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  • This theme makes an appearance near the end of "The Artist" (2011). It took me a moment to recognize it but the closing credits list Bernard Herrman's "Love theme".

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  • great film my favorite part starts around 1:06. Just wonderful music

  • the bit that starts around 1:06 always makes my heart creep up into my throat.

  • Always nice to hear Bernard Herrmann's composition. To hear my original song tribute, "Here's To Alfred Hitchcock," click on my name below, then hit "videos" when you get to the site. Or just enter "Here's To Alfred Hitchcock" in the YouTube search box.

  • My love for great film music brought me here.

  • Wait, 8 dislikes? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaat?

  • Excuse me but why are you talking about Lady Gaga on a thread devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Bernard Herrmann's score ?

  • Born this way

  • No one wrote ominous music like Bernard Herrmann: this one, Psycho, Cape Fear and remember in Pulp Fiction when Daryl Hannah dressed as a nurse walks down the hospital corridor? That's Herrmann's theme music too.

  • Hitchcock was the best.

  • What is the last :38 from?

  • ffs Gaga infests this page too...not to mention her typical rip-off ways getting to this classic now through 'her' music. How dare she. 

  • @ThePalaeontologist are you kidding? she never claimed ownership of this score

  • such a beautiful piece! hitchcock and herrmann are geniuses.

  • This was used at a faster tempo in the opening and all throughout the Prelude to Lad Gaga's Born This Way Music video.

  • i can proudly say that i found out about this song through lady gaga! does it really matter where people found out about this song? how is finding this song through her disrespectful? seriously these hipsters r ridiculous. it doesn't make you any better just because you have found this song through its original movie.

  • @videofreakboy91 I will respect you more when you spell out "are" and capitalize your letters. And, for the record, I happen to be a fan of Lady Gaga. This is not an attack on her, this is an attack on your typing.

  • @mallorynicole28 does it really matter if i spell out my words in a youtube comment? u understood what i said. so hush.

  • Key Lime Pie

  • @SpyroSan E flat minor Lime Pie.

  • This is pure genius! Too bad motst Hollywood producers don't encourage this sort of thing anymore, it's still out there but not appreciated.

  • Anyone else notice this in "The Artist" by Michel Hazanavicius? Thought it worked well though it was a bit jarring at first, had to resist the urge to yell "Herrmann!" in the theatre.

  • Always great to hear the "Vertigo" music--some of it used in the recent flick "The Artist." Check out my original song "Here's To Alfred Hitchcock" here on YouTube. Just click on my name below.

  • Thumbs up if this is scariest soundtrack you ever heard !!!!!!

  • Here she gets her inspiration....ahaaaa°°

  • The most hauntingly romantic -- and romantically haunting -- music EVER!

  • LOVE the soundtrack for this movie,...and its a classic flick. If you get a chance though, check out the music for "Marnie" (another Hitchcock thriller)....granted

    Marnie wasn't as good a film,....but the soundtrack is every bit as good!

  • I expected U2

  • Why is "Starman" at the end?

  • Not only is this a great piece of music but the opening sequence of the film is superb. Way ahead of its time.

  • La música de Bernard Herrmann es espectacular y hace muy buena pareja con las películas de D. Alfredo.

  • This music is amazing. Lady GaGa amazing too.

  • @thehappydaggerzandme Huh. No wonder it sounded so familiar.

  • @thehappydaggerzandme Innovative my arse. She's a rip-off merchant.

  • @Scrotetasticular I haven't heard this score used many times in music videos, have you? idiot

  • @BigFatSpoiler No, I haven't. So what? It's hardly innovative to use someone else's music in a video. Idiot.

  • @Scrotetasticular So by your logic I can say that Hitchcock is a 'ripoff merchant' for using the score in Vertigo; actually, that's fair enough - everyone is ripping off someone else. Seriously, originality you speak of does not exist, maybe with an exception of abstract art. However, I can't see why you and many other bashers make such a big deal out of it, and go so far to hate a person who's working hard at her craft and inspires thousands of people... it's not like she's drowning puppies...

  • @BigFatSpoiler You know, Lady Gaga's music isn't horrendous, but it's WAY overrated. People praise her music for being catchy and they praise her on stage for looking pretty. Fact is, pretty much anyone can write catchy tunes and dress flashy. She's not a horrible artist, but to blindly praise her as a goddess is just stupid.

    I don't really have a problem with it most of the time, unless I'm at a social even where everyone's gushing over what an incredible artist she is. That's just annoying.

  • @ShadowACS Well, you don't see artists rise to that kind of success every day; I think it takes more than that - just listen to her playing her songs at the piano, anyone can't do that :P

    And I don't know what social events you're attending, all I hear is how much people hate her for no reason.

  • @BigFatSpoiler "For no reason?" The reason people hate her is because there's a group of people who blindly worship her and tell everyone they should like her. Her music isn't awful, but it's FAR from great.

    And if you think it takes more than looking good and using catchy tunes...look at Justin Bieber.

  • @ShadowACS Oh that's just unfair comparing Gaga to her... Gaga's writing her own stuff and has SIGNIFICANTLY more input into her performance pieces, at least...

    But I agree, it's entirely her fault that she has fans, how dare she... how dare she infect young mind with thoughts about equality and self-acceptance; one can only imagine what horrible things those ideas are doing to people :D

  • @thehappydaggerzandme That's great and all. But this is a video about Herrmann's music. THAT's the guy who is talented and innovative.

  • man i'll play this at my funeral

  • @HendrixGirl4270 PUCK THE FOLICE

  • sleep no more, anyone?

  • The score spirals, just like the film. Vertigo has to be one of the greatest and most haunting films of all time.

  • portal 2

  • BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS!!Best Hitchcock's movie.

  • Every time I hear this song I feel like something horrible stepped into the room and grabbed me. It's just so damn good.

  • I love it

  • It was AWESOME to hear this on American Horror Story last week.

  • @Pwells1 Really? I've never watched that show, but if they appreciate classic scores like this, I'll give it a try.

  • 5:50 Startman soundtrack... ?? :)

  • 3:25 i love this part!

  • Love it!!

  • The Starman theme at the end really puts the icing on the cake!

  • @DeadlyGecko101 even though those are by different composers. This is my favorite of Bernard Herrmanns work. And Taxi Driver. Theyre both so atmospheric.

  • I love this, the score of Batman (1989) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Jurassic Park. E.T. lifts my spirits also.

  • herrmann's score for movie was derived from richard wagner

    so all this debate about gaga is pointless .

  • If you like Hermann, you should check out the soundtrack for 'The Machinist' starring Christian Bale, the music is played in the same style as Hermann, composed by Roque Baños, he seems to invoke the spirit of Hermann..........!

  • This, and Scene d'Amour are my two favorite film scores.

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  • Can't yall just listen to the music? Sheesh.

  • damn. i dont know which soundtrack is better. this or psycho!

  • Please don't tell us about lady gaga and get some fucking taste. I have no idea what that cunt does and I don't care.

  • This is my absolute favorite film of all time, music included.

  • As a brass player I've got to love Bernard Herrmann. Wrote the brass parts in film music.

  • It's a sad commentary about our culturally illiterate and impoverished times, that these two monuments - Bernard Hermann music and Hitchcock's film - are important to so many imbeciles because... Lady gaga used them!!!

  • @anematollahy Lady Gaga does not even come close to anything good in a comparison to Bernard Herrmann. All Lady Gaga does is disguise the mediocrity of her music by being strange and weird. Gaga isn't a genius, she's a fake.

  • @35Cory85 Oh get over yourself.

    You think you're cool by hating on artists? You think hate is cool?

    Let people fucking like what they like and stop being a nark.

    This song is cool whether or not lady gaga sampled it.

    The whole point of putting this as a pre-lude to born this way was to popularize a piece of obscure music that was really good, in other words, she obviously likes the same stuff as you do.

    Get over yourself, dumbass hipster.

  • @ZFO3 hipster or not, he has a point. If Lady Gaga's fans do not acknowledge that she "borrows" stuff from other artists, then they're serious freaking morons. Whether her music is good or not is a matter of opinion, but that she uses other people's stuff is a fact, and her fans need to acknowledge that whether they love her or not.

  • @ShadowACS

    True, but she has personally acknowledged the wellsprings of her inspiration many, many times - Freddie Mercury, David Bowie (well, really all '80s glam rock), Madonna, and Fritz Lang. I don't believe she's ever personally acknowledged Hitchcock, but that's likely because she didn't exactly try to hide it in BTW.

    I think the main reason her fan base doesn't yield to giving such credit is because the overwhelming majority of her fans might not be well enough aware of them.

  • @hedonism13 The fact that her fans aren't aware of them is exactly the issue. They will think that Lady Gaga was the one creating the stuff that she had no part in creating. Also, even if you acknowledge that you stole something, that doesn't mean you created it. Frankly, I think her music is really bad, but that's a matter of opinion, as I said. What matters is that if she doesn't come out and say that she takes tunes from other songs, then she's basically a con artist.

  • @ShadowACS

    Pfft. Everything's a slight variation of a copy of a copy of a copy anyway. That's why we inveted the phrase "drew inspiration from", to avoid turning classics to plagarism. And she doesn't take tunes from other songs. I'll take you up on that.

  • @hedonism13 I have to say though, Gaga is in musical terms rather less original than her fans tend to concede. She is directly in the tradition of pop music that started with Madonna (speaking very broadly) and which hasn't changed much since the late 90s. Her music is rather simplistic and her lyrics facile (quite surprisingly so). The issue isn't that her music is derivative, it's that her fans claim a level of originality which isn't really there.

  • @Scrotetasticular

    I disagree, but I see where you're coming from - her singles are typically the only songs people will ever hear of hers, which is a shame, because she has some more obscure titles (Brown Eyes, Summer Boy, Red & Blue) that are of a very high quality and definitely original. Edge of Glory is a definite rip off of Express Yourself though, and given that the majority of her fan base are teenage girls, I don't think that will be widely acknowldged for a while.

  • @ShadowACS Honestly, I wouldn't call it stealing when most people aren't original anyway. But yeah, I see where you're coming from, she is inspired by other artists that came before her and she's very open about that. But I also find it kinda low that other people feed offer fame. Like all those law suits that came out of nowhere when she released her new album, and how Madonna just barely decided to break silence about Born This Way, just in time for her new album to come out.

  • @ShadowACS But I also think you gotta give the girl some credit for having 3 jobs to sustain herself before getting signed to Interscope, and to live through being disowned by your father, and being dropped from Def Jam. You also gotta give her credit for working with big names such as Elton John, Sting, Tony Bennett, just to name a few. Her covers of Someone To Watch Over Me and The Lady Is A Tramp aren't that bad either. Her lyrics are average but her charisma on stage is amazing.

  • @TheRawr80 None of the stuff you mentioned has anything to do with whether her music is good or bad.

    And whether an artist looks pretty live has nothing to do with the quality of their music. Lady Gaga, if you ask me, relies on catchy beats and looking flashy on stage to sell her music. Virtually anyone can write a catchy tune, and music and visuals are separate things, especially for pop artists. But that's just my opinion.

  • @ShadowACS /watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM

    She's pretty covered up in that video, I would say. She's also not relying on any pop beats.

    Fact: Most of Gaga's performances nowadays are on Piano, Drums, and Trumpet.

  • @TheRawr80 ...look, I'm not going to like her. You can keep on being a fan, but please, leave me out of it.

  • @ShadowACS That's great, I love how you clamped up.

  • @ShadowACS

    And her art (music, music videos, regular videos) is really very good - she takes inspiration from others and from there just takes flight. She really is a breath of fresh air in contemporary mainstream music.

  • Can someone explain to me what Lady gaga has to do with Vertigo?... I don't listen to her so i don't get the commotion going on with her here... Please and thank you

  • @16Mstef this theme song is used for the intro of Lady Gaga's music video Born This Way... you should check it out :'D

  • @YchVEVO Oh. Alright... Thank you! :)

  • @YchVEVO ok

  • @16Mstef well, considering she makes references to Alfred in Bad Romance (I want your PSYCHO, your VERTIGO stick, want your in my REAR WINDOW...) and then she used this score as the beginning of Born This Way...

  • The absolute Master of Film Composers!!!

  • Music sounds familiar.... can't quite figure it out.

  • @lptlp Perhaps you saw a Vertigo parody on TV or something.

  • @lptlp

    Its from the greatest film ever made. Better then Citizen Cane. Act like you know...

  • @MikeTheMaster01 im guessin u liwten to justin beiber, i think its sad that people know about this theme from lady gaga, and not the alfred hitchcock theme, im a fool tat thinks pop artist ar an outrage? U dont even know me u cunt

  • Dont even mention lady gaga on a page like this, to do so is pure disrespect to hitchcock films, how sad society has become :( im only 16 and i feel this strong about this

  • @TheDylanvarrow lol your a fool that thinks all pop artists are an outrage, but gaga is very culturally diverse and a brilliant woman who admitedly finds inspiration in a lot of old artists, films and bands. She is not some video hoe there is meaning and symbolism in everything she does.

  • He stole this from Lady Gaga.

  • @Angelshare1 IDIOT this wa written in 1958

  • @Angelshare1 Nope, Lady gaga stole this form him, she is a big fan of the vertigo movie

  • @Angelshare1 NO LADY GA GA STOLE IT!

  • @Angelshare1 He died like 20 years before Lady Gaga was even born (I don't know when she was born, but still).

  • An awesome motion picture and an equally awesome musical score to accompany it. Brilliant.

  • 3:18-4:22 i look to window and i got this feeling that someone is watching me and want to kill me!

  • This, his theme for Psycho and The Day the Earth Stood Still are all great cinematic-musical thoughts.

  • @johnsher2 I hope the score to "North by North-West" is included on your list as well.

  • hitchcock's masterpiece. such a beautiful piece of art

  • Now I'm no genius, but perhaps, just perhaps, Lady GaGa put this in her video because she thinks it's an amazing piece of music. I dunno though, I'm probably wrong...

  • i love gaga!

  • Herrmann won one oscar. Hitchcock won none. Neither were even nominated for Vertigo. I can't think of a more compelling argument for dismissing the oscars as rubbish. Oh wait, forgot about Titanic.

  • @TheIcemanMorgan Titanic is good. Don't be a conformist. And Vertigo is amazing.

  • @neonoir77 .Titanic is shit. Stop trying to be cool. And Psycho is amazing

  • @EndlessLaymon Nah, I'm not trying to be cool. Tons of people (who ARE trying to be cool) think they're 'sophisticated filmgoers' if they bash movies like Titanic; the whole "I'm too intellectual to like this mainstream movie and people will judge me if I do" syndrome. A classic case of mob mentality. If not liking Titanic is your actual, legitimate opinion, great. Go for it. But I think it's good. That's not 'cause I'm trying to be cool. It means my opinion isn't influenced by other people.

  • @EndlessLaymon Saying a movie is 'shit' implies it has no redeeming qualities. Titanic has many great qualities, some of which are undeniable. But yeah, go ahead and dislike it if that's what you really think (not being sarcastic). But don't bash me for liking it ;). And I agree, Psycho is amazing. So is Vertigo. Pretty much everything Hitchcock does is amazing.

  • @neonoir77 Buddy I was having a laugh. And I am not soem uptight film snob I kind of enjoy Titanic.

    :)

  • @EndlessLaymon Hahaha well you can't tell that kinda thing through the internet, can you? :). no worries man. I was kinda looking forward to arguing with someone on youtube though. it's always fun lolol.

  • @neonoir77 :)

  • @EndlessLaymon and I never said you were uptight! not even in the original reply. I probably came off as more uptight anyway haha.

  • @neonoir77 Oh, okay then peace.

  • @AidanBrooks321 I was told but I prefer the soundtrack not Lady Gaga.

  • i love lady gaga, i knew this movie before born this way video and i think the song it's NOT dumb, i think it's dumb to talk that about a song only because it had this theme on its video clip.

  • This was used for background music on The Planets!

  • Two top comments: Look at these fucking hipsters. It doesn't matter if people found this song BEFORE Born This Way thourhg the movie or AFTER Lady Gaga through her video, only thing that matters is the music and the greatness of it. Geez.

  • @Chaperture Hey I didn't find this through Lady Gaga or through the movie, but from a work of experimental theater that took place in a warehouse. I am the most hipster of them all!

  • LOL WITH THE POSERS AT THE TOP

  • OMG OMG ! THIS IS THE SONG LADY GAGA USED IN THAT VIDEO! I KNNNNEWWWWWW I HEARD IT SOMEPLACE WHEN MY FRIEND PLAY IT ! OMGGGGGGG!

  • One hell of a film. Period.

  • Best thing Hitch did. Best thing Herrmann did.

  • I'm a Lady Gaga's fan, but I know that this music isn't from BTW. Fuck that posers, I Love Gaga and Hitchcock <3

  • @feedamasceno You're the reason I have hope in humanity yet. I wish more people had as eclectic tastes as you do

  • @TheZerozeroone Wow, thank you. I really appreciate the comment. Actually, I really like the Gaga, but I am fully aware that she was not that "created" this song. I think people have to be informed first, then criticize. :)

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  • Born this way brought me here. fuck u

  • bernard hermann beats Lady GAGa andy day.

  • TOP OF SOUND!!!!!

  • GaGa <3

  • I can swear I heard this somewhere...

    Didn´t this play at the begining of Men in Black?

  • i don't want to detract from what is a fantastic piece of music but am i the only one to hear holst's planets in this. Anyhow respect to Mr herrmann

  • 5:49? I hope that's not Bernard Herrmann...

  • bullshit to all the people saying born this way didnt send them here.

  • This was the best part of the Lady Gage video, the actual song sounds like crap compared to this.

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  • Herrmanns' haunting score is a LARGE part of Vertigo's success.

    "The Good, the Bad, & Ugly" wouldn't be the same w/o Ennio Morricone either.

    When great film is married to equally great music- you have something unforgettable.

  • Happy 100th Birthday to Bernard Herrmann.

  • Every time I don't feel good- as in, lightheaded or something- I hear this playing in the back of my mind.

  • For some unknown reasons.. Source Code brought me here..

  • Played this two weeks ago live on radio.Real privilige. The love scene is Tristanesque!

    Superb stuff, and great to perform

  • Just realized  Bernard Hermann would have been 100 on the 29th June!

  • @studiolabs ok but i did listen to the Born this Way the minute it came out but im not a big fan on Lady Gaga.

  • Vertigo is my absolute favourite Hitchcock film :-)

  • @branie99 ditto.

    

  • In this world many people who lack real talent try to take what others do to get all of the adoration. Stefani Germanotta (her real name) will never own this song, Bernard Herrmann does.

  • which song that Lady Gaga sampled in her album?

  • @19GirlBad It wasn't sampled in any of the songs, but the opening of this theme is used at the beginning of the Born This Way music video.

  • Thumbs up if you want to push Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber out of the church tower and make it look like a suicide.

  • @bigpapi255 That is a beautiful comment. How did it not get more thumbs up?

  • oh this is so awesome.

  • lady gaga has ruined this song for me.

  • Thanks I'll do that and lady bitch is a new soda!

  • Lady bitch face ruined this song now all my friends think she made this song! :(

  • @bunnyfeet123

    Why whine about that? Just tell your friend who the original composer is and recommend them to watch the film. One of the best ever made. The best composers will always be inspirations for any artist, no matter their talents. I know very little of Lady Bitch though

  • @bunnyfeet123 O_O That's not true. Nobody thinks she made this song. It's just the background music for her manifesto. Why do you think this is not included in the actual recording? Because it is not part of her song.

  • I almost cried when I learned that Lady Gaga used this...

  • Thumbs up if Dr James Wilson's Poster brought you here

  • i love alfred hitchcock and lady gaga! 

  • 6 People Fell to thier Death!. Vertigo for the Win

  • Even if Born This Way did or did not send people here, a new generation of people who probably would be exposed to the brilliance of Herrmann now get to. Hopefully they delve deeper into his genius. If not, too bad. If so, awesome, right?