The Humour Is On Me, Now


The Humour Is On Me, Now

Music for the 1952 motion picture “The Quiet Man” was arranged beautifully by Victor Young, who transformed John Ford’s movie into a musical celebration of Ireland.

The music runs through 54 percent of the film, which even has a singing part for each of its five principal actors: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen.

In “The Quiet Man,” Young gave us his finest hour and 10 minutes. With this film, he identified forever the sound of a nation.

“The Quiet Man” is a masterpiece of a motion picture. Its exterior scenes were filmed almost entirely in Ireland. The movie won Ford the Academy Award for best director. (The 1952 best picture Oscar went to “The Greatest Show on Earth”; the best music award went to “High Noon.”) A few years later, Young won his own Oscar for his music in “Around the World in Eighty Days.”

http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2006/03/the_quiet_man_s.html

The Quiet Man-The Humour Is On Me, Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SonMa4uMw

Comments

  1. Lia SchollMarch 18, 2016 at 6:24 AM

    This song is funny. I like how it changes--Oh! The humour is off me know. I'm sorry I ever got married, the humour is off me now!

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  2. Timothy StreetMarch 18, 2016 at 7:55 AM

    "Homeric !"

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  3. Drew McCarthyMarch 18, 2016 at 8:12 AM

    "Impetuous!"

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