Very good compilation including the best of 70's french composers:
Georges Garvarentz, Francis Lai, Alain Goraguer, Michel Magne, Georges Delerue,
Claude Bolling, Karl Heinz Schäffer, Charles Dumont, Bernard Gérard, Jean-Pierre Mirouze, The Golden Pot and... "Resonance", a.k.a. "Bacson", a.k.a. Pierre Bachelet !
Soundtracks from the following movies:
"Des vacances en or"
"Sapho"
"La leçon particulière"
"La planète sauvage"
"S.A.S. à San Salvador"
"L'homme de Rio"
"Un beau monstre"
"Qui ?"
"Le mariage collectif"
"Moi y en a vouloir des sous"
"Les gants blancs du diable"
"Trafic"
and the 7" by Resonance called "OK Chicago"
and the theme of the french radio broadcast "Campus"
I don't know the story behind what happened to this compilation, but facts are that many of its tracks have been released two years later on the "Shake Sauvage" compilation on the german label Crippled Dick Hot Wax... And both comps have so many tracks in common that it can't be a matter of chance only !!! Considering the amazing tracks from this comp that have not been used on the Crippled release, I suggest you should listen to this one first, and have an ear on the other one later...
Anyway, here is the original french 70's soundtracks compilation
... Same thing as Vol.1... We still have the best of party scene musical backgrounds from 60s/70s french comedies (or is it the rest of the best ?)
Composers are more or less the same as in vol.1, with interesting additions such as Henry Mancini, Gérard Calvi, Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone, Georges Garvarentz, Alexandre Desplat, Nicolas Errèra, Marc Collin, Bertrand Burgalat, André Popp, and even Lalo Schifrin (whose track doesn't actually come from an OST !)
There is a Vol.3... But unfortunately I lost it, and the title of this series is so cliché that I just couldn't manage to find it on the net (you can't imagine the amount of records that have "supreme" and "lounge" in their title !!!)