Songs that have out lived their movies
Jan 5, 2018 5:34:23 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 5, 2018 5:34:23 GMT
Some songs written for movies have outlasted the reputation of the film they were created for.
One example is Nat King Cole’s crooning of “Mona Lisa” which won the Best Song Oscar was composed for the 1950 Alan Ladd action film, “Captain Carey, U.S.A,” not a bad film, just fairly routine, that people who are not regulars at a Classic Film board might not know about.
Even more obscure is the film “Unchained” (1955) a docudrama about one of the first minimum security prisons in Chino, California. Football star Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch stars as a man sentenced for manslaughter. The song written for the film, “Unchained Melody” was a huge hit for The Righteous Brothers in 1965. It was 11 weeks on the Billboard Top 40, reaching #4. Oh, that blue-eyed soul. But who has ever heard of, much less seen, the movie it came from.
One example is Nat King Cole’s crooning of “Mona Lisa” which won the Best Song Oscar was composed for the 1950 Alan Ladd action film, “Captain Carey, U.S.A,” not a bad film, just fairly routine, that people who are not regulars at a Classic Film board might not know about.
Even more obscure is the film “Unchained” (1955) a docudrama about one of the first minimum security prisons in Chino, California. Football star Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch stars as a man sentenced for manslaughter. The song written for the film, “Unchained Melody” was a huge hit for The Righteous Brothers in 1965. It was 11 weeks on the Billboard Top 40, reaching #4. Oh, that blue-eyed soul. But who has ever heard of, much less seen, the movie it came from.
