Al Bowlly's version and the song itself were forgotten for decades - now it has come to represent the era - it is one of the most haunting songs ever written
“I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”
Seeing the images in black and white, I’m reminded that this was perhaps a favorite song of lovers separated by WWII. And later generations remember it as something creepy.
43 years after the movie rediscovered this tune I still associate the 2 with each other. I may even play this in another room for the mysterious echo of it playing in the ballroom.
A LOS TIEMPOS D ELA CANICA . SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO . LA DESCUBRI EN 1980 , EN LA PELICULA THE SHINNING , LA CONFUNDIA CON BAILANDO EN LA OSCURIDAD , PARECE QUE EL ORIGINAL ES DE AL BOLLY . ABRIL/23
Al bowlly's midnight the stars and you is the most beautiful song in my opinion, I don't think it's haunting I think it's incredibly lovely and so HANDSOME
Al Bowlly was killed during the London Blitz. The orchestra was under the direction of Ray Noble. NYC talk show host John Batchlor used it as his midnight show closing theme for years
It's not a "prop phonograph playing the racord backwards" but a proper Gramophone playing the record in the correct direction - but with the tone arm and soundbox placed on the wrong side of it, against the groove.
someone with studies in music: why do we identify as a very old orchestra only by listening to it even though we have not heard it before? or is the effect the shinning? even modern interpretation sounds ancient. Mantovani did not interpret it, I think he did not like singers. affectionate greetings to those of us who see these formidable themes for us, I even want to dance, but I am very clumsy. greetings from emxico january / 22
alguien con estudios en musica : ¿ porque identificamos como orquesta muy vieja solo al escucharla aunque no la hayamos escuchado antes ? o es el efecto the shinning ? hasta la interpretacion moderna suena antigua. mantovani no la interpreto , creo no le gustaban los cantantes . saludos afectuosos a quienes vemos estos temas formidables para nosotros , hasta quiero danzar , pero soy muy torpe . saludos desde emxico enero/22
As a real enjoyer of the original score, i don't think that this is a great redone of the original song, i think that they chopped it in to the little bits and blew it's brains off. It's not. Corrected enough.
love everything, but Iin the first part before the vocals some of those background instruments sound kinda cheap like keyboard instruments instead of real orchestra instruments. like 2 of em. beside that great cover
His career in tatters, his throat mere bits of flesh flaking off every time he tried to sing, his wife ripping up the marriage certificate and every vestige of any thought of love: Al Bowley returned to his darkened London apartment only to be blasted to bloody bits in a German raid during the London Blitz
@@jacktorrance9688 why not try to make it better than or as good as the original? In fact, why listen to this (which, according to you, has been conceived as being worse than the original), if we can just listen to the original?
