Martin
1524 posts
Jan 25, 2019
7:44 AM
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I´m sitting in with a band for a few songs this weekend, and the evening´s theme is film music.
Any tips on harmonica stuff, reasonably simple, that I can throw in?
"Midnight cowboy" and "Moon river" are already on the table, as well as part of a soundtrack Toots T did for a Swedish movie back in the 60´s. (You won´t know it if you´re not from this neck of the woods.) Perhaps one more tune is needed.
I was thinking along the lines of something harmonica related, (strong associations to the instrument) and perhaps a bit ... more than those three notes in "Once upon a time in the West".
Doesn´t have to be bluesy, although I´m almost exclusively a diatonic player nowadays and don´t mind "melodic bluesniness" at all.
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Flbl
181 posts
Jan 25, 2019
8:55 AM
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There's a scene in the original Oceans 11, the one from the 1960s, where Sammy Davis Junior is singing and two guy's are playing harmonica, at least one is a chrome never could tell about the other. The tune seems simple enough.
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Gerry
94 posts
Jan 25, 2019
9:08 AM
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Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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groyster1
3305 posts
Jan 25, 2019
11:03 AM
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western with Charles Bronson playing harmonica
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Cotton
107 posts
Jan 25, 2019
3:34 PM
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From the movie "Rio Bravo"
My Rifle, my Pony and me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxgQnoTjrCY
Last Edited by Cotton on Jan 26, 2019 7:41 AM
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SuperBee
5778 posts
Jan 26, 2019
12:02 AM
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that one with Bronson is once up a time in the west? although Bronson is shown with a diatonic, ive heard the tune is played on a chromatic. i havent tried to play his part on a diatonic but i saw a conversation where a fellow was saying how it had frustrated him for years until he realised it was a chromatic
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Martin
1525 posts
Jan 26, 2019
5:58 AM
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Yes, SuperBee, it´s "Once upon a time in the West", and those three notes are played on a chromatic. It´s no bigger deal to fake it on a diatonic -- although he makes some noice with the slide halfway in, IIRC -- but it´s not much of a "tune" to go to town with.
I´m more looking for instrumentals that are sort of spontaneously associated with the harmonica.
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SuperBee
5781 posts
Jan 26, 2019
6:22 AM
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Yes, I saw you mentioned it in OP, but then Groyster mentioned bronson and I wondered if there was more to it or something else.
I think the theme from the good the bad and the ugly sounds like it should be a harmonica; too bad it isn’t
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groyster1
3306 posts
Jan 26, 2019
6:50 AM
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@cotton......the movie you are referring to is rio bravo.....dean martin on vocals,ricky nelson on guitar and vocals and walter brennan on harp
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Cotton
108 posts
Jan 26, 2019
7:43 AM
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Thanks groyster, you are correct.
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Flbl
182 posts
Jan 26, 2019
9:14 AM
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Harry Dean Stanton did a half, harp half singing bit in the movie Kelly's Hero's, can be found about a 20 min into the movie.
And you could get the whole band to howl like a hound dog at the right moment, should get some laughs.
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nacoran
10043 posts
Jan 26, 2019
2:41 PM
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It's a simple riff except for maybe being bent to the floor, but I like the short harp sample in the beginning of the AMC show Preacher.
Googled and found an old thread with some more...
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/1880111.htm
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Thievin' Heathen
1103 posts
Jan 26, 2019
3:12 PM
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Lilies of the Field
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Thievin' Heathen
1105 posts
Jan 26, 2019
3:32 PM
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See "Lilies of The Field"
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Thievin' Heathen
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Jan 26, 2019
3:36 PM
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Why does my Lilies of the Field suggestion keep disappearing?
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Bluejay Gordon
1 post
Jan 27, 2019
3:01 PM
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"Tuff Enough" by the T-Birds from the movie Tough Guys
"Pick a bale of cotton" from the Jerk featuring Sonny Terry.Check out Tommy Morgan's website for a list of the films he worked on.
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jbone
2822 posts
Jan 27, 2019
5:44 PM
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Norton Buffalo played harmonica on a ton of stuff, both movie scores and themes for TV series.
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Buzadero
1337 posts
Jan 28, 2019
12:23 PM
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Sugar Blue plays a very cool tune on the soundtrack to "Angel Heart". Sorry, it's more a jazz-ish film score type of sound than it is "blues", but it is nice harp work.
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LFLISBOA
41 posts
Jan 28, 2019
7:04 PM
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some that I remenber: John Hammond "Little Big Man", Musselwhite "Black Snake Moan", Hugo Diaz "The Counterfeiters", Sonny Terry/John Juke Logan "Crossroads" , Howard Levy "Striptease", and I think "Dances with Wolves" features some harmonica.
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nacoran
10050 posts
Jan 28, 2019
8:14 PM
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"Why does my Lilies of the Field suggestion keep disappearing?"
Spam filter got them. It had been doing so well too. It hadn't gotten anything in a couple weeks.
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OzarkRich
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Feb 02, 2019
12:42 PM
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nowmon
199 posts
Feb 07, 2019
8:31 AM
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Was not "Blues Brothers" a movie.....
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2chops
576 posts
Feb 11, 2019
7:59 AM
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@nowmon....
Sometimes the obvious escapes us.
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jbone
2836 posts
Feb 11, 2019
1:34 PM
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http://www.nortonbuffalo.com/discography.html
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