Friday, September 8, 2017

The Kenny Everett Show Jingle

To-day I watched two videos about Elgar's Enigma Variations in which it's pointed out that Elgar wrote a variation on the Adagio cantabile of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique Sonata).  It's at about 4:50 in this video:


Here's the notation of the first few bars (found here):


This sounded familiar to me, and it didn't take too long to place it as the jingle from the Kenny Everett show.  I referenced that recording and found that it's in a higher key.  Beethoven's piece (this section, anyway) is in Ab major, but the jingle is in C# major.

The Zombie Heaven liner notes say that the jingle demonstrates "Rod's choirboy background."  There's no information in the liner notes about who wrote the jingle, but its being an adaptation of Beethoven is also relevant to Argent's musical background.

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

"Care of Cell 44" and "Brief Candles"

According to the Zombie Heaven liner notes, fifty years ago to-day (6 September 1967) the Zombies mixed the mono versions of "Care of Cell 44" (still bearing the working title "Prison Song") and "Brief Candles."

Sunday, September 3, 2017

"It's Alright with Me"

For the last couple weeks, I've been intermittently notating the bass part for "It's Alright with Me."  I finally finished it last week.  As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong.  I'm not as confident about the part after the tempo transition (specifically the measure with three quarter notes divided by eighth rests) as I am about everything else.


Saturday, September 2, 2017

"When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes"

Yester-day I happened to think of "When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes," and I realized that there's a significance to the melisma with which "by" in the line "But I just passed her by" is sung.  Instead of a single note, it's sung to three (F# E C#, I think), so there's a musical representation of that movement ("pass[ing]... by").