If you want to hear the world’s most famous film composer write Arab go-go music, here’s your chance!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! is a 1965 comedy starring Richard Crenna, Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov. Crenna plays a U-2 pilot who crash lands in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia and is blackmailed into coaching the king’s football team in an exhibition game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Perhaps the film’s biggest claim to fame is that Notre Dame University sued in an attempt to block the film’s release, so offended were they by the picture’s raucous humor, racial stereotypes and ridiculous situations.

John Williams is not the only famous figure to be associated with the film—it was written by William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist). For Williams, it was par for the course of his early career, in which he labored for years on comedies, B-pictures, musicals and television pilots before establishing himself as the dean of American composers. Make no mistake: this score does not sound like Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Jurassic Park or E.T. It does not even sound like 1941. If anything, it resembles Williams’s pilot score to Gilligan’s Island, written the same year, with bouncy melodies, ’60s pop tracks, wild and wacky "Fawzian" effects, and a crazy title song (performed by Shirley MacLaine) which needs to be heard to be believed.

01. Main Title (3:40)
02. The Plot Begins (5:50)
03. Fawz TV (1:18)
04. Our Hero's Flight (0:34)
05. The Red Sea (2:01)
06. Nothing Ever Works (1:16)
07. Goldfarb Focuses (2:12)
08. Wrong Way Lawrence (2:49)
09. Mandy Tells (2:39)
10. The Ladies Enter (2:55)
11. The Music Train (2:26)
12. Iceberg Melts (4:19)
13. Mongoose Blues (1:45)
14. Samir's Fate (0:52)
15. Sleeping With Asps (3:29)
16. Jenny And Goldfarb (1:51)
17. King Fawz Feast (6:42)
18. The Football Game (2:22)
Jenny's Big Play / Snake Dance / End Title (4:34)
19.a Jenny's Big Play
19.b Snake Dance
19.c End Title

Total Time: 54:03

Bonus Material
20. Alternate Main Title #1 [Unused] (2:27)
21. Alternate Main Title #2 [Unused] (2:26)
22. Original Main Title [Unused] (2:18)
23. Fawz Cha-Cha #1 [Mono] (1:50)
24. Pom-Poms [Mono] (1:55)
25. Fawz Cha-Cha #2 [Mono] (1:55)
26. The King Primps [Bonus Cues] (3:06)
27. Original End Title [Unused] (1:15)

Total Time: 17:30

Total Disc Time: 71:33