Favoriting Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from May 14, 2019 Favoriting

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Soundtrack music from the first silent forward. If it was written for the moving image, we'll play it. Library music included; popcorn optional.

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Favoriting May 14, 2019: STEPHIN MERRITT
Stephin Merritt discusses his upcoming original live score for Tod Browning's 1925 silent film "The Unholy Three" starring Lon Chaney at Town Hall on Sat. May 18, with accordionist/novelist Daniel Handler and violist Pinky Weitzman. In addition to releasing albums with The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes, Merritt has composed for films "Pieces of April," "Eban and Charley" and "In The Courtyard" as well live scored the 1916 silent "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and Tod Browning's 1927 "The Unknown."

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Images Approx. start time
Doris Day  Move Over, Darling   Favoriting Move Over, Darling  CBS   
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Stephin Merritt  Some Summer Day   Favoriting Eban & Charley  Merge   
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Stephin Merritt  Water Torture   Favoriting Eban & Charley  Merge   
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The Magnetic Fields  Stray with Me   Favoriting Pieces of April  Nonesuch   
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Stephin Merritt  One April Day   Favoriting Pieces of April  Nonesuch   
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Music behind DJ:
STEPHIN MERRITT 
INTERVIEW   Favoriting
 
 
houseoftomorrow.com 
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The Magnetic Fields  Song Memoir   Favoriting 2010: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  Song Memoir   
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Music behind DJ:
STEPHIN MERRITT 
INTERVIEW   Favoriting
 
 
houseoftomorrow.com 
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Stephin Merritt  Overture   Favoriting Fantastic Planet  Criterion   
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Antonio Carlos Jobim/Luiz Bonfa  Manha De Carnaval   Favoriting Black Orpheus  Fontana   
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
dale:

doris!!
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annie:

i loved her tv show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
ultradamno:

I've never been happier to hear Doris Day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Songwriting Deity that is Stephen Merritt.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
melinda:

Yay, Stephin Merritt!
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Linda Lee:

anyone see 'eban and charley'?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
melinda:

No, I did see Pieces of April though.
  7:09pm
zak:

hey Devon, please kiss, hug and tell Stephin you love him for me. thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
common:

Nice! Love him
  7:11pm
kris pissedofferson:

Evan and charley is a pro-pedophilia film
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
melinda:

Love One April Day. So beautiful and melancholy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
dale:

i think that 'move over darling' was on a couple of weeks ago - doris was shipwrecked on a desert island with chuck connors and james garner remarries. doris is rescued and hilarity ensues.
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Linda Lee:

what a speaking voice mr merritt does have.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Interactive?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
ultradamno:

The endlessly entertaining Sissyboy Slap Party (director's cut, no less) www.youtube.com...
Avatar 7:17pm
Linda Lee:

wow, what in the name of Drella is that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
ultradamno:

The Guy Maddin short Mr. Merritt just referred to... www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

My 'fave book' - 'The Monster Show: Cultural History of Horror' - has Todd Browning practically as centerpiece @ least in beginning...
  7:21pm
morphe':

Just woke up ..0120amWed Madrid.. This all soundsmlike ClubFoot Orechesta Mission streetish?????
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Linda Lee:

i rarely hear a male voice i'd like to bathe in, but stephen merritt's got one.
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Linda Lee:

what's up, morphe'? is this normal?
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Buddha of Suburbia:

Hello everyone! Hi Linda Lee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
dale:

i remember that show!!
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Linda Lee:

hi Buddha! lucky you ~ here for stephen merritt!
  7:27pm
morphe':

Linda- i read to my son (7) about 10pm Madrid and fall asleep too and awake (normally 3am here) but earlier today???
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Linda Lee:

well, that sounds like a beautiful routine.
  7:29pm
morphe':

There is also the/a gamaloon band that does Metropolis...

ClubFoot Orchestra was the joint... Mission St SF
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
dale:

as he is a ukelele junkie i wonder if he hangs out with pete and maura kennedy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

ClubFoots! Yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Aitch:

Stephin of my very favourite artists. Hoping he comes back to Sydney one day.
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Linda Lee:

where are they all based, dale?
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Buddha of Suburbia:

I feel like I opened the wrong door and feel too embarrassed to ask if this is the room for intermediate table tennis players.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
dale:

i think the hudson valley/westchester linda. saw them at a dylanfest in warwick. friend across the river took uke lessons from them.
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Linda Lee:

welcome to morricone island, Buddha! film movies & chat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
dale:

boods - door number three has the norge freezer and a years supply of ore-ida tater tots.
  7:37pm
morphe':

Buddhah?? What such insecurity????
We are all at a loss.........
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Linda Lee:

@dale ~ is he in ny ?
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Buddha of Suburbia:

Nice, Linda Lee. I just got a haircut and went grocery shopping on my day off. Meant to reach out to you earlier. This sounds great! I thought I was the only one who see that movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
dale:

i thought out of the city but their website has a nyc p.o. box.
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Linda Lee:

i was wondering about stephen merritt. is he new york based?
(not that he'd have to be.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
ultradamno:

Boston, I think
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Linda Lee:

you can never go back to new york, really.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Forbidden Planet - '56
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Richard Thompson said Playboy asked for 'best songs of millennium' - when they really meant century - & they rejected him. So - he did it for himself - & really did it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
ultradamno:

I use whisks for non-percussive uses with some frequency.
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Linda Lee:

upstate! hope he wasn't in Hudson with Marina!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
ultradamno:

Fingerprince - masterpiece!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

F.Planet - cicuitbreaking electronic soundtrack - in 1956. ( ! )
Avatar 7:51pm
Linda Lee:

now i'll have to hear it.
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Linda Lee:

ooooh! lovely!
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dale:

even though laurel and hardy usually got hit over the head with a frying pan i always wondered how they landed hot wives.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
dale:

no man's brain can handle the accumulated knowledge of the krell.
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Linda Lee:

that's the big joke!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
dale:

earl holliman turning robbie the robot into a still was hilarious.
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Buddha of Suburbia:

This is nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ya gpt F. Planet on the List Devon! :)
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Aitch:

Forbidden Planet an all-time great. Love how very high-end audio brand is Krell. Also very funny to see a young Leslie Nielson playing it straight.
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Linda Lee:

nothing to do with what's on the playlist then.. ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

forbidden / fantastic ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

THX ! :)
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Linda Lee:

are they 2 different films? or the same?
Avatar 7:59pm
mb:

Thanks Devon, et al..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

Yeah, what? That sure sounded like the intro music to Forbidden Planet
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Buddha of Suburbia:

Bye bye everyone!
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Linda Lee:

got it. 2 different films.
see you soon Buddha!
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