Sunday, May 3, 2015

Piano, anyone?



This is what I'd call real classical music! In the 1948 movie 'A Song is Born' starring Virginia Mayo and Danny Kaye, a couple of black guys acting as window washers at the music foundation where Kaye and his cronies are working come in during a discussion, and demonstrate boogie-woogie to these 'long-hairs' and this is the piece they do on the piano for them. The above is a different arrangement of it, but the idea is the same, to boogie on Grieg's 'Anitra's Dance' and it's a great tune for it.

Here's the title song from that movie 'A Song is Born'...


YouTube used to have the complete movie on there, but lately it seems there's only short pieces of it. Too bad - it's a great movie.

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