Tutti who? Did what? lol Im talking about a guy who was active in the
music biz in the 60's and back...He was a producer and arranger for
Walt Disney Productions and did some versions of Disney songs. Right
now, Im focusing on "For NOw, For Always"...the love theme from the
original 1960 "Parent Trap".
Tutti Camarata(May 11, 1913 - April 13, 2005) Arranged and conducted a wonderful choral/orchestra version of this tune in the early 60's realeased on Buena Vista Records, Walt's recording arm.
Hey, the guy could write an arrangement! Here he gives that elite Disney sound with Strings, Horns, Woodwinds, and the great Disney Chorus sound. To say he was a genius in music would be very accurate!
I can hear some of the Disney alumni singers in there, NAmely Thurl Ravenscropft singing bass...Lets see, Im especially enamored of the instruemtal opening...with midrange strings starting out plaintively, that repeating the melody an octave higher in the 2nd bar....(they go high...)then some 4 dramatic chord progressions that lead into the main vocal. The whole thing is first rate from the opening note to the last part ending with that Snow White sound orchestrally...Acknowledgement goes to the unknown orchestrator that fleshed out Tutti's sketch...probably Bobby Hammack or Walter Sheets.
This is a "lost" sound..but Im glad I found it on youtube, and you can hear it also...
here's the link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWUgTJ1kqc
Warning....The song is very adult sounding and romantic...if you like old time love ballads you will love it, otherwise skip it!
Saturday, April 09, 2011
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It's very interesting everything you stated. I also used to watch Clint Walker....but most resently I have dvr'd him and though watched Cheyenne as a kid of 8yrs of age, I am really loving the music and stories (not so much when they make the Indians out to be bad). I too have taken to Wm Lava's theme...It was the best ever when they actually allowed the full minute themes to prevail. It's fun to see with the dvr how staged the punches, sound effects being off etc. But it is more the production, the amount of effort put into the many different sets or locations used. What a magnificent show it truly was and there has neve been a better one since in my opinion for what they had to work with at the time. All the scripts and blocking, camera angles..absolutley astonishingly well done for it's time. The rigorous schedules they were under. Yep, and all through it Walker gave us that wonderful, together down to earth human of a persona. To tie this all together I had been searching on Wm Lava as you did. However I was looking for a little more about but hit road blocks...a little bit about his family, how he died, things like that. Thanks for your great take on William Lava....He and Mr.
ReplyDeleteWalker made the show what it is...not just a cowboy show, but a great show feal good about.