Subject: Re: [Harp-L] For Toots Fans...

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Winslow clarifies:
 
"Elizabeth -

They're talking about who played harmonica, not  who wrote the scores  -
at least that's how I took it.  

Neither Toots nor William wrote any of the movie scores mentioned  in
the article. However, William played on Baghdad Café and Toots  played
on the others. What the writer missed was Midnight Cowboy, which  Toots
also played on, and which he often plays in live performance. I  have
never heard him play Baghdad Café.

Winslow"
 
Hi Winslow:  I'm not entirely sure about that, since the  original article 
used this phrase referring to Toots: 
 
 ""He also plays excerpts from some of the movie soundtracks  he's famous for 
-- ``Bagdad Cafe,'' ``The Getaway,'' ``Jean de  Florette.''"
 
....so I think Slim, Rupert and I all took it to mean they were  crediting 
him with creating the score as well.  Regardless...it's  astonishing they left 
out his playing on Midnight Cowboy.  It's  nice that he's feeling better and 
back to  performing Live.
 
I should add that I LOVE William Galison's playing on Calling  You...he also 
reprised it by playing behind Barbra Streisand's  version as well in her 
beautiful cover of Calling You on The Movie Album  (one of my favourite CD's of 
hers)...
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 12
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Subject:  [Harp-L] For Toots Fans...
To: EGS1217@xxxxxxx,  orupert@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: _harp-l@xxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx) 

Elizabeth  -

They're talking about who played harmonica, not who wrote the  scores  -
at least that's how I took it. 

Neither Toots nor  William wrote any of the movie scores mentioned in
the article.  However, William played on Baghdad Café and Toots played
on the others.  What the writer missed was Midnight Cowboy, which Toots
also played on,  and which he often plays in live performance. I have
never heard him  play Baghdad Café.

Winslow

--- EGS1217@xxxxxxx  wrote:

>           
> Rupert writes in response to Slim's post about Toots (Great  article, 
> by the 
> way):
>  
> "Message:  6
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:56:01 -0400
> From: Rupert   Oysler <orupert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] For  Toots  Fans...
> 
> 
> Wonderful article, but they  credited Toots for the  soundtrack for
> Bagdad 
> Cafe,  which was actually William  Galison....
> 
> Rupert  Oysler
> www.harprepair.com
> 
> 
> 
>  Slim  Heilpern wrote:
> > If you were wondering how Toots  is  doing...
> >
> >   
>
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aUL8vk8cROBs&refer=muse
>   
> >
> > - Slim."
> 
> .......and there's  only one disparity about that....as far as I can  
> determine  William Galison didn't write the score for Bagdad Cafe 
>  either.  A Bob 
> Telson is credited for the score for the  Movie AND was  nominated for
> an Academy 
> award, a  Golden Globe and a Grammy for  songwriting for Calling You
>  (the 
> gorgeous and evocative song from Bagdad  Cafe) and  sings it himself
> on his own CD.  
> Now there's a  strong  possibility William contributed to some of the
> score  
> (anyone have the  liner notes from the Soundtrack?), but  Telson is
> listed as the  
> composer/songwriter in  anything I can find so far.
>  
> Elizabeth
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