Ltd Yellow Vinyl LEMON POPSICLE Film Soundtrack OST LP '79 Bobby Vinton Shadows

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ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Lemon Popsicle (1978 UK 25-track compilation LP featuring music from the soundtrack of the film including Little Richard, Bill Haley, Big Bopper, Paul Anka and more; glossy picture sleeve).

Label: Warwick (UK) limited edition lemon vinyl release

Year: 1978

Vinyl: VG - definitely enjoyed a number of plays! Scuffs and marks noticeable but the bright sheen of the vinyl gives little away.

Cover and sleeve: VG. Obvious edge wear on top and spine but colours remain bright, unfaded and are clean. 

This album has never had a CD release! 

Track listing

Side 1

1. Green Fields - The Brothers Four

2. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

3. Put Your Head On My Shoulder - Paul Anka

4. Hey Baby! - Bruce Channel

5. Rock around The Clock - Bill Haley

6. Puppy Love - Paul Anka

7. Volare - Domenico Modugno

8. FBI - The Shadows

9. Que Sera Sera - Rosemary Squires

10. Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper

11. My Little One - Frankie Laine

12. Witch Doctor - Jon Morris

13. At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors

Side 2

14. Diana - Paul Anka

15. Shake Rattle & Roll - Bill Haley

16. Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland

17. Seven Little Girls- PAul Evans & The Curls

18. Come Prima - Marino Marini

19. Hey Paula! - PAul & Paula

20. Lollipop - The chordettes

21. You Are My Destiny - PAul Anka

22. Ciao Ciao Bambina - Domenico Modugno

23. To Know Him Is To Love Him - Jo Moss

24. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard

25. Mr Lonely - Bobby Vinton

About the film:

Lemon Popsicle and the following sequels centre around three young men who are friends: melancholic and sensitive Benzi (Yftach Katzur), handsome and reckless womaniser Momo (Jonathan Sagall), cunning and streetwise Yudale (Zachi Noy). The names of the characters had been changed respectively to Benji (Benny in German releases), Bobby, and Hughie (Johnny in German releases) for the international audience. The pivotal character is Benzi based on the director himself and recurring characters in the series include Benzi's mother Sonia (Dvora Kedar), Benzi's father Romak (Menashe Warshavsky), the trio's nerdy friend Froike (Victor in English-language releases, played by Avi Hadash), and Bracha (Martha in English-language releases, played by Rachel Steiner), an ugly and horny girl from the school. Comic parts in the storyline are usually linked to Yudale's often futile attempts to have sex.

Lemon Popsicle (the first film in the series) focuses on Benzi, Momo, and Yudale as final-grade high school kids growing up in Tel Aviv and deals with their relationships with each other and of course, girls. 

The film, although a typical adolescence story, tackles subjects such as abortion and unrequited love, not happily resolved by a neat ending. The film recreates the life of a late-fifties teenager - including the clothes, music, behaviour, scenery and cars.

Synopsis

Nili (Niki in English-language release, played by Anat Atzmon), a beautiful new girl comes to the school of the friend trio. Benzi, the typical "nice guy" of the three immediately falls in love with Nili. However, Nili prefers more pushing and experienced Momo who is keen on deflowering her. 

Later, it is revealed that Momo had impregnated and dumped Nili. Benzi, hoping to start a relationship with her, helps Nili get an abortion and emotionally consoles her, only to see that she soon returns to the arms of Momo.

The film contains the memorable scene with an older olah named Stella (Ophelia Shtruhl) enticing the three kids into having sex with her in sequence, and then earning the nickname "Stella HaMegameret" ("A-cumming Stella") for she screams "I'm a-cumming! I'm a-cumming!" (instead of "cumming") during sex because of her poor Hebrew.

Budget

The picture was produced at a budget of 3 million Israeli lira, of which a million were paid in royalties to the foreign, mostly American musicians whose songs were used in the soundtrack.

Box office success

It became an immediate commercial success; by December 1978, Lemon Popsicle sold 1,268,000 tickets in its native country and grossed 12.5 million lira. It was circulated in 700 prints in Europe, where it earned $650,000 during the same period.

 In total, it sold 1,350,000 tickets in the state, becoming the highest-grossing Israeli picture in history.

 In West Germany, it reached the 11th place at the 1978 box office, with 2.7 million tickets sold. 

Lemon Popsicle also gained considerable popularity in the rest of Europe and in Japan.[6] It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the 36th Golden Globe Awards, losing to the Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata.

The film was also selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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