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[b]Songs from Movies and TV[/b]
[c=#BF0080]This is a reply to a challenge. (listed below) I have long detested movies and TV for the used of cutting edge songs or popular songs. I dislike this practice as it shows a lack of creativity and laziness. It's fine for "American Graffiti", "American Hot Wax" or "Grease". The use of music of the time in those films was pivotal and defining to the film.
But taking a little known band that no one ever heard of and including them just to appear edgy and avant garde--and at the risk of the song failing, is wrong. This has been going on close 40 years if not more and it is a lazy persons way to do music in a song. This post [i]Doesn't[/i] celebrate that. The Stones, Sinatra and Nat King Cole never needed that. Fame begat them as they were [i]GOOD![/i]
So we begin here. With a lovely composition form a forgotten movie. Millions fell in love for the first time to this...[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M]
[c=#BF0080]That can still put me in a romantic mood! [/c]
[c=#BF0080]I move on to The Modern Jazz Quartet and it's pianist, John Lewis. John had been asked to write the soundtrack; the score, for an upcoming film titled "No Sun in Venice". It was not a popular film in the states(distribution rights could not be secured) and a soundtrack failed to ensue. But The MJQ themselves did release the material as an LP. On it is this, one of their best known and loved compositions.[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGBWMbIgYj8]
[c=#BF0080]Sadly every member of the group is dead and has been so for some time. Much of their material is out of print and the band could fall into obscurity. I hope not.
Max Steiner may be the greatest composer of music for film of my generation and any generation far as that goes. Filns should have scores like this written for them today. They don't. (there are some exceptions)They take the easy -and lazy way out.
Max, in his best film, "Gone With The Wind" [/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8z9HQfQxU]
[c=#BF0080]Because I am a musicologist people often ask me "what is the best remake" of a song. I'm inclined to go with Hendrix at rimes in his Dylan remake. But this comes close. A Dooley Wilson remake of a 1931 Rudy Vallee song(which is good in it's own right!)
And as a note you will also see the music is done by who??? Yes. Max Steiner.
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrA5QgNd7Y]
[c=#BF0080]Before I leave classic Cinema I'll give a nod to this which WAS A POPULAR SONG. (of the day and a practice I detest! But this works) From 1929's 'On With The Show" with Ethel Waters.
George and Ira Gershwin wrote this and it has been recorded countless times since it's writing. [/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuu-pEEIfuw]
[c=#BF0080]Moving on to TV we go to November 1954 and a presentation of [i]Studio One[/i], a popular show of the times. As it opened on November 15th we heard this--a unknown song by an unknown artist-and it captured our hearts and imaginations. In the coming days phone calls and letters were received asking who this was and what was the song-and to please release it. Mitch Miller ,who was responsible for providing the song for the show already had plans to release it.
A Number One hit for Joan Weber in 1955[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyLRbRCCLU]
[c=#BF0080]A theme song. It always felt like Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" was based on this...
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w]
[c=#BF0080]I don't have much love for TV and have not seen it in 6 years as I got rid of my cable. Saved thousands!
So I am closing with "Best of Days"
Here is the Victoria's Secret commercial.. Which is just simply adorable!!!!!!!
I worked FOR Victoria's Secret that year and many of what is seen I have/had. The flannel PJ's at 17-18 second are divine!
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Eh8VOTO9A]
[c=#BF0080]And the actual song. Also adorable.
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2j9EvSZ9A]
[c=#BF0080]As an aside to the main post the group actually did TWO commercials for VS that year. This is the other which is "Good Life" A good commercial but Fireside Flannel I never much cared for. (material is too thin!)
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUlEKtHNzg]
[c=#BF0080]The link to what this goes to:[/c]
https://similarworlds.com/1457736-I-Love-Music/2868740-WEEKLY-PLAYLIST-CHALLENGE-FOR-AUGUST-15-2019-WEEK
[c=#BF0080]Lastly a nod to the kiddies listening... Featuring the great Henri Mancini.
fin[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPc7MRm4Y8]
[c=#BF0080]This is a reply to a challenge. (listed below) I have long detested movies and TV for the used of cutting edge songs or popular songs. I dislike this practice as it shows a lack of creativity and laziness. It's fine for "American Graffiti", "American Hot Wax" or "Grease". The use of music of the time in those films was pivotal and defining to the film.
But taking a little known band that no one ever heard of and including them just to appear edgy and avant garde--and at the risk of the song failing, is wrong. This has been going on close 40 years if not more and it is a lazy persons way to do music in a song. This post [i]Doesn't[/i] celebrate that. The Stones, Sinatra and Nat King Cole never needed that. Fame begat them as they were [i]GOOD![/i]
So we begin here. With a lovely composition form a forgotten movie. Millions fell in love for the first time to this...[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M]
[c=#BF0080]That can still put me in a romantic mood! [/c]
[c=#BF0080]I move on to The Modern Jazz Quartet and it's pianist, John Lewis. John had been asked to write the soundtrack; the score, for an upcoming film titled "No Sun in Venice". It was not a popular film in the states(distribution rights could not be secured) and a soundtrack failed to ensue. But The MJQ themselves did release the material as an LP. On it is this, one of their best known and loved compositions.[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGBWMbIgYj8]
[c=#BF0080]Sadly every member of the group is dead and has been so for some time. Much of their material is out of print and the band could fall into obscurity. I hope not.
Max Steiner may be the greatest composer of music for film of my generation and any generation far as that goes. Filns should have scores like this written for them today. They don't. (there are some exceptions)They take the easy -and lazy way out.
Max, in his best film, "Gone With The Wind" [/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8z9HQfQxU]
[c=#BF0080]Because I am a musicologist people often ask me "what is the best remake" of a song. I'm inclined to go with Hendrix at rimes in his Dylan remake. But this comes close. A Dooley Wilson remake of a 1931 Rudy Vallee song(which is good in it's own right!)
And as a note you will also see the music is done by who??? Yes. Max Steiner.
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrA5QgNd7Y]
[c=#BF0080]Before I leave classic Cinema I'll give a nod to this which WAS A POPULAR SONG. (of the day and a practice I detest! But this works) From 1929's 'On With The Show" with Ethel Waters.
George and Ira Gershwin wrote this and it has been recorded countless times since it's writing. [/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuu-pEEIfuw]
[c=#BF0080]Moving on to TV we go to November 1954 and a presentation of [i]Studio One[/i], a popular show of the times. As it opened on November 15th we heard this--a unknown song by an unknown artist-and it captured our hearts and imaginations. In the coming days phone calls and letters were received asking who this was and what was the song-and to please release it. Mitch Miller ,who was responsible for providing the song for the show already had plans to release it.
A Number One hit for Joan Weber in 1955[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyLRbRCCLU]
[c=#BF0080]A theme song. It always felt like Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" was based on this...
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w]
[c=#BF0080]I don't have much love for TV and have not seen it in 6 years as I got rid of my cable. Saved thousands!
So I am closing with "Best of Days"
Here is the Victoria's Secret commercial.. Which is just simply adorable!!!!!!!
I worked FOR Victoria's Secret that year and many of what is seen I have/had. The flannel PJ's at 17-18 second are divine!
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Eh8VOTO9A]
[c=#BF0080]And the actual song. Also adorable.
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2j9EvSZ9A]
[c=#BF0080]As an aside to the main post the group actually did TWO commercials for VS that year. This is the other which is "Good Life" A good commercial but Fireside Flannel I never much cared for. (material is too thin!)
[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUlEKtHNzg]
[c=#BF0080]The link to what this goes to:[/c]
https://similarworlds.com/1457736-I-Love-Music/2868740-WEEKLY-PLAYLIST-CHALLENGE-FOR-AUGUST-15-2019-WEEK
[c=#BF0080]Lastly a nod to the kiddies listening... Featuring the great Henri Mancini.
fin[/c]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPc7MRm4Y8]
