And God Created Woman (soundtrack)
1956 album by Brigitte Bardot
Et Dieu... créa la femme is an album credited to French actress Brigitte Bardot and containing music based on the soundtrack of her 1956 film And God Created Woman, with her added narration. The music was composed by Paul Misraki and arranged by Paul Misraki and Bill Byers.
The album was released in France on the Versailles record label and advertised as Bardot's "first microgroove record". The liner notes read: "On this disk (her first disk), Brigitte Bardot herself narrates you the story of the film in the musical ambiance of the original soundtrack".
In the United States and the UK, the album was released by Decca Records and titled And God Created Woman.
Critical reception
Cash Box wrote that the album contained "beautiful music" and a "score [that] offers many different moods and is strikingly rendered under the direction of R. Vadim". Billboard wrote that Brigitte Bardot in her one song "proves more than competent as a singer in the Gallic style". HiFi/Stereo Review wrote that "the Paul Misraki score is a pleasantly sunny, Gallic affair" that "uses Latin rhythms to build up to a torrid climax".
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