The lesser-seen of two mid-70's neo-noirs (w Chinatown) Farewell my Lovely has a very nice, lush, moody score. Whoever would score this, back in the day, had about a ninety-nine percent chance of bollixing it up with 70s audio production and motifs, but instead David Shire wrote a spot-on moody symphonic noir score, with ominous undercurrents, motifs for indivdual characters and even a slight tribute to Bernard Heerrman's Vertigo score. And by 1980 Laurence Kasdan seems to have had this in mind when he had John Barry compose his similar, sultry score for Body Heat.
"Farewell My Lovely" is excellent, however, "Monkey Shines" was not up to the musical standards that I expected from this composer. Many cues lacked the "feel" that "Farewell My Lovely" expressed. By "feel" I mean the quality or texture of a film noir score.
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