Georgy Girl incidental music

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Watched the strange and wonderful "Georgy Girl" and was struck by the bloopy-bleepy electronic music on the soundtrack -- there's an early scene with Vanessa Redgrave as Georgy playing this music for a group of day-care kids she's watching, and they all dance around pretending to be robots.

Brian Hunter is credited with "children's dance music" on the score, but I'm not sure if he's responsible for the electronic sound bits. Anybody know anything about this? Is it on the soundtrack album. Is there any more?

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE that bit ... "You're things is space!" I almost used it as a sample.

No more info I'm afraid, but you may like Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch - no electronics, but loads of avant garde vibes. Have you heard Pierre Henry's Messe Pour Le Temps Present?

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

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― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I love Out To Lunch, but never would have made that connection.

I'm less familiar with Henry -- have heard Ceremony, but not Messe Pour Le Temps Present. I was kind of hoping the Georgy Girl music would be something like that -- a bit of some longer, well-known piece that I could potentially find somewhere.

Actually, I don't even know if there's a proper soundtrack album to the movie -- all I've ever seen is the Seekers album with the title song.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Jim Dale (of Carry On fame) actually write the song 'Georgy Girl'? So who knows, maybe he did the bloops? Maybe he was mates with Delia Derbyshire. Realise this is probably the wrong answer, but it's the answer I wish was true.

― Neil Kulkarni, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Dale co-wrote it with Tom Springfield (Dusty's brother). Great song, but I somehow doubt either of those guys were responsible for the bloops.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago)

"The Bloomps"

― Pangolino Again, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Delia Derbyshire seconded - the BBC Radiophonic Music album is a must, esp. the John Baker Stuff.

Have you heard the 3/4 Jim Dale version of Georgy Girl?

Re '60s soundtracks, Manfred Mann's Up The Junction ... bloody 'ell, it's good!

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

That's LYNN Redgrave, btw. "GG" may have been the last moment she was a bigger star than Vanessa.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, my bad. Guess I was busy salivating over Charlotte Rampling.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Just watched this for the first time in ages. Very weird! Found Alan Bates' manic performance hard to take. Anyway, there was a song at the nightclub that caught my ear, "I'm Gonna Leave Her" by the Mirage. Evidently quite obscure.

I've always loved the title song, but I never realized how explicitly it lays out the film's plot...It's so literal, especially at the end, the film must use a different version than the hit single.

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 May 2021 01:44 (four years ago)

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