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From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed")
(writer: Percy Montrose - public domain)
Historically, this song is more properly titled “Oh My Darling, Clementine”. Hey, this was cartoon character Huckleberry Hound’s theme song back in the 1960’s. According to Wikipedia the song is attributed to writer Percy Montrose in 1884, although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford around that same time. Jeff’s approach to this song is somewhat unique; he doesn’t treat it as the typical American folk song that it is, but as a mournful, solo classical piano instrumental. In Jeff’s words,
“I tried to imagine how someone like 19th century pianist/composer Felix Mendelssohn would treat this old melody, although he died decades before this song was even written. In my fantasy, however, I imagined his interpretation to be included in his popular series of short lyrical, solo piano pieces known as “Songs Without Words. With all due respect to Felix, I humbly tried to play and interpret it in his spirit of arrangement.”
Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters.
Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.
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Title Clementine
ISRC CAWD51300041
From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed")
(writer: Percy Montrose - public domain)
Historically, this song is more properly titled “Oh My Darling, Clementine”. Hey, this was cartoon character Huckleberry Hound’s theme song back in the 1960’s. According to Wikipedia the song is attributed to writer Percy Montrose in 1884, although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford around that same time. Jeff’s approach to this song is somewhat unique; he doesn’t treat it as the typical American folk song that it is, but as a mournful, solo classical piano instrumental. In Jeff’s words,
“I tried to imagine how someone like 19th century pianist/composer Felix Mendelssohn would treat this old melody, although he died decades before this song was even written. In my fantasy, however, I imagined his interpretation to be included in his popular series of short lyrical, solo piano pieces known as “Songs Without Words. With all due respect to Felix, I humbly tried to play and interpret it in his spirit of arrangement.”
Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters.
Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.
Work type Music
Tags soundtrack, americana, folk, classical piano
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Identifier 1401129807904
Entry date Jan 12, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC
License All rights reserved
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Author. Holder Jeff Norbert Wyatt. Date Jan 12, 2014.
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