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| ade42 |
Music Used in the dad's army 3 epps!! HELLPPPPPHi, long time fan of dad's army. Im 34 and remember seeing it almost 30 years ago (Which is a long time for me!!)Im now living the dream!! and Playing Pike on stage! In Newcastle Australia. it opens in 2 months and i need some help in the music cues.. Im a big fan of 30's music and big band etc.. Used to run various raduio shows on big band music using my OWN restorations.. (which are for the most part better tahn anything you may heve heard) I have built my own preamp, spent the best part of 20 years refining my "cleaning" techniques.. and now im looking for some songs used in the epp's The Deadly Attachment the songs are Whistle While you work I've got my eyes on you All over the place??? this is from the Telle version Mum's Army Run Rabbit Run - Gracie Fields ? Love In Bloom - Debingle? The'll Always be an Enland The Godiva Affier Don't Sit Under the apple Tree Cocktails For Two Some "Al Bowly" Song ? lyrics "all in all it';s glory" ? Some generic "TANGO" song So i need ther ORIGINAL songs, or atleast the names of the artists as wee want this production of Dad's Army to be totaly 100% authentic I Need to know the songs!!!!.. Im a 78 restorer extrodiner so if i need to buy (from ebay) some 70 YO discs I WILL !!!! anyone help.. The scipt says "MUSIC CUE" so its no help. and the script has XTRA dialouge that was cut on trasmittion? anyone interested? |
| Ed |
I've contributed copies of these songs to the Dads Army Appreciation Society's audio library on CD in the past, as I found a selection of wartime popular songs on CD that I recognised from the Dad's Army tv series at HMV's main Oxford Street branch in London. You might still find them on HMV's website.
I don't mean to imply that you can buy a single CD marked "Dad's Army", but HMV sell a range of wartime songs on CD and I noticed that various items on the tracklists of various of these CDs looked familiar. The titles of the CDs I found at HMV were "In Town Tonight", "Songs of Wartime" and "You Must Remember This". One or more of them were released on the Empress label. There's a track listing for the "In Town Tonight" CD at http://www.timelesstracks.com/acatalog/In_Town_Tonight.html There's a track listing for the "Songs of Wartime" CD at http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Wartime-Various-Artists/dp/B0000300E7 Alternatively, you might join DAAS and borrow from their audio library the items I donated to them. As I recall, DAAS has done a lot of research about the music used in Dad's Army. Your first port of call should be to e-mail them for more details. I remember they were selling (at nominal cost) details of the tv series, devoting one booklet to each season, and I think these booklets included details about the music links used in each episode. The original versions of some of the wartime songs you've mentioned, that were featured in the tv series, are as follows: "Run Rabbit Run" is sung by Flanagan and Allen (another contribution to the show by Bud Flanagan!). This is on the "Songs of Wartime" CD at http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Wartime-Various-Artists/dp/B0000300E7 Lords of the Air (which featured in the 1976 Dad's Army stage play) is also on that CD, performed by Joe Loss & His Band with singer Monte Rey. The popular "There'll Always be an England" was sung in the war by Vera Lynn and many others. You'll find a number of versions of it on-line at http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/alwaysengland.Html It too is on the CD "Songs of Wartime", performed by Joe Loss & His Band and sung by Monte Rey. "Love in Bloom" was popularised by Kitty Carlisle and Bing Crosby in a 1934 movie. You can watch and listen to the Andrews Sisters perform their big hit 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree' in a video clip on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7ymwFsMI0 A CD version is at www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7321452/a/Don't+Sit+Under+The+Apple+Tree.htm Cocktails For Two was a big hit for Spike Jones & His City Slickers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones Al Bowlly's career is detailed in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bowlly and you might also try the free Al Bowlly downloads at http://www.horizonofsound.com |