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Whether for the early symphonic romp that is Fitzwilly or the priceless look at what may be the composer’s single most distinct score, this combo CD of Fitzwilly and The Long Goodbye is a treasure!

FITZWILLY

01. Main Title/Overture (3:55)
02. Make Me Rainbows (Instrumental) (3:07)
03. Fitzwilly’s Date (3:39)
04. Lefty Lovies Love Life (2:47)
05. The Gimbel’s Robbery (3:52)
06. Make Me Rainbows (Vocal) (3:03)
07. The Xerox Crisis (1:24)
08. Sampson and Delilah (2:19)
09. More Theft (2:27)
10. Juliet’s Discovery (2:14)
11. End Title (2:06)

THE LONG GOODBYE

12. Performed by Dave Grusin Trio (4:27)
13. Performed by Dave Grusin Trio (Vocal) (3:04)
14. Performed by Jack Sheldon (3:28)
15. The Long Goodbye (Vocal) (4:30)
16. Trio Version (2:27)
17. Trumpet Version (2:02)
18. Mario in Mexico (3:34)

FITZWILLY - When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans), who - ever since the death of her husband - has been using her inheritance to benefit her favorite charitable causes. However, no one has the heart to tell Mrs. Woodworth that she doesn't have much money left, and to compensate for the shortfall brought on by her philanthropy, Fitzwilly and his fellow domestics have been pulling a series of robberies at department stores. When Mrs. Woodworth gets the idea of compiling "A Dictionary for Dopes," which indexes phonetic spellings of commonly misspelled words, she hires Juliet Nowell (Barbara Feldon) to help on the project as a secretary. Juliet senses that there's something fishy about Fitzwilly, especially when she finds out that he has a college education but earns a meager salary as a butler, and she imagines the worst when she finds out about his criminal activities. Watch for Sam Waterston in a small role; this was his first film. 1967

THE LONG GOODBYE - Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, "The Long Goodbye." Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with their investigation into Lennox's subsequent disappearance. Once he gets out of jail, Marlowe starts to conduct his own search when he discovers that mysterious blonde Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), who hired him to find her alcoholic novelist husband Roger (Sterling Hayden), lives on the same Malibu street as the absent Lennox and his deceased spouse. As numerous variations on the title song play in unexpected places, Marlowe encounters a shady doctor, a bottle-wielding gangster (director Mark Rydell), and a guard aping Barbara Stanwyck (among other stars), before heading to Mexico to stumble on the truth once and for all. 1973