[78-L] Identify operatic song and singer in 1934 Jack Hulbert film Jack Ahoy ; Bretton Byrd question

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Aug 6 22:21:47 PDT 2011


Something from Faust..not sure if it's electrical or not. Interesting stuff!

dl

On 8/7/2011 1:04 AM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
> at 1:34
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycL6fMGd4UY
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> This sounds like it's a record.
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> Can anyone identify this?
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> Also, the orchestration from 3:52 to 4:22 sounds like it was influenced by Eisler or Weill.  Did Bretton Byrd score this?  Did he do similar orchestrations elsewhere on 78s with or without Louis Levy?/steve
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