Got a week off work, compliments of "the virus", and in between picking banjo and guitar, Ive been watching way too much TV.
Scrolling thru movie choices this morning, i chose Arthur Penn's iconic Bonnie and Clyde (Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway).
I've seen this movie probably 20 times over the years, including when it was first released in 1967 (my Dad and my uncle took me, 9 yrs old, and my cousin, 11 yrs old, to the St. Albans Theater, St. Albans WV), however, I noticed something today that i'd never noticed before.....in the opening credits, Flatt and Scruggs tune is listed as "Foggie" Mountain Breakdown, (not Foggy)
Probably a simple misspelling, by whomever did the graphics, that got past the proof-reader.
No big deal, just a fun little piece of trivia !
I didn't know that!
Another fun fact: On the label of a Rounder Flatt & Scruggs reissue from the 1980s, the tune is listed as "Foggy Mountain Oyster Stew".
I am NOT making that up!
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Originally posted by Ira GitlinI didn't know that!
Another fun fact: On the label of a Rounder Flatt & Scruggs reissue from the 1980s, the tune is listed as "Foggy Mountain Oyster Stew".
I am NOT making that up!
FMOS ? I never knew that !
Yes! This was discussed in an item in the Notes & Queries column of Bluegrass Unlimited sometime in the 1990s, IIRC. (I forget the exact date, but I can dig up a copy if you're interested.) In a lighthearted moment, he mighty Neil V. Rosenberg, who was curating the project, wrote that title in the copy that was slated to go to print, figuring that a proofreader would catch it. But instead Rounder sent it right to the printer. A few hundred copies were printed up like that, but they corrected it in a later pressing.
Scroll down to the sixth comment on this thread: https://www.banjohangout.org/archive/265418 .
There is not much about the original Bonnie and Clyde movie that is actually true in fact Frank Hamers wife sued the movie company when the movie came out for defamation of character for a wrongful depiction of her husband in the movie. If you want to see a more accurate movie about Bonnie and Clyde, then you should check out a movie called the Highway Men. Starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. It is on Netflix. Extremely good movie.
Mark Cox but does it feature bluegrass music (which had yet to become created)?
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Originally posted by Mark CoxThere is not much about the original Bonnie and Clyde movie that is actually true in fact Frank Hamers wife sued the movie company when the movie came out for defamation of character for a wrongful depiction of her husband in the movie. If you want to see a more accurate movie about Bonnie and Clyde, then you should check out a movie called the Highway Men. Starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. It is on Netflix. Extremely good movie.
Watched The Highwaymen last night, which kinda led me into watching B & C today.
After seeing the movie in '67, i re-eraad everything i could get my hands on regarding Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (and John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Al Capone, et. al)
Always found the stories / histories of the Depression-era gangsters kinda fascinating.
Uhhh....in my post above that is supposed to say...."I read"....not "I re-eraad" !
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