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Slaughter: Fly to the Angels (1991)
09
Mar
2010
2010
Category: Ars Gratia Artis
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Pink Martini: Amado Mio (1997) & Gilda (1946)
08
Mar
2010
2010
Pink Martini’s superb 1997 rendition of “Amado Mio” overlaid on Rita Hayworth’s star turn as the ultimate femme fatale in 1946’s Gilda. (Ms. Anita Ellis sang the original version which Rita then lip-synced in the film, by the way.)
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Pat Benatar: Le Bel Age (1986)
05
Mar
2010
2010
I’m not sure why anyone would take this nice noir-ish ambiance and decide it needs an injection of Richard Belzer, but you can’t have everything.
Back in the ’80s I was doing my best to ignore this kind of music, so I am pleasantly surprised to learn late in life that Pat Benatar really can sing.
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Scramble over Europe ‘68
02
Mar
2010
2010
Another interesting mix of Sixties incidental music and of-the-era film footage, by YouTube user jrrylpz. This one features an RAF English Electric Lightning launching to intercept a Russian Tu-95 Bear, set to Neil Richardson’s “Riviera Affair”.
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John Barry: Out of Africa Original Soundtrack (1985)
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Feb
2010
2010
Generally this film sets my teeth on edge; especially Meryl Streep’s faux-Danish accent and Robert Redford’s lack of an English one. But I do love the stunning beauty of Kenya itself paired with John Barry’s terrific soundtrack.
For my money, the best moments in this lengthy clip run from 6:40 to the end, and feature a de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth (G-AAMT). You know this was prior to extensive CGI use, so someone actually took a Gipsy Moth out to Kenya and flew it around in front of the camera. Of special note is the segment from 9:10 to the end, where the Moth buzzes flamingoes along a lakeshore at quite low altitude. According to IMDB, the pilot for this footage was Wing Commander Sir Henry Arthur Dalrymple-White, 2nd Baronet, DFC, a veteran of the Second World War who resided in Kenya and kept flying until his 80th year. Sir Henry passed away in Nairobi on June 30th, 2006.
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Category: Aeronautics, Ars Gratia Artis
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Larry Clinton & his Orchestra with Bea Wain: Heart and Soul (1939)
23
Feb
2010
2010
The first time your correspondent heard this song, it was being played by a pair of seventh or eighth grade girls in music class. And a few years later there was that famous scene in the 1988 film Big (although I didn’t get around to seeing that movie until my mid-twenties). Something about the pacing and tempo led me to believe (wrongly) that “Heart and Soul” was a creature of the 1950s doo-wop era—as in this version by Sha Na Na. I am surprised and pleased to note that it is of a much earlier vintage, the chart-topper of the late 1930s:
“Heart and Soul” was introduced in a short film called A Song Is Born, with Larry Clinton and his Orchestra.
Clinton had discovered a young singer in her late teens, named Bea Wain. She had sung an eight-bar solo on the radio, and Clinton said he knew right away she was what he wanted in a singer.
…The Clinton-Wain original version of “Heart and Soul” went to No. 1 in 1939.
After it hit, Wain took it out on the road to college proms.
Later, many others recorded it, from Ella Fitzgerald to Dean Martin to Dave Brubeck.
…Wain has her own idea of why it was such a success story.
“Musically, ‘38, ‘39, the early 40’s, those were the best times for our kind of good music,” she says. “The songs were wonderful, and people could sing them themselves… and that’s how they became hits as well.”
– Fishko, Sara. “The Bouncy Joy of ‘Heart and Soul’.” NPR | Music, 31 December 2006.
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Tape Five: A View to a Kill (2007)
11
Feb
2010
2010
The whole neo-bossa concept is really starting to grow on me.
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Iron Maiden: The Trooper (1983) & Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
06
Feb
2010
2010
Moving from Afghanistan to Crimea now. It’s a fact: cavalry charges are metal.
The passing of the Colours at 2:00-2:12 is sheer epic awesomeness.
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Learn to Dance: Riverdance
20
Jan
2010
2010
I was never a big fan of “Irish dancing”, but I am little awestruck by Fintan Maher’s raw talent in an art form he has never previously studied. Here he demonstrates how a talented amateur can pull off a Michael Flatley routine in front of an audience.
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Category: Ars Gratia Artis, Diversions
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Learn to Dance: Lady Gaga—Bad Romance
19
Jan
2010
2010
Your correspondent was blessed by Nature with the rhythm and raw dancing talent of a blindfolded, epileptic bull in a china shop. But I can nonetheless appreciate the grace and skill required for others to execute complex choreography; so to this end the Company will serve up an occasional series of dance lessons. Today’s lesson is fellow Canuck Laurie Ann Gibson’s cheoreography for Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”, with guest performer Po, of the Teletubbies.
Also a highly faithful rendition by the very talented dancer, teacher, choreographer and law student Marissa Montanez:
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Chris flies a desk for a living but is an aeronautics enthusiast who delights in the Golden Age of Aviation. He admires all the pioneering men and women who travelled the world equipped with only a map, compass, sextant, and the conviction that there was no place they could not reach.
