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The evening country club scene in Caddyshack (1980) opens with the band playing "Moonglow". In the movie 42 (2013), about Jackie Robinson's advent into baseball's previously white-only major leagues, "Moonglow" plays in the background in the hotel where Rachel and Jackie Robinson have just been married.
The 1933 piece, "Moonglow", was written by Will Hudson, Irving Mills and Eddie DeLange.The 1955 piece, "Theme from Picnic", was written by George Duning.(Steve Allen set lyrics to the tune, and is credited on vocal versions of the song as a co-author, but not on the hit instrumental versions by Stoloff and others.)
Buddy Pepper (born Jack Retherford Starkey, April 21, 1922 – February 7, 1993) was an American pianist, songwriter, arranger and actor, known as one of three writers of Billboard's top tune of 1953, [1] "Vaya Con Dios," which has been recorded over 500 times.
Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope. [3] [4] It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. [5]
Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight (his final film role), Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray.
"When Meadows's three-minute sketch persona is stretched out to cover a whole movie, the cracks soon start to show," wrote The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. 8. "Stuart Saves His Family" (1995)
Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in Maple Heights, Ohio, and raised in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. [4] [5] Both his parents were Italian immigrants.Originally from Scanno, Abruzzo, his father Quintiliano "Quinto" Mancini was a laborer at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a teenager around 1910.
Guaraldi in 1946. Vince Guaraldi was born in San Francisco’s North Beach, a neighborhood that later played a crucial role in his musical development. [2] [3]His surname changed to "Guaraldi" after his mother, Carmela (née Marcellino), divorced his biological father, Dellaglio, and remarried Tony Guaraldi, who adopted him.