Conference marvin::uk_music

    >I was wondering how the oldie Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton got to be #3 on
    >the top ten singles list in England according to Rolling Stone magazine.

    So was I !  I'm told it was used on a TV commercial for Nivea.
    The other oldie you are probably referring to is Unchained Melody
    by the Righteous Brother from the film Ghost (the bit where everyone
    cries).

    I understand that American songs and other items from the 1950's and 
    early 1960s' are popular now in Europe. 
    
    After all, Gene Pitney's career didn't end in America in the 60's - he
    went on to the UK and was popular there; probably still is.
     

    Its interesting that one lot of people associate Blue Velvet with
    general ooohhh aaahhh niceness and old grannies, and another lot of
    people associate it with oxygen crazed maniacs who go around murdering
    pople horribly.
    
    Sort of thing that keeps me going.
    
    Mikef

    Mike
    
    I saw an interview with Dennis Hopper on Monday, it wasn't supposed to
    be oxygen but Amyl Nitrate, something very different in deed.
    
    Good film though
    
    Tim
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    apologies...I read that it was oxygen he was breathing thru the mask.
    Whatever, I glad they don't put it in the coffee!
    
    love that movie.
    
    Mikef (Bookhouse Boys are back in town)

    
    For the person that asked - It is due to the relese of Blue Velvet on
    video I believe.  Blue Velevet is a sado-masochistic film which came
    out a few years ago.
    
    As Mike said, it's a great film.

    The reason for the release of that awful piece of dross was the Nivea
    advert as an earlier reply said NOT due to the excellent film of the
    same name.(source of information was a friend who works in Listen and
    has to sell that sort of cr*p)
    
                       STRETCH
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also the song in the film was not sung by bobby vincent

    Who sung it then?  It sounds exactly the same to me.
    
    Mikef

    
    Well, Bobby was on Wogan last week sometime (I wasn't watching it
    honest, I just turned over) and he said that the re-release was due to
    Blue Velvet.  He didn't mention anything about a Nivea advert (I
    haven't even seen it yet).
    
    Right, who's turn is it to phone up companies and find out?
    
    Paul

It must be because of the Nivea advert.  The sleeve for the single has the girl
from the ad on it.  I quite like the song but I detest the way it's been sold to
us.  Any second now old Bobby will release his greatest hits L.P. on us, just in
time for the Christmas cash-in.  Mind you, I don't suppose the wave of adulation
that David Lynch is getting at the moment is going to hurt its sales.

...and whilst on the subject: David Lynch; Is he having us on or what?  Twin
Peaks is nothing more than a parody of a soap opera and Wild at Heart should
have been named `A Bloody Cheek'.

There, that's my five minutes of hate over, where's my Nivea?

Lee.

    Lee
    
    I thought "Wild at heart" was an excellent film.
    Very clever how he included the characters references to Elvis and 
    Monroe on top of the constant links to "The Wizard of Oz"  
    Beautifully shot as well.
    
    The MUSIC to it was ACE .
    
    Do we have a film sound-track note??
    
    David

    Twin Peaks was meant to be a 'perverted soap opera', which is probably
    why it seems like one.
    
    So Bobby did sing the movie version?  or not?
    
    Mikef

    The promotional single holders have the Nivea music written on them
    nothing to do with the film.As i said in a previous note i know a guy
    that works at Listen (in fact we live in the same house) and whenever
    an advert comes on with a piece of music we wonder wether it is going
    to become a single or not(pretty worrying considering some of the cr*p
    music used in ads)
    
                      STRETCH
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                      (P.N.P.T)-PAY NO POLL TAX!!!!
    

    Well whilst on the subject of advertising, does anyone know who is
    responsible for the music to the Evian advert, you know, the one with a
    scantily dressed woman, and even scantilier dressed man, a mountaineer
    of indeterminate sex and a ballerina with a windy red tutu all balanced
    unbelievably on a plastic Evian bottle.
    
    Also the Nurofen advert, the one with the head made out of women's
    bodies, one of whom appears to be trying to clean the head's ear out
    with a mop. 
    
    Trev

Isn't the nurofen one `That great gig in the Sky' from Pink Floyd's `Dark Side
of the Moon'?  I beleive there's two versions of this ad now, but at least one
of them has this tune on it.

Can't wait for the compilation LP!

Lee

    Doesn't the other one use Etude, by Mike Oldfield?  This tune
    originally appeared on the Killing Fields soundtrack.
    
    Mikef

    It is on the Killing Fields soundtrack - I was listening to it the
    other night wandering where I'ld heard it before.
    
    Paul.
    

    Thanks all.  It was the Mike Oldfield one I was referring to, I
    thought it sounded like one of his tunes but haven't yet heard the
    Killing Fields soundtrack.  Now about the Evian advert...?
    
    Trev

    Actually, its a tune that MO pinched out of a spanish guitar tutor
    book, and it appeared in a slightly different form on his 1982 tour. 
    He told me this over a cup of coffee...
    
    Mikef (namedrop?  me?)
    
    ps.  I met Paul Amann once as well!