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The original music for Cool Hand Luke was composed by Lalo Schifrin, who reissued it in 2001 along with additional cues and new music on his own Aleph label. [1] [2]In part because its staccato melody resembles the sound of a telegraph, [3] an edited version of the 6
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, [3] starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
1967 - Paul Newman, in the role of the title character in the motion picture Cool Hand Luke, sings the song while playing a banjo in a distinctly melancholy scene. The 1965 Marrs Family version is also heard elsewhere in the film. 1971 - Tia Blake on the album Folksongs & Ballads
The song is the 12th song on the album, featuring dramatic orchestral arrangements and numerous audio samples during its bridge, including several from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech "I Have a Dream" and 1967 sermon "Why Jesus Called Man a Fool", and others from the motion pictures Cool Hand Luke, Mississippi Burning, Casualties of War ...
In his AllMusic review, Anthony Romero-- One of the most brilliantly orchestrated albums ever produced by Don Sebesky full of emotion and timeless beauty. Wes continues to astound with brilliant performances of contemporary classics like Georgia, Going to Detroit, the Fox, and Say a Little Prayer. Wes's treatment of popular songs is his true gift.
An African-American gospel song, "C'aint no grave," has been traced back to a 1933 Chuch of God in Christ hymnal by blogger Debi Simons. [1] That version was recorded by Bozie Sturdivant in July 1942 (and released in 1943 as "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down") in a slower, gospel style and in 1946-7 by Sister Rosetta Tharpe with barrelhouse ...
Some of her other notable roles include the Wicked Stepmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965), Paul Newman's mother in Cool Hand Luke (1967), and Peter Sellers's mother in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968). Van Fleet's work on television included such series as Naked City, Thriller, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, and Police Woman.
In October 2008, Cool Hand Luke released The Sleeping House on Lujo Records. The album, produced by Matt Goldman and showing such diverse influences as Shudder to Think and Keane, comprises twelve piano-based songs of a depth, intensity, and relative darkness unseen before in Cool Hand Luke's work. The artwork-intensive album, complete with an ...