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Theme Of The Month, March 2014: Television And Movie Music


Jim Besser

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One of my favorite composers and jazz pianists is Michel Legrand.

Here is his piece I Will Wait for You which is the theme for the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . It won the academy award for best song that year.

 

https://soundcloud.com/randy-stein-1/i-will-wait-for-you-by-michel

Very nice Randy! Pity that the recording is suffering from a very high background noise level. Perhaps you might re-recorded with better equipment? It would be worth it...

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One of my favorite composers and jazz pianists is Michel Legrand.

Here is his piece I Will Wait for You which is the theme for the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . It won the academy award for best song that year.

 

https://soundcloud.com/randy-stein-1/i-will-wait-for-you-by-michel

Very nice Randy! Pity that the recording is suffering from a very high background noise level. Perhaps you might re-recorded with better equipment? It would be worth it...

 

Kind of did it on the fly. Good enough for now. Maybe sometime at a Squeezer rehearsal. Jim has a pretty nice mic/recording system.

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My mother thought I was a genetic aberration because I loved the Three Stooges. But hey, I was a boy, I was distantly related to one of the Stooges, and I can still do the Curly finger snapping routine with the best of them.

 

This is the original Stooges theme, a cultural touchstone of my childhood. A silly tune crudely played, proving that in the TOTM there is no shame. But it was fun to work out!

 

https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/stooges2

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I've just uploaded the Dr Who Theme: https://soundcloud.com/7wheels-1/dr-who-theme

 

They have played around with the theme quite a bit over the years, so apologies if this isn't your favourite version.

 

I started off thinking that I might tap out the rhythm with my foot while playing, but I found it incredibly hard to keep the rhythm consistent and ended up recording the foot tapping as a separate track... and once you start multi-tracking...

 

Whovians of the world unite! Different and very nice, Robert. Perhaps you should offer it to the BBC for their next series? :huh:

 

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well, just how far does the term "TV and movie music" reach? Seriously, I'd give quite a lot to hear somebody cover the Pacman theme (one of the great pieces of music of the late 20th century imho ;) )... yet it already qualifies me as a hopeless geezer...

 

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This is the original Stooges theme, a cultural touchstone of my childhood. A silly tune crudely played, proving that in the TOTM there is no shame. But it was fun to work out!

 

https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/stooges2

 

Hmm. With other bits added at beginning and end, I recognized that as a phrase from Listen to the Mockingbird, a song popular before, during, and after the US Civil War.

 

A quick bit of googling led me to this link, among others.

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a goal for the future is vince guaraldi's jazz theme "linus and lucy," from the "peanuts" animated specials, most known for the xmas special......it's so contrapuntal...not there yet in my few months of duet...per one note out there,

[[This song was played to the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour as wake-up music on Day 2 of the STS-123 mission on March 11, 2008.]]

 

richard galliano's recording of nino rota film score themes is also a big inspiration...

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=richard+galliano+nino+rota&tag=googhydr-20&index=popular&hvadid=43834000649&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9382869374455634821&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_9h2v277u4r_b

 

 

then there's badalamenti....where does one begin? "twin peaks" and his other masterpieces for david lynch aren't the half of it...

here's badalamenti's theme from Jeunet's La Cite des enfants perdus--toy piano, split screens, and 2 accordions...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kquHmLJOkc

 

 

bregovic, bregovic, bregovic--

 

"bubamara" from the wonderful kusturica film, "black cat, white cat"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oWLjjgG-I

 

i guess we all already know " talijanska," from kusturica's "time of the gypsies"??

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HG2e5UY3Ac

 

the dominique rivere rendition lots of free-reeders know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXYBTBapRU

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This is the original Stooges theme, a cultural touchstone of my childhood. A silly tune crudely played, proving that in the TOTM there is no shame. But it was fun to work out!

 

https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/stooges2

 

Hmm. With other bits added at beginning and end, I recognized that as a phrase from Listen to the Mockingbird, a song popular before, during, and after the US Civil War.

 

A quick bit of googling led me to this link, among others.

 

 

 

Very cool. Found in the oldtime repertoire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F8Yziwt6TI and in jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUeE_Dzy2s.

 

I especially like this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiFt47CsXo

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