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"The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song, composed by Dimitri Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, written for the 1960 film The Alamo. [1] It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four.
The Alamo is a 1960 American epic historical war film about the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett.The film also co-stars Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, and features: Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Ken Curtis, Ruben Padilla as ...
"Remember the Alamo" is a song written by Texan folk singer and songwriter Jane Bowers. [1] Bowers details the last days of 180 soldiers during the Battle of the Alamo and names several famous figures who fought at the Alamo, including Mexican general Santa Anna and Texans: Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett. It champions the ...
It is an instrumental in the two John Wayne films Rio Bravo (1959) and The Alamo (1960), and was also used in The Alamo (2004). In the first two films mentioned, the same music is used: not the actual Deguello, but music written by film composer Dimitri Tiomkin. In the third film, it is in the form of a military dirge.
The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television , which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (except between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for ...
1960 Guns of the Timberland as Bert Harvey; 1960 Alakazam the Great as Alakazam (English version, singing voice) 1960 The Alamo as Smitty; 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Lieutenant Junior Grade Danny Romano; 1961 Sail a Crooked Ship as Ensign Rodney J. Foglemeyer; 1962 Panic in Year Zero! as Rick Baldwin
Because there's such great music involved. And I knew all the songs." [2] All the songs recorded for the album were linked with the Battle of the Alamo or Texas in some way, including songs from the original 1960 film The Alamo, popular compositions about the state, and traditional pieces dating from the time of the Battle. [3]
Wills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Davy Crockett's companion Beekeeper in the film The Alamo (1960). However, his aggressive campaign for the award was considered tasteless by many, including the film's star/director/producer John Wayne, who publicly apologized for Wills.