[78-L] Lenny

[Dave Burnham]

That is one of the cleverest!

db

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On 2013-07-09, at 5:51 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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