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06 Nov 04 - 08:46 PM (#1319180) Subject: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Rabbi-Sol How many films can you name that have Folk Music songs as part of their soundtrack ? For example I will start off with this. The Australian folk song "Overlanders" was the main theme of the soundtrack for the movie "The Sundowners", which I believe was about the "drovers" (Australian cowboys). SOL ZELLER |
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06 Nov 04 - 08:51 PM (#1319181) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Padre Several examples in "The Long Riders," about the James/Younger gang |
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07 Nov 04 - 03:28 AM (#1319355) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST How about songs in films that are NOT folks songs but because they were sung as folk songs, people have forever after assumed that they were...example: "Love me Tender" in some Elvis movie that takes place in the Civil War. If I had a dollar for every time somebody has tried to convince me that "love me tender" is some old traditional song, sung during the Civil War...I'd be a rich republican who voted for Bush. |
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07 Nov 04 - 04:02 AM (#1319377) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Keith A of Hertford Far From The Madding Crowd is rich in traditional song. I remember, Seeds Of Love, Trooper And The Maid, Bushes And Briars. The John Ford John Wayne cavalry films usually had songs. I remember, Bold Fenian Men, Yellow Ribbon, Girl I Left Behind Me, Garyowen. |
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07 Nov 04 - 04:53 AM (#1319400) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts 'Love me Tender' is a slight variant of 'Aura Lee', a nineteenth century love ballad. 'Aura Lee' can be heard on the sound track of 'East of Eden'. |
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07 Nov 04 - 05:09 AM (#1319404) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave Hanson Lots of traditional shanty's in the Gregory Peck version of Moby Dick, even a brief glimpse of A L Lloyd singing Blood Red Roses. eric |
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07 Nov 04 - 10:20 AM (#1319540) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Chris Green There's few in Pasolini's version of The Canterbury Tales (1972). It's a rather odd viewing experience (even by Pasolini standards) as it features several well-known British actors who've been dubbed into Italian and then re-subtitled into English! I guess the obvious one for folksong in film would be The Wicker Man (1973) - some of them are original compositions by Paul Giovanni, but they all sound like the genuine article! |
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07 Nov 04 - 11:23 AM (#1319583) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: katlaughing Another modern one which sounds as though it could be an old one is from Legends of the Fall (scroll down for a midi of it.) I think it is called "Twilight and Mist" but haven't looked for the lyrics, yet. Dare I mention the obvious, O'Brother? Or, A Mighty Wind?**bg** |
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07 Nov 04 - 11:47 AM (#1319592) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd The main theme of The Piano is a Tannahill song called "Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa'," and the main theme of Brassed Off is "The Dalesman's Litany." A Mighty Wind has no actual folk songs in it, and indeed no parodies of folk songs; there are only parodies of songs written in the 1960s. But there were two traditional song parodies cut out of the film: "Corn Wine," a John Barleycorn-type thing, and "Killington Hill," a brutal murder ballad. Look for them on the DVD! "Songcatcher" has some good performances. |
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07 Nov 04 - 12:25 PM (#1319614) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Phil Cooper Don't forget Barry Dransfield's Water is Wide and some tunes in the Mel Gibson/Anthony Hopkins version of The Bounty. |
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07 Nov 04 - 03:59 PM (#1319794) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Geoff the Duck Tunes rather than songs on the soundtrack of Barry Lyndon (Starring Ryan O'Neil). Music played by The Chieftains tunes include "Women of Ireland". Quack!! GtD. |
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07 Nov 04 - 05:05 PM (#1319871) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Rabbi-Sol Don't forget Sacco & Venzetti by Joan Baez. SOL ZELLER |
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07 Nov 04 - 08:19 PM (#1320021) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Tannywheeler Hi, guys. There was a movie made of McCourt's "Angela's Ashes". At the party scene at the end "Angela" sings a song about taking care of your mother, 'cause you'll miss her when she's gone. This song was very popular at a local weekly session that went on in Austin during the early 1980s. (We had a group of songs referred to as "the death spiral" we might sing if there'd been a death in someone's family recently. Some of them were deep and bitter, some matter-of-fact, some facetious.) One of the lines of this song was "...though withered, old, and gray. You'll never miss your mother's love 'til she's buried beneath the clay." I never heard that song attributed to any one. I thought of it as public domain, at least. When we recognized (my hubby and I had been invited to a sneak preview of this movie) the song after the first 3 notes/words, we clutched hands, looked at each other, tried not to laugh out loud. Tw |
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08 Nov 04 - 03:20 AM (#1320185) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Splott Man The Wonder Boys with Michael Douglas has a superb OST album, not much in the way of trad, but tracks by Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush among others. |
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08 Nov 04 - 10:24 AM (#1320447) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave Hanson A few songs in ' Far From The Madding Crowd. ' Thomas Hardy was a traditional fiddler. eric |
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08 Nov 04 - 10:45 AM (#1320470) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: greg stephens There are too many to attempt any kind of list. I'll pick out a couple of unusual ones. Mick Jagger sang "The Wild Colonial Boy" in the Ned Kelly film. Marlon Brando sang a snatch of "Long gone Lost John" in a film I've been trying to identify for years, and nobody remembers this except me, so if you could add the name of this film here I'd be eternally grateful. An interesting list would be the number of films that have got a fiddler playing Soldiers Joy in. Hundreds, I would think! |
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08 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM (#1320558) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Rozza I love the Irs DeMent version of "Pretty Saro" from "Songcatcher", but haven't heard any other tracks or seen the film. Any opinions? |
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08 Nov 04 - 12:03 PM (#1320562) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST My failing memory seems to recall several tunes that would qualify from the old movie, Tom Jones. Lin |
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08 Nov 04 - 04:19 PM (#1320682) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd Rozza, Songcatcher is worth seeing. If you are a historical purist it may annoy you, since it is fictional. I have known a few people to get annoyed at it. But there are good performances, both from actual trad singers and from actors who do a pretty darn good job. In addition to the soundtrack album, they put out a number of "music that inspired Songcatcher" CDs with folks like Doc Watson, Almeda Riddle, etc. Those are definitely worth it if you don't have those tracks on other albums already. |
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08 Nov 04 - 04:44 PM (#1320704) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Uncle_DaveO No-one has yet mentioned O Brother. Quite a number, though many people don't like what was done with some of them. Dave Oesterreich |
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08 Nov 04 - 04:52 PM (#1320714) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd Actually, Uncle Dave-O, Katlaughing did at 07 Nov 04 - 11:23 AM |
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08 Nov 04 - 07:16 PM (#1320849) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Folkiedave Errr.............the film "Heartlands" about to come out on DVD features Kate Rusby and would have starred Sheffield City Morris had we not ended on the cutting room floor. Fingers crossed - we may be in the Director's Cut. Dave Eyre |
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08 Nov 04 - 07:52 PM (#1320889) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Blissfully Ignorant I actually bought the O Brother soundtrack. Never regretted it. For one thing, it introduced me to Gillian Welch, for which i am eternally grateful. What about the Wicker Man? hehehehhehee.... |
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09 Nov 04 - 12:36 AM (#1321123) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Seamus Kennedy In the 1951 Alastair Sim movie Scrooge - the definitive one IMHO - Barbara Allen was played a lot, both as a theme/motif and as a party song in Scrooge's nephew's party. Tanny wheeler, the song you were recalling is A Mother's Love's A Blessing. A mother's love's a blessing, No matter where you roam, Keep her while she's living, You'll Miss her when she's gone. Love her as in childhood, Though feeble, old and gray, For you'll never miss your mother's love Till she's buried beneath the clay. Seamus |
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09 Nov 04 - 02:25 AM (#1321182) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: sledge The songs used are contemporary but Joan Baez sings beautifully for the sci-fi movie silent running. Cheers Sledge |
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09 Nov 04 - 02:36 AM (#1321190) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: katlaughing I don't know if they are folk songs or not, but ever since I was little, I've loved hearing Sean Connery sing in one of his earliest roles in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People. The songs are listed as "The Wishing Song" and "Pretty Irish Girl." What about Dances with wolves? Were there any in it? (I knew that Mighty Wind didn't have any! Was just joking:-) Dave, please let us know. That would be realy neat! |
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09 Nov 04 - 04:27 AM (#1321232) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Hovering Bob The film 'The Sirens' opens with a very atmospheric scene of a liner sailing on her way to Australia, where the rest of the film is set, to the accompaniment of "The Grey Funnel Line" without the chorus/refrain line. Given that it was a passenger liner I can see why they dropped The Grey Funnel Line bit, but it jarred!!! |
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09 Nov 04 - 07:16 AM (#1321304) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dead Horse Cold Mountain, with the banjo & vocals provided by Riley Baugus. Did I mention that Riley is appearing at Roots our local folk & blues hangout? That will be on Wednesday 17th November. |
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09 Nov 04 - 07:20 AM (#1321305) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave Hanson What about Robert Shaw in ' Jaws ' singing ' Farewell and Adieu You Sweet Spanish Ladies ' eric |
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09 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM (#1321354) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: s6k i highly recommend cold mountain, lots of good ones on there including a couple by jack white, of the white stripes, who has a true love of real blues and folk songs |
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09 Nov 04 - 01:28 PM (#1321656) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Tradsinger I echo the previous posting about "Songcatcher" - a great film for folkies with some great singing, music and dance. It's not available in the UK but you can get it mail order so long as your DVD player can cope with region 1. Well worth it. Nice NC versions of Mathy Groves and Barbara Allan. Gwilym |
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09 Nov 04 - 01:33 PM (#1321663) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Blissfully Ignorant I want to see Cold Mountain because Jack White's in it... |
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09 Nov 04 - 03:07 PM (#1321769) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GLoux I vaguely remember Greensleeves in a John Wayne movie (I think) The Sons of Katie Elder... -Greg |
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09 Nov 04 - 03:45 PM (#1321817) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST There have been a couple of good ones recently that I can think of. Of course you have the Pogues appearing in several films: Two if By Sea, Grosse Point Blank, Sid and Nancy though usually their film material is their least traditional. Patrick Street's Music for a found harmonium appears in Hear My Song. The whole score for Miller's Crossing sounds an awful lot like a track on a Boys of the Lough album. As a side note if anyone knows what track this is from the boys of the lough I would appreciate. So there are a couple. |
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09 Nov 04 - 06:56 PM (#1321995) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Tannywheeler Right, Seamus K. That's the cho. One of the verses starts out about an Irish boy "...leaving his native home to cross the wide Atlantic, where (something, something) roam...". The other verse talks about finding a wife, settling down in life, gathering his children around his knee, where he would "...teach them the same lesson that my mother she told to me -- WHICH IS,..." then that cho. again. erictr, there was also "Show me the way to go home" in that movie. And I wish some clever person would do something with "You're gonna need a bigger boat" that would make it a classic song. Deserves it. BTW, I have long felt that someone should write something really strong, cutting, biting, ironic, pointed, ungentle with the phrase from "Wizard of Oz"-- "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain; IIII am the great and powerful wizzud ..." Seems like now is the needed time.... Tw |
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10 Nov 04 - 06:29 PM (#1322845) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST A lot of films made on Scottish and Irish themes have trad music performers in them, or providing tracks: Brothers McMullen soundtrack was done by Seamus Egan and friends. Capercaillie performs in the film 'Rob Roy' in addition to contributing to the soundtrack along with Davy Spillane, I think. Bravehart had Chieftains didn't it? And what about that Jodie Foster movie 'Nell'? Didn't that have trad music too? I'll think of more later, I'm sure. |
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10 Nov 04 - 09:15 PM (#1322966) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,MurkeyChris I was thinking about the guy singing Spanish Ladies in Jaws too. If I remember correctly, the tune was also quoted in the score. On a world music tip, Peter Gabriel does a brillaint soundtrack to Scorcese's 'The Last Temptation of Christ', full of world music samples and collaborations. The soundtrack CD is entitled 'Passion'. And Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan is on the Trent Reznor curated 'Natural Born Killers' soundtrack. Richard Thompson did the soundtrack to a TV series called 'The Marksman' but sadly no film work yet! Chris |
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11 Nov 04 - 12:08 AM (#1323103) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST Didnt Kirk Douglas sing...something, in 20.000 Leages Under the Sea. |
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11 Nov 04 - 10:18 AM (#1323297) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Flash Company Kirk sang 'A Whale of a tale' which was made to look like a folk song, but wasn't. I seem to remember 'Ox Driving song' and a snatch of 'Unfortunate Miss Bailey' in How the West was won. FC Ps Sorry about the snatch, quite unintentional Fc |
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11 Nov 04 - 12:11 PM (#1323382) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: NH Dave The Quiet Man had Wild Colonial Boy, Rakes of Mallow, and another who's name I have forgotten but which was covered in another thread. Dave |
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11 Nov 04 - 01:38 PM (#1323474) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Marje And don't forget the lower-deck music session in "Titanic" which, oddly enough, had exactly the same tunes you'd get in a present-day Irish session anywhere. Were there songs? I can't remember any. Marje |
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11 Nov 04 - 03:16 PM (#1323618) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Claire Gangs of New York.... watch carefully and you even get to see a Maura O'Connell cameo appearance as she wonders down the street singing. |
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11 Nov 04 - 03:46 PM (#1323678) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: shepherdlass A couple of crossover songs that might be of interest: "Michael Collins" had a killer version of She Moved through the Fair from Sinead o'Connor. Also, have vague recollections of a Loreena McKennitt song (though it might not have been traditional - could have been one of her self-penned ones) on one of the Highlander films. |
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11 Nov 04 - 05:33 PM (#1323841) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: DougR I just saw an interesting film last night that Horton Foote adapted from a story by William Faulkner, "Tomorrow." It starred Robert DuVal and the soundtrack was totally based on trad music. It was set in Missippi in the early 1930's. A sad but excellent movie. "So Dear to My Heart," made in the 1940s also had lots of folk songs on the soundtrack, including, I believe, "Laverder's Blue." DougR |
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12 Nov 04 - 10:29 AM (#1324574) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: PoppaGator Here's a thread about the Irish song "Parting Glass" and two films in which it appears ("Waking Ned Devine" and the excellent but little-known "Evelyn"): thread.cfm?threadid=52533#1093480 |
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12 Nov 04 - 01:27 PM (#1324769) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Sharon G Not a folk song, but a fiddle tune.... War of the Worlds has a square dance scene with a band playing Mississippi Sawyer.... |
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12 Nov 04 - 01:32 PM (#1324776) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Pete "Gangs of New York" has already been mentioned but if you're really quick you may also catch a verse of "New York Girls" being sung, I think, by one of the Fureys |
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12 Nov 04 - 04:07 PM (#1324920) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts Ernest Gold (?) wrote the music for 'On the Beach' and created a set of variations on 'Waltzing Matilda'. Does anyone know of a current recording of his theme? |
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12 Nov 04 - 06:12 PM (#1325043) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Margret RoadKnight Negro Spirituals & African American Gospel songs often used. Actor/ musician Theodore Bikel appeared with guitar in at least one of his movies. |
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12 Nov 04 - 08:19 PM (#1325126) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Phil Cooper Outlaw Josey Wales has bits of Rose of Alabama and Sweet Betsy from Pike. |
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13 Nov 04 - 01:27 PM (#1325738) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nigel Parsons Ken Russell's "Lair of the White Worm" has an up-beat version of "The Lambton Worm" Nigel |
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13 Nov 04 - 01:37 PM (#1325754) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,eliza c Just watched Cold Mountain last night, noticing not just Riley B but the beautifuls Tim Eriksen and Dirk Powell making major contributions as well, not least teaching a load of actors how to sing shape note style. Good on them. Barry Dransfield crops up in some films too, can't remember which ones. I thought that "ain true love" thing with Alison Krauss was dreadful though. xe |
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13 Nov 04 - 02:16 PM (#1325812) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST Surely the most famous instance of folk song in the movies is Robert Shaw singing " Farewell and Adieu, You Sweet Spanish Ladies " in the blockbuster movie " Jaws ". |
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13 Nov 04 - 03:19 PM (#1325873) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Ima Gittin' Also the movie "Babe".......when farmer Hoggitt sang to Babe to make him eat....not even mention the xmas tunes... |
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13 Nov 04 - 03:33 PM (#1325893) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST I loved Sinead's rendition of "She Moves Through the Fair" in Michael Collins. Excellent example of matching music to the film. Another I thought of: "Bamboozled" the Spike Lee film. Now, all those songs, AFAIK, were written by contemporary musicians, but I thought they were a freakin' brilliant scathing satire of the minstrel tradition. And jumping around in time a bit, didn't the film "How Green Was My Valley" have some traditional music in it? As I think back on the era of melodramas like that, I also think of "Ryan's Daughter" which had traditional music, though I can't recall if there was any traditional songs in it. Also, thinking of John Ford films, there was the beautifully crafted "The Dead" which had mostly drawing room music, and I'm wracking my brain now to recall if it had any traditional music or singing in it. I do wish imdb.com included information on the film soundtracks. Does anyone know of a website that pays serious attention to the art of film scoring AND includes a database of films and their soundtracks? |
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13 Nov 04 - 03:48 PM (#1325904) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST I'm an idiot. "The Dead" was John Huston's brilliant last film. What was I thinking, comparing Ford to Huston? |
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13 Nov 04 - 05:20 PM (#1325965) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: *Laura* It's not actually a film, but in Thomas Hardy's 'Tess' there is a version of Lenady/Lemady (never quite sure which it is) |
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13 Nov 04 - 06:00 PM (#1326001) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Phil Cooper The Dead did have Frank Patterson singing a parlor type version of Lord Gregory/Mary on the wild Moor. |
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13 Nov 04 - 07:40 PM (#1326088) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Nick The Shipping News Has several Great Big Sea Renditions of tunes, some must be folk/trad, but I forget which and they are quite a bit in the background during the diner scenes. There are probably more tunes in that movie that I don't recognise. I have the feeling there must be some in the early part of "Coal Miners Daughter" ... musn't there? Whack Fall The Day Nick |
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20 Nov 04 - 04:51 PM (#1333890) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST I can't add very much that is specific, but presumably the film about Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie (was it called "Bound for Glory"?) featured a few of Guthrie's songs. Oh and I remember first hearing "Down in the Valley" on "Stir Crazy"), a comedy film set mainly in prison starring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior, in which the song was sung by one prisoner in the jail and joined in by others. Mind you it was several years before I discovered the name of the song (I thought it might be called "Birmingham Jail", and eventually recognised the tune on musical CD-ROM available from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk). I think I have heard it called Birmingham Jail. Among the worst singing I have heard in films are (a) John Wayne singing "Streets of Laredo" (b) An actress (perhaps Shirley Jones, later of the Partridge Family?) singing a song to the tune of Greensleeves but to different words (the only bit I can remember, mercifully is "And build me a home in the meadow" or similar. Come to think of it, it is remarkable how few folk songs, even on the more liberal interpretation, have been suggested so far as occurring in films. Either people's memory is poor, or as I suspect, relatively few folk songs have been used in films. Presumably as films cost millions to make, there is no point in saving a few hundred or thousand on royalties by using traditional and hence non-copyright material. I suppose it makes sense to pay someone to write an appropriate song or songs for the type of film, which may sound like a traditional song even if it is not. I suppose one could extend the scope of this thread a little bit by listing folk songs or tunes used in TV or radio programs. One of my favourite TV programs (of the 1970s) was "When the Boat Comes In", a drama set mainly in the North-east of England from about the early 20th century (before the 1st world war) and ending at the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) with the death of the main character, Jack Ford (played by that very versatile actor, James Bolam). As you might expect, the theme song was "When the Boat Comes in", sung I think by Alex Glasgow. |
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20 Nov 04 - 05:05 PM (#1333905) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Tannywheeler 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 |
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20 Nov 04 - 06:54 PM (#1334006) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd eliza, actually, almost all of the Shape-note singing in Cold Mountain was done by Shape-note singers, not by the actors. In one scene you can vaguely hear some of the actors' real voices; they used a shotgun mic during the filming in Romania, and then mixed that into the sacred harp sings they recorded in Alabama, so you hear 1 actor and 65 Sacred harp singers in each shot! Tim told me he mostly taught them to look like they were singing it! Of course, Tim was Brendan Gleeson's singing voice as well. |
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20 Nov 04 - 07:01 PM (#1334013) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Lighter Mick Jagger sings "The Wild Colonial Boy" to TWO DIFFERENT TUNES in "Ned Kelly." It gave me new respect for the man. |
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20 Nov 04 - 07:08 PM (#1334020) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Lighter Twas Capercaillie's Karen Matheson singing in "Braveheart." Listen closely for a stanza of "Sally Brown" in the A&E movie "The Crossing." And did you know that when the Confederate submarine snuck up on that Yankee ship during the Civil War, the crew could hear the Yankees singing "Fiddler's Green," an "old Irish" ditty that somebody's mom used to croon to him years before? You can watch it happen in TNT's "The Hunley" (1999). |
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20 Nov 04 - 08:13 PM (#1334086) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST Don't forget Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate". Sol Zeller |
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20 Nov 04 - 09:51 PM (#1334124) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Guy Wolff I really loved the song " Back in the saddle again" as Tom Hanks dials the phone to try to get a date in Sleepless in Seattle. "Back in the saddle again" HUMM ... is country western if we are splitting hairs ... Lets see . How many times has Amazing Grace been song at a grave site in a movie ?? Thats not folk in a certain light either. .... Well no one has mentioned all the great work (is it Jon Tames ) did in the Sharps Rifles searies .. Wait thats not a movie ..Im really striking out here . I do think Rye Cooder's work in the Long Riders is masterful musicianship at its finast !! |
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20 Nov 04 - 10:17 PM (#1334144) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Guy Wolff I really loved the song " Back in the saddle again" as Tom Hanks dials the phone to try to get a date in Sleepless in Seattle. "Back in the saddle again" HUMM ... is country western if we are splitting hairs ... Lets see . How many times has Amazing Grace been song at a grave site in a movie ?? Thats not folk in a certain light either. .... Well no one has mentioned all the great work (is it Jon Tames ) did in the Sharps Rifles searies .. Wait thats not a movie ..Im really striking out here . I do think Rye Cooder's work in the Long Riders is masterful musicianship at its finast !! |
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20 Nov 04 - 10:17 PM (#1334145) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Guy Wolff How about "Long Black Vale " That must be in some movie ??? <><<>><> Ahhh "I gave my love an Apple" was in "Animal House" .I knew I would get one. They did break the guitar half way through but its in there !! Also there was a very good movie about the early years of the VietNAm era called "Dog Fight " That had a ton of early folk things. There must have been at least seven good ones in there all true folk songs. Ah redemption !! . Anything in "Last Of the Mohicans" ??? Though this dose not count in one way , I think they showed how folk songs come about in the kids movie " Robin Hood" Making up songs as the story unfolds was a great lesson in how songs get written. . The guy that sang "Dang Me" , Roger Miller made them up . Very playfull . In its a Wonderful Life Jimmy Stewart sings to his Girl friend in the bushs . Is that one a folk song?? I will go looking to get the answers to these inportant questions all . !!! All the best , guy |
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21 Nov 04 - 01:47 AM (#1334224) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd Yes, Guy, Roger Miller as the singing minstrel/rooster is a highlight of that version of Robin Hood. There are a couple of songs in the recent Master and Commander; one ballad is sung by the sailing master, several by the crew, one by the lieutenant with authority issues, and I'm pretty sure Jack himself gets a line of something in. They also have a guy playing Uillean pipes aboard; VERY unlikely in that era aboard a British man o' war, but there you have it...that's Hollywood. |
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21 Nov 04 - 02:14 AM (#1334228) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Nerd Breaker Morant has a brief sequence with a scotsman singing an old lament... La Bamba has La Bamba, which is a folksong. |
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22 Nov 04 - 07:43 AM (#1335165) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Splott Man The Fiddlers' Green that I know was written by John Connolly who is still very much about and performing |
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22 Nov 04 - 08:00 AM (#1335179) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Tracey Dragonsfriend Surprisingly, "Green Sally Up" is over the start of the new version of "Gone in 60 Seconds". A peculiar choice, but good... Tracey Dragonsfriend www.scorchpyro.co.uk |
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31 Jan 05 - 07:27 AM (#1394117) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Shane Thans Hiya! I have been trying for some time now to loacte the original song from the movie "Stir Crazy", the song is "Birmingham Jail" and was sung by ? I have the original artist version (slim whitman) but am searching for the version sung in the movie,. Any help would be apreciated! Thanks in advance. Shane |
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01 Feb 05 - 03:27 AM (#1395340) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Kaleea The older black & white films from Hollywood--especially the Westerns--are filled with American folk songs, from America & wherever American immigrants came from. Even before there were "soundtrack albums" for every movie. The Musical Directors often used appropriate geographical folk Music for period movies which were not musicals. If you take note of the Musical Director for a particular movie in which you find lots of folk songs, you will likely find more folk Music in other films in which that person was Musical Director. Likewise some were composers & trying to get theirMusic, or the Music of some other composer, popularized. |
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01 Feb 05 - 04:17 AM (#1395365) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Teresa Well, for me, it's not just a question of the music, but the context. I seem to really like John Sayles' movies. _Matewan_, _Secret of Roan Inish_, _Limbo_ (which has a wonderful rendition of "Dimming of the Day"; not traditional, but love that song). Also, I loved _Salmonberries, with k.d. lang. teresa |
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01 Feb 05 - 05:12 AM (#1395383) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST I know that members of The New Scorpion Band have contributed to many film scores - Tim Laycock's concertina playing features strongly in The Shipping News; Bob White plays pipes on Lord of the Rings and several of them were involved with the soundtrack for Gangs of New York. They also acted as the Casterbridge Town Band in the most recent version of Mayor of Casterbridge with Ciaran Hinds. |
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01 Feb 05 - 06:31 PM (#1396168) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Bob Coltman "Shame and Scandal" ("Harlem Man") in Val Lewton's film (title escapes me: I Walked With a Zombie?). Sung by a pretty good, very serious singer, not the Duke of Iron...Lord Invader? Or just an actor? Any number of Gene Autry films of course, with songs mostly in an early-country music vein. I know more will come to me as soon as I send this off (perversity of memory). |
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01 Feb 05 - 06:39 PM (#1396179) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Bob Coltman "The Humour Is On Me Now" in Quiet Man. See discussion thread, which includes lyrics...though the song itself isn't in the archive. Meanwhile, note "Alaska Mike's Songs in the Movies" thread. Bgolly the man is getting ready to add to the list! Bob |
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02 Feb 05 - 04:58 AM (#1396664) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: rich-joy Does anyone have any inside knowledge about the 1967 "Far From the Madding Crowd" (Julie Christie et al) being released on DVD sometime???? I love Hardy's books and their movies - I can source the 1998 version of "FFTMC" on DVD easily enough, but hanker after that early version from my teenage years!!! Anyone??? Cheers! R-J |
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02 Feb 05 - 05:04 AM (#1396669) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Weasel Books Black Hawk Down, the closing scene where they all sing the Minstrel Boy. The Sharpe series of TV films use lots of folk songs, especially Over the Hills (Words tailored to fit the Peninsular War). John Tams played one of the main characters, so no surprises. In Rifles, Daragh O'Malley plays the Salamanca on a tin whistle, pretty sure the tune is later, but it's lovely. Song Catcher was a lousy film, but great songs. Didn't the McGann brothers film, the one in 1840s(?) Ireland, have some songs in it? In the Name of the Father has Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar. |
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26 Mar 06 - 11:35 PM (#1703543) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST There's a few sets and songs in the newest addition to the Ned Kelly films- the one with heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom in it- There's one song in it, while they're all in the local pub, and I REALLY wish I could figure out what the name is! I know it's pretty obvious, but the Ron Maxwell movies, Gettysburg and Gods and Generals both have tons of the irish and mid-nineteenth century American music in them. Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains plays pipes when Mullholland's Yankee irish lads face off with the Georgian irish Confederates at... i believe... Fredericksburg. David Kincaid is an absolutely awesome musician/singer/Civil War reenactor and he even has an appearance playing 'Bonnie Blue Flag' (the tune of which is the 'Irish Jaunting Car') as well as John Whelan (who does alot of work with David) Last of the Mohicans mainly had that really repetetive fiddle thing... a nice little jig, but I think they should have had a few other themes throughout. Thomasina has alot of trad music in it, too. But yeah, if anyone knows what that song in "Ned Kelly" is, let me know? sligo_maid69th@yahoo.com Thanks Jamie |
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27 Mar 06 - 06:24 PM (#1704138) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) The girl's voice singing the songs in, "Far From the Madding Crowd" was that of Isla Cameron. Of Scottish extraction I think, but lived in London when we knew her in the 1950s. |
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27 Mar 06 - 07:50 PM (#1704185) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: sciencegeek Speaking of the old black & white films, Spencer Tracy did some singing in the 1930's film "Captains Courageous". I'll think of more around the middle of the night when I should be sleeping....LOL. |
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27 Nov 06 - 08:13 PM (#1894138) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Desert Dancer O.k., so it's not a feature film, but given the poor sound quality, it was fun to spot the tune popularized by Patrick Street in the background of this spot: Monkeys. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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28 Nov 06 - 06:32 AM (#1894438) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: The Walrus No one seems to have mentioned the version of "Garryowen" in Errol Flynn's "They Died With Their Boots On". W |
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28 Nov 06 - 07:53 AM (#1894501) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Peter Taylor I am told that Clint Eastwood recites 'Sam Hall' in 'Two mules for Sister Sara', while the song was featured in the 1956 western 'Star in the Dust', in which Clint also appeared, as an unnamed ranch-hand. |
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28 Nov 06 - 10:35 PM (#1895211) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Trubrit Not folk songs per se, but McCabe and Mrs. Miller had the most wonderful soundtrack of Leonard Cohen songs (sung by the man himself) - some of these songs might be now argued to have achieved folk status (Sisters of Mercy?) |
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28 Nov 06 - 11:07 PM (#1895224) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: number 6 Ok ... not quite folk music ... but I think it's worth mentioning here in this thread ... W.C. Handy's "Long Gone" in the movie The Defiant Ones. biLL |
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29 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM (#1895618) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,wolfie 1969\movie - The Thomas Crown Affair (original) song: The Circle Game Artist: Joni Mitchell A luvly background sung to a glider (sailplane) that Steve McQueen is piloting. Given his penchent for speed, danger and mobiles of all sorts, I'd say he actually is. The tune is wonderfully descriptive of the motion of that plane. But actually: My vote goes to: 1969 / Alice's Restaurant / song: Songs to Aging Children Come artist: Joni again The scene in the movie where the young confused somewhat druggie dude has somehow managed to self-destruct, and they are having a bit of a funereal spot of sober reflection o'er his remains, and a young somewhat anonymous woman sings a heartbreakingly fine and simple version of this song, accompanied by her own guitar, and astonishingly chilled by the outdoor post-Thanksgiving weather, complete with real snowflakes and frosted breath. Here's a question for all beleivers... Was there any actual died in the wool folk in the movie, "Grapes of Wrath" ? (the original - with Henry Fonda) - can't remember. I would say if there were - this would probably be one of the earliest movies it shows up in, wouldn't you say? cheers, |
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29 Nov 06 - 11:42 AM (#1895656) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Scoville Matewan is full of gospel songs (sung by Hazel Dickens, no less). |
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29 Nov 06 - 12:25 PM (#1895693) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: EBarnacle Amazing, No one has mentioned Shendoah yet. It is featured in Across the Wide Missouri and several other films. One of my favorite pseudo folk songs occurs in Taras Bulba as a drinking song: We are the Cossacks.... The song makes the movie. |
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29 Nov 06 - 06:40 PM (#1895979) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: tubeman |
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29 Nov 06 - 06:45 PM (#1895981) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: tubeman What about the Mel Gibson film When We Were Soldiers Sergeant Mckenzie by Clann An Drumma |
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29 Nov 06 - 08:47 PM (#1896079) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Joe_F "I Know Where I'm Going" was sung, uninspiringly and pointlessly, in the movie of that name. The heroine of the movie could not have been less like the lady in the song. |
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30 Nov 06 - 06:42 PM (#1896966) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring If I mind correctly, there's a great scene in "The Waking of Ned Devine" where a woman [real folk??] gives a good rendition of "Down by the Zoological Gardens". |
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30 Nov 06 - 08:01 PM (#1897042) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring - And who can forget the singing of Humphrey Bogart in "The African Queen"? - The song was "The Bold Fisherman", who sailed out of Pimlico; and the film ends with the couple swimming away singing the song. [Which is in the DT.] |
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01 Dec 06 - 11:30 AM (#1897536) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Northerner "I know where I'm going" in the film of the same name. Surely there are also one or two songs in "Whisky Galore?" |
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02 Dec 06 - 12:01 AM (#1898034) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,The HITMAN-SID Erland van Lidth song "Birmingham Jail" in the movie Stir Crazy. Although he died in a few years after that movie was released. He is the same guy that played "Dynamo" in the movie "The Running Man". |
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02 Dec 06 - 12:11 AM (#1898037) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,The HITMAN-SID Erland van Lidth song "Birmingham Jail" in the movie Stir Crazy. Although he died in a few years after that movie was released. He is the same guy that played "Dynamo" in the movie "The Running Man". |
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02 Dec 06 - 09:37 PM (#1898752) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Ref That's Erland Von Lidth De Jude. He was an NCAA wrestling champ, an opera class singer and a character actor. As well as the roles mentioned above, he was the leader of the Fordham Baldies in The Wanderers. This is a good list. Song Catcher was an awful movie with a good sound track. Cold Mountain was a HUGE letdown after O Brother (T-Bone Burnett did the music for both.) I love Sacred Harp, but it needs to be done by about sixteen good voices using some dynamic range. Hearing a bunch of not really talented choir members bellowing it kinda ruins the experience. Hearing Jack White sing trad songs through his nose (whether because it's more authentic or because that's how he always sings) is excruciating. His charm escapes me. Oops, I seem to have used up my snide quota for the day. |
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03 Dec 06 - 12:24 PM (#1898894) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Bat Goddess Just watched the German film "Schultze Gets the Blues" -- early in the film (when Schultze is retiring from working in the mines) he's serenaded with a salt mining folk song -- and I'd like t know more about it. Is it authentic? Where can I get a recording, words, etc.? The last piece of music in the film is a brass band playing a tune that seems very familiar. It's similar to George Ward's river song (can't remember the title) about "if it doesn't lift your spirits it will leave you numb". Anybody know anything about the soundtrack? Linn |
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03 Dec 06 - 01:31 PM (#1898943) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Rusty Dobro Isn't that Swarbrick in the band playing for the 'harvest home' supper scene in 'Far From The Madding Crowd'? |
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04 Dec 06 - 04:23 AM (#1899394) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Splott Man Not just Swarb, but martin Carthy and the Yetties to boot. 100 BTW |
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09 Oct 07 - 09:02 PM (#2167692) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave'sWife greg stephens -said: >>>Marlon Brando sang a snatch of "Long gone Lost John" in a film I've been trying to identify for years, and nobody remembers this except me, so if you could add the name of this film here I'd be eternally grateful.<<< Is that the film that was the ill-advised prequel to The Innocents (AKA Turn of The Screw)? He plays Peter Quint and I think maybe Stephanie Beacham plays Miss Jessup? |
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10 Oct 07 - 05:30 AM (#2167842) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: The Doctor If it was it's called 'The Nightcomers',(1972). Further details on The Internet Movie Database, but no mention of a song. |
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11 Oct 07 - 08:40 PM (#2169245) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave'sWife I think that might be the one. it's an odd film. It only has meaning if you have either read Turn of The Screw or have seen one of the adaptations. Quint as played by Brando is a sadistic gardemer carrying on with the governess. He takes a fair stab at an Irish accent and doesn't make too much of a fool of himself. |
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11 Oct 07 - 09:20 PM (#2169262) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST In those cheapo westerns from Republic Studios, in the 1930's, Gene Autry sang any number of traditional songs including "Red River Valley" and "Yellow Rose of Texas". Roy Rogers sang in all his movies, too, but his numbers were from Tin Pan Alley. Who can forget Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing "Get Along Home, Cindy" in Rio Bravo. Ricky played the guitar and Walter Brennan pretended to play the harmonica. |
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12 Oct 07 - 08:43 AM (#2169449) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: topical tom Pete Seeger's song to Woody Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant" but what was the song?(HELP SOMEONE!) |
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12 Oct 07 - 08:54 AM (#2169454) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: deadfrett Paul Newman ..in Cool Hand Luke playin Banjo and singin Plastic Jesus |
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13 Oct 07 - 07:56 AM (#2170191) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Sapper on the TRU North of Banbury Old John Mills film from 1952 I caught on Ch4 at the hotel on Thu afternoon, The Long Memory"? had a couple of lines of "As I walked out one may morning" as the closing credits came up. |
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13 Oct 07 - 05:17 PM (#2170483) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: topical tom Pete Seeger's song in the movie "Alice's Restaurant" was "Pastures of Plenty." Thanks, Google! |
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14 Oct 07 - 03:16 AM (#2170719) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Liz the Squeak Watching some cartoon thing yesterday (Watch my Chops???) about a dog who can talk (Corneel?), there was a snatch of folk music - I can't remember the tune but it's a session favourite with the words 'If I had a wife, the plague of me life, I'd tell you what I would do'. Nice to see the little darlings being indocrinated through the strangest of media! LTS |
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05 Aug 08 - 03:46 AM (#2405518) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,MystMoonstruck aka Cyn Help! I can't find where to log in, so I'll just leap in. In "The Sterile Cuckoo", a co-ed sings "Scarborough Fair" (or "Faire", as some have it) but gets interrupted at least once. She might be in more than one scene, trying to go about her folk-business in the midst of the troubles with Pookie and her guy. Now, all of the songs I've heard in so many films have gone into hiding. It's too bad that these posts can't be edited since I'm sure I'll think of others as soon as I close. |
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05 Aug 08 - 04:20 AM (#2405525) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: BK Lick Pete Seeger wrote "Old Devil Time" for the film "Tell Me You Love Me Junie Moon" in 1969 -- more info in this thread. |
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05 Aug 08 - 04:23 AM (#2405526) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Timo_Tuokkola Can't think of any movies right now which haven't been mentioned, but I can say that the song in the pub in the Heath Ledger version of "Ned Kelley" is called "Moreton Bay". I'm pretty sure the lyrics are in the DT. |
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05 Aug 08 - 05:25 AM (#2405548) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST, Sminky Roger Livesey sang Nut Brown Maiden in Powell and Pressburger's memorable "I Know Where I'm Going". |
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05 Aug 08 - 01:55 PM (#2405862) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Irene M Didn't Paul Brady do some soundtrack for "Eat The Peach"? God! I'd like to get my hands on a tape of that film! Also, I remember Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise coming back from a tour in the US, hysterical because they had come across a song called "I've got tears in my ears cos I'm lying on my bed crying over you". I suspected they might have been over-egging that pudding. Then, damn me, it is playing in the background of a bar scene in either Thelma & Louise or Sleepless In Seattle. Think it's the latter (where I also spotted Richard Farnsworth sitting at a bar, doing a bit as an extra). Someone will now correct me...... |
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05 Aug 08 - 02:45 PM (#2405900) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Warwick Slade I remember an old B&W film in the '60 called (i think) "I was happy here" The main song was Shoals of Herring by the Clancy Bros. First time I heard the song and thought it was great. How times have changed |
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05 Aug 08 - 02:47 PM (#2405902) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: eddie1 There was a short British film about, surprisingly enough, a submarine captain which featured Cyril Tawney's "A-Cheering Of The Queen" Cyril phoned Rosemary from my house to tell her I had seen it as support to a sword & sorcery blockbuster. Rosemary misheard and was convinced the main movie was called "Cohen The Barbarian"! Eddie |
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05 Aug 08 - 05:15 PM (#2406034) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Too many of the "folk" tunes I have heard from movie soundtracks sound contrived or over-arranged, or both. It's a delight when one comes through relatively unscathed. Jagger doing the "Wild Colonia Boy" was a fair example. Who remembers the old Glenn Ford epic, "Advance to the Rear?" It was a western (spoof?) in which some Randy Sparks material appeared. The one most people remember is "Today." Though it is not a folk song, it got a lot of air play. There is a 1940's western in which Forrest Tucker appears as a good/bad guy. The picture wasn't particularly memorable, but his singing of "Skip to My Lou" was a surprise. The guy had a fair voice. |
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06 Aug 08 - 06:57 AM (#2406388) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Jay777 "Falling Slowly" from the film "Once" is a beautiful song. Not sure if it's strictly folk... |
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06 Aug 08 - 09:03 AM (#2406451) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST two sites I know of that go into some detail about soundtrack albums are http://www.soundtrack.net/news/ http://www.moviemusic.com/ |
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06 Aug 08 - 09:27 AM (#2406461) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Big Mick two sites I know of that go into some detail about soundtrack albums are http://www.soundtrack.net/news/ http://www.moviemusic.com/ |
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06 Aug 08 - 04:26 PM (#2406937) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego I believe that Gene Autry once did a western called "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," which was named after a song by Bob Nolan, of the Sons of the Pioneers. I believe he originally wrote it back in around 1936 or so, while working in Hollywood. I can't think of any other films actually named for songs written before the movies they appeared in were conceived. By the way, for fans of old westerns who think of tumbleweeds as iconic symbols, they are actually Russian thistle. This is a plant which likely arrived here in the later 1800's mixed in with hard winter wheat imported by Mennonite farmers and others from europe. It breaks loose from its base connection after it dries. Being rounded, the wind easily moves it about, scattering its seeds as it bounces along. A very efficient method of propagation. This is why it has become so ubiquitous out west. |
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07 Aug 08 - 12:00 PM (#2407649) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: quokka In the film Twelfth Night (1996) Ben Kinsgley sings 'The Wind and the Rain' (I think) - it's been a few years since I've seen it Cheers, Quokka |
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07 Aug 08 - 12:07 PM (#2407655) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: quokka Whoops I mean Ben Kingsley! |
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15 Nov 14 - 12:26 AM (#3677315) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Oigle Streets of Laredo sung by Dick Foote in the movie made in 1949 |
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15 Nov 14 - 01:29 AM (#3677319) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: MGM·Lion 'Going Down The Road Feeling Bad' was sung with guitar in Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath, & the air of 'Red River Valley' was a main soundtrack theme. Westerns sometimes had traditional songs as part of the cabaret in the saloon sequences. I remember one in which the saloon songstresses sang 'A Railroader For Me', but forget which film it was. Anyone know? ≈M≈ |
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15 Nov 14 - 01:41 AM (#3677320) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: MGM·Lion The scores by Dimitri Tiomkin & Enrico Morricone for many westerns (& "spaghetti westerns"!) often contained quotations and riffs redolent of traditional cowboy songs. ≈M≈ |
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15 Nov 14 - 04:31 AM (#3677341) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST Music for a found harmonium in NAPOLEON dynamite |
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15 Nov 14 - 05:52 AM (#3677350) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: MGM·Lion ... and Elmer Bernstein, esp in Magnificent Seven. |
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15 Nov 14 - 08:59 AM (#3677372) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Airymouse Been a while since I saw "How Green was my Valley," but I think Paul Robeson sang the English version of the Welsh song, "All through the night." As they say in these here parts, "I might could be wrong." I presume there is a special circle in Hell reserved for those who took away Robeson's livelihood and the beautiful voice God had intended us to hear. |
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15 Nov 14 - 10:39 AM (#3677388) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Yes. It's called McCarthy Cavern, and it's got the hottest furnace anywhere in hell. |
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18 Sep 17 - 06:23 PM (#3877575) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: rich-joy Thought perhaps my recent post might be more, or as, suitable in this thread re movie music (which subject could probably be added to by now anyway!) Subject: RE: ONCE - An Irish Movie/Musical about 'US'?on NPR From: rich-joy - PM Date: 16 Sep 17 - 02:26 AM Just came across this YouTube clip of "Falling Slowly" (from the 2007 Irish film, "Once"), and fell in love with the song All Over Again!! 10 years on, and Glen [Hansard] & Marketa [Irglova] still move me, and, I believe it's still being sung in Folk Sessions/Clubs..... ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mtXwtapX4 Cheers, R-J I don't know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can't react And games that never amount To more than they're meant Will play themselves out Take this sinking boat and point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice You'll make it now Falling slowly Eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me and erase me And I'm painted black You have suffered enough And warred with yourself It's time that you won |
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19 Sep 17 - 04:15 AM (#3877605) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch The Tarriers (Erik Darling, Bob Carey, Alan Arkin line-up) sang the Haitian folk song Chaucoun (or Choucoune) and The Banana Boat Song in Calypso Heat Wave (1957.) Belafonte & Burgie were inspired apparently. Lots of familiar, non-folkie faces there too. Maya Angelou in her modern calypso era with an original All That Happens in the Market Place. And, it seems Janet Jackson still doesn't know her middle name is after Creole-American actress, comedian & singer Damita Jo DeBlanc, from Austin, Tejas no less. She (Damita Jo that is) sings Day Old Bread Canned Beans with and by Claude Trenier & Don Hill. |
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19 Sep 17 - 04:18 AM (#3877607) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Island Woman from the Bahamian movie Calypso Island. Plus bits & pieces of most every other Bahamian tune & artist mentioned on Mudcat. Lyr Add: Island Woman (calypso) Calypso Island Robert Duval and James Caan have a go at New River Train in The Killer Elite (1975.) Good thing they never quit their day jobs. |
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19 Sep 17 - 09:35 AM (#3877670) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: rich-joy OUTLANDER, the recent series set mostly in Jacobite Scotland and devised from the very excellent tomes by Diana Gabaldon, has good music throughout that is at least folk-derived. (and not to mention, it features lotsa men in kilts! :) R-J |
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21 Sep 17 - 03:42 AM (#3877929) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: The Doctor I've just watched 'Their Finest'. Bill Nighy sings 'Wild Mountain Thyme'. |
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21 Sep 17 - 05:10 AM (#3877939) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: FreddyHeadey thanks. Bill Nighy sings 'Wild Mountain Thyme'. https://youtu.be/J9JMquzDWF8 |
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11 Mar 18 - 07:53 PM (#3910565) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,GUEST, Doug (darkriver) In almost every John Ford western there's a scene of a burial, and the folk gathered 'round the grave sing "Shall we gather at the river"--or at least the part that goes "the beautiful, the beautiful river." |
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05 Apr 18 - 06:18 AM (#3915295) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch I think prize for the earliest would go to Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) which has Drill, ye terriers written right into the script even though it's a "silent" film. |
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05 Apr 18 - 08:31 AM (#3915328) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Jon Heslop In one scene in the newly released "Paddington 2" a musum curator is heard to be quietly whistling a few lines of the "Wild Rover" but I don't know if that counts. |
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05 Apr 18 - 09:12 AM (#3915341) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Dave Hanson Recently watched the film ' Fire Down Below ' Stephen Segal playing an environmental investigator, lots of good music and singers as well as Mr Seagal, Levon Helm, Harry Dean Stanton, Marty Stuart and over the closing titles John Prine singing his great song ' Paradise ' Dave H |
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05 Apr 18 - 10:42 AM (#3915373) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Gealt The Gentle Gunman (1952) starring John Mills & Dirk Bogarde. I saw this film in a local cinema c1953, don't remember much about it except 'I've been a Mooonshiner' was on the soundtrack. IMDb has some more information: Soundtracks Moonshiner (uncredited) Traditional Arranged by Delia Murphy |
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06 Apr 18 - 06:41 AM (#3915554) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: GUEST,Judy G Do TV movies count? The 1975 Moll Flanders, featuring Julia Foster had a soundtrack by Martin Carthy, and I remember Rosebud in June and Here's adieu to all judges and juries. Plenty more I cannot remember. It was lovely. Recorded it all on my Grundig reel to reel tape recorder. |
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08 Apr 18 - 09:05 AM (#3915854) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Phil Cooper Barry Dransfield playing fiddle and singing The Water is Wide in the Bounty with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. |
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10 Apr 18 - 11:41 AM (#3916360) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: punkfolkrocker Ken Loach's "Black Jack" 1979 - music by Bob Pegg |
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10 Apr 18 - 11:49 AM (#3916363) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: Manitas_at_home Didn't Packie Byrne feature in that one? |
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10 Apr 18 - 01:54 PM (#3916397) Subject: RE: Folk Songs In Movie Soundtracks From: punkfolkrocker Manitas - yes... Black Jack |