20,000 vinyl LPs 363: Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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In commemoration of the thousands of men who fought and died in the turning point in World War II to protect the freedom we may now be in danger of losing, this is my tribute.              

 

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on the Cornelius Ryan 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox. This is the soundtrack from the film.       

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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The The Longest Day featured a galaxy of movie stars many of whom appeared in cameo roles and was narrated by American broadcaster, Lowell Thomas.        

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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The international ensemble cast included John Wayne, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Steve Forrest, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Rod Steiger, Leo Genn, Gert Fröbe, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Curd Jürgens, George Segal, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka and Arletty.            

 

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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The score for The Longest Day was written by Maurice Jarre and orchestrated by head of A&R at Columbia Records, Mitch Miller.         

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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The Longest Day premiered in France on September 25, 1962, and in the United States on October 4. It received positive acclaim from critics and was a significant commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing black-and-white movie at the time. At the 35th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, and won awards for Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) and Best Special Effects.         

 

Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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Maurice Jarre ~ The Longest Day

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Tracklist:
       
Side 1:

        

            Part 1

       
Side 2:
       
            Part 2
       
Credits:
       
    Narrator – Lowell Thomas
    Presenter – Darryl F. Zanuck
    Vocals – Paul Anka
       
Notes:
       
"This Album Contains A Condensed Version Of The Original Film Story With The Actual Stars."

Theme song sung by Paul Anka.

Black label with gold rim and gold logo.

        

Lowell Thomas / Paul Anka / Darryl F. Zanuck – The Longest Day (The Original Film Sound Track)
Label: 20th Century Fox Records – SXG 5007
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1963
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack       

         

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Paul Anka         

Richard Burton        

Red Buttons          

Sean Connery      

Henry Fonda                    

Leo Genn             

Jeffrey Hunter           

Mitch Miller             

Robert Mitchum          

Rod Steiger                 

Lowell Thomas        

Robert Wagner           

John Wayne                          

        

Net links:        

        

20th Century Studios ~ The Longest Day        

Common Sense Media ~ Parents' Guide to The Longest Day        

USA Today ~ D-Day films you can watch on 80th anniversary             

War History Online ~ ‘The Longest Day’ Most Accurate D-Day Films Ever Released    

        

YouTube links:        

        

Paul Anka ~ The Longest Day        

The Ed Sullivan Show ~ Paul Anka ft. The Winged Victory Chorus   

The Longest Day (complete film) (2hrs., 58 min., 21 sec.)          

The Longest Day (end credits)          

         

        

        

        

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Halloween ~ 2020: The War of the Worlds in music: dedicated to Richard Burton

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What could possibly be more Halloween than the 1939 radio dramatization by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre of The War of the Worlds, the novel by H. G. Wells? Music interpretations of it, of course! 

 

One of the best is by Jeff Wayne with Richard Burton reading the dialogue (links below).    

      

The War of the Worlds

  image by Ryan Church

 

Jerzy Maksymiuk & Józef Skrzek      

Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton     

Orson Welles @ 100    

     
     
   
     

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Richard Burton            

Vincent Price   

The War of the Worlds articles/mentions          

      

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Jozef Skrezek ~ Wojna Swiatow (The War of the Worlds)        

Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton ~ The War Of The Worlds         

         

     

This entry is dedicated to Richard Burton!

                           

    

     
   
     
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20,000 vinyl LPs 209: Candy soundtrack

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On the 20th of February in 1968 the film Candy was released. The basic story line is: Candy Christian, an innocent high school girl, who encounters numerous humorous sexual situations and colorful characters while attempting to find meaning in life.             

      

Candy vinyl LP

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

photo of album cover by Styrous®

The star of the film is Ewa Aulin who never did many more or memorable films but the backing cast is astounding! They include Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr in a non-singing role. It has cameo roles by Sugar Ray Robinson, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan, Marilù Tolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Umberto Orsini, and Enrico Maria Salerno.       

Candy vinyl LP detail 

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Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

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As with many soundtrack albums I have, I never actually saw the film; I am only familiar with the music from the film.    

Birth By Descent is a pretty cool cut; it starts out sounding very Spanish then goes into a very short but trippy instrumental segment, with trumpet by Don Ellis. then back to a Spanish feeling.        

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Candy vinyl LP detail 

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album cover by Styrous®

Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument starts very slow with a Spanish guitar then gets trippy with great effects        

Candy vinyl LP back cover 

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

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Candy vinyl LP back cover detail

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®

Candy vinyl LP back cover detail

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®

Candy vinyl LP back cover detail

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®

Candy vinyl LP back cover detail

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®

Candy vinyl LP back cover detail

cover design & photo by 

Daniel Pezza & Henry Epstein 

detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®

Candy vinyl LP record sleeve

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Candy vinyl LP record sleeve detail

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Candy vinyl LP label, side 1

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Candy vinyl LP label, side 2

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Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Child Of The Universe, Performer – The Byrds, Vocals [Vocal] – The Byrds, written by Dave Grusin, Roger McGuinn - 3:10
A2 - Birth By Descent - 3:21
A3 - Opening Night: By Surgery - 2:10
A4 - Spec-Rac-Tac-Para-Comm - 2:37
A5 - Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument, Trumpet [Uncredited] – Don Ellis - 2:47
A6 - Magic Carpet Ride, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay, Rushton Moreve - 4:25

Side 2:

B1 - Constant Journey - 2:11
B2 - Every Mother's Daughter - 2:04
B3 - It's Always Because Of This: A Deformity - 2:30
B4 - Marlon & His Sacred Bird    - 3:05
B5 - Ascension To Virginity - 5:05
B6 - Rock Me, Vocals [Vocal] – Steppenwolf, written by John Kay - 3:41

Companies, etc.

    Record Company – ABC Records, Inc.
    Published By – Pamco Music Inc.
    Published By – Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc.
    Published By – Ampco Music, Inc.
    Engineered At – Goldwyn Studio
    Lacquer Cut At – Bell Sound Studios
    Mastered At – Longwear Plating

Credits:

    Co-producer [In Cooperation With] – Peter DeAngelis*
    Composed By, Conductor – Dave Grusin
    Cover, Design [Liner Design] – Daniel Pezza, Henry Epstein
    Engineer – Kevin Cleary
    Music By – Dave Grusin
    Performer – Steppenwolf, The Byrds
    Producer – Dave Grusin

Notes:

Made in USA

Published by: Ampco Music, Inc. - ASCAP
Except A1: Published by Pamco Music, Inc. - BMI
and A6, B6: Published by Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc. - BMI
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Side A label): ABCS-OC-9-A
    Matrix / Runout (Side B label): ABCS-OC-9-B
    Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): ABCS-OC 9A Bell Sound LW
    Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): ABCS-OC 9B Bell Sound LW
    Rights Society: BMI
    Rights Society: ASCAP

The Byrds And Steppenwolf, Dave Grusin ‎– Candy (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: ABC Records ‎– ABCS-OC-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Soundtrack
     

          
                
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Marlon Brando   
The Byrds     
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Walter Matthau      
Ringo Starr           
Steppenwolf            
      
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Candy ~ complete soundtrack     
Birth By Descent       
             
           
         
       
         
         
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Richard Burton

Prince of Players

December 11, 1956

By 20th Century Fox

Public Domain

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Leo Friedman ~ Broadway's Photographer

Leo Friedman - 2009

photo by Ozier Muhammad/NY Times

Leo Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1919. His father wanted him to go to design school, but Friedman chose the stage, appearing with Kitty Carlisle in White Horse Inn in 1936. In the late '30s, he got a job with producer Mike Todd. At one point, Todd, who was producing some attractions for the New York World's Fair, shoved a camera in Friedman's hands and told him to take some pictures. During World War II, Friedman served as a photographer in the Army Signal Corps in Europe.    

After the war, he befriended stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and shot her midnight wedding to actor Alexander Kirkland.          

Gypsy Rose Lee & Alexander Kirkland - 1943

photo by Leo Friedman 

He photographed the Broadway debuts of Bette Midler in Fiddler on the Roof. . .  

Bette Midler in Fiddler on the Roof

photo by Leo Friedman 

. . . Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Liza Minnelli in Flora, the Red Menace . . .

Liza Minnelli as Flora in Flora, the Red Menace

photo by Leo Friedman  

. . . Jane Fonda in There Was a Little Girl, as well as what he called “the first undress rehearsal” of the nude musical Oh! Calcutta! and glimpses of the backstage romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton during Hamlet.

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton 

haircut, Toronto - 1964
photo by Leo Friedman

In 1954, Friedman and Joseph Abeles, a portrait photographer, became partners in a studio at 351 West 54th Street. “The way it worked, Abeles would be the portrait photographer, if you wanted studio shots,” recalled Sol Jacobson, 96, a press agent who often hired the two to shoot his shows. “You wanted scene shots, Leo took them.”    

Audrey Hepburn 

photo by Leo Friedman

    
The two split acrimoniously, dissolving their Friedman-Abeles partnership around 1970, and Friedman claims that a large portion of his work was misappropriated by Abeles and donated to the New York Public Library’s performing arts collection at Lincoln Center, as Abeles’s own.  

Afterwards, Friedman decided to give his archive to New York Public Library's performing arts as well. The contribution led to an extended disagreement between Friedman and the library. According to Eric Friedman, Friedman's son, the library failed to credit Mr. Friedman with any of the Friedman photos they send out and collect monies on. Now the photos are in limbo, largely uncatalogued, caught in a dispute between the photographer and the Library.    

At stake is an extraordinary theater archive: about 4,580 prints and 2,655 contact sheets representing 168 stage productions from the 1950s and ’60s, the golden age of the Broadway musical.     

Citing library policy, Scher declined to allow a reporter to view the two collections in the stacks. When several sample boxes of photographs in both collections were pulled out and provided for examination, notations on the back of many of the pictures showed that the original credit to the Friedman-Abeles studio had been scratched out and replaced with a label solely crediting “Joseph Abeles Studio.” He defended the library’s practice of charging fees for reproduction rights to the pictures as an arrangement “Mr. Friedman was comfortable with.”   

Joel Grey - Cabaret

photo by Leo Friedman

 

But in an interview on a visit to New York from his home in Las Vegas, Mr. Friedman, then 89 and a cancer survivor, said he was most certainly not comfortable with that, not without being paid, and, in fact, was quite unhappy. “They’re waiting for me to die,” he said. Friedman died of complications from pneumonia at his home in Las Vegas on December 2, 2011. He was 92 years old.   

Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison 

My Fair Lady 

photo by Leo Friedman

      

The career of Leo Friedman was spent taking pictures of actors in action. He photographed more than 800 shows, including Bye Bye Birdie, The Music Man, Purlie, West Side Story (link below), Silk Stockings, My Fair Lady, Barefoot in the Park, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Coco and on and on . . . .      

Joel Grey - Cabaret

photo by Leo Friedman 

       
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NY Times ~ Leo Friedman: Stuck in a Tangled History        
NY Times obit                   
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