Title: King Of The Monsters Disc 2
CD Label King Records
CD Number KICA 2202
Number of tracks 20
Running time 76:21
Year of release/manufacture 1994

REVIEW

This second disc is almost entirely made up of songs from the old Gamera movies before the new ones being made here in the 90's. These are not my favorite movie themes. They can't begin to compare to the great Akira Ifukube music in the Godzilla series. However several of the tunes are catchy in a childlike way. Track 4, 10 & 14 are mostly vocal as are tracks 16, 18 & 19. Track 13 has singing along with some actual movie dialogue. Track 15 is mostly guitar music along with sound effects, some vocals and movie dialogue.

There are also a few "Gappa" songs as well as a few others at the end of the CD that are from a movie I'm not at all familiar with.

Some additional movie info courtesy of Jolyon Yates - 09/05/2002

Track 17 - DAIGORO vs GOLIATH (KAIJU DAIFUNSEN: DAIGORO TAI GORIASU)
Dec 17 1972, 85m, dir Iijima Toshihiro (Tsuburaya Pro / Toho)
Comical fable with a shy hippo-like monster, Daigoro, who gets supplied with a custom-made water closet, faced with a big bad space monster, Goliath.

Track 18 - LEGEND of the DINOSAUR & MONSTER BIRD (KYORYU, KAICHO NO DENSETSU)
Oct 12 1977, 93m, dir Junji Kurata (Toei)
A revived plesiosaur and rhamphorhyncus do battle at Lake Sai.

Track 20 - THE LAST DINOSAUR (SAIGO NO KYORYU: KYOKUTEI TANKEN-SEN)
Feb 11 1977, dir Tsugunobu Kotani & Alex Grasshoff (Rankin-Bass/ABC)
Master Thrust (Richard Boone) goes tyrannosaur hunting in an Arctic lost world.

King Of The Monsters Disc 2

English Title: Monster Movies (Other Companies *1)
Japanese Title: Kaiju Eiga (Tasha-hen)

Title/(studio/date)/composer credits

  1. Gamera ('Daikaiju Gamera')(Daiei 11/27/65) Tadashi Yamauchi
  2. Gamera vs. Barugon ('Daikaiju Ketto Gamera Tai Barugon') (Daiei 4/17/66) Chuji Kinoshita
  3. Gamera vs. Gyaos ('Daikaiju Kuchusen Gamera Tai Gyaosu') (Daiei 3/15/67) Tadashi Yamauchi
  4. Gamera's Song (from 'Gamera vs. Gyaos')
  5. The Battle Between Gamera and Gyaos (from 'Gamera vs. Gyaos')
  6. Gamera vs. Viras ('Gamera Tai Uchu Kaiju Bairasu') (Daiei 3/20/68) Kenjiro Hirose
  7. Gamera vs. Guiron ('Gamera Tai Daiakuju Giron') (Daiei 3/21/69) Shunsuke Kikuchi
  8. Gamera vs. Jiger ('Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga') (Daiei 3/21/70) Shunsuke Kikuchi
  9. Gamera vs. Zigra ('Gamera Tai Shinkai Kaiju Jigura') (Daiei 7/17/71) Shunsuke Kikuchi
  10. Love, To the Future (from 'Space Monster Gamera','Uchu Kaiju Gamera')(Daiei 3/20/80) Shunsuke Kikuchi *2
  11. As Long as I'm Alive...*3 (from 'Space Monster Gamera')
  12. The X From Outer Space, (aka Big Space Monster Guilala,'Uchu Daikaiju Girara') (Shochiku 3/25/67) Taku Izumi
  13. Guilala's Rock (from 'The X From Outer Space')
  14. Ballad of the Moon and the Stars (from 'The X From Outer Space')
  15. Gappa, the Triphibian Monster ['Daikyoju Gappa'] (Nikkatsu 4/22/67) Seitaro Omori
  16. Come on, Baby Gappa (from 'Gappa, the Triphibian Monster')
  17. Daigoro vs. Goliath (Tsuburaya/Toho 12/17/72) Toru Fuyuki
  18. The Legend of the Distant Relative
    (from 'Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds', 'Kyoryu Kaicho No Densetsu')
    (Toei 10/12/77) Masao Yagi
  19. Epilogue (from 'Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds')
  20. 'The Probe Vessel Porabora at the Bottom of the Sea' (from 'The Last Dinosaur') (Rankin-Bass/Tsuburaya 2/11/77) Maury Laws

*1 Referring to movies put out by companies other than Toho
*2 I prefer the translation: 'Gamera, The Space Monster'.
*3 Subject not specified. Alternative translations:
'As Long as It's Alive...', 'As Long as We're Alive...', etc.