Musical Notation: Epic Comedies
In this episode, West plays music from five epic comedies from the mid-1950’s to the mid-1960’s.
Music in this episode includes:
“Main Titles” from Around The World In Eighty Days (1956); composed by Victor Young
“Main Title” and “Away We Go” from It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); composed by Ernest Gold
“Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines” from Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965); music by Ron Goodwin, lyrics by Lorraine Williams
“Overture” from The Hallelujah Trail (1965); composed by Elmer Bernstein
“Main Title”, “Enter Professor Fate” and “They’re Off” from The Great Race (1965); composed by Henry Mancini