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I don't know the language but it's making me smile right now regardless. It just seems like a happy song. :) Thanks.
Oh, and if the name 'Marika Ozsvald' ever comes up in a conversation that I'm having I can say "Yeah yeah yeah. I've heard her quite a few times." Lol. -Cheers. :)
 
NorBro said:
Gord, if you don't know EG, I think you'll like her...and the band:

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It's amazing what's out there that I never knew about. I want more of anything new and good primarily but oldy greats are great too ofcourse. It really is amazing to me what I've been missing. Thanks man. Post up anytime by all means. :)

//Ya wanna hear another funny one-> I wrote I program to stop myself from drunk posting on dvx and then deleted the source code after the build. It worked as designed. The only problem was, haha, since I wrote the thing in the first place I would get a buzz on then to get back in here I would just recompile the code (which I ALWAYS have backups for) and jump back in. That may sound crazy to alot of you, and it kinda is, but it's also funny. Welcome to my f'd life. Lol. I have too much fun here. I love this place. :)
 
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Gord.T said:
I don't know the language but it's making me smile right now regardless. It just seems like a happy song. :) Thanks...
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All the numbers are from Kalman's (Grünwald/Brammer) "The Circus Princess" (1926). The clip above is from the Soviet 1982 film.

The star actor was an unknown Igor Keblušek. He was an unknown because he was a 23 year old exchange student from Czechoslovakia, who was spotted in a Moscow theater waiting line. He never made another film, as he was studiyng foreign relations. His singing was dubbed (as was everyone's). So was his dialog.

Here's one from the West German radio production from 1955, with Franz Fehringer on the lead.


It's also known as the Hussar March (here in Hungarian from Kalman's anniversary concert)


And, by the far, the most popular aria from the operetta. Here's by the late great Fritz Wunderlich.

 
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I've always loved the sublime melancholy and bittersweet nature to the best Astaire & Rogers song & dance numbers. Their films were Depression Era fantasies, the definition of escape art and everyone knew it. Behind the artifice was great sadness the world was attempting to muddle its way through by letting this trifle wash over them. As fancy, glossy and dreamlike as these sequences are there is still an understanding that we're all just agreeing to this falsehood for a bit, and the music is purposefully subdued in a way that underscores this. They're beautiful, wonderful and also a bit sad.

I think Woody Allen rather brilliantly understood and portrayed this in what I still consider his most accomplished work, The Purple Rose of Cario. At the end of the film his use of Astaire & Rogers performing "Cheek to Cheek" along with Mia Farrow's performance really captures this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrOsj0xDPs
 
"Let's face the music and dance" is one of the most melancholy Berlin tunes. I have it on the "Bennett/Berlin" CD ... somewhere.

PS. I just looked up the album credits and see that it has Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon on it. And, of course, Ralph Sharon.


Slightly overly dramatic. And snappy. His choice. Astaire was more melodic.
 
DLD said:
"Let's face the music and dance" is one of the most melancholy Berlin tunes. I have it on the "Bennett/Berlin" CD ... somewhere.

PS. I just looked up the album credits and see that it has Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon on it. And, of course, Ralph Sharon.


Slightly overly dramatic. And snappy. His choice. Astaire was more melodic.
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Interesting choices but I feel like it misses the point of the song.

Someone who really understood that Depression Era melancholy and escapism was Dennis Potter. His Pennies From Heaven miniseries is amazing, right up there with The Singing Detective in my book. The feature film version of Pennies From Heaven was a notorious bomb, mostly because people were expecting the Steve Martin from The Jerk, not the various serious role he played here. Interestingly, Let's Face the Music and Dance is recreated and expanded upon in the film, and while it starts off rather heartbreakingly it loses its way into pure fantasy by being too big a production number instead of the sad little statement it should be. Still rather gorgeous though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqF-dwI82gw

Another number from the movie version of Pennies From Heaven that does get it dead on is the title song. This number perfectly encapsulates everything the movie should have been, absolutely in line with Potter's bleak vision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Q11jsN54A

I'd link to some numbers from the superior BBC miniseries of Pennies From Heaven starring Bob Hoskins, but I can only seem to locate full episodes rather than individual songs. I highly recommend the full series as well as The Singing Detective. And there are some great numbers from the movie version of Pennies From Heaven, particularly by Bernadette Peters and consumate song & dance man Christopher Walken.
 
I actually saw the film when it came out. I'm a big Martin fan but I thought the style was far too dark to make impact over the length of the entire film. Plus, the lip-sync to other people's voices was an odd choice.

Besides, there's a reason why Astaire & Rogers pairing worked for its viewers and why Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson worked for theirs. And why Shirley Temple did her thing so well. Horses for courses.
 
Dusty Hill died at 72. He didn't do that many lead vocals but here are some.





The whole concert uploaded yesterday by the Germans ... as Tsi Tsi Top

 
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