Apache - Jump On It

Jet Harris, the original bass player with The Shadows has passed away age 71

So in tribute here are four versions of the seminal Apache - all classics in their own way.
This is one tune that really can be called a classic...

The Original (1960)

The Bongotastic (1973)

The Discoliscious (1977)

 The Hippety Hopper (1981)

Saul Bass - Better by Design

With a cool name like Saul Bass,

I Guess.....

He couldn't be Anything Less.

(1920-1996)

The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."


Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Saul Bass - Edifice and Artifice

One of 8 sections from Saul Bass' excellent Oscar winning 1968 short film 'Why Man Creates' which takes a sideways look at why man does what he does.  Here we see the rise of civilisation...

(I wonder if Sid Meier ever saw this - I wasted many hours of the early '90s sending those little tiles scrolling round the screen)

Bruegal the Elder's 'Tower of Babel (1563)