Happy Hump Day! Yesterday was National Film Score Day.
On April 3, National Film Score Day recognizes the musical masterpieces called “Film Scores” and, more specifically, the very talented composers who create them.
It’s my kind of day, since I love movie music. To celebrate, I’m posting music from the most recent Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy winners for film and TV scores and title songs.
First, the Academy Award winner for Original Score, the theme from “The Shape of Water” as performed at the BAFTA Awards this year.
Cirque du Soleil’s OVO inspired by the film ‘Shape of Water’.
Next, from this year’s Grammy winner, “Another Day of Sun” from “La La Land.” This also happens to be last year’s Oscar winner.
During the opening credits, the movie we are viewing is said to have been filmed in CINEMASCOPE (like the old-time musicals) and then the screen expands from box format to wide. We find ourselves on the 105/110 interchange in Los Angeles. People listen to various forms of music in their cars. Then one woman gets out of her vehicle and starts singing ANOTHER DAY OF SUN to the camera (à la a musical), a song about how great it is being in sunny California. Someone else exits his car and joins her. Pretty soon, everyone has left their car and is singing the song while dancing in the street or on the cars that are parked via the traffic jam, everything synchronized for the full-length musical number. Another Day of Sun
Music by Justin Hurwitz
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Performed by Nicholai Baxter, Marius De Vries, Briana Lee, Angela Parrish, and Sam Stone
Now I want to watch the movie.
Follow over the jump for videos of Emmy winning TV music from last season.
The winner of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music at last year’s Emmy Awards was “Stranger Things.” It also won Outstanding Main Title Design. Two for one! Here is the winning title sequence and theme song.
The Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) went to Jeff Beal, the only Emmy for “House of Cards” this year. To celebrate, I’m sharing two selections from the fifth season of “House of Cards.” First, House Of Cards, Chapter 63 “Saved My Life” by Jeff Beal.
Next, the fifth season’s version of the series theme song.
Once again, I’m concluding the diary proper by quoting Don Durito.
For those of you wondering how I and Neon Vincent are circumventing Sucuri to embed videos, here is an example of the embed code we use, so that you can replicate as wanted:
Just remember that each unique 11-digit video code in YouTube needs to be pasted in two separate locations within the embed code in order for your video to show up properly. So easy that I can do it!
With those instructions, feel free to post your favorite music videos in the comments.
For today’s drink, I’m serving Suicide Squad Shots from Tipsy Bartender. I chose these because ‘Suicide Squad’ led Grammy nominations in music for visual media in 2016 with five, three for “Heathens” by 21 Pilots, which played over the end credits, and one each for “Purple Lamborghini” and the soundtrack compilation album.
The Bartender is taking requests.
Delish has its own recipes for Suicide Squad Shots that I included in Drinks for criminal clowns at my personal blog two years ago. First, Harley Quinn.
Now, The Joker.
I’m not done yet. Stay tuned for two more tomorrow.
Actually just one. I’m saving the last two for tomorrow.
DrunkenFandom.com, a site I’m surprised I haven’t run into until now, has its own Harley Quinn cocktail.
Now, Joker Gone Wild!
That’s enough drinks for criminal clowns. I’ll have something different tomorrow.
I mentioned that “Suicide Squad” had five Grammy nominations two years ago. Here they are from Billboard.
This is only one of three nominations for “Heathens,” the others being Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. Here is Heathens (from Suicide Squad: The Album).
“Heathens” is joined by my second favorite song from the movie, “Purple Lamborghini,” which features Jared Leto as the Joker. He looks like he came right out of “Batman: The Animated Series.” That’s appropriate, as that’s where Harley Quinn got her start.
I’ll be back with the winner tomorrow.
The song that won the year that “Suicide Squad” had five Grammy nominations was “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” Official Movie Clip. Dance in celebration with the trolls!
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I commemorated the occasion at my personal blog by posting the performance of “Glory” at the 87th Academy Awards. The song won the Golden Globe, Academy Award, and Grammy.
Common has not only won the Oscar and Grammy for “Glory,” he won the Emmy last year for “Letter To The Free” from “13th.”
All he needs to do now is start writing stage musicals for him to be eligible for a Tony. If he does that, it will be a race between him and Lin Manuel Miranda to see who gets the EGOT first.
Thanks for this. I had a crazy busy week with yet another on the way. Such is life. Hopefully things calm down later this month. At least my taxes are finally done.
Thanks for dropping by.
“I had a crazy busy week with yet another on the way.”
I’ll plan on posting Vol. 60 on Wednesday, then.
Jeff Beal may have won for “House of Cards,” but it wasn’t his music I was rooting for. Instead, it was the music from “Planet Earth II” by Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, and Jasha Klebe. Watch and listen as Hans Zimmer Brings The ‘Planet Earth II’ Soundtrack To The Late Show.
One of my favorite Emmy-nominated TV show scores was for the Showtime series “Penny Dreadful.” The first season, both the theme song and score for one of the episodes were nominated.
First, Penny Dreadful Main Title Sequence, set to “Demimonde,” one of the 2015 Emmy nominees for Best Original Opening Theme.
Next, the nominee for Best Original Composition for a Dramatic Score, Closer Than Sisters.
I quite agreed with the choice; it was the best piece on the soundtrack for the first season. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking, especially if one has seen not only the episode it’s from but the entire first season. The story of the “sisters” in question is downright tragic and the music reflects it.