Yes, of course, but can you really think of another movie were they just lifted the theme from another movie, in this case made just a few years earlier? And I'm not talking about just ripping off, like with "Lord of the Rings" but actually reusing ;-)
"Rock Around The Clock" leaps to mind, actually. It was orignally the theme to a 1955 flick called BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, and has been used to open at least two other films. So does "To Sir With Love", although I can't remember the second film it was used to open. And the Trenet "La mer" was originally a theme to a 30s Trenet movie but was used to beautiful effect as the opening of LA STORY.
Lets blame it on Hal Wilner. He seems able to destroy anything he gets his
hands on. What a shame.
Willner's pretty brilliant, in my opinion, and in the opinions of just about any musicians he's ever worked with.
I always figured he must be a realyl nice guy, or something :-) I never heard his solo album, even though I heard it should be great, but his all star projects like the Harry Parch one, and even worse the Disney one always fell like a big waste of time to me.
Cheers.
I love the Disney. Steve Swallow backing James Taylor was gorgeous, and the Replacements, NRBQ, Los Lobos, and Ken Nordine are never a waste of time. The Yma Sumac cut was great as well. Hal is a pretty brilliant producer -- the way he puts combinations of players together is a gift and a half (as in the case of the Sanborn album he produced), and his ability to find the right tune for the right artist (I'm thinking Carla Bley's "8 1/2") is really special. There's a Partch one? Other than some of the instrumentation on the Mingus one? skip h