What film scores contain piano bar arrangements (PBA) of popular songs, including melodies from the film itself?
"Piano bar" means
-- Popular song form (not classical form), arranged for -- solo piano (NO vocal)
A good example is the main title of "10" which is a PBA of "Don't Call It Love" from the same score.
Additional examples:
WHIRLPOOL: David Raksin uses a PBA of "Slowly," his song from FALLEN ANGEL (it's on the Kritzerland cd, by the by http://kritzerland.com/preminger.htm).
"10": also has a PBA of "Laura," (not on the LP). When George is getting drunk in a bar, he hears the pianist playing it and comments how they "don't write them like that anymore".
As always with these hyper-specific requests of mine, this thread will NOT accept scattershot answers like "Victor Young scores have a lot". You must have film titles plus the song name (or location in the movie).
WHIRLPOOL: David Raksin uses a PBA of "Slowly," his song from FALLEN ANGEL (it's on the Kritzerland cd, by the by http://kritzerland.com/preminger.htm).
What's wrong with me? I completely missed the PBA of the theme from this movie, which is the next cut called "Ann (Tina's Party)".
This one will really take you back: THE SPY WITH MY FACE (the "feature" length version of the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Double Affair") included a Morton Stevens composition called "Cocktail Piano". On the first Hugo Montenegro album, this was arranged with a latin beat as "A Martini Built for Two". (I actually prefer that version, as the tune seems better suited for the more modern sound.)
What film scores contain piano bar arrangements (PBA) of popular songs, including melodies from the film itself?
"Piano bar" means
-- Popular song form (not classical form), arranged for -- solo piano (NO vocal)
A good example is the main title of "10" which is a PBA of "Don't Call It Love" from the same score.
Additional examples:
WHIRLPOOL: David Raksin uses a PBA of "Slowly," his song from FALLEN ANGEL (it's on the Kritzerland cd, by the by http://kritzerland.com/preminger.htm).
"10": also has a PBA of "Laura," (not on the LP). When George is getting drunk in a bar, he hears the pianist playing it and comments how they "don't write them like that anymore".
As a pianist/arranger, I look for songs where the notes move logically, the words make sense and have interesting harmonies. For example, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" has a beautiful modulation from E flat Major to B Major then back to E flat Major. These elements are sadly missing from the songs of today. To say "they don't write 'em like this anymore" is an understatement to say the least. Does anyone know who the pianist is on the "Chinatown" tracks?
3 Maud/How Is Maud 6 I Want to Marry You/Honeymoon 18 Piano Improvisation of Theme [based on a new theme] 24 Champagne Room #1 28 Champagne Room (excerpt)/Dinner for Three 29 Margarite Montage/Champagne Room #2 33 Champagne Room #5
One I can think of, although I don't know if it fits the criteria exactly since it's been a while since I've seen the movie, is Kay's theme used in the bar scene between Robert Walden and Elliot Gould in "Capricorn One."
I believe Kaper's BUTTERFIELD 8 has several such scenes. The popular songs included some that he wrote such as "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Invitation."
In Psycho III Norman Bates plays the movie theme on piano (in part II he preferred to play Beethoven)
Someone recorded an extended version (the first minute is a re-recording of the portion of the theme that Norman plays on the piano, second part is a re-recording of the jukebox version that plays as source in a bar): https://youtu.be/KCiEMFByVnU
One I can think of, although I don't know if it fits the criteria exactly since it's been a while since I've seen the movie, is Kay's theme used in the bar scene between Robert Walden and Elliot Gould in "Capricorn One."
On the re-recording, it starts with solo piano, but becomes a pop-orchestral arrangement.
Is it solo piano on the Intrada soundtrack release?
