Oscar Nominations and Stripper Lyrics
by Lukas Kendall
Here are the music-related nominees for the 73rd Annual Academy Awards:
Best Original Score:
Chocolat - Rachel Portman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
Gladiator - Hans Zimmer
Malena - Ennio Morricone
The Patriot - John Williams
Best Original Song:
"A Love Before Time" - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Music by
Jorge Calandrelli and Tan Dun; Lyric by James Schamus.
"I've Seen It All" - Dancer in the Dark (Music by Bjork; Lyric by
Lars von Trier and Sjon Sigurdsson)
"My Funny Friend and Me" - The Emperor's New Groove (Music by Sting
and David Hartley; Lyric by Sting)
"A Fool In Love" - Meet the Parents (Randy Newman)
"Things Have Changed" - Wonder Boys (Bob Dylan)
The winners will be announced during the big show on March 25, 2001,
at the Shrine Auditorium, broadcast on ABC. See www.oscar.com
for more information and the complete list of nominees.
Incidentally, Rachel Portman's score to Chocolat (suite form)
will be premiered in concert by Richard Kaufman and the Dallas Symphony
on March 2, 3 and 4. The Little Orchestra Society will perform it next
at Alice Tulley Hall at Lincoln Center in New York on March 14th.
The Stripper Lyrics
From the archives!
Our CD of The
Stripper/Nick Quarry (Jerry Goldsmith) is on sale now. I practically
wrote a term paper for the liner notes but there was one item discovered
too late to include: the unknown LYRICS for Goldsmith's Stripper theme
by Hal Wynn.
This is sung not to the jazzy main title theme but to the more nostalgic
theme used frequently for the score's introspective moments -- the one
that sort of sounds like Alex North. It's first featured prominently in
track 3.
Ready for wackiness?
A Woman in July
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Lyrics by Hal Wynn
In May, she seems so mod-est
And in April, simple and shy,
But some-thing seems to hap-pen
to a wo-man in July.
Comes June she's young and care-free
But as soon as June rolls on by,
It's then, once a-gain,
she'll talk of love be-cause it's July.
One day she'll wake and find
Love's a gay won-der-land,
And she'll rush in-to your arms
With her heart in her hand.
So hold her, say you love her,
Build her dreams way up to the sky,
The girl you met on that day in May
Is a woman in July.
I'm shocked -- SHOCKED -- this did not become a chart-topping hit, especially
with the snappy "gay wonderland" turn of phrase and the clever metaphor
of the months. But it's never too late...
Buy the CD and sing along!
Sorry, no Nick Quarry lyrics....
--Lukas Kendall
MailBag@filmscoremonthly.com
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