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Our Relations: The Lost Laurel & Hardy Music
Beau Hunks
Our Relations: The Lost Laurel & Hardy Music
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks
 
  •  Track Listings (24) - Disc #1

Composer Leroy Shields played piano, led radio orchestras, penned semiclassical works, and, for a few years in the 1930s, wrote music for Hollywood. The Beau Hunks, a Dutch ensemble, have lovingly reconstructed Shield's sc...  more »

     
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All Artists: Beau Hunks
Title: Our Relations: The Lost Laurel & Hardy Music
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Basta Records
Release Date: 4/17/2001
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks
Style: Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 723724088924, 8712530910224

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Composer Leroy Shields played piano, led radio orchestras, penned semiclassical works, and, for a few years in the 1930s, wrote music for Hollywood. The Beau Hunks, a Dutch ensemble, have lovingly reconstructed Shield's score for Our Relations, a 1936 comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. Members of the Beau Hunks, joined by the Metropole Orchestra, perform the original sheet music for the film on this finely packaged and annotated CD. If you're a fan of old movies and some of this disc sounds vaguely familiar, there's a reason. Back in the '30s music editors cut up recordings of Shields's original score into manageable bits; some of the resulting parts were then used in Our Relations and other films as well. On another note, it turns out that Shields's music can be tough to play. According to the album's liner notes, the longest track, "On the Dock," prompted Jan Stulen, the conductor on these sessions, to say, "Compared to this, Mahler's Ninth is like a flute sonata." --Fred Cisterna
 

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j. van der schaaf | Aalsmeer, NH Netherlands | 04/06/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the official, complete soundtrack to the Laurel & Hardy movie OUR RELATIONS. A 44-page booklet contains never-before-published photographs, and liner notes by Richard W. Bann. A must have for fans of the Laurel & Hardy Music Boxset by The Beau Hunks."
OUTSTANDING
Nancy Beiman | Ontario, Canada | 08/20/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Another winner from the Beau Hunks. if you like Laurel and Hardy and like film music, this is a must-have album. An added bonus: a terrific brochure and history by Laurel and Hardy scholar Richard Bann."