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Thread #86789   Message #1621480
Posted By: M.Ted
06-Dec-05 - 05:24 PM
Thread Name: Songs in movies. Wrong key joke?
Subject: RE: Songs in movies. Wrong key joke?
In "The Piano"--Holly Hunter playing new age music in 19th century New Zeeland--

And then, there was an old episode of Dennis the Menace, where Mr. Wilson had a "Bird Watchers"meeting to listen to recordings of birds , and some wigged out, flipped out, beatnik jazz fans thought it meant "Bird"--and were snapping their fingers and saying, "Man, this is the "Most"!" and such things to recordings of Dixieland music.

Two years ago, I went to an musical theatre workshop performance of a show about the underground railroad--the music sounded more like Andrew Lloyd Webber than anything else--