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The third and final disc of this set. This time we have tracks from At The Circus, Go West, and The Big Store. Okay, admit it - how many people never heard of the latter two films? The Big Store story (imdb.com) is "A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager." Starring as "Tommy" is Tony Martin, who conveniently contributes a couple of vocal offerings just in case someone went to the theater to see something other than the Marx Brothers. Though I can't imagine what would drive such a person to do so. At The Circus, of course, features Captain Spaulding extolling the virtues of one Miss Lydia. Enjoy. +
Tracks
1. At The Circus: Generique - Orchestre
2. At The Circus: Step Up And Take A Bow - Florencer Rice
3. At The Circus: Two Blind Loves/Train Musique/Beer Barrel Polka - Florence Rice/Kenny Backer/Orchestre/Chico Marx
4. At The Circus: Lydia The Tattoed Lady - Groucho Marx
5. At The Circus: Swingali/Blue Moon - Groucho Marx/Harpo Marx/Kenny Backer
6. At The Circus: Two Blind Loves - Kenny Backer
7. At The Circus: Circus/Step Up And Take A Bow/Circus & Generique Fin - Orchestre
8. Go West: Generique - Orchestre
9. Go West: You Can't Argue With Love - June McCloy/Groucho Marx
10. Go West: Theme Piano (Non Identifie) - Chico Marx
11. Go West: Riding The Range - John Carroll/The Marx Brothers
12. Go West: My Bony/Theme Harpe (Non Identifie) - The Marx Brothers/Harpo Marx
13. Go West: Generique Fin - Orchestre
14. The Big Store: Generique - Orchestre
15. The Big Store: If It's You - Tony Martin
16. The Big Store: Sing While You Sell - Groucho Marx
17. The Big Store: Theme Piano (Non Identifie) - Chico Marx/Harpo Marx
18. The Big Store: Harpo's Bazar - Harpo Marx
19. The Big Store: Tenement Symphony - Tony Martin/Chico Marx/Harpo Marx
20. The Big Store: Generique Fin - Orchestre
9 comments:
I'd really like to have all three of these Marx Brothers discs re-upped.
For you, vilstef? I'll get on it first thing tomorrow.
Chester-have I told you lately that you're the best?
Oh, a bit of trivia on Go West. If you've ever seen the lobby cards for this film, you'll see a 25 year old Groucho with 50-ish Chico and Harpo. How can this be? The yount Groucho is writer Irving Brecher who bore a great resemblence to Julius Marx. He didn't feel like going going to the photo shoot, and Brecher filled in for him.
Done, done and done (albeit, the last thing of the day).
I didn't know that about the lobby cards, now I'll have to look for them online tomorrow.
Many thanks again, Chester. I'm sharing the page link with a friend of mine who is the biggest move fan I know. I'll have to ask what his lifetime count is, but I figure by now it is over 30K.
You're welcome. I used to collect movie memorabilia, but sold most of it to cover moving costs. The only things I kept are various photo stills (I managed to get a couple autographs), and an original Wheeler & Woolsey lobby card for The Nitwits.
The Marx brothers films were quite chaotic, and really, so is the music in isolation. In at the circus, the goofy presence of Kenny Baker really makes one miss Zeppo or Alan Johnes. (I saw most of the films on TV as a child and again in my twenties on a full screen when my city briefly had a revival house. I even saw Keaton's The General with live piano accompaniment. Also, I saw Plan 9 from Outer Space on a big screen. Low budget and cutting corners everywhere on that movie!)
My movie memorabilia is mostly biographies of comedians. I do have an autographed copy of vol 1 of The Funny Men by Steve Allen.
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