My OperaWhat do Romeo & Juliet have in common with an egg on a lawnmower...?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 4:10:34 PM
It's been months with nothing to post (hmmm... actually my sister got married and we had some more France Telecom trouble - so that's a lie) but I was suddenly inspired to post a totally random thought:
I believe Craig Armstrong may have knowingly worked the theme tune for the Great Egg Race (nerdy science-based British TV game show from the late seventies / early eighties) into the (supposedly) romantic balcony scene of the nineties film version of Romeo and Juliet!
I was just listening to my Craig Armstrong CD here at work - and once again struck by the similarity between the swooping strings at the climax of the balcony scene music and the resonant piano chords at the end of the old TV theme.
So I found the theme music online and had a listen.
...
Now I could be wrong, but it seems to me that Mr. Armstrong may have been playing some kind of joke! A quick search shows I'm the only one that thinks this, though.
Perhaps I'll try putting clips on here some time (but I seem to be too lazy/busy to do any blogging these days, so don't count on it).
I believe Craig Armstrong may have knowingly worked the theme tune for the Great Egg Race (nerdy science-based British TV game show from the late seventies / early eighties) into the (supposedly) romantic balcony scene of the nineties film version of Romeo and Juliet!
I was just listening to my Craig Armstrong CD here at work - and once again struck by the similarity between the swooping strings at the climax of the balcony scene music and the resonant piano chords at the end of the old TV theme.
So I found the theme music online and had a listen.
...
Now I could be wrong, but it seems to me that Mr. Armstrong may have been playing some kind of joke! A quick search shows I'm the only one that thinks this, though.
Perhaps I'll try putting clips on here some time (but I seem to be too lazy/busy to do any blogging these days, so don't count on it).
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P*nutP*Nut # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:51:55 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8peNet8Sg
I cannot divine a similarity sirrah!
Ey up! Here's the balcony scene!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLWPg3SCYH4
Sorry! I can't hear it!!!!!
MossMan # Thursday, March 4, 2010 7:20:11 AM
(listens to first clip)
Ah - that would be because that clip doesn't reach the end of the tune.
This page has some kind of extended single-length version. The bit I'm talking about is at 0:50 and again at 1:52 and 2:29
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Great_Egg_Race_(The).html
Compare that with 8:39 in that Romeo & Juliet clip... it's not exactly the same but it *always* resonates "Egg Race" whenever I hear it.
(Looking at the clip I'm still glad I never saw that film
P*nutP*Nut # Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:26:32 PM
I shall listen to the clip later!
MossMan # Friday, March 5, 2010 11:55:14 AM