Program No. 71 - Brass Players In Movies

Only truncated program notes, as I was distracted yesterday because of the 2013 Australian Federal Election.

This program is a repeat of Program No. 6 from last year, but I thought it was a reasonable good show, and well worth another go.

The theme of this show is to look at brass players on the Screen, both in movies, with a couple on the smaller screen as well.

1. Three Little Bops (1957)
We start with a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring the three little pigs in a jazz combo and the big bad wolf trying to join their group, as a trumpet player.

2. The Five Pennies Saints
3. Battle Hymn of The Republic
4. Medley: College Montage/Washington and Lee Swing/Runnin' Wild/Follow the Leader
   - The Five Pennies (1959)
This movie starred Danny Kaye. It is the story of "Red" Nichols, a cornet player who moves to New York in the 1920s and finds work in a band. Also features Louis Armstrong.

5. Peter Gunn Theme
6. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
7. Sweet Home Chicago
   - The Blues Brothers (1980)
Starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, this cult comedy is the story of Jake and Elwood Blues reforming their band to raise funds for the Catholic orphanage where they grew up.

8. St Louis Blues March
9. Little Brown Jug
   - The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The is a biographical movie of trombonist and band leader Glenn Miller. It stars James Stewart in the title role

10. Tubby the Tuba (1947)
We return to animation with a story of Tubby the Tuba Player and his need to play a melody.

11. Mambo Caliente
12. Sunny Ray
13. Tango Rumba-Afro-Cubana
   - The Mambo Kings (1992)
This movie stars Armande Assante and Antonio Banderas as brothers who left Cuba for America in the 1950's hoping to reach the heights of the Latin music scene.

14. In The Midnight Hour
15. Try a Little Tenderness
   - The Commitments (1991)
This UK movie was about the forming of an Irish Soul Band.

16. Ya Got Trouble
17. Seventy-Six Trombones
   - The Music Man (1962)
 The movie was about a conman who comes to a Midwestern town in the US to scam them, using a boys marching band, but things don;t go according to plan.

18. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
19. Danny Boy
20. We'll Find a Way
21. William Tell Overture
   - Brassed Off (1996)
This UK movie featured a great ensemble cast including Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald, and Peter Postlethwaite,and  is about a brass band located in a town that is suffering from the closure of their local coal mine, in the 1980s.

Next week's show we'll play music performed by one of the world's best known brass quintet's Candian Brass.