Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers – Gone With The Wind（1937）
vocal: Larry Cotton
ベストセラーの「映画化」の話題に触発されて作られた楽曲（1937年出版）。
recorded in NYC June 16, 1937
In mid-1937, following an eight-year recording hiatus, Horace Heidt kicked off his new association with Brunswick by turning out a session that included the entertaining 2-sided release of “Hot Lips / The Bells of St. Mary’s （The Building Of A Band）” （both available on this channel） and his popular recording of “Gone With The Wind.”
Carl Ravell （The Singing Maestro） and his Orchestra – Gone With The Wind（1937）
vocal: Carl Ravell
Carl Ravazza as “Carl Ravell”
recorded in NYC June 4, 1937
On the flip of this 78 was the very first recorded version of the well-known standard “So Rare” And two other recordings posted to the channel of the 1937 song hit “Gone With The Wind” （no direct connection to the movie） include: Horace Heidt and Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton and his Orchestra – Gone With The Wind（1937）
vocal: Paul Barry
recorded in NYC July 1, 1937
See also the flip side “What A Beautiful Beginning”; and for the Horace Heidt version of “Gone With The Wind,”
Art Tatum – Gone With The Wind（1937）
Julie London – Gone With The Wind
from the album “Julie Is Her Name”（1955）ジュリー・イズ・ハー・ネーム
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Billie Holiday – Gone With The Wind
from the album “Music For Torching With Billie Holiday”（1955）
Art Tatum – Gone With The Wind
from the album Art Tatum, Art Tatum Trio “Here’s Art Tatum”（1955）
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“Gone With The Wind” Tara’s Theme（Main Title）（1939）
Orig. Soundtrack, conducted by Max Steiner
Wow! What a memorable opening to the most popular motion picture of its era, with music composed and conducted by Max Steiner. His Oscar-nominated score, however, was not among the Selznick-MGM film’s eight Academy Award winners （losing out to “The Wizard Of Oz”）.
For whatever reason, no commercial recordings of this famous theme were issued during the movie’s original run, but upon its highly successful U.S. re-release in 1954 there were a number of new singles on the market…both instrumental （LeRoy Holmes and with Mack David’s “My Own True Love” lyric （Margaret Whiting with Nelson Riddle.
Leroy Holmes and his Orchestra – Tara’s Theme（1954）
From M-G-M Film “Gone With The Wind”
Whistling by Fred Lowery
口笛が入る。
In late 1954, many years before it could be seen on television （let alone on home video）, “Gone With The Wind” received a much-publicized and eagerly-awaited theatrical re-release. Though （for whatever reason） there had been no commercial recordings made of Max Steiner’s famous theme during the blockbuster film’s original 1939-40 run, several new versions were issued this time around, both vocal （as “My Own True Love”） and instrumental. Coming off the most successful hit of his career earlier that year, Holmes patterned “Tara’s Theme” similarly to his lushly-arranged “The High And The Mighty,” again spotlighting famed whistler Fred Lowery.
Margaret Whiting – My Own True Love（Tara’s Theme）（1954/12）
orchestra & chorus conducted by Nelson Riddle
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America first heard this now-familiar Max Steiner melody in late 1939 during the opening credits of “Gone With The Wind” （listen here: https://youtu.be/Gnig_P7o8gs ）, but it wasn’t until the film’s re-release in 1954 that we finally heard the new lyrical treatment titled “My Own True Love.” This lushly-arranged Margaret Whiting/Nelson Riddle version was just one of several singles on the market that year, and the song would later become a popular release for both Jimmy Clanton in 1959 and The Duprees in 1962
Johnny Desmond – My Own True Love（Tara’s Theme）（1954/11）
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Johnny bellows out the new Mack David lyrics to Max Steiner’s immortal “Gone With The Wind” movie theme…one of several new late-1954 recordings made to coincide with the highly-anticipated theatrical re-release of the film. The song would later become a popular hit for both Jimmy Clanton in 1959 and The Duprees in 1962
Jimmy Clanton – My Own True Love（1959/06）
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Pop Chart Peaks: Cash Box 25, Music Vendor 28, Billboard 33
Mack David’s lyrics to the familiar Max Steiner theme from “Gone With The Wind.”
The Duprees – My Own True Love（Tara’s Theme）（1962/10）
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Pop Chart Peaks: Billboard 13, Cash Box 16, Music Vendor 20
The Duprees followed up their top-10 hit “You Belong To Me” with this also-popular release, featuring music by movie composer Max Steiner （the familiar “Tara’s Theme” from “Gone With The Wind”） and lyrics by well-known songwriter Mack David （Hal’s older brother）.
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Al Allen – Scarlett O’Hara（1964/02）
Out of Los Angeles, just six months after L.A.’s Wrecking Crew supplied the backing track to the Phil Spector produced epic,’Be My Baby’ for the Ronettes, they were back at Gold Star Studios with Unical Records owner, Al Allen with musical inspiration from that session. For this recording date they would be hammering out a cover version of’Scarlett O’Hara’ which had been a hit instrumental for Jet Harris & Tony Meehan in the United Kingdom in the spring of 1963. In the United States, Lawrence Welk had some minor success with the tune that year as well. This Spectorian take on the tune is an energetic mix of the Ronettes”Be My Baby’, Jack Nitzsche’s’The Lonely Surfer’ and the Marketts”Out Of Limits’. Incidentally, all of those recordings featured the talents of the’Wrecking Crew’ as well. For whatever reason, despite a top notch arrangement and powerful sound, the Unical disc failed to ignite any chart action and disappeared into obscurity. Al Allen would ultimately shutter his record company doors a mere five months later after issuing just two more singles with the label.
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Gloria Jones – Gone With The Wind Is My Love
（UK）
