a&r [editorial coordination] Elizabeth Pavone a&r [editorial coordination] Ted Myers art direction Hugh Brown compilation producer Warren Kolodny design, illustration Steve Vance liner notes Jimmy Botticelli liner notes [discographical annotation] Gary Peterson liner notes [discographical annotation] Michael Wesley Johnson liner notes [editorial research] Daniel Goldmark remastered by Chris Clarke remastered by Dan Hersch supervised by [editorial supervision] Julee Stover supervised by [project supervisor] James Austin supervised by [project supervisor] Patrick Milligan Record Company BMG Entertainment Phonographic Copyright (p) BMG Special Products Copyright (c) Rhino Entertainment Company Manufactured By BMG Special Products Remastered At DigiPrep Glass Mastered At Sonopress USA #1: From The Motion Picture “The Wild One”. From the EP “The Wild One” (Original Soundtrack), RCA Victor #EPA-535 (1954) (On first pressings, both the title of the selection and the EP that it came from were titled “Hot Blood”, the planned name for the film before it was changed to “The Wild One”.)
#2: From The Motion Picture “The Man With The Golden Arm”. From the Album “The Man With The Golden Arm” (Original Soundtrack), Decca #DL-8257 (1956).
#3: From The Television Series “Johnny Staccato”. From the Album “Double Impact”, RCA Victor #LSP-2180 (1960).
#4: From the Album “Murder, Inc.”, Time/Series 2000 #S-2002 (1960).
#5: From The Motion Picture “Touch Of Evil”. From the Album “Touch Of Evil” (Original Soundtrack), Challenge #CHL-602 (1958).
#6: From The Motion Picture “The Young Savages”. From the Album “The Young Savages” (Original Soundtrack), Columbia #CS-8472 (1961).
#7: From The Musical Show “West Side Story”. From the Album “Kenton's West Side Story”, Capitol #ST-1609 (1961).
#8, #12: From The Television Series “77 Sunset Strip”. From the Album “77 Sunset Strip”, Warner Bros. #WS-1289 (1959).
#9: From The Motion Picture “Private Hell 36”. From the Album “Private Hell” (Original Soundtrack), Coral #CRL-56122 (1954).
#10: From The Motion Picture “Sweet Smell Of Success”. From the Album “Sweet Smell Of Success” (Original Soundtrack), Decca #DL-8610 (1957).
#11: From The Television Series “Richard Diamond”. From the Album “Impact”, RCA Victor #LSP-2042 (1959).
#13: From The Television Series “Peter Gunn”. From the Album “Quincy Jones Explores The Music Of Henry Mancini”, Mercury #SR-60863 (1964).
#14: From The British Television Series “Echo Four-Two”. From the Album “TV Thriller Themes”, Philips #PHS-600-027 (1962).
#15: From The Motion Picture “The Hustler”. From the Album “The Hustler” (Original Soundtrack), Kapp #KS-3264 (1961).
#16: From The Television Series “Mike Hammer”. From the Album “The Music From Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer”, RCA Victor #LSP-2140 (1959).
#17: From The Television Series “M Squad”. From the Album “The Music From M Squad”, RCA Victor #LSP-2062 (1959).
#18: From The Television Series “Naked City”. From the Album “TV Action Jazz!”, RCA/Camden #CAS-522 (1959).
Photos: Courtesy of MGM Consumer Product, BMG, Ron Lief & Gary Fuchs, Michael Ochs Archives. Archival Materials (for research purposes) courtesy of Brother Cleve, Fred Bohn/The Attic Record Store, Pittsburgh, PA; Colete & Paul Mawhinney/Record-Rama; Steve Alper, Pat McGrath, Stereo Jack Woker.
This project is dedicated to the memory of Warren Kolodny.