MGM Records Sealed Cover
Hotel Paradiso was an adaptation of a successful stage farce, which by all accounts lost a lot in the translation to screen despite the always-welcome presence of Alec Guinness. The "Main Title" features the bouncy rhythmic structure that made Georges Delerue and Nino Rota popular as the Sixties became the Seventies. For 30 minutes you get an unending series of cues with pianos going oompah-oompah, and winds tooting and parping that suggest a scoring approach of Mickey Mousing of the grandest order. Lots of the cues take on circus-styled hijinks to reinforce the comparison with Delerue / Rota.
