By Alan Hurst By the time December 26 rolls around I’m usually sick of Christmas music and can’t wait until radio stations go back to their regular programming. And if I’m walking through a mall or a department store in early November and start hearing an instrumental version of “Jingle Bells” I cringe. When was…
By John H. Foote (*) What the hell is a Jellicle cat? I have no clue. I am sure not even the director of this film knows., Tom Hooper directed the superb HBO miniseries John Adams (2008) which led to his being handpicked to direct The King’s Speech (2010) which won him an Academy Award…
By Alan Hurst They may have had dreams of an acting career and they may have even tried that route first, but their first success was behind a microphone – either in front of a big band, on radio, in clubs, on television, arenas, or in a recording studio. Hollywood has always looked to the…
By Alan Hurst Great songs have been written for the movies since the late 1920’s and it continues today – although I must profess that the great ones don’t occur with the frequency that we saw during the hey day of film music that really hit its stride in the 1930’s and continued into the…