Album Notes

The cult indie film, Scream Of The Bikini, has won several awards in multiple film festivals. Ranging from best comedy to best director , and including nominations for both best original score and best soundtrack. These songs are the "1960's hits" that populate the movie, enhancing its character and making it, in the words of one critic, "very cool sounding". Where the movie is a delicious parody of the femme-fatale, spy-thriller genre, the songs pay homage to the fashionable music scene of the time. Royalties for actual '60's hits were far beyond the budget of "Scream Of The Bikini", and thus necessity was the mother of the beautiful, flower-children inventions found in this soundtrack.

The genesis of rock angst can be felt again in "Young People Today". Great female artists of the past are honored in the rocker "Medicine Man", the popish "Liberated Woman" and "There Goes My Heart Again", and the easy-listening "Que Yo Quiero." Parody is at its height in the twisted and "poorly translated" lyric of "Guitar Man." Satirical translation is the star of "Il Sol Sta Regolandosi." And the gem of impossible combinations, the world's only Burt Bacarach-esque song completely in French, "Fille Comme Toi." Rounding out the lineup is the "Theme From Scream Of The Bikini", a period-piece rocker, based on the primary action theme of the film, but created using loops and samples from the recording of acoustic musicians in the film's score. Thus, a minefield of love for a genre, covered in deep, dynamic parody.

Individual Track Information:

The Scream Of The Bikini (Theme From "The Scream Of The Bikini")
Words: Kiff Scholl, Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Music: Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Alexandra Billings
Sampled: Lance Lee, Erik Hammer
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Que Yo Quiero
Words: Kiff Scholl
Music: Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Marin Van Fleck
Drums: Lance Lee
Guitar: Erik Hammer
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Young People Today
Words and Music: Bill Robens
Arranged by: Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Marin Van Fleck
Drums: Lance Lee
Guitar: Bill Robens
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Liberated Woman
Words: Kiff Scholl, Bill Newlin
Music: Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Marin Van Fleck
Drums: Lance Lee
Guitar: Erik Hammer
Sax: Bob Sheppard
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Medicine Man
Words and Music:: Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Alina Phelan
Guitar: Kevin Tiernan
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Guitar Man
Words: Bill Robens
Music: Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Dan Mailey
Guitar: Erik Hammer

There Goes My Heart Again
Words: Kiff Scholl, Bill Newlin
Music: Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Performed by:
Vocal: Monica Carberry
Supporting Vocals: Alyssa Preston, Welton Pickford, Lucy Griffin
Drums: Lance Lee
Guitar: Erik Hammer
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Fille Comme Toi
Words: Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Music: Bill Newlin
French Translation by: Anne De Castro
Performed by:
Vocal: Tom Fiscela
Drums: Lance Lee
Guitar: Erik Hammer
Keyboards: Bill Newlin

Il Sole Sta Regolandosi
Words: Bill Robens, Bill Newlin
Music: Bill Newlin
Italian Translation by: Gabby Sanalitro, Concetta Sanalitro
Performed by:
Vocal: Scott Blois
Keyboards: Bill Newlin