Children's Marching Song (Nick, Nack, Paddy, Wack) - Marty Gold

STEREO ACTION GOES HOLLYWOOD: The sound your eyes can follow. Marty Gold and his orchestra.

THE CHILDRENS MARCHING SONG (NICK, NACK, PADDY, WACK), has a full-sounding brass section of four trombones and four trumpets in place of the strings to provide the basic contrast against the other instruments. The song is from the 1958 movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. A toy drum sets the swinging march cadence on the left followed, in step and across your speakers, by the trombones which are later joined by piccolos on the right. This trooping back and forth motion continues on ever-alert sentinel duty throughout the number and the excitement steadily build up with the addition of the short melody, first heard on the left on the toy piano and toy bells, then carried on in successive rounds by muted trumpets, guitar, accordion, and the combination of piccolo, flute and bassoon. This circular march in climaxed by the swinging brass which at last comes into view at the end of the marching group.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Directed by: Mark Robson

Produced by: Buddy Adler

Written by: Alan Burgess (book), Isobel Lennart

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat

Music by: Malcolm Arnold

Cinematography: Freddie Young

Editing by: Ernest Walter

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Released: December 11, 1958

Running time: 2 hours, 38 minuets

Country: United States

Languages: English, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. Directed by Mark Robson, who received an Academy Award for Directing nomination, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jurgens as her love interest, Colonel Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released. The musical score was composed by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young.
The film was shot in Britain. Snowdonia in Wales was used for exterior locations. Most of the children in the film were Chinese children from Liverpool. The city has one of the oldest Chinese communities in Europe.

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