Dr. Strangelove/Die Hard With a Vengeance music
Jason Haggart
I am looking for the music that was played in Dr. Strangelove
during the bomber sequences. This same music can be found in
Die Hard 3 when Simon is messing around in the bank. It is
known as the ant song. You know "The ants came marching one
by one....". If anyone knows the name of this music or where
it can be found, please mail me.
Thanks Jason.
It is not on the Die Hard 3 Soundtrack.
GLeon61655
The music is based on a traditional song: 'When Johnny Comes Marching
Home'. A version of it appears on the Laurie Johnson compilation CD -
'The Avengers' - on Varese Sarabande VCD47270. It is entitled 'The Bomb
Run' in this case.
However, I'm sure you could find other versions. By the way, in one of
John Barry's first film scores, 'Never Let Go', his arrangement of the
song had new lyrics added by Lionel Bart and it was sung over the closing
credits by Adam Faith. It was a big hit in England!
Geoff Leonard
Peter Briggs
In article <4oj523$i...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
au...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jason Haggart) wrote:
I think you mean "Johnny Comes Marching Home". It's available on all
kinds of sources...my fave being the Laurie Johnson "Avengers" CD
compilation released by varese, which has the Doctor Strangelove track
you're looking for!
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au...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jason Haggart)
:I am looking for the music that was played in Dr. :Strangelove
:during the bomber sequences. This same music can be ;found in
:Die Hard 3 when Simon is messing around in the bank. It :is
:known as the ant song. You know "The ants came marching :one
:by one....". If anyone knows the name of this music or :where
:it can be found, please mail me.
:Thanks Jason.
:It is not on the Die Hard 3 Soundtrack.
The piece here in the USA is called "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
It's a old folk tune.
it appears on "The Avengers" CD on VARESE SARABANDE of film by Laurie
Johnson. The track is called "The Bomb Run" from "Dr.Strangelove".
Try the usual mail order outlets.
Ford A. Thaxton (For...@aol.com)
Robert E. Bowd
Laurie Johnson's arrangement of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
is fine, but my all-time favorite interpolation of this piece is Morton
Gould's 'American Salute'.
Bob Bowd
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John Preisser
I think the ant song is blended in DH3 but does not have the entire song.
BOY DOES Die Hard 3 ever SUCK! The second side of the cassette is just
a copy of the Second film.
Die Hard 1 has some of the best original music (except the ALIENS ripoff
at the end) Why was it never released?
Randy A. Salas
On 1 Jun 1996 19:55:29 GMT,
> Laurie Johnson's arrangement of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
>is fine, but my all-time favorite interpolation of this piece is Morton
>Gould's 'American Salute'.
It must be Michael Kamen's, too, because he borrowed the six-note timpani
riff (the melody that would accompany the words "Johnny comes marching
home") that is unique (or used to be, before Die Hard 3) to American
Salute. To explain further, in American Salute, the entire orchestra is
barreling along on the variations of the popular folk tune. At a certain
climactic point, the entire orchestra stops and the timpani plays that
six-note line. (It's rather ingenious, giving a melody to the timpani, of
all things, at a time when you expect the entire orchestra to play it.)
Kamen's score does the exact same thing at the end of the movie.
Now, I'm not accusing Kamen of plagiarism. The borrowing is too blatant,
I would think, for that. I assume it was a tribute by Kamen to what is
probably the most famous setting of When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Morton
Gould's American Salute. Has anyone read anything--in interviews with
Kamen, perhaps--that shows this was the case?
Randy
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Amin Matalqa
>Now, I'm not accusing Kamen of plagiarism. The borrowing is too blatant,
>I would think, for that. I assume it was a tribute by Kamen to what is
>probably the most famous setting of When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Morton
>Gould's American Salute. Has anyone read anything--in interviews with
>Kamen, perhaps--that shows this was the case?
I'm pretty sure Kamen used that piece because it is already famous (ie same
with Beethoven's ninth for Die HArd 1). It also made the scenes more witty
and interseting to use patriotic American music to underscore some German
terrorist walking all over America as he breaks into Fort Knocks, probably the
ultimate symbol of high tech security in America. The use of When Jonny comes
Marching home was the wittiest thing in the whole movie.
AMin
Peter Briggs
> I'm pretty sure Kamen used that piece because it is already famous (ie same
> with Beethoven's ninth for Die HArd 1). It also made the scenes more witty
> and interseting to use patriotic American music to underscore some German
> terrorist walking all over America as he breaks into Fort Knocks,
probably the
> ultimate symbol of high tech security in America. The use of When Jonny
comes
> Marching home was the wittiest thing in the whole movie.
I disagree! I loved the (also missing) quote from "Ride Of The Valkyries"
underscoring Irons walking into the Gold Exchange.
Ah, to have the PROPER score on disc...!