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11 comments:
Upon which Betty Hutton belted out Friml and Hooker's "Only A Rose", from THE VAGABOND KING.
OK, all together now--what song did Dottie Lamour sing, and who wrote it?
From Eric:
On the subject of music trivia from the DeMille film, what was the name of the waltz that was played incessantly throughout the film? (No, it was NOT by Victor Young.) Extra points if you know who the composer was. (Hint, he was later a famous director in Hollywood.)
I think you are referring to the waltz "Dream Lover" by Arthur Freed?
The Lamour tune was "Lovely Luhawana Lady" composed by John Ringling North.
From Eric:
It is DREAM LOVER, but it is by Victor Schertzinger, who wrote it for the 1929 Paramount film THE LOVE PARADE starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (in her first screen role.) And undoubtedly it was Jeannette who sang it.
If you mean the flying act theme music that was continually reprised...what was it?
One I want to learn of while we're at it: What was the name of the exotic music played when the elephants were running to and from the ring? No one has ever been able to tell me.
And there was a very simple, but memorable fanfare that opened the film before DeMille's opening lines--what was its name?
Bingo to Buckles for "Luawana".
With Big Apple one winter, Barbara and I saw Frank Langella play the title role in "Dracula".
During the seduction scene after mixing his beautiful victim a drink, he placed a record on the Victrola while she allowed her long hair to cascade over the foot of the bed, which was down stage. And to the music of "Dream Lover" Dracula slowly went for the throat, stopping briefly to acknowledge the audience as the lghts dimmed and the cutain closed he went for the kill.
A day or so later I was reading the theatrical secion in the paper and someone wrote in asking for the name of the lovely tune in "Dracula".
I think the Flying act music was called the Wedding of the Winds.
Bob
When they played "Wedding of the Winds", for the Flying Act, you not only watced the act, you could actually feel it.
The only other music I liked for a Flying Act was when Dobritch was using a lot of Disney stuff, Jack Cervone played "Chim Chiminy Chim Chim Chiree", & "Let's Go Fly A Kite", & they fit great.
Eric Beheim recently stated that the elephant music in the DeMille movie was composed specifically for the film by Victor Young.
None the less, I agree, it is very impressive.
Buckles,
I checked with my friend Gordon Anderson out in LA. He is more passionate about the GSOE than I am. He has researched the movie music for many years with his contacts at Paramount Studios.
He advises the following:
-Music for the elephant act was "Elephant Act-parts 1&2" by Victor Young
-Opening fanfare is "We bring you the Circus by Victor Young
-"Dream Lover" is the recurring waltz for the flyers by Victor Schertzinger & Clifford Grey
-The first march when Holly and Sebastian are pulled up to the trapeze is "Folies Bergere by Paul Linde"
-After Sebastian falls the band plays a few bars of "Die Bajadere" gallop and then into "Southern Roses Waltz" both by Strauss
I hope this helps a little.
Dom Yodice
For Dom Yodice: Thanks for these titles I could never find by any other source, and not for lack of trying. No wonder, when you think of it, with certain charts composed in-house just for this picture.
While we're at it, thank you, also, to Gordon Anderson.
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