| The Italian Job | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | Quincy Jones |
| Cover: | The Italian Job (soundtrack).jpg |
| Released: | 1969 |
| Recorded: | 1969 |
| Genre: | Film score |
| Length: | 27:32 |
| Label: | Paramount PS 5007[1] |
| Producer: | Quincy Jones |
| Chronology: | Quincy Jones |
| Prev Title: | MacKenna's Gold |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | The Lost Man |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
The Italian Job is the soundtrack to the 1969 film which was composed and arranged by Quincy Jones and released on the Paramount label.[2] [3]
The lyrics to "On Days Like These" and "Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society)" were written by Don Black. "Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society)" was the closing theme of the film and was performed by members of the cast; the lyrics feature Cockney rhyming slang.[4] Many incidental themes are based on English patriotic songs, such as "Rule, Britannia!", "The British Grenadiers" and "God Save the Queen".
The Vinyl Factory opined, "It may seem like a hodgepodge of quirky film cues, baroque harpsichord bits and lounge (Matt Monro’s silky turn on ‘On Days Like These’), but this album is really a brilliant mash-up of styles ... There is samba, there is country, there is harpsichord, there are a bunch of blokes shouting in cockney; it’s the sounds of the Swinging ‘60s in a 29-minute nutshell".[5]
All music composed by Quincy Jones except otherwise indicated