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Aug 16, 2013 - 11:18 PM
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Ray Worley
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BLOWING WILD (1953) - Frankie Laine THE LIQUIDATOR (1966) - Shirley Bassey I wonder how many of the western movie ballads Laine performed originally, which he very effectively lampooned later in "Blazing Saddles"? Actually, I heard that Frankie Laine had no idea he was singing a parody song. That's why it works so well. Here's some info from imdb, although I have no idea if this is apocryphal or not. The source is Mel Brooks after all, who sometimes didn't let the truth get in the way of a good story. "The film's title song "Blazing Saddles" was sung by popular fifties singer Frankie Laine. Brooks had taken out an ad in the show biz trade papers looking for "a Frankie Laine type." He was happily surprised when, two days later, Frankie Laine himself showed up in his casting office at Warner Brothers. Brooks hired Laine on the spot, but he never told him he was singing the title song of a comedy film, a parody. He was afraid that if he told Laine, he would lose the conviction in his singing voice. "
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The song is, of course, all the greater (and funnier) knowing that Laine is "playing it straight."
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For my two cents, I also love the version of EL DORADO in the film. And the paintings behind the credits are pretty great too. It's too bad the soundtrack is a re-recording of mostly pop versions of the themes and the vocal is reduced to a fairly insipid choral version. The LP choral studio version -- slowed down to last as long as the film's Main Title (about 2:25) -- omits the final one-third of the Main Title song! The LP is only 25 minutes long and Riddle didn't bother to record the whole song!! Aaargh! I hope that Paramount still has the George Alexander original in its vaults. Intrada?
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does ole turkey buzzard count from mckenna? wednesdays child from quiller?
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Extraordinary that there's been no mention of 3:10 to Yuma, or Gunfight at the OK Corral yet. Yes! What an extraordinary release a compilation of all these western Main Title ballads would make. Of course, given clearance rights, it will never happen. The next best thing would be to have legitimate individual CD releases of the scores available, from which one could create one's own assembly.
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Manderley, that would make a good CDR compilation!!!
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