| re: 'Sunset Blvd': 'Nearly its entire score is from Lloyd Webber's trunk' |
| Last Edit: altonido 03:29 pm EST 01/31/21 |
| Posted by: altonido 03:24 pm EST 01/31/21 |
| In reply to: re: 'Sunset Blvd': 'Nearly its entire score is from Lloyd Webber's trunk' - Chromolume 01:31 pm EST 01/31/21 |
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The tune Sondheim was given for "You'll Never Get Away from Me" wasn't actually from a "trunk song." As "I'm in Pursuit of Happiness" (music by Jule Styne, lyric by Leo Robin), the tune had been previously sung (quite nicely) by Michael Redgrave in the 1957 TV musical "Ruggles of Red Gap," also starring Jane Powell, Imogene Coca, David Wayne and Peter Lawford.
What must have particularly irked Sondheim is that a TV cast LP of the "Ruggles of Red Gap" score had been released in '57 on the Verve label. So Sondheim could have been familiar with the tune had he been more of a cast album collector.
And a word about the above-mentioned '93 Show Music article on ALW's recycling for the "Sunset" score: Back in the '80s, I knew the author of that article, and she was a friend and fan of Tim Rice. Just saying.... |
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