Two classic female comic heroes are getting some timely attention on CD, with soundtracks to the sexy sci-fi romp Barbarella and the heroic score to the hit '70s TV series Wonder Woman are bowing on CD this week.

One of DC Comics' best-known Justice League charter members (and easily the company's best-known princess of Themyscira!), Charles Moulton's Wonder Woman first appeared on the page in 1941, and after memorable television adaptations of Superman in the 1950s and Batman in the 1960s, the Amazonian heroine became TV's most famous superhero in the 1970s. Portrayed memorably by Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman (and her civilian alter ego Diana Prince) battled evildoers across from 1975 to 1979, across two networks (ABC for a TV movie pilot and subsequent season, and CBS for two more) and multiple generations (the second season updating from the 1940s to the present day, with co-star Lyle Waggoner playing both Prince's human ally Steve Trevor and his son, Steve Trevor, Jr.!). Carter's portrayal of Wonder Woman is arguably the most definitive, with only Gal Godot recently stepping into the character's outfit for last year's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and this summer's forthcoming standalone Wonder Woman film.

Similar to Neal Hefti's popular and defining musical theme to Adam West's Batman series, Wonder Woman was powered by a memorable, of-its-time theme written by the songwriting duo Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. Fox had penned notable themes to ABC's The Wide World of Sports and Monday Night Football, and with Gimbel had also penned the chart-topper "Killing Me Softly With His Song" for Roberta Flack. Fox was one of several score composers for the series during its run, alongside Artie Kane, Johnny Harris, Angela Morley and others--all of whom are represented on La-La Land's thorough triple-disc collection, the first official release of any music from the series on CD! It's produced by Neil S. Bulk and mastered by James Nelson from original three-track elements in the Warner Bros. vaults; John Takis provides informative liner notes (with a foreword by Wonder Woman authority Andy Mangels), and Dan Goldwasser's package design fits the series' aesthetic brilliantly!

But that's not the only sci-fi legend whose musical representation appears on CD this week--nor the only one with a Charles Fox connection! Barbarella, the campy 1968 comedy starring Jane Fonda as the titular French comic heroine and Milo O'Shea as the villainous scientist Durand Durand (whose name, minus a few "d"s, would be used by one of England's biggest bands of the '80s), was one of the year's biggest smashes, a boon for its Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis, who was gaining international prominence as a movie mogul. The exotic score to the film was composed by Fox, with Bob Crewe (co-writer and co-producer of "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man" and many other hits for The Four Seasons) masterminding the film's pop tunes, including vocals from New York-based group The Glitterhouse. Reissued on picture vinyl by Varese Sarabande for Record Store Day, this subsequent CD reissue is its first official appearance on the format.

The Wonder Woman set is available from La-La Land Records now (limited to 3,000 copies), while Barbarella is available from all retailers including Amazon, as linked below.

Wonder Woman: Original Soundtrack From The Warner Bros. Television Series (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1398, 2017)

* music and lyrics by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel
** includes music and lyrics by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel (+ arranged by Johnny Harris)
*** music by Johnny Harris

Disc 1

1. The Wonder Woman (Season 1 Main Title) *
2. Newsreel
3. German Headquarters/Carrier Pigeons/I Will Not Fail
4. Up to Me
5. It Could Be Anyone/Good Luck and a Good Plane
6. Paradise Island
7. It's a Man
8. Steve Trevor Dies in Plane Crash/Diana Returns to Steve's Hospital Room/The Harp
9. Tournament
10. Bullets and Bracelets/Second Contestant
11. I Love My Mother
12. Invisible Screen/Personal Nurse
13. He's Alive/Starburst I/No Money - No Dress
14. Starburst II/You're Dreaming/Playon
15. May I Shake Your Hand?
16. I Tried to Stop Him/We Must Have a Bad Connection/Starburst III/Can You Go Faster?
17. Pirouette/Opening the Safe
18. Fight **
19. They Will Pay With Their Lives
20. Wonder Woman/Crash/Fight **
21. Keep Walking Out of My Life/Diana Prince/We Will Get Along Fine
22. The Wonder Woman (Season 2 Vocal Main Title) *
23. Steve's Plane/Dr. Solano/Landing at Paradise Island
24. Welcome to Pax/Is That You, Steve?/Never, Never
25. Bullets and Bracelets Contest/Acceptance
26. Thank You, Doctor/New Spin/Wait and Worry
27. Diana As Pilot/Argentina Airport
28. Nasty Solano
29. Capitol Building/Computer/Got Her
30. Diana, Meet Gloria
31. To the Base **
32. Getting to Know You/She's Dangerous
33. F.D.R. and W.W./Solano and Robot/Gloria Is Not a Him
34. Double Steve
35. Phony Steve/Night Flight
36. No Scar
37. Saved Again
38. Duel It **
39. Eggshell One Out/Count on It
40. The Wonder Woman (Season 2 End Title) *
41. He's Alive (no Starburst)
42. Starburst II (episode combo)
43. Presenting Wonder Woman/On With the Show
44. You Are Too Beautiful
45. Society
46. Hypnotic Stuff
47. The Wonder Woman (Season 1 Doubled-Vocal Main Title) *

Tracks 1-21 composed by Charles Fox from The New Original Wonder Woman TV movie - November 7, 1975
Tracks 22-40 composed by Artie Kane from "The Return of Wonder Woman" (Season 2, Episode 1) - September 16, 1977
Tracks 40-47 are source and alternate cues

Disc 2

1. The Wonder Woman (Season 2 Synthesizer Main Title) *
2. Cover Story/To the Monitor
3. Welcome Committee **
4. Nobody Home
5. Lizard Lost
6. Blow Up Diana
7. Drop In Nazi Camp
8. Two Good Legs
9. Der Empty Suit
10. Security Leak
11. Dr. Stern/Peasant Under Glass
12. IADC/Count On It
13. Good Morning
14. Ruby Red/All Clear In End/Manta's Headquarters
15. Losing Control
16. Dangling Chutes **
17. Lion's Den/Munitions
18. Follow That Jeep
19. Stingray/Aqua-Woman **
20. Row, Row, Row/Under the Waves
21. After You/Find a Way
22. Diana's Place
23. Airport Cab/L.A. Your Home?/Car Following Us **
24. Carolyn's Apartment/Sleep Tight
25. Wonder Woman Meets Angel **
26. Cheeseburgers/Fell In Love/Steve is Gone
27. Ted Speaks
28. Wonder Woman and The Radicals/Sign the Voucher
29. Aerielle/XYZ Nightmare
30. Aerielle 2/A Plastic Man
31. Safe House/A Plane Affair
32. Diana Doll/Butterfly Waltz
33. Breaking Out
34. Season Two Bumper #1 *
35. Golden Gate/Recess
36. Car Trunk
37. Hacienda Health Spa/Pay for Ploy
38. Magic Button/Special Steam
39. Dolly's Demand/Sattle Satan
40. Golf Talk/Runaway Cart **
41. Wonder Woman Stops Cart/Dolly's Ride/The End
42. Season Two Bumper #2 *

Tracks 2-12 composed by Artie Kane from "Anschluss '77" (Season 2, Episode 2) - September 23, 1977
Tracks 13-21 composed by Artie Kane from "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis" (Season 2, Episode 4) - October 7, 1977
Tracks 22-28 composed by Artie Kane from "Knockout" (Season 2, Episode 5) - October 14, 1977
Tracks 29-34 composed by Robert Prince from "The Deadly Toys" (Season 2, Episode 12) - December 30, 1977
Tracks 35-42 composed by Artie Kane from "I Do, I Do" (Season 2, Episode 8) - November 11, 1977

Disc 3

1. The Wonder Woman (Season 3 Main Title) **+
2. Diana Meets Bill/Mr. Beamer Bows Out
3. Goodbye Louis
4. The Big Fight
5. Bill Freaks Out
6. Peeping at Brubake
7. The End of Cap/The Last Mosquito Bite
8. The Crane
9. Dock Meet
10. Better Merchandise
11. Roof Fight
12. Somebody Help/Discovering Diana's Dilemma
13. Secret Garage
14. Weirdo
15. Horse Collars/The Best
16. Season Three Bumper ***
17. Goodbye Car/Hot Spot
18. Diana Takes a Dip/Mr. Ketchum Has a Visitor
19. The Missing Pinball
20. Skateboard Chase
21. Flying Saucer
22. Karate Fight
23. Zukov's Gun
24. In the Warehouse/This is Not Mrs. Fox
25. Diana is Fired/Sharpshooter
26. Lots of Night Music
27. Jogging Down
28. Remember Sly
29. Catching Plants
30. Nauseation Alley/A Bit Phazed
31. The Last Spin
32. Wonder Womanish/Goin' Out Good
33. California Beach
34. The Chimp/Chimp Chase
35. Man Who Couldn't Die/Bryce Recovers/T. Burton Phipps III
36. The Burning Room
37. Thru the Plate Glass Window
38. Dog Attack
39. Reichman Throws the Bomb
40. All Together
41. The Wonder Woman (Season 3 End Title) **

Tracks 2-7 composed by Johnny Harris from "The Deadly Sting" (Season 3, Episode 3) - October 6, 1978
Tracks 8-16 composed by Johnny Harris from "Hot Wheels" (Season 3, Episode 2) - September 29, 1978
Tracks 17-20 composed by Johnny Harris from "Skateboard Wiz" (Season 3, Episode 8) - November 24, 1978
Tracks 21-25 composed by Angela Morley from "Going, Going, Gone" (Season 3, Episode 13) - January 12, 1979
Tracks 26-32 composed by Robert Prince from "Spaced Out" (Season 3, Episode 14) - January 26, 1979
Tracks 33-41 composed by Richard LaSalle from "The Man Who Could Not Die" (Season 3, Episode 22) - August 28, 1979

Bob Crewe & Charles Fox, Barbarella: Motion Picture Soundtrack (originally released as Dynovoice DY-31908, 1968 - reissued Varese Sarabande 302 067 436 8, 2017)

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1. Barbarella (Vocal by The Glitterhouse)
2. Goodnight Alfie
3. Spaceship Out of Control
4. Ski Ride
5. The Hungry Dolls
6. Love Love Love Drags Me Down (Vocal by The Glitterhouse)
7. Pygar Finds Barbarella
8. I Love All the Love In You (Vocal by The Glitterhouse)
9. The Labyrinth
10. Pygar's New Wings
11. Fight In Flight
12. Entrance Into Sogo
13. Hello Pretty Pretty
14. Pygar's Persecution
15. The Black Queen's Beads
16. Dead Duck
17. The Pill
18. Smoke (Viper Vapor)
19. The Sex Machine
20. The Chamber of Dreams
21. The Destruction of Sogo
22. An Angel is Love (Vocal by Bob Crewe)