MovieChat Forums > The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) Discussion > BUTTERFLY MORNING! ARGH!!!!

BUTTERFLY MORNING! ARGH!!!!

posted 11 years ago by bhobnine
8 replies | jump to latest

I keep seeing threads where they praise this movies music.

Maybe I'm not that easily amused but I found

BUTTERFLY MORNING groan inducing!

Not bad enough to hear some mediocre folk singer do it,

but then had to have Stella Stevens have a go at it, poorely,

and next thing I know Jason Robards is DOING A DUET!

Why Sam? WHY?

Take a listen to Morricone's stuff that preceded this movie.

THATS HOW YOU DO IT.

I know they call it ballad of Cable Hogue,

but maybe they should have hired somebody decent to write their ballads.

Sorry folks, gonna disagree with the muzak lovers here.

"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

Jerry Goldsmith doesn`t qualify as "somebody decent"?

But, yeah, it was kinda corny and grating.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] bhobnine 11 years ago

Jerry Goldsmith, who is indeed 'somebody decent'

did write the score, but did NOT write

BUTTERFLY MORNING,

that chunk of corny and grating was written by the folksy dude

who DID write Butterfly morning and all the other lyrical

mis-adventures on that soundtrack,

a guy by the name of Richard Gillis.

"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

Guess we`ll have to let Jerry off the hook, then; I do recall thinking, when this mush first came on, that it can`t possibly be written by Goldsmith... However, he seemed to have been credited for the songs as well.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] bhobnine 11 years ago

Maybe Jerry helped write the music behind those DEEP lyrics ;)

I also cant imagine the guy who scored Planet of the Apes, Patton, and THE OMEN,

to be diddling on the piano while Richard Gillis was crooning those words.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"

[–] funkyfry 9 years ago

Richard Gillis was a guy who went to USC at the same time as Peckinpah and was considered a talented writer.... not so crazy about his music either tho.....

Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'

[–] dspear7777 11 years ago

Maybe the music seems better to those who figure what it means. For instance, I think Butterfly Morning refers to Hildy being a butterfly, and flying away to San Francisco the morning after she makes Cable and Joshua sleep outside. But then she brings Cable in because she really loves him, even just before she must fly away. Appropriate music. As far as the singing quality goes, as Pete Seeger once said, it's good enough for folk music.

[–] Local Hero 8 years ago

What struck me personally about that song was not that it was saccharine or grating -- more that it felt anachronistic to me, just as so many Westerns of the late 60s and 70s put in music that fits the sensibilities of the day, thinking it's timeless folk music, but within ten years it already sounds timebound and dated.

And I say that as someone who rather likes a lot of folk music of every era.

[–] Jimbo_BSD 8 years ago

I muted the song every time it came on. I couldn't sit through it. It was terrible. Can't believe the positive comments I've seen about the song on this board.