Film Score Monthly's latest release is a nice reissue of a pair of LPs from the classic comedy I Spy.

The show, riding high on a wave of '60s spy mania thanks to the likes of James Bond, was a deft blend of action and comedy, featuring a groundbreaking pair of actors as secret agents: Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. It was the first major role for a black actor on television, and through all their jet-setting adventures, Cosby's race was smartly never even acknowledged, let alone played for laughs.

Earle Hagen, known for providing music for other shows produced by the show's executive producer, Sheldon Leonard (including the iconic, whistled theme to The Andy Griffith Show) recorded an ambitious body of music used during the show's three-season run. When the show got its own soundtrack releases, though (an album apiece on Warner Bros. and Capitol), Hagen re-recorded his music with many of the same players used for the show itself.

In 2002, FSM released the first soundtrack CD of I Spy, but utilized the original recordings from the show, as only one LP was up for licensing. Now, in a bold, cross-licensing set, both LPs have been included on one CD, which will not be pressed in limited quantities. Film music historian Jon Burlingame contributes new liner notes alongside reproductions of the original notes (written by Cosby himself for the second album).

Go to FSM's site to order your copy and hit the jump for the full track list.

Earle Hagen, et al., I Spy, Vol. 2 - The LPs 1966-1968 (Film Score Monthly Vol. 14, No. 3, 2011)

1. I Spy
2. Tatia
3. Hi Yo Scotty
4. Angel
5. Away We Go to Tokyo
6. Rickshaw Ride
7. Away We Go to Mexico
8. Ah So! *
9. The International Set
10. Another Kind of Blues
11. Fiesta del Sol
12. The Wonderfulness of You *
13. Made in Hong Kong
14. I Spy
15. Over the Wall
16. Montezuma’s Revenge
17. Islands in the Sea
18. The Golden Age
19. The Voice in the Wind **
20. To Florence with Love *
21. Sophia
22. Rots of Ruck
23. There’s No Escape
24. Domingo
25. The International Set

Tracks 1-13 released as Warner Bros. LP WS-1637, 1966. Tracks 14-25 released as Capitol LP ST-2839, 1967.
* denotes music composed by Hugo Friedhofer. ** denotes music composed by Earle Hagen and Gene Lees.