Vintage Scuba and Music...

[spiro]

This is perhaps one of the strangest association with vintage diving... vintage music. To me, the soundtrack of many of our dearest vintage diving shows were as influential as the video itself... think of violins flute arrangements in The Undersea World of J.C, the epic trumpets of Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom ( which portrayed great vintage diving gear... all Dacor )... 

Here's a couple example of what I consider 'epic' underwater album:



Thunderball.... soundtrack of the amazing James Bond movie.... It's hard not to imagine yourself wearing square trunks and diving among corals in the Bahamas... ideally accompanied by a stunning female diver wearing a vintage bikini...



Ron and Valerie Taylor produced this amazing TV series in 1972...  showcasing from white sharks to sea snakes... the music was simply spectacular .... great jazzy arrangements ... if you have Spotify... try to listen to this album... and think of a pair of baby blue rubber fins and an oval mask... if you can fix a cocktail to enhance the experience, even better!



Les Baxter was a great musician... composing and performing some of the finest pieces of exotica lounge music of all times... this album is enchanting and hallucinating... pure 1960's.... like with Sven Libaek... try listening this with a vintage cocktail on your right hand...


And finally.... another great piece of exotica lounge music... composed by the one and only, Martin Denny.... including:


A1 Trade Winds
A2 My Isle Of Golden Dreams
A3 Stardust
A4 Song Of The Islands
A5 Flotsam And Jetsam
A6 Beyond The Sea (Le Mer)
B1 Off Shore
B2 Sentimental Journey
B3 Beyond The Reef
B4 Baubles, Bangles And Beads
B5 Cross Current
B6 The Enchanted Sea

I'm looking to play all these album in my sailboat... while enjoying a nice rum cocktail, anchored on a quiet cove... and thinking of coral islands and vintage dives.

Cheers!

[DavidRitchieWilson]

"La Mer" (Beyond the Sea) may have been arranged by others, but the original words and music were written, composed and sung by France's great chanteur Charles Trenet. Here is his timeless rendering of his most memorable song:

[SeaRat]

I like John Denver's Calypso:



John

[nikeajax]

Speaking of Les Baxter: he did some work with Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman:





Though not titled with any kind of water names, these lush pieces could easily be used in an underwater scene...  I really love LB's arrangements!

JB

[cnotthoff]

Can't talk about scuba tunes without the Barefoot Man

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdPCik3Aa8

Good Dives,

Charlie

[SeaRat]

If this works, it will be great!



www.facebook.com/hashtag/singalong?source=feed_text&story_id=1639672706271975#

John

[nikeajax]

Okay, I know I'm being a dirty commie here, but ahhhhhh, how come ol' Jimmy ain't got now reg in his mouth or mask on his face?!?!?!?



Yeah, I know it's so's we kin tell it's him, but, it would have been even more dramatic to have said items falling off/away...

I know this will prolly get me kicked off the forum for bein' a stoopid-woos...

JB

[sitkadiver]

Well, since I got corked on my John Denver, here's something a little more modern:

[nikeajax]

Dave, that was a really sweet vid--10Q for sharing with us!

JB

[spiro]

Hey JB....in regards to the Thunderball Poster... it's a good point the one you have regarding James regulator... this pose was typical of the illustrator, Robert McGinnis, who was a western portrait illustrator and decided to work on movie posters and paper back covers... He's still alive and, recently did a piece of work for a Stella artois Ad.... s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/99/b8/c3/99b8c36accbf01e71b334406636c1faf.jpg

[nikeajax]

Spiro, interesting piece of art, if I didn't know any better, I'd swear it was from 1965! HUH--the more I think about it, the more I like it... I can't remember the last time I saw a piece of ad art that was done by hand...

HUH? I did a search for Pontiac Wide-Track and found this!!!!!!



Your advert reminded me of of the old Pontiac adverts, and I just happened to find one with dive gear

Jaybird

[nikeajax]

Okay Spiro--here ya go! More Robert McGinnis images...



Hey, is that Gene Hackman wearing my fave mask?



I just calling him Jimmy...

[nikeajax]

Gosh, that's not Gene Hackman, that's George C. Scott:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946/

I've never seen The Day of the Dolphin, but I just put it in my Netflix queue!

Jaybird

[nikeajax]

Oh, and I thought I'd toss these at ya:





Oh boy, Troy Tempest... okay, well the subs at least look cool at least!

JB

[tomcatpc]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRBczxmFec

Little Richard "Scuba Party"
In this clip it appears that he has had one too many "Heavy Far Outs" and was blasted out of his mind...I think that after this he turned his back on rock n roll and got right with the Lord?
Mark