I am, as you know, a big fan of a movie called It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. One of the things that made it so wonderful was, I thought, the music by Ernest Gold. Scoring a comedy is an art quite separate from scoring a drama or an adventure film and some lesser talents have thought, "Oh, the movie's supposed to be funny. That means the music needs to be funny, too." How wrong is that? Mr. Gold, who didn't otherwise do a lot of comedies, scored this one to accent the humor, not compete with it.
You may think you own a record or CD of the film's soundtrack. You don't. What seemed to be the soundtrack wasn't, for the most part, actual music from the film. They'd rearranged and rerecorded for the record…and anyway, it was less than 40 minutes. It's taken until now for someone to put together an actual soundtrack.
A company called La-La Land Records has just done a limited pressing of a real Mad World soundtrack. It's a two-CD set and the second CD has what was on that album. The first CD is 73 minutes of actual music from the film's score. You can read all about it, hear samples and order at this page. Order quickly 'cause they'll be gone soon.