Panic The Son Of Shock by The Creed Taylor Orchestra, released in 1960 by ABC Paramount.

Evil exotica? Death jazz? ‘Orrible orchestral? Whatever you decide to call it, it’s a bit strange that the pair of albums
are presented here back to front, with Panic: Son Of Shock first. That aside, what we have are 24 cues of varying quality, but all following the simple,
brave concept of sound pictures with added horror, terror, madness or just plain good old weirdness. Cues are little
vignettes, with subjects drowning, blowing themselves up, driving into trains, smashing stuff, making intense
anonymous phone calls – all the time set to and accompanied by perfect
instrumental picture music. - Record Collector Mag reviewing a CD reissue of this and the previous Shock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_X_ClWveYQ

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Once Around The Clock – Patricia Scot

A major refresh of an earlier article that includes a great deal of new content.

1959 saw Taylor and Bob (Kenyon) Hokins record arrangements for Patricia Scot's only album. I've added a great deal of detail on how she got there and what happened next.

https://www.ctproduced.com/once-around-the-clock-patricia-scot/

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Sound Tour: Hawaii (Impressions In Sound Of An American On Tour) by Kenyon Hopkins released on Verve in 1962

Cinema Sojourns wrote on a blog entry Searching for Kenyon Hopkins:

With Creed Taylor serving as producer, MGM’s Verve label put out a series of records in partnership with Esquire Magazine in the mid-60s – that were all composed by Hopkins. Here is an excerpt from an article on the Verve/Esquire project by C. Andrew Hoyan on the All About Jazz web site: “…Much like his soundtrack work, Hopkins imbues his charts with jazz sensibilities and such names as Phil Woods, Hank Jones, Joe Wilder, and Doc Severinsen were on hand for all of the sessions..Engineers Ray Hall and Bob Simpson further augmented the stereo terrain by adding Keene Crockett’s “sound pictures” here and there, such as boat whistles and a revved up Alfa Romero speeding away from some Spanish villa..."

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Ridin' The Rails by Kenyon Hopkins And His Orchestra – released in 1960 on Capitol

Kenyon Hopkins (January 15, 1912 – April 7, 1983) was an American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom. He was once called "one of jazz's great composers and arrangers." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLsCwicwA4U

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