[78-L] Marvin Hamlisch dies

[David Lennick]

It was totally off base but wasn't it George Roy Hill who asked for it, having 
heard his kid playing the Schuller album? When I finally saw the movie I 
couldn't understand why it didn't take place in 1910.

"Carnivale" managed to get a lot of the music right, except for using Sing Sing 
Sing (two or three years too early), and putting a 33rpm locked groove in Ruth 
Etting's "Love Me Or Leave Me".

dl

On 8/7/2012 12:41 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
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> The interesting thing about "The Sting" for me was how off-base Hamlisch was, timewise, in selecting ragtime for that score. "The Sting" took place in the early 1930s, 20 years after ragtime's heyday ended. Nobody listened to ragtime then, ...
> but somehow, the charm of the music worked perfectly for that film, just as bluegrass worked for "Bonnie&  Clyde." Bluegrass wouldn't be established for a decade after that. What is it about the 1930s that filmmakers couldn't get? Would those films have worked just as well if they had used music that was appropriate for the period?
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