The opening act of Louis Wayne Moody’s mid-century spy caper trilogy, 1962’s Call Me Old Fashioned put a tail on Agent Cara Seaworth’s debut undercover operation, fresh out of the Eastern Star Spy Academy for Young Ladies. Her assignment: to pose as songbird and nest, one thrush-like performance at a time, deep under the skin of widower Jack “Frenchy” Hammerli, proprietor of Jack’s Riverside Inn supper club. Her quarry: both an unblemished 1822 American Half Eagle piece—gone AWOL since the Academy’s turbulent Reconstruction-era founding—and Jack’s own beating heart. When the mobbed-up Sauk City, Wisconsin, night spot proves a tough coin to flip, Seaworth’s estranged father and celebrated numismatist “The Man” gets called up to the Not-So-Big Leagues. Will Cara pinch the minted MacGuffin and cooly cash in on a couple dozen missed birthdays, or wind up feeding walleye at the bottom of Mud Lake?
Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the high-tone timbre and highball-sipping swoon of pop’s post-war years. Muddling together sugar-lipped divas, barrel-aged big bands, and “zoo be zoo be zoo” zest, with a Latin jazz Luxardo for garnish, Call Me Old Fashioned is a 40-minute stereo-sonic adventure for the 7 & 7 spy-fi fanatic.
Pony Sherrell - Don't Do Anything Til You've Heard From Me
Margo Guryan - More Understanding Than a Man
Charleen Houston - Just Like a Fool
Dolores White - Lovers Paradise
Charlene Knight - If My Dreams Come True
Darla Hood - Un Momento Mas
Manny Lopez - Terra Bella (Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra)
Nun Plus - Walk About The Craters Of The Moon
Arnie & Chise' Trio - Three Cherries
Carmen - Ukulele Mambo
Jeanne Hatfield - Time
Doris Drew - Aba Da Aba Du
April Yen - If and When It Happens
Birdlegs and Pauline - Mist of a Dream
