Who did this song? Maybe you’ve heard of it, but never heard it. If you’re drawing a blank, catch the reference to a certain city and listen carefully to the voice.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/SEP07/Freddie.mp3]Month: September 2007
Pratt Porch Project – Day 14
The insulation is in and the blue board is going up.
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Bernard Herrmann Theremin
Well, let’s see. I mentioned Theremins a couple of posts back, had a post about film composer Bernard Herrmann some months back, and I recently made reference to the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, for which Herrmann wrote the score with lots of Theremin sounds.
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This sequence from The Day The Earth Stood Still came from a 20-year-old LaserDisc played on an equally old Pioneer LD-838, as did the Spellbound clip. Even in this reduced and compressed format I think the virtues of LD compared to VHS are apparent.