The Beau Hunks Play
Original Laurel & Hardy Music.
I am pleased to say that we can now offer the full range of ‘Beau Hunks' CDs. The Beau Hunks orchestra was named after the L&H film of the same title. As a " documentary orchestra," they specialise in unjustly forgotten American composers of the 20th century. Under the leadership of Gert-Jan Blom, they started out recreating the music from the "Laurel & Hardy" comedies. Since their inception in 1992 the Beau Hunks have reconstructed the works of two composers of these melodies, who were rarely credited in the films. Leroy Shield(1893-1962) worked as a composer for the Hal Roach Studios only briefly, but left a rich collection of tunes.
Marvin Hatley(1905-1986) was the creator of the ever-popular "Ku-Ku" theme, universally associated with Laurel & Hardy. As the musical director of the Roach studios, he wrote dozens of songs for the films. Apart from Ronnie Hazlehurts Music Box albums, Sheild and Hatley's melodies were rarely published, recorded or performed. The Beau Hunks have made their faithful note-for-note reconstructions available on CD. The CDs and Video have been released by Basta audio/visuals in Holland.
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The Beau Hunks on CD and Video. |
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Timeless and toe-tapping tunes by Leroy Shield and Marvin Hatley
from the films of the famous comedy team. Lovingly reconstructed and recorded
by the Beau Hunks with infectious vivacity. "Uncanny replicas of the originals...
a delightful package" (Billboard). Awarded with an Edison.
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Volume One. 45mins. £16.75. 27 EUR0s. $29.USA All Prices Include P&P |
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Volume Two.75 mins. |
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With 50 musical selections of the same high quality as on the
first album, with special emphasis on the background melodies by Leroy Shield
(1892-1962). Glenn Mitchell (The Laurel & Hardy Encyclopedia): "Volume
2 is actually slightly better; no mean achievement given the excellence of
its predecessor." Liner notes and art direction by Piet Schreuders. Recorded
in 1993. Edison award nominee.
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Volume Two. £16.75. 27 EUR0s. $29.USA All Prices Include P&P |
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Double CD Set. VOLUME ONE PLUS TWO! |
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Both "Laurel & Hardy" CDs encased in a beautifully designed slipcase with artwork by cartoonist R. Crumb, who has said of the Beau Hunks' project: "This is music I've been looking for all my life ! A great musical accomplishment." Special import PLAY SAMPLE MP3 Add to PAYPAL Cart or HOW TO ORDER
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120 mins. £29.00 45 EUROS. $47 . USA All Prices Include P&P |
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NEW Laurel and Hardy-Another Fine Mess Digitally Remastered CD |
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Another Fine Mess-Laurel & Hardy
NEW CD: Digitally Remastered TRACK LISTING The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine, Another Fine Mess, Dance Of The Cuckoos (Theme), The Annual Convention, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Hard Boiled Eggs & Nuts, Fresh Fish, Food For Thought, The Card Salesman, Victims Of The Depression, What Flavours Have You?, Furniture Payment, There's A Dollar, Where Were You Born?, When The Cat's Away, The New Recruits / The Cuckoo Song, Shine On Harvest Moon, Honolulu Baby, The Cricket Song, Way Down South / I Want To Be In Dixie, We're Going Now and Goodbye HOW TO ORDER OR use PAYPAL.
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Stan Laurel Interview CD |
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Stan Laurel Interview CD
This recording was made by Arthur B. Friedman on August 11th 1957, two weeks after Oliver, Babe, Hardy's death. Recorded at Stan Laurels apartment in Santa Monica USA. This is a fan produced CD from Holland and runs for 74 minutes. To our knowledge no copyright exists on this material; therefore making this interview Public Domain. This material does not violate any copyright laws that we know of. ADD TO CART
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STAN INTERVIEW£21 O CART |
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ON TO THE SHOW CD |
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Piet Schreuders from Amsterdam contacted us to tell us about this superb CD release: "Your site states that you sell all available Beau Hunks albums. This is not quite true as one essential album ("On to the Show!") is missing -- and it is possibly the Beau Hunks' best album of all. It first came out in 1995 on the KOCH International label but is now being re-released, ten years later, by BASTA". Well, we soon rectified that, as we now have copies of the new re-released version in stock. This CD contains 50 tracks from Laurel and Hardy and OUR GANG and other Roach comedies. We have copies of the new re-released version in stock.
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The 'Beau Hunks' present the full 'Our Relations' Soundtrack. |
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BEAU HUNKS 'Our Relations' Full soundrack CD. PLAY SAMPLE MP3 See Review below!
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'Our Relations' Soundtrack Review
Earlier this week I received a free complimentary signed CD from the Beau Hunks - the long awaited OUR RELATIONS score. As with the previous released by this wonderful orchestra, the CD is accompanied by a detailed booklet (44 pages) containing very rare photos and details about the music for the film. The CD should be commercially available from February 2001.
The CD it self has 35 tracks about 50% of these tracks are made up of themes used in the film as we know it today. The rest of the disc contains music that was PLANNED for the film (and may have been used in deleted material such as the "shaving" sequence and the "Traffic jam" sequence) but not so familiar - in fact it is very un-Laurel and Hardy-like in content, and seems more fitted to the "screwball" comedy of Hollywood. There are still gems to be found including Ku-Ku, the Main theme, Sailors Hornpipe.
In all, a very worthwhile disc of historical importance, but leaves the listener with an uneasy sense of ".....did that really all originate for OUR RELATIONS....." PLAY SAMPLE MP3
Mark C Bale. Wales
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