[78-L] Lenny

[David Lennick]

And before all of these (except "Chasing Rainbows"), and before the ASCAP ban, 
Benny Goodman's theme 'LET'S DANCE', from Weber's Invitation to the Dance.

dl

On 7/9/2013 4:47 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Dozens and dozens more - too lazy to look up what they were adapted from,
> but here are titles:
>
> MY REVERIE - Debussy
> THE LAMP IS LOW - Ravel
> MY FANTASY (1940)/TWILIGHT (1950)/STRANGER IN PARADISE (1953)- all adapted
> from the same Borodin melody
> BAUBLES, BANGLES&  BEADS - Borodin
> AND THIS IS MY BELOVED - Borodin
> STORY OF A STARRY NIGHT - Tchaikovsky
> FULL MOON AND EMPTY ARMS - Rachmaninoff
> TILL THE END OF TIME - Chopin
> IF YOU ARE BUT A DREAM - Rubenstein
> STRANDE MUSIC = Grieg
> HOT DIGGETY - Chabrier
> I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS - Chopin
>
> And on and on.....
>
> Dave Weiner
>
> On 7/9/13 4:15 PM, "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> Also HERE COMES THE NIGHT..like The Things I Love, adapted from
>> Tchaikovsky's
>> "Melodie". The ASCAP ban was partly responsible for the adaptations from
>> the
>> classics, but they'd existed well before that.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 7/9/2013 4:11 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>>> Here's a short list I compiled years ago.  I know nothing about
>>> classical music.  Corrections appreciated.
>>>
>>> ON THE ISLE OF MAY - Connee Boswell - from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet
>>> in D Major Andante Cantabile Movement
>>> MOON LOVE - Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony,
>>> 2nd Movement
>>> OUR LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&   Bob Eberly - from Tchaikovsky's Romeo&
>>> Juliette
>>> THE THINGS I LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&   Bob Eberly or Jan Savitt or Gene
>>> Krupa - from Tchaikovsky's Melody Opus 42 #3
>>> TONIGHT WE LOVE - Freddy Martin&   Clyde Rogers - from Tchaikovsky's
>>> Piano Concerto in B Flat
>>> RayK
>>>>
>>>>
>>> From: Dan Van Landingham
>>> Your discussion on borrowed-stolen music themes reminds me of a 1941
>>> Bluebird Jan Savitt 78 I have on a 33 called "The Things I Love" with a
>>> vocal by Allan DeWitt.I first heard it in the late '70s and didn't give
>>> it
>>> much thought until I heard the melody in a string quartet piece years
>>> later.I believe it was by Tschaikovsky.I've heard several Tschaikovsky
>>> themes show up in so called "pop music" recordings of the '40s.I have
>>> bad
>>> version of Tschaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fair" by Larry
>>> Clinton
>>> done under the title of "Bounce of the Candy Fairy".I can't remember the
>>> title of the other side,but it was a good tune and if it weren't for
>>> that,I
>>> would have broken the record just out of respect for Tschaik-
>>> kovsky.Les Brown's "Everybody's Making Money But Tschaikowsky" was
>>> another
>>> matter:I saw that one by Spike Jones and his City Slickers in a junk
>>> store
>>> but never bought it.I can't remember if it was on Victor or
>>> Bluebird.There
>>> was a nice,dancable version of his "Pathetique" symphony I had on
>>> OKeh,but I
>>> don't remember if it was Les Brown or from other band like Frankie
>>> Masters.It was a nice record.I once tried to write a set of lyrics to
>>> it:they went something like,"Forever,I will give my love to
>>> you...."That was
>>> some 30+ years ago for a woman I was madly in lust over.She was HOT.
>>>
>>>
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