1930s Cowboy Ballade: Victor Young Orch. - The Last Round-Up, 1933

[Gydinglight12]

Re La Fanciulla: the part of the opera to not miss is the finale, with the tenor and soprano (originally Caruso and Destinn) riding away singing Addio California.

[Oldenoughat84]

A real old favorite of mine. Sung beautifully. Thank you. Thank you.

[mariadelamor21]

Perfect. Absolutely perfect

[bluesoulady]

her best film -

[OrodesIII]

Victor Young composed some memorable movie music.

[genia106]

Grzegorz My Darling,

Marilyn PL

Great Grzegorz PL

Artistic PL...........Just Wonderful!

[genia106]

My Darling Grzegorz,

I am sorry I am so late commenting on this.

YOU have created another MASTERPIECE!

I LOVE IT!  Thank you for MARILYN....sooooo Beautiful.....

Perfection....the music is Wonderful and the Video is Glorious!

Dziekuje.

Buziak

Genia.......To my Great Grzegorz PL. A Gazillion Texas STARS!

[dzheger]

It's Saturday afternoon, and what , of all things, is playing on the radio? The Met live broadcast of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West"! It's cowboys time!

[240252]

@dzheger I always wanted to see that opera. It's always seemed to me so surreal - Puccini in a cowboy's hat - that I won't believe it if I don't see it! :-)

[Masquerade03]

Great post! The Misfits pictures are as powerful as its stars were. By the way Victor Young composed some of the most beautiful scores. Shane and Scaramouche would be different without the wonderful music! Thanks Grzegorz!

[240252]

@Masquerade03 Hello, and thank you! I think "The Misfits" was one of these few movies that managed to touch just very core of the human loneliness, and can be compared with some American "cinema noir" pictures, French dramas of the 1940/50s and Italian new-realism. Truly, a masterpiece

[Trombonology]

Very beautiful and very powerful pairing of images and music. This piece is perfect for the film and its players; "The Last Round-Up" may not be quintessential Victor Young, but it's a song that always gets to me, cowboy enthusiast that I am, and one that captures both the make-believe and real of "The Misfits." Bravo!

[240252]

@Trombonology Thank you. I appreciate very much your praise!! :-) I like this piece althought I could n ot call myself a kind of "fan" of the "cowboy movie". But - this tune is exceptional (as Barbcard called it: a blend of Texas and East European melancholies) and so is that movie, made by one of my favourite directors. A few months ago I had a priviledge to stay for a while in Cuernavaca, where he lived in last years of his life and where his another masterpiece "Under the Volcano" was made

[JCJasion]

Yes, he also composed a venerable Jazz standard which has a prominent place to this day in the RealBook, and that's "Stella By Starlight'. Many progressive Jazz musicians performed that piece and so it attained its place in the straight-ahead Jazz repertoire. By the way, thanks for including the poignant photos from "The Misfits."

[240252]

@JCJasion Oh, ofcourse! I forgot, Stella by Starlight was composed by Young! Who could forget Sinatra's warm baritone in that loveliest serenade of the late 1940s. Thank you for your reminding!

[BerlinBo]

They were beautiful people. They should have made movies sooner.

[JanaSklibova]

:-)

[tango3721]

Hello Grzegorz - it was the last movie for both great stars - Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. According to an excellent article by my favorite journalist - the mood was somber on the set - as if - the future events for both stars - someow cast the early shadow during the filming of this memorable movie - at my favorite location - beautiful - Reno - Nevada. Thanks and a big Hug for you!

[240252]

@tango3721 Yes, they made a perfect couple: they both were just on some invisible "verge of existence" and one could see how that approaching "something" cast some shadow od sadness on their faces and in their behavior.

[abendstunde49]

Quite touching, indeed!

[240252]

@abendstunde49 I was perhaps 8 y.o. when that film became a legend for me: my much elder brother, whom I adored and my two elder sisters talked about nothing but that movie - which had in Polish an intriguing and very poetic title: Skłóceni z życiem (At Odds With The Life)

[XxXEMOBOYx]

świetne nagranie ! :)

[240252]

@XxXEMOBOYx Zgadzam się, piękna ballada i znakomicie wykonana.

[barbcard]

OMG, haven't heard this song in decades. This is an exceptionally mellow version, even a touch melancholic, as if Texas and Mittel Europa have joined hands. Merci.

[240252]

@barbcard Oh, as usually you gave a perfect term to what's going on. This music is just that: the vast melancholic lands of Texas mixed with melancholy of the pusta and of the Polish Kresy steppes