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Composed for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. Lovely voice, Oh, how we miss the old masters! Thanks for posting!

@44032 Fred Steiner, who wrote the theme, was also an arranger for TV shows, but I don't know if he wrote "Park Avenue Beat" especially for "Perry Mason" or it was among his repertoire of music that he composed and was just adopted for the show. Incidentally, Fred died last June (2011) at the ag...

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You're right! This one, too:

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Eva Braun's favorite song. She played it over-and-over in the bunker during the last few days before she and Hitler committed suicide. It was the only record she had.

There's a depressive - down quality to the piece. Perhaps not so much beautiful as solemn, but it's certainly not a favorite of mine. I'd put Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" far ahead of this as far as beautiful music goes.

This has to have one of the most majestic endings of any piece of music ever composed. Sublime is an excellent choice to describe it.

We witness the spirit of cooperation in the video; yet, we witness the voices of conflict in the comments. Yes, Sir Sean Connery and HRH Queen Elizabeth in attendance - must be several years old. Time to put our differences behind us and move forward united in peace and prosperity for all. Happy...

I sit here, tears streaming down my cheeks. I cannot help myself; it's always been this way. It's probably been mentioned here before, but Elgar's Enigma Variations were written about his friends - people he knew, and "Nimrod", the mighty hunter was based on his friend, August Jaeger. Many of...

Great job, but I thought Barry wrote the song?

One of the greatest love songs ever written based on a failed romance. You either get it or you don't. If you don't get it then you have no passion or imagination.

Why the echo?

In the film, "The King's Speech", they made it seem as if this speech was far more difficult for him to deliver. Longer hesitations and a few minor stumbles over words, but I guess we must allow them some literary license to make the film more exciting. Watch the movie. It will bring tears to you...

Nice job, Danny!

Deja vu. If you weren't part of the 1960s generation, you wouldn't appreciate this song. I love the photo of Bob and Joan; they look so innocent. I used to have her album "Diamonds and Rust", and I think the song sounds a little better than this version. But this brings back fond memories!

"The Sound of Music" followed me around my military service in the 1960s including a year in RVN. This song always brings tears to my eyes. By the way, Christopher Plummer just accepted me as a "Friend" on Facebook this morning! :)

Can you believe the idiocy of the commentator? Where do these people come from? Certainly not the planet Earth. He even seems to make it abundently clear that he wants to be heard rather than the hymn. Off with his head!

This is a beautiful hymn. Lyrics: 1872 Annie S Hawks 1836-1918

Tune: "I need thee every hour" Robert Lowry 1826-1899 Annie lived in Brooklyn NY, and Lowry challenged her to write the lyrics. Legend claims that she dreamt the words. I think this recording is from "A Nation Sings", 1963 at t...

@0ri0n77 One doesn't listen for the sake of her simplicity but for her genuine *passion* for the simple life.

This sends shivers through me. If there is such a concept as an entertaining genius, surely Jackie Gleason was standing at the pinnacle. When I hear this, I always think of New York City in the 1950s - and my young life (in Pennsylvania). I recall watching his show on the small television with...

Used in the 1935 film, "The Werewolf of London", when the Nazis were hardly known. They had come into power in 1933. Also used with great effect in the Flash Gordon serial with Buster Crabbe and Charles Middleton as Emperor Ming the Merciless. The intense messianic part at about 2:10 was alway...

Oh, for Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon and Charles Middleton as Ming the Merciless! I used to watch the serials back in the 1950s just to hear this music. I didn't know the title/composer until many years later.

Part 1 of this features the messianic piece that was always played when the scene s...

@homfencing @homfencing You said nothing about "The Court Jester". I cannot dispute that. What you said was:

"That double for Rathbone was the legendary Ralph Faulkner....who was the swordmaster on that shoot."

The haunting music is called, "Anna's Theme", composed by Anton Karas himself. Joseph Cotten throwing the match away says it all. She is walking away from all the betrayal and duplicity in the world. One of the greatest endings to one of the greatest films ever produced.