The Chipmunks were named Alvin (after Liberty Owner Alvin Bennett), Theodore
(after engineer Ted Keep) and Simon (after Si Waronker who also worked at
Liberty).
Armen's theme also resurfaced as a Chipmunks song "I Wish I Could Speak
French" and Bobby Vee's "Yesterday and You."
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:04:02 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <bcleve@pop.tiac.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hurry To Me
At 6:22 PM -0500 4/1/00, RLott@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/1/00 4:14:30 PM, knucklehead000@yahoo.com writes:
>
><< Roy Budd does a song that shows up on some Sequel
>comps that he calls Hurry To Me. Apparently it's
>written by Morricone. Anyone know what film this is
>from and what the Italian name may be?
>Also, maybe where to find a version of it by him? >>
>
>I don't recall the film, but it can be found in its original Morricone glory
>on the excellent comp "Mondo Morricone" (Colosseum Records).
The film is called "Metti Una Sera A Cena", the soundtrack of which was
just reissued recently (by DagoRed I believe). Dusty Groove has it.
The track was covered recently by the fab Italian bossa group Balanco, and
remixed by both Jazzanova and by Fez File. All are superb.
br cleve
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Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 22:01:22 -0800
From: "paul thomas" <hepcatpaul@mailcity.com>
Subject: (exotica) Dali (was cartoons and drugs)
...and Salvador Dali. But neither of them lasted
more than a couple of months at the studio and the projects they
worked on didn't amount to anything. I've spoken to a lot of
animators who were there at the time, and none of them ever saw
Dali on the lot.
When I was taking photography courses there was a cartooning/animation teacher who had worked with Disney and Tex Avery too. He was with Disney when Dali was engaged to develope a cartoon. Apparently Dali was everywhere but at the drawing board (Dali was probably out walking his ocelots) and this got to be a problem at Disney studios. Finally, they tracked Dali down and said to him "we've done everything imaginable to get you here and you haven't done a thing. What's up?" Dali hemmed and hawed and finally said 'Well,it's the paper you've given me." "What's wrong with the paper? It's the same as everyone else is using" "Yes, but it's all those little holes down the side of the paper...those holes make the paper so beautiful I couldn't possibly ruin it by drawing on it!" That, apparently, was the last of Dali at Disney.
My father worked in the gemstone business in Los Angeles in the mid Fifties and had Dali come into the store with a huge ruby which he wanted fixed up with a series of lights that would pulsate like a beating heart. It would've ruined the stone and my father said "are you kidding?"
