Notes on a music collection, part 9
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pedantherBaa Ram Ewe, Babe soundtrack. The trust password scene, with a bit of music behind it: not a song, but maybe kind of a poem? (I've always had a soft spot for the trust password verse in the original novel, incidentally, though I see why they wrote a new one for the movie.)
The Babbitt and the Bromide, Fred Astaire (with Adele Astaire). A comic song about two dully conventional people whose conversation, over the course of a long friendship, never strays beyond the exchange of clichés.
Babe's Round Up, Babe soundtrack. Instrumental. Much like several other instrumentals on the soundtrack.
Baby Elephant Walk, Henry Mancini. Instrumental. Playful.
Baby It's You, The Beatles. From early in their career, before they started really doing their own thing. (In fact, on looking it up, I find it's so early in their career that they were still sometimes doing other peoples' things: it's a cover of a Bacharach song.)
Baby You're a Rich Man, The Beatles. This, on the other hand, is from a later and more experimental period. I think I preferred the Bacharach cover.
Baby's In Black, The Beatles. Middling in several senses.
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, Camille Saint-Saëns. Instrumental. From an album I got for a different track, but I don't mind it.
Bach's Lunch, Turtle Island String Quartet. Instrumental. Jaunty.
A Bacharach Medley, Combo Fiasco. Speaking of Bacharach. Medley of "Walk on By", "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)", and "Wishin' and Hopin'".
A Bachelor Gay (from Maid of the Mountains), Peter Dawson. I listened to it and thought, "This sounds almost like a Gilbert and Sullivan song, only straight, so I suppose it's an example of the kind of thing they were spoofing", but then I looked it up and it was written after Gilbert and Sullivan's partnership dissolved.
Baci Dopo Il Tramonto, Ennio Morricone. Instrumental, from the soundtrack of a movie I haven't seen.
Back at the Barricade, Les Mis 10th Anniversary Concert. Another of the short interstitial bits.
Back In the U.S.S.R., The Beatles. I listened to it and thought, "I will be very surprised if this isn't riffing on the Beach Boys", and this time I was right.
The Babbitt and the Bromide, Fred Astaire (with Adele Astaire). A comic song about two dully conventional people whose conversation, over the course of a long friendship, never strays beyond the exchange of clichés.
Babe's Round Up, Babe soundtrack. Instrumental. Much like several other instrumentals on the soundtrack.
Baby Elephant Walk, Henry Mancini. Instrumental. Playful.
Baby It's You, The Beatles. From early in their career, before they started really doing their own thing. (In fact, on looking it up, I find it's so early in their career that they were still sometimes doing other peoples' things: it's a cover of a Bacharach song.)
Baby You're a Rich Man, The Beatles. This, on the other hand, is from a later and more experimental period. I think I preferred the Bacharach cover.
Baby's In Black, The Beatles. Middling in several senses.
Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, Camille Saint-Saëns. Instrumental. From an album I got for a different track, but I don't mind it.
Bach's Lunch, Turtle Island String Quartet. Instrumental. Jaunty.
A Bacharach Medley, Combo Fiasco. Speaking of Bacharach. Medley of "Walk on By", "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)", and "Wishin' and Hopin'".
A Bachelor Gay (from Maid of the Mountains), Peter Dawson. I listened to it and thought, "This sounds almost like a Gilbert and Sullivan song, only straight, so I suppose it's an example of the kind of thing they were spoofing", but then I looked it up and it was written after Gilbert and Sullivan's partnership dissolved.
Baci Dopo Il Tramonto, Ennio Morricone. Instrumental, from the soundtrack of a movie I haven't seen.
Back at the Barricade, Les Mis 10th Anniversary Concert. Another of the short interstitial bits.
Back In the U.S.S.R., The Beatles. I listened to it and thought, "I will be very surprised if this isn't riffing on the Beach Boys", and this time I was right.
