TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE

1. JAWS

(Williams)
 
 

2. POSEIDON ADVENTURE

(Kasha/ Hirschhorn)
 
 

3. TUBULAR BELLS

(From "The Exorcist") (Oldfield)
 
 

4. BACH TOCCATA IN D MINOR

(From "Rollerball") (Bach)
 
 

5. PSYCHO

(Herrmann)
 
 

6. THE EIGER SANCTION

(Williams)
 
 

SIDE TWO

1. EARTHQUAKE

(Williams)
 
 

2. AIRPORT '75

(Cacavas)
 
 

3. THE TOWERING INFERNO

(Kasha/ Hirschhorn)
 
 

4. THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

(Grusin)
 
 

5. THE EXECUTIONER

(Goodwin)
 
 

6. DEATH WISH

(Hancock)
 
 

Recorded at Chappell's Studios, London

Recording Engineer: John Iles

Associate Producer: Gil King

Produced by Norman Newell

P1976  A Supertunes Production

It's a strange and curious fact, but most of us positively enjoy paying money to be terrified. We love sitting in the dark in a cinema and witnessing all kinds of awfulness happening on the screen. It may be a traditional chiller centred on Dracula, Franken­stein br other weird monsters of the past, with much gnashing of fangs, sucking of blood and similar foibles, or it might be an example of the contemporary genre of horror dealing with Satanic possession and things that go bump in the night, or just the plain straightforward terror of natural disasters. Whatever the case the majority of us love sitting on the edge of the seat or even hiding behind it at times, and being shocked and startled by the gruesome nastiness taking place before our staring eyes.

"Jaws" is the latest and seemingly greatest in cinematic terror, although not relying on the supernatural. It has already sold more tickets at the box office in the USA than any other film in history, even outstripping its notorious predecessor "The Exorcist" in attracting the populace in fascinated, horror-stricken hordes. The jaws belong to a large, ravenous shark which lurks in the sea off an East Coast holiday resort in the States, chomping up a naked girl, a small child and sundry limbs belonging to other hapless human beings. The film should be showing in Britain by the time you've bought this record, and we guarantee you'll be very careful about your next seaside bathe!

Music plays a vital role in terror movies. It underlines and heightens the mounting tension of the action, it sets the eerie scenes and atmospheres, and it jolts your heart into your mouth at the climactic points in the stories when the monsters are finally revealed in their full gory glory. Geoff Love and his orchestra conjure up all the spine-tingling suspense of the best terror movies, ranging from the conflagration of "The Towering Inferno" through the violent natural disaster of "Earthquake" to the piscatorial perils of "Jaws" in a manner which will remind you vividly of the fearsome films themselves.

NIGEL HUNTER