Top Greatest Movie Soundtracks

Re:Top Greatest Movie Soundtracks by WalterBright on Saturday May 10, 2025 @05:09PM (#43949020)

I'd have listed Victory At Sea, but it was the score for a TV documentary series, not a movie.

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Re:Top Greatest Movie Soundtracks by k310 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:33PM (#43949557)

You can hear "Beneath the southern cross" at the archive, part of Victory at Sea. Track #7.

https://archive.org/details/VictoryAtSeaVolumeI/07_Beneath+t...

BONUS: No Other Love - Richard Rodgers (same tune)

https://www.irealb.com/forums/showthread.php?20230-No-Other-...

> The tune for No Other Love was originally part of Richard Rodgers' score for the acclaimed 1952 TV war documentary series Victory at Sea. In the orchestral suite compiled from the score the piece was titled Beneath the Southern Cross.

> In 1953, Rodgers "borrowed" his own tune and included it in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Me and Juliet as No Other Love, with lyrics by Hammerstein.

> It was a hit tune for Perry Como:

> It was even recorded by Jay and the Americans:

About "Me and Juliet"

https://www.classicalsource.com/concert/rodgers-hammersteins...

https://rodgersandhammerstein.com/me-and-juliet-synopsis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Juliet

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Re:Top Greatest Movie Soundtracks by WalterBright on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:54PM (#43949680)

Wow, nice links! I have all three albums of it.

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