This is something easily forgotten but your wedding location can be a big arrow toward what song feels right to your video. Was it an intimate setting or something more grand? Was it somewhere adventurous like a national park or something familiar like a family back yard? Was it a beautiful spring day or a snowy winter wonderland? While there are songs that literally mention locations, I like to simply get the idea of it instead and be a bit more subtle.
We did Grease in 2016 - so I was able to grab my file to see what we did to use these songs - here's some info:
Samuel French only holds the stage rights to GREASE - so to license the additional songs, you need to contact Warner/Chapell - and that contact information was in the licensing contract. Warner/Chapell, however, does not send you the sheet music. Samuel French can send copies of You're The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted - for us it was an extra $200.
I received a questionnaire prior to our licensing application being fully accepted -and I had to submit a seating chart of our space (because they charge by the seat, not average sales history). One of the questions was: Will you be requesting permission to perform the movie songs - They are "Grease", "Sandy", "Hopelessly Devoted to You", and "You're the One That I Want"
One of the other documents in th efolder isa "Theatrical License Request Form" for the movie songs - and it says to allow 3-4 weeks for clearance of requests.
Hope this helps a bit! I will say that Grease was the most expensive show we ever produced for licensing costs and rental materials, etc (not production costs like costumes, lumber). Contract costs were over $9000 - we did 5 performances, and we have an 1100 seat house, tickets were $6-9. But we had to rent additional chorus books for $10 per person. Buy the script books for dialogue from SF. License additional songs through Warner/Chapell. It felt like a lot of nickel-and-diming because there are so many factors to take into consideration.
For years, I said that we'd never to do Grease - and that if we ever did, it would be because we either needed more community support for our program, or more money. At the time, we needed both. When everyone asks WHY? - I bring up the themes of the storyline - smoking, drinking, Rizzo's situation, Sandy changing to please a guy... it has toe-tapping music, but the messages are mixed at best. We did cover our costs - but we didn't sell out the place.
But if your audience members are like mine - they will want what they see on stage to closely resemble the movie - so we felt we needed to add those songs.
We did Grease in 2016 - so I was able to grab my file to see what we did to use these songs - here's some info:
Samuel French only holds the stage rights to GREASE - so to license the additional songs, you need to contact Warner/Chapell - and that contact information was in the licensing contract. Warner/Chapell, however, does not send you the sheet music. Samuel French can send copies of You're The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted - for us it was an extra $200.
I received a questionnaire prior to our licensing application being fully accepted -and I had to submit a seating chart of our space (because they charge by the seat, not average sales history). One of the questions was: Will you be requesting permission to perform the movie songs - They are "Grease", "Sandy", "Hopelessly Devoted to You", and "You're the One That I Want"
One of the other documents in th efolder isa "Theatrical License Request Form" for the movie songs - and it says to allow 3-4 weeks for clearance of requests.
Hope this helps a bit! I will say that Grease was the most expensive show we ever produced for licensing costs and rental materials, etc (not production costs like costumes, lumber). Contract costs were over $9000 - we did 5 performances, and we have an 1100 seat house, tickets were $6-9. But we had to rent additional chorus books for $10 per person. Buy the script books for dialogue from SF. License additional songs through Warner/Chapell. It felt like a lot of nickel-and-diming because there are so many factors to take into consideration.
For years, I said that we'd never to do Grease - and that if we ever did, it would be because we either needed more community support for our program, or more money. At the time, we needed both. When everyone asks WHY? - I bring up the themes of the storyline - smoking, drinking, Rizzo's situation, Sandy changing to please a guy... it has toe-tapping music, but the messages are mixed at best. We did cover our costs - but we didn't sell out the place.
But if your audience members are like mine - they will want what they see on stage to closely resemble the movie - so we felt we needed to add those songs.
Parr and David Foster originally wrote this anthem about getting older and facing hardship for paralyzed athlete Rick Hansen, who circled the world in a wheelchair on what was called the Man in Motion Tour. The single spent two weeks at No. 1 following the success of the Brat Pack film. Listen here.
It seems odd that this Oklahoma R&B group would have a hit featured in a gritty big city drama starring Wesley Snipes and Ice T, but strange things happen in New Jack City. This mid-tempo jam rose to just shy of the top of the chart. Listen here.
For a bit of meta theater, Eminem wrote and performed this song about the his 8 Mile character B-Rabbit, a fictional take on the struggles of the real-life Marshall Mathers. The track, written on the movie set, won the best original song Oscar and two Grammys. Listen here.
The last song penned for the film, Prince wrote this Purple Rain track overnight to match a scene in the movie. On top of that, he played played every instrument on the recording, which became the first and biggest single from an incredible soundtrack. Listen here.
Written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman with Marvin Hamlisch, Barbra Streisand recorded this enduring ballad for the romantic movie of the same name, in which she starred opposite Robert Redford. Listen here.
Originally the film producers wanted a period appropriate song with lutes and lyres. When they heard the finished product they panicked and hid it away at the halfway point of the closing credits, not realising what a worldwide smash they had on their hands.
By the mid-90s the name Bryan Adams had started to become synonymous with power ballads and blockbuster action adventures. However, his next collaboration with Michael Kamen was a fairly leftfield choice.
Adams would work just once more with Michael Kamen on a track called When You Love Someone (co-written with folk singer Gretchen Peters), which featured in the 1998 Sandra Bullock vehicle Hope Floats. The song was used as one of his new tracks for his critically acclaimed MTV Unplugged album.
Neither song won that night. It was You Must Love Me, a new track from the film version of Evita that went home victorious. Personally, my hopes were pinned on The Wonders with That Thing You Do!
Here I Am was recorded twice: an orchestral version for a specific scene in the film and another more pop oriented take for the end credits. This version also became a successful single and is easily my favorite song on this entire list.
Adams wrote (again with Gretchen Peters and Eliot Kennedy who contributed to one of the songs in Spirit) and performed five songs for the film. The soundtrack CD has since been deleted and has become something of a holy grail for Bryan Adams fans.
Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a 2015 American independent coming-of-age Native American drama tragedy[2] film written and directed by Chlo Zhao in her feature film directorial debut, and produced by Zhao and Forest Whitaker. Developed at the Sundance Institute workshops, the film, set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, explores the bond between a Lakota Sioux brother and his younger sister.
The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section.[3] It was later screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it received a nomination for the Camra d'Or Award for best first feature film.[4]
Sister and brother Jashaun and John Winters live with their mother Lisa (Irene Bedard) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. John helps support his family by illegally distributing alcohol to fellow residents. He is about to graduate from high school and plans to leave the reservation to go to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Aurelia (Taysha Fuller). Nervous about leaving, he visits his imprisoned brother, Cody, who urges John to leave.
The siblings' father, Carl Winters, dies in an accidental house fire, and they attend his funeral with their mother. Carl's funeral is crowded, as he had 25 children with 9 women. At the funeral the children talk amongst themselves; some chose not to take Carl's name as he was not around for most of their lives.
John goes to the caf where Aurelia works, taking Jashaun with him. Getting bored while waiting for them, Jashaun goes to the back of the caf where she overhears them talking about moving away together.
Jashaun decides to get a job helping Travis, an artist newly freed from prison, sell his wares. Travis tells her that the reason the number 7 keeps recurring is because of its religious and cultural significance, and also because Crazy Horse said that everything ended at Wounded Knee Massacre but would begin again in the 7th generation, Jashaun's generation.
John breaks the news to Aurelia's family that he is moving to be with her, but they are unimpressed as he will have no place to live and no job. While out on an alcohol run, John is attacked by rival bootleggers and his truck is set on fire.
Jashaun goes to Travis' home but learns that, while drunk, he and a friend's father beat each other up and were arrested. She goes to her first rodeo where she runs into one of her half-brothers, Kevin Winters, who lets her ride their father's favorite horse, Sundance. Kevin tells her that despite growing up in the same home as his parents, they were seldom there, spending all their time at rodeos.
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