I'm wondering if it was used as incidental music leading up to the Merman/Cantor performance, used somewhere else in the picture, or wound up on the cutting room floor! But what a fantastic recording!
@RatPfink66 The song is "Calabash Pipe" from "Strike Me Pink" (it says Calabash Orchestra on the record). It was sung in the movie by Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman. Someone has posted the movie clip on You Tube. The music on this You Tube posting is not used in the number performed by Merman and Cantor.
'nother thing...Does that handwriting read, "Calabrese Orchestra"? As in Lou Calabrese, b/k/a Lou Breese? Lou did form a band in '36 - but it was in Chicago...
Fantastic - this is what youtube is for
mdmphd 1 month ago
GREAT stuff!!! Love these old Newman soundtracks. He had a long successful career.
bigcity233 2 months ago
@predlycon huh! cool thanks! :)
Shatallion 1 year ago
@Shatallion yup yup. he worked with UA frequently. especially when schenck and goldwyn were there.
predlycon 1 year ago
United Artist as in Fairbanks, Pickford, and Chaplin?
Shatallion 1 year ago
I'm wondering if it was used as incidental music leading up to the Merman/Cantor performance, used somewhere else in the picture, or wound up on the cutting room floor! But what a fantastic recording!
RickC50 1 year ago
@RatPfink66 The song is "Calabash Pipe" from "Strike Me Pink" (it says Calabash Orchestra on the record). It was sung in the movie by Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman. Someone has posted the movie clip on You Tube. The music on this You Tube posting is not used in the number performed by Merman and Cantor.
RickC50 1 year ago
@RatPfink66 Really! It would be a AWESOME soundtrack tune would`nt it!
roybo1930 1 year ago
'nother thing...Does that handwriting read, "Calabrese Orchestra"? As in Lou Calabrese, b/k/a Lou Breese? Lou did form a band in '36 - but it was in Chicago...
RatPfink66 1 year ago
@roybo1930 Dunno...a more apt question might be, "Did UA ever put it in a picture?"
RatPfink66 1 year ago