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May 30, 2020 - 11:56 AM
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Howard L
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Two major productions filmed a few years apart. Sumptuous technicolor. Aerial postcards. Drama, humor, passion. Adventure off screen vs. adventure on screen. Lilting, melodic scores. Majestic stuff. Main Title themes to die for.
Both scores nominated, one wins the Oscar. One pic starts off as a Broadway musical, its director takes on the film version, he keeps the music for underscoring purposes while jettisoning the lyrics. Once a musical, now a straight drama with lots of humor. The other pic is a smash hit, the Oscar winning score is then given lyrics, the director has visions of a whole new incarnation. His plane goes down and with it the visions. But the score with lyrics is recorded. Sounds like something out of a Disney or Fleischer animated production. Once a straight drama with lots of humor, now a musical.
Film music with lyrics before, film music with lyrics after. Flexible little thing, this film music.
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sounded too good to be true, and it was. 
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May 30, 2020 - 12:04 PM
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paul rossen
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Two major productions filmed a few years apart. Sumptuous technicolor. Aerial postcards. Drama, humor, passion. Adventure off screen vs. adventure on screen. Lilting, melodic scores. Majestic stuff. Main Title themes to die for.
Both scores nominated, one wins the Oscar. One pic starts off as a Broadway musical, its director takes on the film version, he keeps the music for underscoring purposes while jettisoning the lyrics. Once a musical, now a straight drama with lots of humor. The other pic is a smash hit, the Oscar winning score is then given lyrics, the director has visions of a whole new incarnation. His plane goes down and with it the visions. But the score with lyrics is recorded. Sounds like something out of a Disney or Fleischer animated production. Once a straight drama with lots of humor, now a musical.
Film music with lyrics before, film music with lyrics after. Flexible little thing, this film music.
Of course it was Mike Todd's vision and production of 80 Days. The director was Michael Anderson who was following Todd's vision.
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Yes, I should have made the distinction. Gracias. It's neat too, if you see the album cover:
NOW...For The First Time
ALL NEW...
WITH LYRICS!
Michael Todd Jr. Presents
Michael Todd's
AROUND
The WORLD
In
80 DAYS
IN WORDS
AND MUSIC
I'm a big fan of this "musical" version of the score, with its splendid widescreen arrangements by Robert Farnon (under the pseudonym Jack Saunders). It's such a shame the download (and CD equivalent) is plainly ripped from vinyl. I doubt we will ever get a remaster from the original tapes, but who owns the Everest catalogue these days?
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Love Young's score for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (although I've never seen it), but when you wrote "FANNY", I thought it would be a weird mashup of Bergman's brilliant FANNY & ALEXANDER and AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Alas, that's about the only film FANNY that I'm aware of (no pun intended).
Mancini recorded the theme to "Fanny" in 1960.
The score to "Fanny" was written by Harold Rome. The arrangement is similar to "Mr. Lucky".
Mancini recorded it as a B side on a single.
It was released on RCA's Camden label LP "The Second Time Around".
It also contained "My Cousin From Naples" which was originally from a "Peter Gunn" episode.
Mancini wrote the arrangement of "Peter Gunn" for Ray Anthony.
Anthony also recorded a "Gunn" cue titled "Walkin' To Mothers" which wasn't recorded by Mancini
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Love Young's score for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (although I've never seen it), but when you wrote "FANNY", I thought it would be a weird mashup of Bergman's brilliant FANNY & ALEXANDER and AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Alas, that's about the only film FANNY that I'm aware of (no pun intended).
The score to "Fanny" was written by Harold Rome. The arrangement is similar to "Mr. Lucky".
Mancini recorded it as a B side on a single.
It was released on RCA's Camden label LP "The Second Time Around".
It also contained "My Cousin From Naples" which was originally from a "Peter Gunn" episode.
Mancini wrote the arrangement of "Peter Gunn" for Ray Anthony.
Anthony also recorded a "Gunn" cue titled "Walkin' To Mothers" which wasn't recorded by Mancini
The DVD of "Fanny" on the Image label, includes the original score of 14 tracks on a separate CD.
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Love Young's score for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (although I've never seen it), but when you wrote "FANNY", I thought it would be a weird mashup of Bergman's brilliant FANNY & ALEXANDER and AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Alas, that's about the only film FANNY that I'm aware of (no pun intended).
The score to "Fanny" was written by Harold Rome. The arrangement is similar to "Mr. Lucky".
Mancini recorded it as a B side on a single.
It was released on RCA's Camden label LP "The Second Time Around".
It also contained "My Cousin From Naples" which was originally from a "Peter Gunn" episode.
Mancini wrote the arrangement of "Peter Gunn" for Ray Anthony.
Anthony also recorded a "Gunn" cue titled "Walkin' To Mothers" which wasn't recorded by Mancini
The DVD of "Fanny" on the Image label, includes the original score of 14 tracks on a separate CD.
It does indeed, so brick walled as to make the ears bleed. I have a MUCH better copy in perfect unmolested sound.
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