The opening act of Louis Wayne Moodys mid-century spy caper trilogy, 1962s Call Me Old Fashioned put a tail on Agent Cara Seaworths debut undercover operation, fresh out of the Eastern Star Spy Academy for Young Ladies. Her assignment: to pose as songbird and nest, one thrush-like performance at a time, deep under the skin of widower Jack Frenchy Hammerli, proprietor of Jacks Riverside Inn supper club. Her quarry: both an unblemished 1822 American Half Eagle piecegone AWOL since the Academys turbulent Reconstruction-era foundingand Jacks own beating heart. When the mobbed-up Sauk City, Wisconsin, night spot proves a tough coin to flip, Seaworths estranged father and celebrated numismatist The Man gets called up to the Not-So-Big Leagues. Will Cara pinch the minted MacGuffin and cooly cash in on a couple dozen missed birthdays, or wind up feeding walleye at the bottom of Mud Lake?
Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the high-tone timbre and highball-sipping swoon of pops post-war years. Muddling together sugar-lipped divas, barrel-aged big bands, and zoo be zoo be zoo zest, with a Latin jazz Luxardo for garnish, Call Me Old Fashioned is a 40-minute stereo-sonic adventure for the 7 & 7 spy-fi fanatic.
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