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The Western Skyline – Woody Allen’s Music

Karen J McDonnell

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The Western Skyline – Woody Allen’s Music

First broadcast on wildatlanticwaves.wordpress.com on 30 July 2015

Thanks to my friends and family, and to the listeners who contacted the show via Twitter, and Facebook. And thanks to Sinéad, Tom, Peadar, Gerry & Heather – the people who gave radioheads like me the chance to create, broadcast and podcast my shows. And to the GRETB radioheads … it’s been a blast guys!

Thank you all. X

So: the final show from this series of The Western Skyline on Wild Atlantic Waves Radio …  … The music of Woody Allen’s films, plus a track from the man himself; no mean player of New Orleans jazz clarinet. Check out the documentary film about Allen, his films, and music: Wild Man Blues 

You can listen to the podcast of the show here, and the playlist is below.

The Western Skyline: Woody Allen’s Music  

First broadcast 10.30-11.30am on  30 July 2015

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Track Name: Theme from the Purple Rose of Cairo

Complete Work Name: Same [Purple Rose of Cairo soundtrack]

Composer: Dick Hyman

Album Title: House of Pianos

Record Label: Arbors Records 2015

Duration: 02.09

Track Name: Dancing Cheek to Cheek

Complete Work Name: Same [Purple Rose of Cairo soundtrack]

Performer: Fred Astaire

Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films: compilation

Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)

Duration: 03.16

Laaa di daaa (Note Annie's clothes!)
Laaa di daaa
(Note Annie’s clothes!)

Track Name: Moonglow

Complete Work Name: Same [Annie Hall soundtrack]

Orchestra: Artie Shaw & his orchestra

Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films: compilation

Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)

Duration: 03.20

Manhattan film

Track Name: Rhapsody in Blue

Complete Work Name: Opening scene of Manhattan/ Voicover by Woody Allen

Composer: George Gershwin

Orchestra: New York Philharmonic

Downloaded from YouTube

Duration: 03.42

Martin Landau & Woody Allen
Martin Landau & Woody Allen

Track Name: String quartet No.15. Excerpt from the 1st Movement Allegro Molto Moderato

Complete Work Name: String Quartet in G Major #15 D887 [Crimes & Misdemeanours]

Composer: Schubert

Orchestra: Artemis Quartet

Album Title: Schubert Quartets 13,14,15

Record Label: Virgin Classics

Duration: 04.21

Track Name:  Gymnopedie #3

Complete Work Name: Les Gymnopedies  [Another Woman soundtrack]

Composer: Eric Satie

Orchestr: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Pianist: Philippe Entremont

Album Title: Woody Allen Classics

Record Label:

Duration: 03.25

Radio Days - Joe's family © www.yv.org
Radio Days – Joe’s family
© http://www.yv.org

Track Name: In the Mood

Complete Work Name: Same [Radio Days soundtrack]

Composer: Glenn Miller

Orchestra: The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Conductor: Glenn Miller

Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films

Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)

Duration: 03.29

Radio Days - New Year's Eve 1944: The Masked Avenger & Sally ( post-elocution lessons!)
Radio Days – New Year’s Eve 1944: The Masked Avenger & Sally ( post-elocution lessons!)

Track Name:  If I didn’t care

Complete Work Name: same [Radio Days soundtrack]

Orchestra: The Ink Spots

Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films

Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)

Duration: 02.56

Allen directing Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow & Barbara Hershey in Hannah & Her Sisters
Allen directing Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow & Barbara Hershey in Hannah & Her Sisters

Track Name:  Largo (excerpt)

Complete Work Name: Concerto #5 in F Minor [Hannah & Her Sisters]

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Orchestra: London Strings

Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner

Album Title:

Record Label: Sony BMG

Duration: 03.10

Midnight in Paris

Track Name: La Conga Blicoti

Complete Work Name: same [Midnight in Paris]

Singer: Josephine Baker

Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films

Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)

Duration: 02.18

Woody - Wild Man Blues

Track Name: Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp

Complete Work Name: Same [Wild Man Blues documentary]

Orchestra: Woody Allen & Band incl. Eddy Davis

Album Title: Wild Man Blues

Record Label: BMG Entertainment 1998

Duration: 04.43

 

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Tracking the Ghost Train

Karen J McDonnell
Slieve Callan in shed at Moyasta Junction
Slieve Callan in shed at Moyasta Junction

Here is a link to the mini-documentary I made about the West Clare Railway.

My thanks to all the people who contributed to it and who gave me great leads and stories … enough to make a full length documentary!

It’s dedicated to my mother & and her sisters, my grandmother, and great-grandmother – all of whom travelled to Kilkee on the West Clare.

So after all the work … here is Tracking the Ghost Train

 

I’d love to get your feedback … and any stories you have about the West Clare Railway.

Tracking the ghost train – 1

Karen J McDonnell
Slieve Callan in shed at Moyasta Junction
Slieve Callan in shed at Moyasta Junction

Working hard on my mini documentary for the Diploma in Radio.

Had a great trip down West Clare way last Thursday to Moyasta Junction where number 5 steam engine, the Slieve Callan, from the West Clare Railway is kept in a purpose-built shed. Got a great tour from Stephen Whelan, which was really appreciated.

The engine will be out on the tracks during the June Bank holiday and would be a great day out for young and old. Keep an eye on their Facebook page for full details and opening hours.

We picked the best day of the week for the journey, so we dropped by the White Strand beach near Doonbeg for a walk with the dog. And there was fish & chips for lunch in Kilrush, with a coffee in the wonderful Potter’s Hand Café.

Would it have been a trip to the seaside without a 99 on the way home?Of course not.

All that, and I got to relive my childhood when I climbed aboard the Slieve Callan. A happy day.

Choooooo, choooo!!!