From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V11 #78 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Friday, October 20 2006 Volume 11 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [pt] Murder, He Says [handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal)] Re: [pt] Murder, He Says ["S p a r k ." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:58 -0400 (EDT) From: handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal) Subject: [pt] Murder, He Says Hi, All: I happened to see a Betty Hutton interview Tuesday night on the Turner Classic Movies cable network, and they showed a clip of her performance of "Murder, He Says" from a 1943 short entitled "Strictly G.I." This is, of course, a song Tori performed on the soundtrack for the film "Mona Lisa Smile," in which she was briefly seen singing some of it. I was curious where the song came from, and in the process of finding out it had been composed in 1942 for the 1943 film "Happy Go Lucky," I came across the full performance on YouTube from which TCM had shown their excerpt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqne34f-zQ The film short this is from was based on a regular radio series by the Armed Forces Radio Service called Command Performance. The AFRS radio programs of this era were sent to U.S. armed forces bases around the world on 16" vinyl radio transcription discs which were fifteen minutes per side. (I know, because I used to work in a room with thousands of them.) How films were distributed and shown to the troops during the second world war, I have no idea. Anyway, this is a fun performance. Enjoy. All hail YouTube. :-) Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:11:58 +0200 From: "S p a r k ." Subject: Re: [pt] Murder, He Says She did the song LIVE once, for a radio appearance at the BBC, with a big band. If anyone has a really really good recording of it, in lossless format, please let me know ;) Martijn. Richard Handal wrote: >This is, of course, a song Tori performed on the soundtrack for the film >"Mona >Lisa Smile," in which she was briefly seen singing some of it. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V11 #78 *************************************