Burton Lane: He Should be Better Known: For many years, Burton Lane moved between Hollywood and Broadway writing individual songs for the movies and whole scores for Broadway Musicals like " Finian's Rainbow" AND " On A Clear Day You Can See Forever." Songs like "Everything I have Is Yours" The Lady's In Love With You" and " I Hear Music" are fairly popular but not associated in the public's mind as written by Burton Lane.
The first song I've chosen is " Too Late Now." It's from a 1951 movie " Royal Wedding " which starred Fred Astaire and Jane Powell as a brother and sister musical act.( Just like Fred and Adele Astaire as real life siblings featured on an earlier post on George Gershwin's " I Got Rhythm.")
It is sung by Audra McDonald, a reigning Broadway diva with lovely lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner of " My Fair Lady " fame.
PERFORMANCE LINK:
http://youtu.be/sxgebW1f7ss
The other Burton Lane song is " Old Devil Moon" a sinuous romantic ballad writen for the musical " Finians Rainbow." The lyrics were by E.Y Harburg and the version presented is from the movie version of the musical. directed by a young Francis Ford Coppola before his Godfather trilogy.
It features Petula Clark and Don Franks, a talented Canadian performer in his first and only film appearance. The scene shows how a song is acted out in the context of an actual story related to actual characters as opposed to a straight forward song recital. The two young lovers in the film really demonstrate how important effective acting is to bring to life both a film or stage version of a musical srory.
PERFORMANCE LINK:
http://youtu.be/anB6GoH9mpM
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