Tweet HUGE COLLECTION OF SILENT CUE SHEETS ACQUIRED

Hi All,

Th Vitaphone Project was contacted last year by a collector who had a large number of late-silent music cue sheets. After a year of negotiations, they were acquired by Vince Giordano, leader of The Nighthawks --- certainly the best person on the planet to have them.

It would be nice to one day see some of these films shown again with these accompaniments. Vince has done a superb job in AUTHENTICALLY (very un-Alloy-esque) scoring THE CAMERAMAN, GET OUT AND GET UNDER, DOUBLE WHOOPEE, SHERLOCK, JR. and other silents.

Anyway, here's the list of the music cue sheets Vince acquired. Comments?

Ron.

THE GODLESS GIRL
WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
ABIE’s IRISH ROSE
SINS OF THE FATHERS
AVALANCHE
A SHIP COMES IN
LILAC TIME
INTERFERENCE
THE NOOSE
SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS
BRINGING UP FATHER
MOTHER KNOWS BEST
BABY MINE
A LITTLE JOURNEY
SORRELL AND SON
WHAT PRICE GLORY?
ROOKIES
LES MISERABLES
LADDIE
THE MARIAGE CLAUSE
BLONDE OR BRUNETTE
THE YANKEE CLIPPER
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT
TEXAS STEER
THE ROAD TO ROMANCE
THREE SINNERS
HOTEL IMPERIAL
THE BIG PARADE
WEST OF ZANZIBAR
NO PLACE TO GO
THE FIRST KISS
WINGS
GET YOUR MAN
SYNTHETIC SIN
SEVENTH HEAVEN
THE WEDDING MARCH
WILD ORCHIDS
THE SINGLE STANDARD
THE RED DANCE
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
FOUR WALLS
ROSE MARIE
THE LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED
WHERE EAST IS EAST
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY
SO’S YOUR OLD MAN
THE POTTERS
IT
THE UNKNOWN
THE DIVINE WOMAN
BEN-HUR
RED HAIR
BARBED WIRE
MY BEST GIRL
THE LATEST FROM PARIS
A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS
SPEEDY
ANNIE LAURIE
LA BOHEME
LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH
ACROSS TO SINGAPORE
TELL IT TO THE MARINES
SHOW PEOPLE
OLD IRONSIDES
BEAU GESTE
THE PATENT LEATHER KID
RESURRECTION
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY
GETTING GERTIE’S GARTER
NOW WE’RE IN THE AIR
THE FLAMING FRONTIER OR THE INDIANS ARE COMING
THE RACKET
FORGOTTEN FACES
THE PATRIOT
BEAU SABREUR
QUALITY STREET
THE LOVE MART
THE POOR NUT
UNDERWORLD
BREED OF THE SEA
THE HAWK’S NEST

A good list of cue sheets. Unfortunately, most of them are MGM films, which means a bulk of them are by Ernst Luz, whose musical selections varied wildly from middle-of-the-road to very poor. Often it seemed that he was more interested in promoting his own publishing company, Photoplay Music Inc.

However, others by folks like James Bradford, Eugene Conte and Leo Forbstein are quite interesting.

Wow, what a list...I'm sure Rodney will be happy about this...congrats!

Yes, very impressive. Would love to hear some of these too. Any word on if Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks will still be scoring SYNTHETIC SIN, or anything else? They need to be hired much more often. Sheet music for LILAC TIME too. That's great as well.

Still waiting to hear the original Main-titles to THE BIG PARADE, and WINGS. BEAU GESTE too. I notice there are a few lost movies in the group.