I believe this (warning: slightly risqué content) re-uses the tune from another song. Does anyone recognise it? Thanks. 2601:644:8581:75B0:0:0:0:F42E (talk) 17:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't really borrow the tune, but the start obviously references Lola by The Kinks. Matt Deres (talk) 12:48, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Back in 1984, when I was 13 years old, my teacher showed me and my class a movie about the Mayflower. One of the performers in it was John Dehner. I asked the teacher when the movie was made, in the 1960s or the 1970s. She told me she believed it was the 1960s, and she'll check the copyright. But during some commercial breaks, there was this image of some popcorn with a scoop. The caption read Sunday Playhouse. What's the movie's title? When was it made? Was there ever an anthology series called Sunday Playhouse? Anyone know?2603:7000:8641:810E:AFB5:A06F:298:5D33 (talk) 07:43, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could it be Plymouth Adventure? 68.187.174.155 (talk) 11:08, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since John Dehner is in its cast, that's probably the one. Does the OP concur? {The poster formerly known as 76.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 19:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the one.2603:7000:8641:810E:AFB5:A06F:298:5D33 (talk) 02:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday Playhouse seems to have been a tv slot for showing movies in the early 1960s [1]. A couple of other possibilities:

• The Pilgrims (1955) "This classroom film dramatizes the Pilgrim’s flight from religious persecution in England to the Netherlands, then 12 years later their ocean voyage on the Mayflower, and the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620".
• The Beginning at Plymouth Colony (1954) "This Cold War classroom lecture film argues that the Pilgrims' early collectivist economic system failed, leading to a more successful capitalist system based on individual responsibility and private ownership".

Alansplodge (talk) 14:26, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday Playhouse must've started airing sometime in the 1970s.2603:7000:8641:810E:AFB5:A06F:298:5D33 (talk) 02:59, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yet the collected volume of TV Guide Vol. 9 Issues 1–13 linked by Alansplodge is dated as published in 1961, which is consistent with the magazine itself having started publication in 1953. Evidently then, films were being broadcast under the Sunday Playhouse title around 1960. Obviously, these were not new made-for-TV movies (which was I suspect not yet much of a thing), but TV showings of existing movies, Plymouth Adventure, for example, having been released in 1952. Sunday Playhouse broadcasts were doubtless repeated in subsequent years. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 14:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Really. I also still remember the music score from the Sunday Playhouse commercial breaks. It must've been from a popular song. If so, could the song be identified? In addition, could someone create an article about Sunday Playhouse?2603:7000:8641:810E:AFB5:A06F:298:5D33 (talk) 07:19, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Has any male singer recorded Schumann's cycle? I know Matthias Goerne has performed it, but can't find any recording.

(After all, the premiere was given by baritone Julius Stockhausen with Clara Schumann accompanying...) Double sharp (talk) 15:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Classical label Hyperion does not suggest it might have been recorded [2]. It's a work absolutely neutraly qualified one Singstimme but the particular occurrence allows the reviewer to offer extended hinsight into admitted procolary protocolary attitudes, unfortunately not addressing your point specifically if I'm reading him correctly. --Askedonty (talk) 14:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Askedonty, purely for interest, can you rephrase your second sentence, whose meaning escapes me? 'Procolary', for example, is so obscure that it does not appear in my OED, and although I have been able to get 'Singstimme' translated as 'singing voice', I cannot make sense of ". . .neutra[l]ly qualified one Singstimme . . .". {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 15:06, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. The German term Singstimme is the standard word for "voice" used in the composer's voice and instrumental prescription as it appears in the song cycle genre in German. --Askedonty (talk) 09:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Askedonty. So you were saying that the work itself doesn't demand any particular type of (male or female) voice, but its unusual performance by a baritone allows the critic to discuss the conventional attitudes that expect a female singer? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 17:03, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

True, though I'm feeling quite dishearted now not having had enough perseverance for also being able to state that I was commenting only and perhaps even partially the introduction to a fully thorough presentation of the work, and the unconventional aspects in its genesis. --Askedonty (talk) 17:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, recordings were a very newfangled invention in 1862 when the premiere was given. I mentioned the premiere not because I thought it might've been recorded (of course it wasn't), but rather to explain why using a male singer for this is not quite as odd an idea as it may seem. Double sharp (talk) 14:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, there is a recording on YouTube of the the second song alone by baritone Olivier Gagnon. I really enjoyed it, but still I haven't found the full cycle. Double sharp (talk) 11:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be a recording of the full cycle by baritone Roderick Williams. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:31, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JackofOz: Thank you!! Double sharp (talk) 02:37, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This reminds me of a most enlightening talk page discussion (mea culpa) about the name of Schumann's song-cycle back in 2017. The upshot of my research was that "The entirety of reliable editions of the Schumann cycle use the exact title of Frauenliebe und Leben including: Breitkopf und Härtel, Peters Edition urtext, Bärenreiter, Henle, Universal." So technically you should refer to it as Frauenliebe und Leben, 'cos that's the printed title of Schumann's setting and always has been, despite: the LP/CD covers of various recording companies; German orthographical reforms; the title of the original poems; and settings by other composers. Btw, Roddy Williams lives only a few miles away from me and is still giving well-attended concerts. MinorProphet (talk) 17:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The German notation of B𝄫 is Heses. The logic of it escapes me. It'd seem more natural to use Bes. Hes doesn't even exist (it's B) so why should Heses? Anyone's got an idea? 178.51.16.158 (talk) 04:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alteration by a chromatic semitone downwards is indicated in German by appending -(e)s to the name of the tone, and alteration by two chromatic semitones downwards is indicated by appending -(e)ses. This is also the logic governing Heses. Note that double flats made a relatively late appearance in Western music. The real question is then, why the German name B instead of Hes? The roots of this exception are historical, B being the majuscule of earlier b, going back to Guido of Arezzo's notation of ♭ for a semitone up from a, while h stood for his ♮, a full tone up from a. Confusing as this already is in view of the English and Dutch notations, using Bes for B𝄫 would only have added to the confusion.  --Lambiam 07:05, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, you were saying three questions earlier Guido borrowed from pseudo-Odo. Remember? (A fun name! Try saying it three times in a row!) And I believed you. So credit where credit's due. And in case anyone wonders why Lambiam brought in the Dutch: in the Netherlands B is B, Bes is B♭ and there is no H. That is relatively new I think. Post World War II. 178.51.16.158 (talk) 07:39, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps post the Napoleonic Wars.^[3]

While the use in Pseudo-Odo's Dialogus de musica is the first known use, these names might have been forgotten but for their adoption by the influential Guido van Arezzo.  --Lambiam 11:46, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So the Dutch have actually been doing that for hundreds of years. I've learned something new. Thanks. 178.51.16.158 (talk) 12:26, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently looking to see if the itv sitcom Leave it to Charlie was released on DVD and wear can I buy it. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 18:37, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately we do not (yet) have an article on this 1978-80 26-episode ITV series. Searching the IMDb (see here), and websearching, does not find me any mention of a DVD having been made. There is a hint that it may have been broadcast in Canada under a different title, so it is possible (though unlikely) that there is a DVD under that title, whatever it is. Sorry not to have been of more help. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.7.95.48 (talk) 21:24, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed that a few films that won Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards are actually adult-themed with mature content - Pretty Woman, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Abduction. Why is that? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 21:41, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A number of the others also have violent themes. Such as Jurassic Park, with dinosaurs eating people, and Star Wars, with people impaled by lightsabers. According to Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, the kids are the ones making the choices, or at least are supposed to be. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:05, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In animated shows like The Simpsons where the main cast play multiple characters each, how is dialogue between one actor's characters, such as Burns and Smithers (both Harry Shearer), recorded? Is it done all at once, with the actor switching voices with each line? (Seems difficult.) Or in two (or more) passes, with a stand-in reading the lines of the other party for timing? Or something else? —Tamfang (talk) 06:39, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't speak for the Simpsons, but when Mel Blanc used to do multiple voices in the same cartoon, he would record all the dialogue for each character separately. As I recall, he would do Yosemite Sam last, since it was rough on his vocal chords. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:39, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The usual procedure is that the voice actor is recorded before the animation is produced. Lip syncing between the recorded sound and the animated character's mouth movement is done by the animators, originally by hand, but now software exists that uses a video of the mouth movements of the voice actor to make the lip sync process automatic. Typically, if the mouths of two characters are both visible, their speech never overlaps, and the timing of a dialogue is only created during animation. That is also when ambiance sound is added. Therefore it is up to the actor in what order the recordings are made. Most often they will record multiple takes of each set of lines.  --Lambiam 12:43, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Switching voices in the same scene is difficult but it is done. I've heard actors express admiration for others who manage it. Generally it's been in live radio shows where multiple takes aren't possible - IIRC Peter Sellers did it in The Goon Show. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 11:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I remember a TV interview with Kenneth Williams who said that he preferred to switch between characters in the same take, when recording the soundtrack of Willo the Wisp. AndyJones (talk) 12:45, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Señor Wences was pretty good at it too. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:40, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to find what the names of the characters are in the 1971 tv play The Bristol Entertainment. The tv play has 7 cast members although the names of the character they play in the tv play have not been added yet so what are the names of each character in the tv play then I can add them onto IMDb. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 18:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let any of you know The Bristol Entertainment was a 1971 tv play produced by the BBC. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 16:42, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you know the approximate date of the broadcast, you may be able to find this information by searching the BBC Genome site. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.7.95.48 (talk) 17:27, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On genome it does not show the names of the characters that each of the seven actors played *https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/87a3b1f233bf49ff9ba311c2c17ee3c2 Matthew John Drummond (talk) 18:05, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well done on finding the entry [under Fri 3 Dec]. I don't recall watching it at the time, but from the description —

"A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidities that lie behind the facades of a great city.

With Angharad Rees, Phyllida Law, Brian Blessed, Bernard Holley, Peter Sallis, Eric Thompson and Brian Wilde as the men and women whose lives had something about them worth remembering.

Every incident in the programme is taken from factual records, memoirs and newspapers of Bristol. They may even be true."

— it seems to me likely that each actor portrayed several or many different characters, so it would not have been expedient to list them all. I fear one would have to watch a recording (if one exists) or read the script (if preserved) to find the answers. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.7.95.48 (talk) 04:25, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TV Brain does actually have the full tv play intact https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=The+Bristol+Entertainment&type=lostshow Matthew John Drummond (talk) 19:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Moved here by me from the Help Desk. City of Silver 20:40, 9 November 2024 (UTC))[reply]

Just want to know which town in NY State, the Yasgur dairy farm was actually located. MyMarue (talk) 20:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article Woodstock, the festival was held "on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York". Our article Max Yasgur agrees: "He was the owner of the 600-acre (240 ha) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on August 15–18, 1969." The promotional Woodstock poster gives the location as "White Lake, Town of Bethel, Sullivan County, N.Y." All sources I see about the Woodstock monument at the festival site agree that it is located in Bethel. MapQuest gives Yasgur's Farm Cafe as being at 200 Hurd Rd, Bethel, NY 12720. There are sources placing the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts with the Woodstock Museum in Cochecton, but the website of Bethel Woods also gives their address as 200 Hurd Rd, Bethel, NY 12720.  --Lambiam 21:31, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Our article on Yasgur states that he changed the address of his farm to Cochecton after problems with the local postmaster. Which makes me wonder, is it really even in either town? I mean, does it fall within the established municipal limits? At least here in NC, many people have addresses listed as being in a particular city (or town or village, all are equivalent here) but live outside the actual city limits. Changing your address from one town to another makes no sense if you physically are in the first town, but does if you are in the hinterlands between them. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On maps, this site is located in Bethel, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the border with Cochecton.  --Lambiam 21:49, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When did production/filming for director Mark Waters' film version of Freaky Friday began and when it finished? 81.152.18.78 (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The front cover of You're a Lady (album) shows Peter Skellern sitting in front of a poster.

File:YoureaLady1972Album.jpg

You can get a better view of it on the back cover. It's starkly geometric, like a cube draped in green.

Does anyone know what poster this might have been? Marnanel (talk) 23:52, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Better images of the cover: front, back.  --Lambiam 12:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Cover photo by Marc Dimac". That might be relevant. Also, (c) 1972, so it's possible the photographer is still alive. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the name Marc Dimac too, did some image searching, found nothing useful. On the table (along with the Whole Earth Catalog probably) is a book of naive art by Oto Bihalji-Merin, featuring artists such as Miguel García Vivancos. This also seems irrelevant to the bed, or whatever it is. It's kind of huge for a poster, isn't it?

Perhaps a painting of a table with a long green tablecloth. There's some other thing at the bottom, extreme left. Perhaps this is not a poster but a mural, unique and since forgotten.  Card Zero  (talk) 20:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You've got "front" and "back" the wrong way round. --Viennese Waltz 12:34, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, fixed.  --Lambiam 23:06, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks kind of like a bed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:22, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

or a castle —Tamfang (talk) 03:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It could easily be a drawing of an idealized castle, rather than a real one. Or for that matter it could be an idealized piece of furniture. It reminds me of the Château d'Angers, but it isn't similar enough for that to be helpful. Why not contact Decca Records and ask them? --142.112.149.206 (talk) 05:25, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The two photos appear to be of Skellern in a domestic setting, presumably his own living room at the time. As such, it's unlikely that either the photographer or Decca Records would have any idea then, or record now, of what this poster, doubtless belonging to Skellern, depicted.

Skellern unfortunately died in 2017 aged 69, "survived by his wife, Diana, his children, Timothy and Katherine, and four grandchildren" according to the Guardian obituary linked from his article. It's possible one of them (if contactable) might know or even still possess the item, but would one want to ask them?

I wonder if isolating the visible part of the poster and searching online, via (TinEye?) for example, would yield a result? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.7.95.48 (talk) 02:19, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, but it didn't work for me. --142.112.149.206 (talk) 08:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yesterday, the title of the 8th Mission Impossible was revealed (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning). Since it's not called Dead Reckoning Part Two, I think the article should be renamed to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and there could be a part explaining that it was marketed as "part 1" but the posters actually only read "Dead Reckoning". 42.113.60.5 (talk) 11:06, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The poster shown in the article includes the "Part One" part. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to this, the second movie had the subtitle "Dead Reckoning Part Two", but that was dropped. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 18:09, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

People often call such a chord "C5". But C(omit3) is a more logical name of it. Why is "C5" the standard name?? Georgia guy (talk) 16:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coming from decades of playing guitar, I call it a power chord. When I have to show the chord to someone else, I use "no 3" and sometimes they say they call it a "5". I assume it is because you have the root, 3, and 5 for a standard chord. I say "no 3" to mean "don't include 3." They say "5" to mean "only use 5." But, if I am only talking to guitar players, I say "power" and they know exactly what I mean. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 18:13, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the most obvious reason is that C5 is a lot shorter than C(omit3), and therefore easier to read. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 18:58, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is also translingual.  --Lambiam 23:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Purcell would have understood, he often used that sound. I call it 'empty fifths.' MinorProphet (talk) 19:28, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Our article La cathédrale engloutie calls them "open fifths", and the article Te Deum (Bruckner) calls a motive using these chords an "open-fifths motive".  --Lambiam 23:59, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bumper Films was a British stop motion company who produced the tv shows Rocky Hollow, Fireman Sam, Joshua Jones and Star Hill Ponies. I been trying to find out where are the shows now in which companies archive. Now I know what happened to Fireman Sam it got sold to Gullane Entertainment in December 2001 but where are the other shows now, which company owns them. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 13:26, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]