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Post by kijii on Oct 24, 2017 1:55:44 GMT
..you could hum instantly upon demand:
Summer Place
Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Pink Panther
The High and the Mighty
Laura
Tara's theme from Gone With the Wind
my favorite love song, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Goldfinger
Exodus
many more.....what's yours?
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 24, 2017 2:29:57 GMT
Born Free
Dr Zhivago
Bridge on the River Kwai (Is that a theme?)
You Only Live Twice
To Sir with Love
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 24, 2017 4:05:38 GMT
Once took a two day horse riding trip through John Ford country in Monument Valley. When not conversing with my fellow trio of saddle pals, had a tiny cassette deck in my vest pocket. Among the selections that ear plugs delivered amidst the scenic vistas were musical themes from:
DUEL IN THE SUN
THE BIG COUNTRY
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
And lots more
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 24, 2017 8:52:34 GMT
Kijii and Bravo, Did you have the same Mantovani Movie Themes LP's in your households that I had in mine? Your songs are my songs. This was one of my favorites. I wish I had those records now.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 24, 2017 15:13:57 GMT
My family's household didn't have Mantovani or Ferrante and Teicher. The tracks I listed were heard everywhere. Lulu had big hit with To Sir with Love. The exception would be You Only Live Twice - my favorite Bond theme.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2017 17:05:47 GMT
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Godfather
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 24, 2017 18:44:31 GMT
...I for one, never understood why Gene Pitney's tune "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" was not used in the film of the same title. Same goes for Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" for the Buccaneer, though the battle is main sequence of events in that on...
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 24, 2017 20:06:57 GMT
A few Best Song Oscar winners that are still regularly hummed:
Thanks for the Memories (Bob Hope’s theme song) from The Big Broadcast of 1938
When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinocchoi (1940), still a Disney favorite.
White Christmas from the movie of the same name (1942)
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South (1947)
Que Sera, Sera from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1957)
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Post by fangirl1975 on Oct 24, 2017 21:01:49 GMT
Raiders March(Indiana Jones Theme)
Star Wars Main Theme
Imperial March(Vader's Theme)
What Is A Youth(Romeo & Juliet Theme)
As Time Goes By
Where Do I Begin(Love Story Theme)
Halloween Theme
That's just to name a few themes that I catch myself humming.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 24, 2017 21:47:52 GMT
Oh, mike, some of the greatest of the great! Love them all and always will. But I have to add this Oscar winner from THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), Somewhere Over the Rainbow, to make the list complete (for me).  Lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg told a story of how he'd been stuck for a lyric to Harold Arlen's tune, and that the inspiration came to him while riding with his wife on Sunset Blvd, asking her to pull over while he jotted his notes. In the version I heard, it was only after completing them that he noticed they were parked in front of Schwab's. 43 years later, he died in a collision on that same street. No doubt, you've heard of how the song was at one point cut from the film on the opinion of Mayer and producer Mervyn LeRoy that it slowed down the narrative, but the wiser heads of associate producer Arthur Freed and vocal arranger Roger Edens prevailed. A brief reprise when Dorothy is being held captive by the Witch Of the West was cut after being shot. Pardon a tiny nitpick: no "somewhere" in the title. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 24, 2017 23:01:39 GMT
...I for one, never understood why Gene Pitney's tune "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" was not used in the film of the same title. Same goes for Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" for the Buccaneer, though the battle is main sequence of events in that on... There are conflicting stories about the Pitney recording. One has something to do with a dispute between Paramount and the music publisher. Another is that the song was felt by the studio too contemporary to suit the film. Sometimes, a song is commissioned for a film and the producers decide they just don't like it. Such was the case with Eddy Grant's song, Romancing the Stone, which was nevertheless released as a single, charting at #26 on Top 40 listings in the year of the film's release. Lyrics to Dimitri Tiomkin's theme for The High and the Mighty were written by Ned Washington, for which he received billing in the opening credits, although no vocal is heard anywhere in the film. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 24, 2017 23:04:35 GMT
...I for one, never understood why Gene Pitney's tune "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" was not used in the film of the same title. Same goes for Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" for the Buccaneer, though the battle is main sequence of events in that on... There are conflicting stories about the Pitney recording. One has something to do with a dispute between Paramount and the music publisher. Another is that the song was felt by the studio too contemporary to suit the film. Sometimes, a song is commissioned for a film.... Dylan penned Lay Lady Lay for Midnight Cowboy but didn't finish it in time. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 24, 2017 23:11:21 GMT
There are conflicting stories about the Pitney recording. One has something to do with a dispute between Paramount and the music publisher. Another is that the song was felt by the studio too contemporary to suit the film. Sometimes, a song is commissioned for a film.... Dylan penned Lay Lady Lay for Midnight Cowboy but didn't finish it in time. I wasn't aware of that; thanks. I'm not usually big on naming or picking favorites, but I make an exception for that song among Dylan's. I wonder where and how in the film it would have been intended to be featured. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 24, 2017 23:21:49 GMT
It doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, does it!
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 24, 2017 23:23:34 GMT
Oh, mike, some of the greatest of the great! Love them all and always will. But I have to add this Oscar winner from THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), Somewhere Over the Rainbow, to make the list complete (for me). Lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg told a story of how he'd been stuck for a lyric to Harold Arlen's tune, and that the inspiration came to him while riding with his wife on Sunset Blvd, asking her to pull over while he jotted his notes. In the version I heard, it was only after completing them that he noticed they were parked in front of Schwab's. 43 years later, he died in a collision on that same street. No doubt, you've heard of how the song was at one point cut from the film on the opinion of Mayer and producer Mervyn LeRoy that it slowed down the narrative, but the wiser heads of associate producer Arthur Freed and vocal arranger Roger Edens prevailed. A brief reprise when Dorothy is being held captive by the Witch Of the West was cut after being shot. Pardon a tiny nitpick: no "somewhere" in the title. Yeah, I know it's Over the Rainbow - I just started singing the song and that's what I wrote. (I fixed my OP.) What a great story about Harburg's writing it - sad though the final, ironic chapter was. I didn't know any of that - except, of course, that the song was nearly never in the film. Hard to imagine Sunset Boulevard being the platform for the creation of one of the world's most beautiful songs. I mean sitting in the traffic at Schwab's. Thanks for that great image to ponder. (Though there was probably a lot less traffic back in those days.) |
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Post by neurosturgeon on Oct 24, 2017 23:36:20 GMT
I had the Reader's Digest collection of film music by Charles Gerhardt and the Henry Mancini three record set of Oscar winning songs from 1933 to 1965, so I was well versed in movie music. It is hard to pick favorites, as it is usually what I am listening to at the moment.
As a kid, the theme from "The Magnificent Seven" was used on a cigarette commercial, so I knew that one well. Played it in orchestra in high school off of the hand writtten arrangement of Elmer Bernstein. I was fortunate enough to have music teachers with industry connections. My string bass teacher even has an IMDb page: Abe Luboff.
But a couple of favorites are "Stella By Starlight" from "The Uninvited" and the theme from "Now, Voyager."
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Post by kijii on Oct 24, 2017 23:45:12 GMT
Kijii and Bravo, Did you have the same Mantovani Movie Themes LP's in your households that I had in mine? Your songs are my songs. This was one of my favorites. I wish I had those records now. I don't remember that alum, but I remember my roommate in college loving Ray Coniff and Percy Faith albums. I think this might have been before--maybe during--that period when the best slow dances came from movie themes by Henry Mancini. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 24, 2017 23:57:56 GMT
Forgot about As Time Goes By. That's one of the other greatest of the greats for me. More arcane trivia, some or all of which you may perhaps know: the song was written for the 1931 B'way show, Everybody's Welcome. It was specified in the script for the unproduced 1940 Murray Burnett/Joan Alison play, Everybody Comes To Rick's, upon which Casablanca's screenplay was based, and was employed in scenes nearly identical to those in the film. |
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 25, 2017 0:11:51 GMT
Forgot about As Time Goes By. That's one of the other greatest of the greats for me. More arcane trivia, some or all of which you may perhaps know: the song was written for the 1931 B'way show, Everybody's Welcome. It was specified in the script for the unproduced 1940 Murray Burnett/Joan Alison play, Everybody Comes To Rick's, upon which Casablanca's screenplay was based, and was employed in scenes nearly identical to those in the film. Yes, I did know this, but I can never associate it with anything but the film. There were several songs from the 20s and 30s that were used later in films and then became most famous for being in those films - "Singin' in the Rain" comes to mind, written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown and first performed (they think) in the late 1920s. Freed used a lot of the songs he co-wrote in various films through the years after he became a producer. Interesting how that happened - and thank God it did. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 25, 2017 0:23:22 GMT
Tubular Bells, the theme from The Exorcist, was quite popular. It doesn't lend itself to humming, though.
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