As is common with easy listening orchestral LPs there are almost no credits on this 1972 release on the short-lived Marina Records label based in Los Angeles. The company, formed at the beginning of the decade by former MGM Records executive Harold Berkman, bears no relation to the current independent Marina Records label nor to a German label of the same name that specialized in disco and dance music.
Berkman is credited as the producer of the Marina Strings album, with Ben Benay listed as the arranger of the title track. Benay also arranged tracks in the 1970s for Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, including their hit Billy Don't Be a Hero, Buffy Sainte-Marie, the New Marketts (no relation to the Marketts of Out of Limits fame) and the Ventures.
Skyjacked (1972), starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux and James Brolin, was one of the in-flight dramas that followed the success of Airport. Skyjack's score was by Perry Botkin, Jr. (Nadia's Theme, Bless the Beasts and the Children). Below is the Love Theme by the Marina Strings.
Love Theme from Skyjacked
Harold Berkman produced another Marina Strings album in 1972, Play the Neil Diamond Solid Gold Songbook, which for some reason came out on a different label, 20th Century. Neither Marina Strings LP has received a digital release.
Here's a track from the Neil Diamond Solid Gold Songbook.
Do you happen to have an album named "Music For Bathroom Baritones Bathing Beauties" I been looking everywhere for a digital copy. I am enclosing a photo of the album cover.
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Sorry, no.
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