Beat Girl / Stringbeat & The Best of the Early Years - John Barry 2 CD Album

By: FSWL team

Published:
2025-12-07

John Barry, Beat Girl, Stringbeat, Best of the Early Years

It's 35 years since Play It Again became the first company to release John Barry's Beat Girl & Stringbeat on CD. From Sweden with Love reader and Barry expert Geoff Leonard felt the time was right for a re-issue, but this time with a second CD comprising of the best of his early work - with one or two surprises - all accompanied by a de-luxe 24-page booklet.

The double CD is very competitively priced at £11.99 including postage for UK customers, and is available direct from Music by John Barry or via Amazon UK. It's slightly more expensive via Amazon.

Beat Girl tracks (mono)

1. Main-Title - Beat Girl
2. The Off Beat
3. I Did What You Told Me (Barry-Peacock) - Adam Faith
4. Lindon Home Rock
5. Time Out
6. The Sharks
7. The Beat Girl Song (Barry-Peacock) - Adam Faith
8. The City 2000 A.D.
9. The Stripper
10.The Cave - Beat Girl - Kids Stuff
11. Made You (Barry-Peacock) - Adam Faith
12. Car Chase - Night Chase
13. Chicken
14. Blues For Beatnicks
15. It’s Legal (Barry-Maccoby) - Shirley Anne Field
16. The Immediate Pleasure
17. Blondie’s Strip
18. End Shot - Slaughter In Soho; Main Title - Beat Girl

Bonus Tracks:

19. Main-Title - Beat Girl (film version)
20. I Did What You Told Me - Adam Faith (film version)
21. Made You - Adam Faith (film version)

Stringbeat (stereo)

22. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore (Anka)
23. Sweet Talk
24. Moody River (Bruce)
25. There’s Life In The Old Boy Yet
26. A Handful Of Songs (Bart-Pratt-Steele)
27. Like Waltz
28. Rodeo
29. Donna’s Theme (Reed)
30. Starfire (Lordan)
31. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Wright-Forrest)
32. Zapata (Flick)
33. Rum-Dee-Dum-Dee-Dah (Vandyke)
34. Spanish Harlem (Lieber-Spector)
35. Man From Madrid (Osborne)
36. The Challenge

John Barry, Beat Girl, Stringbeat, reviews

John Barry, Beat Girl, Stringbeat, reviews

Reviews of the Beat Girl & Stringbeat 2-CD release.

The best of the early years

1. Bee’s Knees (1)
2. Drinka-pinta-milka-day (3)
3. Hit and Miss (2)
4. Rockin’ Already (Trad.) (2)
5. Mood 1 (3)
6. Mood 2 (3)
7. Mood 3 (3)
8. Mood 4 (3)
9. Smoky Blues (3)
10. Big Fella (3)
11. Beat for Beatniks (3)
12. Blueberry Hill (Lewis-Stock-Rose) (3)
13. Never Let Go (3)
14. Walk Don’t Run (Smith) (1)
15. I’m Movin’ On (Snow) (2)
16. Saturday’s Child (1)
17. Black Stockings (1)
18. Get Lost Jack Frost (1)
19. The Magnificent Seven (Bernstein) (1)
20. The Menace (3)
21. A Matter of WHO (Russell) (2)
22. Rocco’s Theme (Rota) (5)
23. Spinneree (5)
24. Watch Your Step (Parker) (1)
25. The Lolly Theme (4)
26. March of the Mandarins (4)
27. Cutty Sark (4)
28. Lost Patrol (Maxwell) (4)
29. The James Bond Theme (4)
30. Blacksmith Blues (Holmes) (4)
31. The Human Jungle (Ebbinghouse) (3)
32. Tit Willow Twist (Sullivan) (1)
33. Ingersoll Trendsetters Advert (3)

John Barry, The Best Of The Early Years

The CD cover for The Best Of The Early Years by John Barry.

CD2: 1-9, 12-13, 16, & 32-33: mono; all other tracks: stereo

All music by John Barry except where indicated.

(1) The John Barry Seven; (2) The John Barry Seven Plus Four; (3) The John Barry Orchestra; (4) The John Barry Seven and Orchestra; (5) Michael Angelo and His Orchestra

Producers: Norman Newell, John Burgess, John Barry.
Engineers: Stuart Eltham, Malcolm Addey, Norman Smith.

The cost for those living outside the UK but in Europe is £15 post-inclusive. The cost if you are located anywhere else in the world outside the UK is £17. For the time being, non-UK customers can only purchase direct from us, via Paypal, or via eBay.

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