Monsterpal wrote:
Jazz was the music of choice for a lot of young adults in those days. Indeed, West Coast Jazz was the cool new thing in the fifties and early sixties.

It's all subjective, of course, but I enjoy the Carmichael and Katz jazz scores in context and find them refreshing compared to the many science fiction films of the period that use library music. Some of them work better than others, of course, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.

"Boot me that glove man." "Cause I got in at six chimes." "So I'll dig you in a few ticks." " But don't play me cut rate, Hep cat!" "Cause when it comes to dancing, I'm a gasser." "Do you dig this jive?"


"You can't smell any reefer, can you"?