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Song of the Day: From Russia with Love (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link] was composed by John Barry. From the 1963 007 film, starring Sean Connery as James Bond, it is one of the standout scores to one of cinema’s most enduring franchises.

Song of the Day: The Dark Knight (“Orchestra Suite”) [YouTube link] includes memorable themes written by both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard for the 2008 film based on the DC Comics superhero, Batman, for the second leg in the Dark Knight Trilogy, directed by Christopher Nolan. The film is…

Song of the Day: Holiday Inn (“Be Careful, It’s My Heart”), words and music by Irving Berlin, was originally slated to be the big hit from that 1942 film, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. But it got eclipsed by a little song about a “White Christmas” that sold 50…

Song of the Day: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Henry Mancini, is one of the hallmarks of this 1961 rom-com, based on the Truman Capote 1958 novella, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Audrey Hepburn. Mancini would take home Oscars for this wonderful score and the…

Song of the Day: Touch of Evil (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Henry Mancini, enhances this 1958 film noir, directed by and starring Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich. The Mancini score was deeply inspired by Welles’s cinematic vision. Tomorrow, another Mancini soundtrack suite will be…

Song of the Day: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link] was composed by the immortal Ennio Morricone for the 1966 “spaghetti Western“, directed by Sergio Leone. The film was the third in the director’s “Dollars Trilogy“, which included 1964’s “Fistful of Dollars” and 1965’s “For…