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Post by mjbrathwaite on Oct 3, 2013 17:12:22 GMT -5
[/quote]Funny how we used to have to put up with "B-sides" of our favorite songs. The first version of The Green Leaves of Summer I ever heard (months before the Columbia release of the soundtrack became available or I had seen the movie) was by the Clebenoff Strings and had such violently percussive rhythm that I was visualizing Disney's Davy swinging Old Betsy, clobbering a soldado with every beat. The flip side was a forgettable tune (that I cannot now forget no matter how hard I try) called Where the Hot Winds Blow. Gawd, that was awful!!! [/quote]
I know what you mean about B-sides, but I've always liked "Without Him", although not as much as "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral". I'm not familiar with "Where the Hot Winds Blow". My first copy of "The Green Leaves of Summer" was on Frankie Avalon's EP of the songs from the film. In New Zealand, the publicity for the film included a still of him singing one of them, and I was a bit disappointed when that bit wasn't in the film, although I've since discovered he does sing one of the songs in the director's cut.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Oct 3, 2013 23:29:46 GMT -5
Yep, Frankie sings Here's to the Ladies at the end of Lisa Dickinson's birthday party sequence. The musical accompaniment for his vocal is the trumpet version of the song in the soundtrack album.
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Post by loucapitano on Oct 31, 2013 17:07:29 GMT -5
Hey New Zealand, I thought I was the only one with a 45 RPM of Frankie Avalon singing songs from the Waynamo. Glad you liked them. Frankie had a great voice for his time.. I only wish he could have sung a longer version of the Ballad. I think it rivals the Marty Robbins classic. (Although I think Robbins was the King of Western ballads) Lisa's birthday party was (all in all) the most nauseating scene in the director's cut. There were a number of worthwhile scenes that were cut...but that wasn't one of them.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Nov 1, 2013 0:52:22 GMT -5
Hahahaha! Your word is "nauseating," mine is "pedestrian." I couldn't agree more. It is an embarrassing omage to... director's daughter... and very poorly directed and edited. Tightening the editing might help a bit, but it's almost like Stuart Gilmore was out of the building when his third assistant apprentice cut it!
I've never liked Frankie's treatment of Tiomkin songs -- except in one instance. The one that was "written for the movie," according to Avalon, but never used. He sings it in the TV tie-in show "Spirit of the Alamo" entertaining a modern audience in the Cantina set. It is a slow ballad called "My One and Only Girl" and takes a firm grasp of vocal phrasing to make it work. He sings it beautifully with only a strummed guitar accompanyment.
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