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Common cuckoo song, Kaluga region, Russia. The duo's "cuckoo" theme, entitled "Dance of The Cuckoos", was composed by Roach musical director Marvin Hatley as the on-the-hour chime for the Roach studio radio station, then known as KFVD. [2] Laurel heard the tune on the station, and asked Hatley to use it as the Laurel and Hardy theme song.
Laurel and Hardy in the 1939 film The Flying Deuces. Their 1929 release Big Business is by far the most critically acclaimed of the silents. [67] Laurel and Hardy are Christmas tree salesmen who are drawn into a classic tit-for-tat battle, with a character played by James Finlayson, that eventually destroys his house and their car. [68]
His work in Laurel and Hardy's films Way Out West and Block-Heads earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. [3] In 1939, Hatley was fired from the Roach studio. At the insistence of Stan Laurel, however, he did return to score one final Laurel & Hardy film, Saps at Sea. Hatley went on to become a lounge pianist, and ...
Cuckoo Song is a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century. Cuckoo Song may also refer to " Dance of the Cuckoos" , also known as the Cuckoo Song, the theme music for Laurel and Hardy
A Blackpool ventriloquist and comedian who performed on stage with legendary comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy has died at the age of 82. Mike Dennett was 10 when he performed at Stan Laurel and Oliver ...
Call of the Cuckoo (1927) is a Hal Roach two reel silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [1] The film's principal star is comedian Max Davidson , though the film is just as well known for cameos from other Roach stars at the time.
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Marvin Hatley, who composed Laurel and Hardy's "Cuckoo" theme song, was the pianist for this sequence; the player piano was not real. Arkansas Traveler award