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Thread #75247   Message #1333905
Posted By: Tannywheeler
20-Nov-04 - 05:05 PM
Thread Name: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks
Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks
Guest, I remember a Greensleeves tune with the "...build me a home in the meadow" line in How The West Was Won -- Debbie Reynolds' character doing the singing.

Sometime in the 1930s or '40s Tyrone Power was in a movie about West Point Academy, with Maureen O'Hara. She sang a lullaby I had only heard done by Clancy Bros./Tommy Makem -- The October Winds. That is, I first heard it in the late '50s-early '60s by CB/TM, then, in the last 5 yrs ran into the movie on late-night tv and heard the song there.    Tw