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Jazz Goes To The Movies
Jazz has been finding
its way into the movies ever since Al Jolson starred in
the first ‘talkie’ – titled, of course, ‘The Jazz
Singer’! Films like ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ ‘The Five
Pennies’ and more took the music and its stars as their
(often romanticized) theme. Other great songs or themes
are indelibly associated with classic films; ‘As time
goes by’ from ‘Casablanca’; ‘The Shadow of your Smile’
(love theme from’ ‘The Sandpiper’) Scott Joplin’s ‘The
Entertainer’ from ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’
or ‘Moon River’ from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. More
recently great movies have harkened back to the great
American standards for their themes. Who can forget
Robbie Williams dynamic treatment of ‘Have you met Miss
Jones?’ for ‘Bridget Jones Diary’, Harry Connick
Junior’s catchy ‘It had to be you’, the signature-song
for ‘When Harry Met Sally’ or Nat ‘King’ Cole’s haunting
‘Stardust’ underpinning Peter O’Toole’s masterpiece ‘My
Favourite Year’?
In a brilliant new
show Digby Fairweather’s pollwinning Half-Dozen combines
with premier singer Val Wiseman (star of ‘Lady Sings the
Blues’) to celebrate all these filmic hits and more in a
fast-moving review of great songs from great movies.
You’ll hear all your favourites - including the ones
we’ve mentioned - plus classics from the great Musicals,
great Disney songs and romantic ballads featuring Val
along with the Half-Dozen’s highly-rated vocal group
‘The Fairweather Friends’. Along the way we’ll be
reminding you of famous moments from the movies and
stories of their stars and we guarantee you more musical
memories than (as Louis B. Meyer once said!) all of the
stars in Heaven. |
