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Popular songs from the show included "Wand'rin' Star", "I Talk to the Trees", and "They Call the Wind Maria". The musical ran on Broadway in 1951 and in the West End in 1953. In 1969, the film version, also titled Paint Your Wagon, was released. It had a highly revised plot and some new songs composed by Lerner and André Previn.
Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American Western [5] musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe. It is set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. It was directed by Joshua Logan.
It has been called Paint Your Wagon's "best known song" and "rousing but plaintive." [9] Musicologist Stephen Citron wrote, "Perhaps the most unusual song in the score is a beautiful ballad of lonely prospectors hungering for their women, 'They Call the Wind Maria' – not chauvinistic in this case, for each man is yearning for his own girl."
Previn in 2012. André Previn has composed film scores (including many songs), jazz pieces and contemporary classical music. His earliest compositions known at least by name/type are student works from the mid-1940s (a clarinet sonata, a string quartet, a rhapsody for violin and orchestra and some art songs).
Lerner and Loewe, c. 1962 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. [1] Spanning three decades and nine musicals from 1942 to 1960 and again from 1970 to 1972, the pair are known for being behind the creation of critical on stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi.
Homer and Bart rent the film Paint Your Wagon, expecting it to be a shoot-em-up Western. Homer is dismayed to find out that it is actually a musical, and expresses his distaste for such films. Marge is baffled by this, saying that he ironically loves singing. The family starts delivering their dialogue in song form, and Marge decides to prove ...
Introduced in the musical Paint Your Wagon by Rufus Smith "The Thrill Is Gone" – w.m. Rick Darnell & Roy Hawkins "Thumbelina" – w.m. Frank Loesser "Too Young" – w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman "Top Banana" – w.m. Johnny Mercer from the musical Top Banana (musical) "The Typewriter" – m. Leroy Anderson "Unforgettable" – w.m. Irving Gordon
"Paint Your Wagon" 1986 — Paint Your Wagon "Walking on Your Hands" 21 "Cut Down" 6 Non-album singles "Crawling Mantra" (as the Lorries) 1987 3 "Open Up" 6 Nothing Wrong "Nothing Wrong" 1988 5 "Only Dreaming (Wide Awake)" 9 "Temptation" 1989 13 Blow "Talking Back" 1991 — Blasting Off "—" denotes releases that did not chart.