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Topic: Is this an original or a cover song? |
Joachim Kettner
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Posted 22 Sep 2011 5:29 am |
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I wonder. It's a scene from the movie "Local Hero" with Burt Lancaster.
The band plays this song right at the beginning.
The singer goes: "Even the lonestar state gets lonesome, lonesome for a a lonestar man like me".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xfH2V3jE0&feature=related
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 22 Sep 2011 6:30 am
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Under Original Music, Mark Knopfler is credited with all the songs in Local Hero.
Local Hero (writer: "The Rocks and the Water", "Wild Theme", "Freeway Flyer", "Boomtown Variation Louis' Favourite", "The Way it Always Starts", "The Rocks and the Thunder", "The Ceilidh and the Northern Lights", "The Ceilidh: Louis' Favourite/Billy's Tune", "Whistle Theme", "Smooching", "Stargazer", "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" / performer: "The Rocks and the Water", "Wild Theme", "Freeway Flyer", "The Way it Always Starts", "Whistle Theme", "Smooching", "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" / "Local Hero", "The Mist Covered Mountains")
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mark+knopfler+local+hero&aq=f |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 22 Sep 2011 7:40 am
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Since I don't have the soundtrack album, I can't say for sure, but I don't believe the pub scene with it's music was included. Since the song only consists of a chorus it may have been done only to accomodate the action of the movie. Well may be it was Mark Knopfler's idea.
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Barry Blackwood
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 22 Sep 2011 9:31 am
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Thanks Barry,
now I know the name of the song and that it has a verse too!
Someone in the comments suspected that the director of the movie wrote the song:
I think the melody or tune is based on "Send Me the Pillow that You Dream On," which is an old song from the 1940s or '50s. The lyric has probably been written by the film-maker, since the end of the first verse: "But someday, when my roaming days are over, I will find a place to call my own;" and the second verse ends: "Lonesome for a Lone Star Man like me." Texas is known as the "Lone Star" state. It is no coincidence that "Mac" appears as Victor is singing, or the lady hugs Victor's jacket.
I remember seeing this film on TV and immediatly loved this song.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 22 Sep 2011 9:37 am
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Cool movie as well.  |
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Ben Elder
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Posted 23 Sep 2011 7:06 pm
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As the soundtrack's (and possibly the movie, too) greatest fan, I can assure you that it's not on there. In the understated whimsical style of the movie overall, it's the trademark country anthem of Victor, the Russian fisherman, who apparently times his visits to the village to coincide with their ceilidhs.
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