This is the work of Syd Dale - no big hit singles, although this would have clearly made it somewhere. Just someone who worked in the field of what is now known as Film Library Music. Back in the day, when Independent films were usually SKIN-dependent films (or just general Exploitation) and there was some spaces needed to be filled up in the sound, the Director or some lackey would go to some studio where they had libraries of music where you could throw down some $ for music to be used in your movie. In a way, these sounds seriously made the flick apart from some delicious sights you saw (but did not tell your wife!!!). The Roughies used the best music - usually exciting, as seedy as the streets they played on, and at times using great Classical pieces (This would be a tip of the hat to Mike and Roberta Findlay, possibly the best Roughie film makers of the 60's - Don't be fooled by their crap 70's Horrors, they were excellent and ultra sleazy in The 60's).
I loved a lot of the music that was thrown into these films. Seriously unsung in my book!!!
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