Brock Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 A "Tall Hope" fan has started to upload the soundtrack onto YouTube: Overture: Haven't listened to this in years and was surprised (and slightly alarmed) I remember all the words to Tall Hope. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmadluv7 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I just love hearing the red head sing Wildcat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreddieMertz Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Does anyone have a favorite song from this besides Hey Look Me Over? Because I get a kick out of What Takes My Fancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Should be getting a copy of this soon and will give it a few plays till I pick one. Heard a wonderful rework of HLMO done by Rachel York of all people. Too bad the Lucy movie didn't continue past early 60 for us to get her take of Lucy on Bway played by a really great bway actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmadluv7 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Should be getting a copy of this soon and will give it a few plays till I pick one. Heard a wonderful rework of HLMO done by Rachel York of all people. Too bad the Lucy movie didn't continue past early 60 for us to get her take of Lucy on Bway played by a really great bway actress. I wish someone would go into those later years, which are very very interesting and fun- I think her home life was getting more interesting as her career was settling down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 I don't know how rare it is for songs that were CUT before the show reached Broadway to be published as sheet music, but this one and "Angelina" were. This was replaced by "You've Come Home". In the original book "Angelina" and "Far Away from Home" are reprised late in the show as a counterpoint song. This is the part of the plot I found too far fetched. Joe keeps referring to a girl back home he loves: Angelina and it's revealed late in the show that he's just made her up. Now if it had turned out that Angelina was a beard to cover up his relationship with Cisco or Oney, I'd believe that---but this was 1960. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmadluv7 Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 what a gem! I didn't know that about the musical!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 I wish someone would go into those later years, which are very very interesting and fun- I think her home life was getting more interesting as her career was settling down. Listen to this line from the book about Bob Hope "the Road Less Traveled" about Lucy circa 1961-2. (post Wildcat, pre-The Lucy Show)-CAPS are mine. "Lucy, unemployed and UNEMPLOYABLE, her career waning, was hired by Hope as his co-star in "Critics Choice". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Over dramatic much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted March 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Over dramatic much? Seriously. Where would they even get such an idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Listen to this line from the book about Bob Hope "the Road Less Traveled" about Lucy circa 1961-2. (post Wildcat, pre-The Lucy Show)-CAPS are mine. "Lucy, unemployed and UNEMPLOYABLE, her career waning, was hired by Hope as his co-star in "Critics Choice". Hmmm...according to whom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Seriously, I can't figure out who was going to Bob Hope movies in the 60s but he kept cranking them out all the way through "1972-2". With all its faults, mainly Lucy-less scenes with Bob, "Critics Choice" was the last movie Bob made that had any class, virtually all of it supplied by Lucy with one of her most sincere and underplayed performances. But her role was definitely subordinate to Bob's and COULD have been played by Martha Hyer (another Hope co-star). This was made before The Lucy Show, but held back a year because of "disastrous previews", and released in 1963. During the run of "Wildcat", there was serious talk of Lucy doing the movie version. Interesting to speculate how that would have turned out. Why Why Why Desilu didn't put it on as a TV special to recoup their losses,.I'll never know. Staged for a TV audience like Carol Burnett's "Calamity Jane" done around 1963. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 The actual quote is even worse than my paraphrasing: "Lucille Ball was still otherwise unemployed and virtually unemployable when Hope AGAIN RESCUED her my making her his co-star in "Critics Choice". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted April 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 What the hell...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmadluv7 Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Thats non sense lol One of the worlds most loved personalities, and she's unemployable? Right lol One thing that does get me to thinking though, is the "again, rescued" I remember hearing Lucy say something similar to this in her Hollywood Byline Radio interview.. I always wonder what it was, besides having an affair with him maybe? But she said he changed her whole life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Seriously, I can't figure out who was going to Bob Hope movies in the 60s but he kept cranking them out all the way through "1972-2". With all its faults, mainly Lucy-less scenes with Bob, "Critics Choice" was the last movie Bob made that had any class, virtually all of it supplied by Lucy with one of her most sincere and underplayed performances. But her role was definitely subordinate to Bob's and COULD have been played by Martha Hyer (another Hope co-star). This was made before The Lucy Show, but held back a year because of "disastrous previews", and released in 1963. During the run of "Wildcat", there was serious talk of Lucy doing the movie version. Interesting to speculate how that would have turned out. Why Why Why Desilu didn't put it on as a TV special to recoup their losses,.I'll never know. Staged for a TV audience like Carol Burnett's "Calamity Jane" done around 1963. That would have been great, to have it aired as a TV special, at least (guessing it would have survived), we'd now have a complete "record" of its existence, not the show's soundtrack. BTW Neil - what's the "it was made before The Lucy Show but held back a year" comment based on? Are you saying it was filmed after "Wildcat" but before the premiere of TLS, putting it somewhere in late '61 - early '62?? I'm curious what the source for that is because throughout the film, her makeup and hair(wig)styles in particular certainly reflect what she was sporting on the show circa 63 - '64. Please 'splain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Filming on Critic's Choice began in March 1962 before The Lucy Show began. The movie was not released until April 1963. Even though there was talk of Lucy Goes to Broadway special still happening as late as 1963, I think once Lucy got out of Wildcat she never wanted anything to do with it again. I know Columbia announced their never realized film version (to star Ann-Margret) in 1965, but I don't know when the film rights went to them. I would think Lucy's comments about Bob were because he pushed to have her cast in Sorrowful Jones. Sorrowful Jones and Fancy Pants were among the highest grossing films of their respective years, so I'm sure they increased Lucy's visibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Kampen Tripp Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 HOPE rescued HER??? I can't believe that. I guess it could be true.. but c'mon.. LUCILLE was after I LOVE LUCY a very sought after personality.. I would think... so I don't get the fact that HE saved HER... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Dinah Shore, Polly Bergen, and Louis Nye perform Tippy, Tippy Toes at 11:13. I've never heard this number performed outside of Wildcat. This was from April 1961 so the show was running. https://youtu.be/96wc1CScBsE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Kampen Tripp Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 I like "What Takes My Fancy", "Mexican Hat", "That's What I Want For Jane ie", and "Corduroy Road" in addition to HLMO and Wildcat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Well feast your baby-blues on THIS from Charlotte Peters "The First Lady of St. Louis Television"! She had a one-hour 5-day a week noon show for 22 years on local TV. Had offers to take in national but turned them down because she didn't want to leave St. Louis. Dinah Shore, Polly Bergen, and Louis Nye perform Tippy, Tippy Toes at 11:13. I've never heard this number performed outside of Wildcat.This was from April 1961 so the show was running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted April 7, 2018 Report Share Posted April 7, 2018 James Garner sings "Tall Hope" on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show at 20:20 here. This was a week after Dinah and Polly Bergen performed "Tippy Tippy Toes." A month earlier, Dinah and Shirley Jones did "El Sombrero." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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