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What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 screwball comedy film directed by Clive Donner, written by Woody Allen in his first produced screenplay, and starring Allen in his acting debut, along with Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, and Ursula Andress.
"What's New Pussycat?" is the theme song for the eponymous movie, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and sung by Welsh singer Tom Jones. The original single included a 13-second instrumental introduction, ending in the sound of shattering glass, but later issues omitted this introduction.
Flushed Away. Dancing with Myself. Written by Billy Idol & Tony James. Performed by Billy Idol with Generation X. Courtesy of Chrysalis Records. Under license from EMI Film & Television Music. Yakety Sax. Written by Boots Randolph & James Rich. Performed by Boots Randolph.
Drawn by the then-hot O'Toole (this was his second film after Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) and the promise of unfettered sexuality, they made What's New, Pussycat? a hit. The title song scored an Oscar nomination and spent ten weeks on the charts, topping at number two.
- Clive Donner, Enrico Isacco, Richard Talmadge
- Peter Sellers
Using such tunes as Tina Turner\'s "Proud Mary" or "What\'s New Pussycat?" by Tom Jones would serve mainly as aural gags and jokes in the film and probably could have been omitted from the album. Sprinkled about the established classics are brief ditties written for the movie and performed by its characters, The Slugs.
25 ott 2021 · Surely it was only a matter of time until a ‘jukebox’ musical featuring the back catalogue of Welsh singing superstar Tom Jones came along. And now it has, in the shape of the highly impressive What’s New Pussycat? But this is no bio musical, in the vein of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, or The Jersey Boys.
Screenwriter Woody Allen as Parisian Victor, not quite able to take advantage of Carole (Romy Schneider), the discouraged fianceè of his commitment-averse fashion editor pal Michael (Peter O’Toole), who meantime attempts a last fling with neurotic stripper Liz (Paula Prentiss), in What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.
