Victor Young - Night Music GMB

Pistas A1 The High And The Mighty A2 Moonlight And Roses A3 Passion Tango A4 Never Say Goodbye A5 Smile A6 The “Rear Window“ Theme (Lisa) B1 The Song From “The Caine Mutiny“ B2 Magnificent Obsession B3 Glamour Waltz B4 Rendezvous In Tunis B5 Last Night When We Were Young B6 Twilight Interlude Composer and arranger Victor Young made a long series of single records for Decca that were periodically compiled into LPs. This one, titled Night Music, is from 1954. Many of those singles consisted of film music, and here we have, among others, Young’s hit version of the theme from The High and the Mighty (Dimitri Tiomkin), Smile (Charlie Chaplin), the Rear Window theme (Franz Waxman), and Magnificent Obsession (Frank Skinner). The High and the Mighty has an unearthly quality that, while suited to its theme of a imperiled transoceanic flight, also was quite common in post World War II music. Here it is conveyed by Muzzy Marcelli