Film Score from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936)

composed by Max Steiner

This video took me FOREVER to put together! As you may have noticed I LOVE films from Hollywood's Golden Age and I especially love old Adventure films with dreamy heroes, beautiful damsels in distress, "exotic" (often California) locations, and powerful music. The '36 version of the Charge of the Light Brigade is more inaccurate than most films but because of the previously mentioned reasons I still love it ^_^

Love

sung by Nancy Adams

I loved watching Robin Hood when I was a kid and my cousins and I used to pretend we were the characters from the legend and of course being the ultimate tomboy I was always Robin. We were all under 8 and we reveled in the trees and twigs were our arrows, how we managed to keep our eyeballs I'll never know.

I heard this song again after several years in the film "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and I instantly recognized it and I was thrilled to find the song included in the F.M.F soundtrack.

music purchased from: iTunes

The Death of Aase from Peer Gynt

composed by Edvard Grieg

Like most people I was only familiar with "Morning" from Peer Gynt (I had heard more of Grieg's music before just nothing else from P.G.) until a wonderful episode from the Simpsons (Coming to Homerica) rectified the situation.

Here's the Simpsons episode with Grieg's piece (I believe it's in German but I'm not sure at all, skip to about 6:05 if you only want to listen to the music)

music purchased from: eMusic

Dance Tonight

by Paul McCartney

Like a lot of people I first heard this song on an iPod commercial and I fell in love with it. One summer my sister and I would listen to this song as we were stuck in California's lovely traffic on our way to work at the County Fair and it made work slightly more bearable ^_^

and here is the iPod ad

Teenager

by Camera Obscura

I love eMusic because it gives me amazing suggestions like this little gem. This is one of my "floaty" songs, to be a floaty song a song must be mellow and easy going like me on a good day ^_~ Enjoy!

song purchased from: eMusic.com

Lollipops and Roses

sung by Jack Jones

I discovered this song while watching one of my favorite tv shows, Mad Men

and as soon as the season's soundtrack came out I purchased it. Jack Jones

has a beautiful voice and killer looks don't you think? ;-)

*Lollipops and Roses ends at about 3:00, the rest of the clip is Judy Garland's daughters singing

song purchased from: iTunes

Free Bird

by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ok, so yesterday my sister and I walked to the guh-rocery store and while we were there we heard a little kid making certain noises that reminded us of Forrest Gump (yeah I'm going somewhere with this). Do you know what the greatest thing about the movie Forrest Gump is? If you said the music then you are totally right in my book. I must have been 7 when I first heard Free Bird in a scene from F.G. (when Jenny is totally high and climbs up on the ledge) and of course I was totally blown away.

P.S. reason #1 why I could never have joined the Lynyrd Skynyrd, my hair isn't long and silky like the rest of the band's hahaha ^_~

Here's another video since the BBC one gets cut off at the end (total lame sauce)