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ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos · 30 days

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Unmute the loop!

#Marx Brothers #Chico #Chico Marx #At the Circus #piano #polk #audio loop #video loop #loop

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friendlessghoul · 24 days

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Buster Keaton (writer, uncredited), Groucho Marx, and Chico Marx during the making of "At the Circus" (1939)

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peaceinthestorm · 7 months

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French) ~ Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879

#edgar degas #degas #french art #rope acrobat #at the circus

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dyaddu · 4 months

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Aww! This wasn't on my bingo card for 2023 🤡

#adam driver #at the circus #he took the kids #and the glasses make another appearance #bless him

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coolcherrycream · 1 year

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The other night, I was watching The Marx Brothers movie At the Circus (1939). There’s a scene where a character named Mrs. Dukesbury is throwing a party. As she enters the room, there’s some music playing (about 1:08:30 into the movie), and it sounded awfully familiar. I soon realized it was the same song that plays in Head when the Italian army surrenders to Micky (about 21:35 into the movie, or at 5:01 in this video).

I always kind of figured this song was Italy’s national anthem, but after listening to it, I now know it is not. Unfortunately, IMDb didn’t have a credit for that song in either At the Circus or Head, so I started looking through my Monkees resources to find out what it was.

SOTCAA contains an analysis of Head’s original script, but the script didn’t seem to mention the music in that scene. The analysis mentions the song:

A delightful patriotic march from Ken Thorne - which sounds like he was channeling some kind of John Wayne movie score - accompanies their collective surrender.

The Monkees, Head, and the ’60s had this to say about the scene:

...while the deeper meaning of this little interlude may be lost on a contemporary audience, the point isn’t - lest we miss it, a slice of faux-Italianate opera sings out over the scene until the last soldier lopes by. (pg. 176-177)

I couldn’t find any reference to the song in The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story (although, to be fair, I didn’t look through all 739 pages), The Monkees Film & TV Vault’s Head page, or the Monkee Magic Head review. So it would seem the identity of this song isn’t currently well-known in the Monkees community.

Next, I tried using some websites that claimed to be able to identify songs by uploading a snippet, and after a few sites failed to identify it, one gave me the answer:

Triumphal March (Marcia trionfale) from the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

Coincidentally, Micky appeared in the musical Aida from 2000-2004.

The only other online reference I found to this song and the Monkees was a comment on Reddit from a few months ago. Anyway, IMDb’s Head soundtrack page has now been updated, so the identity of this song shouldn’t be such a mystery any more.

#the monkees #head #at the circus #the marx brothers #ken thorne #aida #giuseppe verdi

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 8 months

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#At the Circus #Groucho Marx #Chico Marx #Harpo Marx #Kenny Baker #Florence Rice #Eve Arden #Margaret Dumont #Nat Pendleton #Edward Buzzell #1939

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ronanwhitehouse · 27 days

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Growing up, my Aunt Karen used to sing me and my cousins the song “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady”. It was written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen and probably most famously sung by Groucho Marx in the 1939 movie “At the Circus.” I love it! It’s very silly and a little wink-wink dirty (“Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon” might mean something else 😂) Also, it was Jim Henson’s favorite song which is delightful to know.