With today’s song of the day, we continue our Bonnie and Clyde theme!
This song is from 1968 and was inspired by Arthur Penn’s classic crime film, Bonnie and Clyde. Oddly enough, this song insists that Bonnie and Clyde were from Savannah, Georgia when everyone knows that they were from my part of the world, North Texas. Then again, “Savannah” does sound a bit better when set to music than “West Dallas.”
One what would have been her birthday, today’s song of the day comes to us from Olivia Newton-John.
We can drive it home with one headlight….
Some songs just get stuck in your head and I think this is definitely one of them. This is also a song that always used to play in the background at one of my favorite used bookstores. I associate One Headlight with searching through old books and learning about history.
Today’s song of the day comes from Ennio Morricone’s score for Once Upon A Time In The West.
RIP, Claudia Cardinale.
Today’s song of the day comes from the soundtrack of Ruggeo Deodato’s The House On The Edge of the Park. Composed by Riz Ortolani and sung by Diana Corsini, Sweetly Oh Sweetly may sound like an innocent song but its use in Deodato’s controversial film is anything but that.
Since today is John Woo’s birthday, it only feels appropriate that today’s song of the day should come from John Powell’s score for Face/Off.
For today’s song of the day, we have this wonderful piece of music from John Williams’s score for Oliver Stone’s Nixon.
There’s a lot of classic music associated with Star Trek but my favorite will always be the fight music that Gerald Fried put together for the Amok Time episode in 1967. This music went on to become the standard music that played during subsequent fight scenes during the second season of Star Trek.
For the most part, I didn’t care much for Borderline but I did appreciate the way the film used today’s song of the day.
(Needless to say, this song was always used to brilliant effect in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.)
The iconic Fantasy Island theme was composed by Laurence Rosenthal. Here’s an interpretation of it from Henry Mancini.
Through the Shattered Lens 