DownGoesFrazier Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Victor Young? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Victor Young it is. But what's the title of the movie ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Ok. The composer was Victor Young, who gave us such songs as "When I Fall In Love", "Love Letters", "Blue Star", "Written On The Wind", and "Alone At Last". He won the Oscar for "Around The World In Eighty Days" but died in 1956, a few months before the ceremony. The title of the song I'm looking for is "Everything I Do", and you can hear Joni James sing it on You Tube, but I think the instrumental version, also on You Tube, is better. The movie it came from stars an actor known for his wives, and another one who comes from an acting family---more like the black sheep of that family... Edited by: mudskipper on Jun 20, 2010 11:15 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 No. Not "Something To Live For". The movie was about the Oklahoma National Guards during World War II, and the title was symbolic....According to IMDB, in 1980, the eccentric actor who came from a well-known family of thespians, together with his son, exhumed his father's remains and had it cremated according to the deceased's wishes... His father had been dead for 38 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 The movie was "Thunderbirds" with John Derek, Mona Freeman, and John Drew Barrymore...Your thread, Finance, since you got the composer correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Speaking of Victor Young, this '40s well-loved standard, written by Young, was first featured in a film with "ghosts" as a component of the plot. Song? Film? Edited by: finance on Jun 23, 2010 10:52 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 "Stella by Starlight," THE UNINVITED? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I guess that was too easy. Your thread, phroso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Yup, even Leonard Maltin found room for that one in his Video Guide. Next: Andre Previn's theme for 1966's THE FORTUNE COOKIE wryly includes the melody for what Cole Porter standard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to" is correct. An appropriate theme song for a movie about unauthorized home surveillance. Nice going, 6's. The board is yours. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Bernard Herrman? JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Probably Jerry Goldsmith ("The Waltons"), but your clues seem to be describing two different movies. Is PLANET OF THE APES the sci-fi movie, and THE OMEN the Oscar winning horror movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Thanks 6's. Goldsmith's OMEN score used to drive me up a wall, but as I've gotten older, I have a better appreciation for it. Next: Harpo Marx had a trademark of doing a harp solo in most of the Marx Brothers' movies. However, in one of the Marx's Paramount classics, Harpo has TWO separate instrumental solos, both renditions of an all-too-recurring song heard throughout the film. Name the movie and the OTHER instrument that Harpo plays in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Yes, that's the answer that I was looking for. As far as I know, this is the only time Harpo played a solo of anything other than a harp in a movie. Nice going, 6's. The board is yours . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Elmer Berstein scored *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962), was mentored by Copland and had been gray-listed?maybe the sci-fi cult classics are *Robot Monster* and *Cat-Women of the Moon*?I enjoyed his score on one of his last films, *Far From Heaven* and will never understand why he didn?t get an Oscar for *The Magnificent Seven* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Elmer Bernstein did have an amazing body of work?the reason I single out *The Magnificent Seven* is that I think most people could identify the theme and the film instantly?how rare is that? I?ll be back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Pat Boone had a minor hit with this song that was used as the theme throughout the Preston Sturges classic, *The Lady Eve*?name that tune? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 With The wind and The Rain In Your Hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 The last time I posted it, it was never named?I guess adding Pat Boone to the mix did the trick?your turn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Thanks...Rhonda Fleming also has a version of that song. next:-- Hoagy Carmichael originally composed "Stardust" as a faster, jazzy tune which is very different from the soft dreamy melody that we hear today...Which composer and arranger should we thank for this great improvement.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Isham Jones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Actually, the composer/arranger/violinist I was referring to was working with Isham Jones in New York in the early 1930's when he transformed Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" from an up-tempo jazz piece to a romantic ballad with his violin arrangements.... Edited by: mudskipper on Jul 1, 2010 12:34 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Jimmy Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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