I've been looking for this song since the movie came out--it's the song that plays (1) when the girls are getting ready to go to the dance and again (2) when they're rehearsing the dance [with Nicola telling Thandiewe about the truth about the letter]. It's instrumental, with an amazing trumpet riff. Any help would be so appreciated.
shareOKAY?!?! What the hell is that song? I want it!
Sidney Bechet: "The Mooche". It took ages for the answer but oh well.
shareHey! your right it is that song, but the actual song is by Duke Ellington (I saw it on a CD I bought) and it is performed by Sidney Bechet in the actual movie. Hope this helps if your planning on downloading the song.
Cheyenne xxxxx
Another soundtrack question: I've been wondering about the source of an instrumental theme that is heard twice (at least) in the movie. One time is when Thandiwe and Danny meet by the lake at night -- I think it's their last meeting before the motel rendezvous. The theme is a simple, meditative melody played on what I believe is a recorder. (The film credits list a Wolfgang Duigan as "musician: recorder solo." Sounds like a relative of the director, John Duigan.)
We hear the theme again at the end of the movie, this time played by an orchestra.
There may be other occurrences but I don't remember them, and since I saw the movie on TV I can't go back and look for it in the credits. Can anyone help me out with a title or composer credit for this theme?
I'm curious because I recognized the melody as a close variant of one I heard at the end of a track I downloaded from Amazon: "Melody McOcean" by guitarist John Fahey. The track is a free download, so you can listen for yourself -- the melody in question occurs about 5:05 into the track. I always thought it was taken from a hymn or folk tune, but wasn't sure. For all I know, it's a Fahey original.
Let me know if you find out who it is. I've been wanting to know too. It does sound like that part in John Fahey's Melody McOcean. So it does make me wonder if it isn't some folk song.
shareWell, I stumbled across the answer to my soundtrack question when listening to the radio this morning. The musical theme I was wondering about comes from the overture composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams for the play "The Wasps." The piece is a popular selection in the Western orchestral repertoire, so it's likely that I have heard it before, but I wasn't able to make the connection until now.
I wasn't able to find much on the Internet about the origins of the piece, other than the most basic details: it was composed by Vaughan Williams in 1909 for a University of Cambridge production of "The Wasps," a satire by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. Vaughan Williams later included the overture, along with other pieces of incidental music he wrote for the play, in a five-part work called the Aristophanic Suite. But the overture is the part that is most commonly performed today.
The overture's slow, pastoral melody -- which, as I mentioned previously, is heard as a love theme at the end of "Flirting" -- apparently was composed by Vaughan Williams himself, not extracted from a folk melody. According to the write-up of the Aristophanic Suite on AllMusic.com, "The music is also among his first to reflect the sound and spirit of English folk song, even though no actual folk songs are heard" (my emphasis added).
Of course, composers have pilfered melodies from folk songs since the beginning of music, so the author of that description could well be wrong.
How nifty. I'd always thought that the piece resembled Vaughn Williams' "Lark Ascending"; so to find out it is Vaughan Williams I find extremely satisfying. How smart me is!
shareThank you so much !! I watched 'Flirting' back in Oct 2006, and have always been wanting to know what that stirring short piece of music, so brief yet stirring, sad and pensive at the same time ....Thank you so much !!!! Worth the 3 year wait !!
shareI just saw the movie for the second time. Very nice music! But I'm DYING to know the name and artist of a certain tune! It's played when Thandiwe is arguing with some girls by the record player. The singer sings something with "Johnny".
I REALLY hope for some help. Thanks in advance. :)
Someone answered this in an earlier thread -- it's "Johnny Get Angry," sung by Joanie Sommers. The record was a big hit for her back in 1962, peaking at #7 on the U.S. Billboard pop charts.
(EDIT: Corrected the spelling of "Joanie" -- it's one "N," not two.)
Hey! the song your looking for is called ''Johnny get angry'' by Joanie Sommers. Hope i've helped you :D
cheyenne xxxxxxx