Does anybody know who wrote the soundtrack? Or where I could find out about it on the net? I've heard it other places too, but I don't know who wrote it/performed it.
shareI don't know, but it was brilliant, a truly INSPIRED choice for this hysterical movie.
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The song you've heard before might be "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding" by Michel LeGrand & his orchestra. They used it several times in My Family and Other Animals, as well as in the promos for it. This song was also used in the 2002 film The Kid Stays In The Picture.
shareThanks. I think this is the tune I'm looking for - its been bugging me for ages.
shareThanks for identifying Di-Gue-Ding-Ding by Michel LeGrand. I heard it used on Heston Blumenthal's cooking show In Search of Perfection and it took me forever to remember in which show I'd heard it.
shareYou're welcome! I love that song too. I found it on an out-of-print compilation CD called In-Flight Entertainment.
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Thanks for ID-ing this. The tune was familiar but it's not noted in the credits, which is careless since it's not by the composer of the other original music.
shareIt was written by Nicholas Hooper but I can't find the soundtrack anywhere either.
sharejust my 2 cents, but i would have enjoyed the movie much more if it wasn't for the constant annoying "playful" music.
shareI'm with you, ruffneck. I found the music to be distracting and annoying. The whole movie was rather juvenile. Not up to Masterpiece Theatre's usual standards.
shareI'm looking up this movie right now because I started to watch it last night with my girlfriend and both of us found the "background" music so persistent, jarring, and distracting that it was impossible to simply watch the movie. We gave up about a third way in.
Anyone who isn't in absolute love with 30's era blaring horns (99.8% of pop.) understand they are to be used very sparingly for effect. This soundtrack, unfortunatly, is dominated by shrill and unsettling sounds (like commercials that erupt too loud) and is overall too repititous and in-your-face as if the audiance couldn't understand or enjoy the mood of the scene without some jangle of sounds constantly directing them.
I wanted to like the movie, and it's unfortunate a soundtrack can derail an entire movie as this did. I can't think of a single other example where the soundtrack made the movie unwatchable.
Of course, that's just us. Some seem to have liked it. As a musician, maybe I'm just more particular.
I'm totally with you. This music was incredibly awful!
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