Music from the
Larry Games

One of the great joys of my career as a game designer was to watch the simple tune I wrote one evening out of necessity develop, change, and grow over the years at the hands of a great variety of different composers. And to think, by Larry 7 we could actually have live musicians in a real recording studio play real instruments! Not only did my little Larry's Theme Song grow past the tweaking PC speaker, it outlived MIDI!

Anyway, this page is to share you as much of the music from Larry's various adventures as I can. Since I only own the copyright to the Larry theme, I can allow you to use and enjoy it all you want--but just don't sell it. (As if you could! Ha ha ha!!)

If you're interested in Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, go here.

And don't miss Andy Thorley's tribute album of free MP3s with the best music from all the Larry games, called: "Music from Larry 4"??

By the way, if you're interested in what I have, you should see what's available on Tom Lewandowski's Quest Studios website. They have an amazing collection of Sierra music from all titles. Two of my favorites were the Leisure Suit Larry page and the Passionate Patti page. The following soundtrack pages include full-size audio CD jewel case covers and label image files that you can download and print out.

LSL1 Digital Audio Soundtrack (Ogg Vorbis)*
LSL2 Digital Audio Soundtrack (MP3)
LSL3 Digital Audio Soundtrack (MP3)
LSL6 Digital Audio Soundtrack (MP3)

NOTE: if you click the links to the songs below, you will hear them.To download them to your hard disk, right-click the link and choose "Save Target As..." or something similar from the menu.

This page contains music from all the Larry games. Here are some shortcuts to help you find them:

Leisure Suit Larry 1: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Case of the Missing Floppies
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 7:
Love for Sail!

These are all in MP3 format (except one) and require an MP3 player. Steve Coupe was kind enough to send me a CD filled with all the Larry 7 music saved as MP3s. Thanks, Steve!

Composed by: Frank Zottoli

Theme Song, full version, MP3 format.

Theme Song, full version, WAV format. Great sound, but 18 MB.

Freddy Pharkas in Larry 7? What's this doing in Larry 7? Simple: I needed a country song but didn't want to pay royalties!

Jamie Lee Coitus

Poolside

Poolside with Drew

Annette Boning Before Larry

Annette Boning After Larry

Peter the Purser

Victorian Principles Before Larry

Victorian Principles After Larry

Victorian Principles Easter Egg music

Dewmi at the craps table

Dewmi plays Liar's Dice

Larry Rides the LuvMaster2000

Captain's Cook-off (Thanks, Michael Elboim!)
And the ever lovely music for Milking the Venezuelan Beavers. (Thanks, Michael Elboim!)

Composed by: Ben Houge

CyberSniff 2000

Fire on the Bed!

Open the Patio Door!

Ready to Jump

Patio Loop

Casino theme featuring Al Lowe on soprano sax

Houge Rolls The Dice

Exploring the Break Room

Heeeeerrre's Xqwzts!

Composed by: Mark Seibert

Oh Baby!

Here's Dildo!

He's Got His Daddy's Eyes (and His Other Daddy's Smile)

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 6:
Shape Up or Slip Out!

Arranged by: Dan Kehler

This is the original, full-length wave file from the game's opening converted to MP3, featuring Al Lowe on alto sax. Play with any MP3 sound player.

Opening Theme Song

Composed by: Al Lowe
Lyrics by: Josh Mandel

In the early '90's, Josh Mandel and I wrote words and music for Char Donay, the country music singer in Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! Josh came up with a hilarious concept: Marie, the hooker/heroine of the Police Quest games would tell her story about how she fell in love with Sonny, the star of PQ. This is the vocal version of Cell Block Love. Don't miss it!

And while you're listening, you may as well read the lyrics!

Cell Block Love

Composed by: Dan Kehler

These are all in MIDI format and use any standard MIDI player.

Opening Theme Song

Muscle Beach

Cavaricci Vaurnet

Cell Block Love

Char Donay

Fat City

Larry Be Bad

Gammie Boysulay

Mer Lowe

Rose

Shablee

Sham Payne

Thunderbird

Closing Theme Song

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 5:
Passionate Patti Does a
Little Undercover Work

Composed by: Craig Safan

These are all in MIDI format and use any standard MIDI player.

Theme Song

Porn Prod Corp

Boardwalk

ChiChi Lambada

Hard Disk Cafe 1

Hard Disk Cafe 2

Hard Disk Cafe 3

KRAP Radio 1

KRAP Radio 2

KRAP Radio 3

KRAP studio session

Lana Lovely

Michelle

Patti at Taj Mahal

Music from
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
, 1991 VGA remake

Composed by: Chris Braymen

While this section appears to be "out of order," this is correct chronologically. By the way, I consider Chris Braymen one of the greatest game composers ever. Listen to how sophisticated his music sounds, even after all these years.

These are all in MIDI format and use any standard MIDI player.

Theme Song

Disco Larry Chris's tongue is firmly in his cheek on this one.

Eve

Fawn

Lost Wages Play this and just try not to stop your foot from tapping!

Quiki-Mart

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 3:
Passionate Patti In Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals

Composed by: Mike Dana

These are all in MIDI format and use any standard MIDI player.

Theme Song

Binoculars

Bambi

Bamboo maze

Cheri Tart

Comedy Hut

Larry's Crab Dance

Dork

Feral Pig

Hotel Lobby

Patti's Log Ride

Love Theme

Patti Lounge

Patti's Theme

Patti's Theme 2

Pot Ledge

Suzi Cheatum

Tawni

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 2:
Larry Goes Looking For Love
(in Several Wrong Places)
 

Composed by: Al Lowe

These are in MIDI format and use any standard MIDI player.

Theme Song

Kalalau's Love Song

Music from Leisure Suit Larry 1:
In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

Composed by: Al Lowe

In the early days of computer game music, that is "before MIDI," you never knew what sort of sounds a particular brand of computer would make. Here are a few golden sounds from the early years.

Apple IIgs Theme Song, 888 kb, MP3 format. The Apple IIgs was ahead of its time. It had digital sampling. Here's what it sounded like in the 1989 release of LSL1 for the IIgs. (Sampled by Patrik Bergström)

Tandy Theme Song, 952 kb, MP3 format. I was so happy when Tandy announced their machine would actually be able to play 3 tones at the same time! (Sampled by Patrik Bergström)

And finally, last but least, here's the one-voice, IBM PC "tweaker" version from original, 1987, CGA, 2-floppy disk LSL1 as heard on most PCs of the day.

This one really sucks!

Fan Versions

Here are just some of the arrangements of the Leisure Suit Larry theme and other music from the Larry games that fans have sent me.

Jan Zottmann created this version of the Larry Theme for his album Amiga Immortal 4. To make his version unique, he invited me to record the saxophone part. So here's me playing the Larry theme song.

The "Immortal Project" consists of studio enhancements of classic game tunes from the late 80s and 90s on CD, involving the original artists whenever possible. Volume 4 is due out in Summer 2010.
Visit his website for the latest news on the project.

Jamie Boyer did this creative arrangement of Mike Dana's Theme from Nontoonyt Island. If you enjoy it as much as I think you will, check out his other music at The Russian Linesman.
Larry "Liontamer" Oji and Mattias Häggström Gerdt surprised me at Genericon 2008 with a remix of the Larry theme called, "Larry's Funky House of Lowe."
Kef Schecter programmed an 8-bit Nintendo NES to play the Leisure Suit Larry Theme. Talk about bringing back memories — listen to this!

Patti's Love Theme arranged and rerecorded by Andy Thorley is one of my favorites of all these fan arrangements!

Michael Dunlap wrote a song called "Get With It Sierra" that was featured on his first album, "Totally Michael." Listen to it here and then get more at his web site.
In November, 2006, Hat's Dirty Street Band (made up of members of the 25th Infantry Division Band of the United States Army) entered a contest for best recording of a song from a video game and won with their recording of the Leisure Suit Larry Theme! Check it out. It's got style!
Lars Vogel sent me his own arrangement and MP3 recording of the Nontoonite song.

Here's Larry's Theme by Billy Buzz.

Here's another version of Larry's Theme by Samuel Sahlieh.

Larry's Theme, MIDI format. This arrangement is by Tom Lewandowski, I believe. It starts out with a fairly traditional chorus, then breaks into full MIDI glory.

Jonathan Yalon of HebrewQuest (yes, that's a real site) made this MP3 of the Larry Theme.
Axes Denied is a Finnish band who recorded the Larry Theme live at the 2005 Jyrkka Festival. They are Larry fans as well. Visit their site.
Here's Eve's Theme from Larry 1 VGA remixed and rerecorded by Ben Baxter.
 
 

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