Quartet Records has put this out on 2 CDs, the first disc being the album release and the second the original film score. The first track on the album is the aforementioned Nilsson song. You must know it. Everyone knows it. It's a great song.

Then John Barry brings us "Joe Buck Rides Again", not the famous theme but a gentle and sweet piece of Americana featuring the harmonica. Speaking of harmonica, which is a huge part of the score in general and the famous theme in particular, the score and album have different harmonica players.

Jazz great Toots Thielemans played the harmonica parts for the score but Tommy Reilly handled the instrument for the album recording.

The third album track is a stereotypical "hippy" flower people sort of song by The Groop. It's called "A Famous Myth" and has nice vocal harmonies.

John Barry doesn't always get the credit he deserves for being a master of mood. "Fun City" is a masterpiece of atmosphere with astonishingly dark and heavy bass playing, magically understated drumming, deft and charming piano solos and classic Barry writing for strings.

Then there are a couple of really good songs. Lesley Miller's "He Quit Me" is a deep, slowish, soul-funk-blues with powerful vocals. "Jungle Gym at the Zoo" by Elephant's Memory is a pounding bit of acidy rock with great lyrics about being an animal.

And it's at this point that solo harmonica introduces the main title theme, one of Barry's best and most famous. In addition to its plaintive and sensitive qualities, the arrangement is fantastic, with a subtle guitar part adding an almost subliminal rhythmic undercurrent that connects it to the Nilsson song, a killer rhythm section and again strings with Barry's signature sound.

Elephant's Memory returns with "Old Man Willow", a very different sort of song with organ and watery, swirling guitar, solo female vocalist, psych-baroque arrangement, waltz time… It's really good, especially the chorus.

John Barry's "Florida Fantasy" starts out with gently tapping drums and then cheerful woodwinds, harpsichord and a woozy sort of electronic keyboard join in. When the whole combo gets together it breaks into a sunny, tropical groove.

"Tears and Joys" by The Groop is another very late-'60s commercial hippy/psych song. It's good but not as impressive as the Elephant's Memory songs.

John Barry's more haunting and pensive side comes out in "Science Fiction", which also foreshadows some of his Bond music for You Only Live Twice and Moonraker. It's beautiful.

Then what? "Everybody's Talkin'" again, several alternate takes, a single version of the main theme.

The film score on disc 2 has multiple versions of the Nilsson song as well as some amazing additional Barry cues.

The harmonica finds itself in a ghostly dreamscape in "Daydreams and Nightmares" and "Realization" is Barry's amazing take on acid psych rock. I wonder how many people would guess the composer in a blindfold test.

The main theme is given a heavier, extra-guitar interpretation in "Midday and Midnight Cowboy" whereas "You're the Only One, Joe" might be the most avantgarde thing Barry ever did, sounding like some kind of electronic industrial band doing something for a David Lynch movie.

Old timey guitar and piano are used as source music and are a bit like The Grateful Dead's "A Box of Rain". It's a very short piece by Toxey French called "Sunshine and Coconut Milk".

"Orange Juice on Ice" is another bit of source music, a chipper song that sounds like a commercial for Florida orange juice.

The main theme gets another more intense work out in "Night Life" and a very similar one in "The Cemetery".

But then Elephant's Memory is back with the nearly nine-minute long "The Gates of Hell", an epic extension of their two songs from the album, lots of jamming.