rock band who were contemporaries of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Legendary British keyboards player Nicky Hopkins joined the group in the late 60's and became a key member.
Captain Milkshake
Revolution

Les Reed

English songwriter - who with revolving partners Barry Mason, Geoff Stephens and Tony Macaulay churned out a succession of catchy pop hits in the 60's. "It's Not Unusual," "Delilah," "There's A Kind Of Hush," "The Last Waltz" and "Love Grows." This was one of several soundtrack scores he wrote.
Girl On A Motorcycle

The Sandells

Popular surf group of the era.
The Endless Summer

John Sebastian

The brilliant autoharp-playing leader of the Lovin' Spoonful was also the group's principal writer. He composed the songs for their two movie soundtracks. His solo hits include "Welcome Back" - the theme song of "Welcome Back Kotter"
What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Dusty Springfield

The glorious original diva of British pop-soul singers. Gone now - but gloriously unforgettable.
Casino Royale

Rolling Stones

Zabriskie Point

Dionne Warwick

What's New Pussycat?

The Youngbloods

West coast-based folk-rock band originally from New York. Biggest hit was "Get Together" ("Everybody get together try to love one another right now...") a somewhat naive philosophy given that it was released just as Richard Nixon became President.
Zabriskie Point