Composer | Music |
Levy | March of the Movies (1936) Gaumont British Cinema |
Mantos | Silent Movie Days (4 emotions) Santiago Mantos |
Saint-Saëns | The assassination of the Duc de Guise (1908) |
Electrical recording begins 1920-5 (Crooners) | |
Warner Brothers triumph of sound movies (6/8/26) (Jolson "Jazz Singer" 6/1/27) | |
Brown | Pagan Love Song ("The Pagan" Jack Hylton/Sam Browne 29/8/29) |
Gaynor/Farrell | "If I had a talking picture of you" (Jack Hylton/Sam Browne 21/11/29) |
"My brother makes the noises for the talkies" (Arthur Lally and the Millionaires 2/7/31) | |
"Life is just a bowl of cherries" (Rudy Valee and his Connecticut Yankees 7/8/31) | |
Debussy | Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea ("La Mer" 1905) |
Bliss | "Things to come" (March, LSO/Bliss, 3/3/35) |
Voices of the Stars (Jubilee Edition, 1935) | |
Walt Disney: "Some day my prince will come" ("Snow White", 1936) |
Mr. Gilks gave us a fascinating history of the cinema in music, with many examples from his collection of rare and special recordings not otherwise available.