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Aug 25, 2014 - 10:20 PM
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Ludwig van
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How about John Barry's "Goldfinger"? I like Leslie Bricuesse's story about hearing it for the first time. As Jon Burlingame notes in The Music of James Bond,
"So," said Bricuesse, "we went over to [Barry's] apartment in Cadogan Square, number 65, went upstairs and schmoozed for a bit. And then he sat down at the piano and played dah-DAH-dah [the opening three notes] and Newley [Bricuesse's writing partner on the project] and I both went, 'wider than a mile . . .' without even looking at each other." They were pointing out, somewhat sarcastically, that Barry's opening three notes were identical to those of Henry Mancini's popular, and Oscar-winning, song "Moon River."
"John was not amused," Newley later remembered.
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How about John Barry's "Goldfinger"? I like Leslie Bricuesse's story about hearing it for the first time. As Jon Burlingame notes in The Music of James Bond,
"So," said Bricuesse, "we went over to [Barry's] apartment in Cadogan Square, number 65, went upstairs and schmoozed for a bit. And then he sat down at the piano and played dah-DAH-dah [the opening three notes] and Newley [Bricuesse's writing partner on the project] and I both went, 'wider than a mile . . .' without even looking at each other." They were pointing out, somewhat sarcastically, that Barry's opening three notes were identical to those of Henry Mancini's popular, and Oscar-winning, song "Moon River."
"John was not amused," Newley later remembered.
There are many songs that share the same opening intervals. The first 3 notes of "Misty" and the first 3 notes of "Ebb Tide" are the same. The similarity of "Moon River" and "Goldfinger" is the most popular example.
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Aug 25, 2014 - 11:10 PM
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Ludwig van
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Yeah, but "Goldfinger" only has the first three syllables. And they are not in the same rhythm as "Holly" and "Moon River." And "Goldfinger" doesn't recreate the "Wider than a Mile" phrase that "Holly" includes.
This must have been deliberate on Mancini's part.
No doubt, especially as Breakfast at Tiffany's is essentially a "theme score", that is, a score with a theme that dominates throughout, even if in transformed guises. Like, say, Back to the Future, or The Accidental Tourist, both of which have interesting transformations of their respective themes.
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Well, Newley and Bricusse don't get off that easy. What Kind of Fool Am I - listen to the opening notes of How High the Moon - identical.
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Aug 25, 2014 - 11:59 PM
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johnbijl
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How about John Barry's "Goldfinger"? I like Leslie Bricuesse's story about hearing it for the first time. As Jon Burlingame notes in The Music of James Bond,
"So," said Bricuesse, "we went over to [Barry's] apartment in Cadogan Square, number 65, went upstairs and schmoozed for a bit. And then he sat down at the piano and played dah-DAH-dah [the opening three notes] and Newley [Bricuesse's writing partner on the project] and I both went, 'wider than a mile . . .' without even looking at each other." They were pointing out, somewhat sarcastically, that Barry's opening three notes were identical to those of Henry Mancini's popular, and Oscar-winning, song "Moon River."
"John was not amused," Newley later remembered.
Imagine how Michael Caine must have felt. 'You kept me up all night for this?!"
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Aug 26, 2014 - 10:04 AM
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Ludwig van
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How about John Barry's "Goldfinger"? I like Leslie Bricuesse's story about hearing it for the first time. As Jon Burlingame notes in The Music of James Bond,
"So," said Bricuesse, "we went over to [Barry's] apartment in Cadogan Square, number 65, went upstairs and schmoozed for a bit. And then he sat down at the piano and played dah-DAH-dah [the opening three notes] and Newley [Bricuesse's writing partner on the project] and I both went, 'wider than a mile . . .' without even looking at each other." They were pointing out, somewhat sarcastically, that Barry's opening three notes were identical to those of Henry Mancini's popular, and Oscar-winning, song "Moon River."
"John was not amused," Newley later remembered.
Imagine how Michael Caine must have felt. 'You kept me up all night for this?!"
LOL
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