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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 20, 2019 20:10:12 GMT
Never saw Play Dirty Prime etc. so dunno. But In Sleuth … the music in question is in scenes with little or no dialogue. One plays while Olivier scarfs down food and waves his hands excessively to the tune And they don't want a lot of distracting crackles!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 21, 2019 15:41:13 GMT
What’s your honest opinion on Kernan as a candidate, everyone? Because, outside us in this thread, no one to whom I’ve proposed Kernan as a candidate thinks he sounds like the Sleuth singer. I don't know what those outside of this thread are thinking or hearing, but I'm sticking with my impression from last September as Kernan being not only as promising a candidate as any, but more so than most. Harking to our discussions of Applause on the George Sanders thread, I noticed from IMDb that Larry Hagman's vocals were prerecorded by a British singer named Ken Barrie, who was a contemporary of Kernan's (he passed in 2016). I thought for a fleeting moment, "Wouldn't it be funny if...?" But I still don't think he sounds as close to the mystery vocalist as Kernan does.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:01:08 GMT
Doghouse6, I keep going back and forth on Kernan—sometimes I think he sounds very close, sometimes I don’t think he does. But I guess just the fact that he can sound close is a better lead than most of what we’ve pursued. Re: Barrie, I’m listening to his version of “I’m in the Mood for Love” on YouTube right now, and I agree that he doesn’t sound as close, but the orchestra sounds very close, right down to what sounds like a snare drum. It’s apparently “Johnny Gibbs and His Orchestra,” on which unfortunately I can’t find much information…
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:01:45 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 22:05:16 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:09:05 GMT
^^^Hm. I wonder if that’s Gibbs and his orchestra too? Because it sounds like the first one, and they both sound like the music in Sleuth too… I’d be interested in finding out what singers they worked with.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 22:11:05 GMT
Memory refresher and easy access
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:11:38 GMT
Wait, wait, wait, wait… First of all, yes, it’s the same orchestra. Second of all, Gibbs is apparently a pseudonym of American conductor Robert Mandell, who did a lot of work in the U.K. and who for some reason worked under a large number of pseudonyms. Could this be the orchestra? He was definitely in England in ’72. BATouttaheck, Doghouse6, jervistetch, Primemovermithrax Pejorative (et al.)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 22:19:21 GMT
maybe this guy ?
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:20:21 GMT
^^^Unfortunately, all I see is that infamous blue box (not quite as bad as the blue bear, but nearly), Bat…
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 22:22:42 GMT
^^^Unfortunately, all I see is that infamous blue box (not quite as bad as the blue bear, but nearly), Bat… fixed ?
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:23:37 GMT
Fixed. Well, he definitely wrote it, but he wasn’t playing the music for Sleuth, now…
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 22:25:43 GMT
Just for fun... OT
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 22:44:36 GMT
^^^Some Irving Berlin in a Cole Porter thread? Inconceivable! What do you think about Mandell and his orchestra, Bat? The music sounds close to me.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 23:07:05 GMT
I don't think that the singer is Ken Barrie and not impressed as to the Orchestra being "ours" . KB more mellow and "fuller" sounding ? Don't know the details of musicology (big surprise that, I betcha ) but they just don't sound all that much alike to this untrained set of ears.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 21, 2019 23:11:52 GMT
I don't think that the singer is Ken Barrie and not impressed as to the Orchestra being "ours" . KB more mellow and "fuller" sounding ? Don't know the details of musicology (big surprise that, I betcha ) but they just don't sound all that much alike to this untrained set of ears. OK. I’m no musicologist either, of course... I completely agree Barrie doesn’t sound like our man—just that orchestra in the background, I thought.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 23:13:05 GMT
I thought it sounded too Big Bandy to be "ours" …. nice tho' it is !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 21, 2019 23:14:03 GMT
We need CSI to do sound analysis and comparisons on all the suspects !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 22, 2019 0:26:46 GMT
We need CSI to do sound analysis and comparisons on all the suspects ! We have the technology. Say, isn't that David Kernan's voice print readout behind that title text? Oh, Watson: the oscilloscope!
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Post by Nalkarj on May 3, 2019 3:14:11 GMT
This old chestnut came to mind again, and just for fun, I just e-mailed the BFI. As usual, probably nothing, but I’ll let you know when/if they respond.
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