In the soundtrack of director Blake Edward's classic screwball 1920's auto race comedy, "The Great Race", there is a ballroom scene, where The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) has just met an effeminant & drunken Prince Hapnik (Jack Lemmon), and is shocked to find that the prince looks uncannily like his nefarious nemesis, Professor Fate (also Lemmon). Soon after this encounter, the entire ballroom crowd breaks out into a grand waltz.
The waltz being played (orchestrated by the late great Henry Mancini...a regular in Blake's films) is a medley of three/four waltz pieces, the most familiar one of which, being "The Blue Danube".
I was hoping that perhaps someone learned in movie soundtracks & classical music, might recognize the other pieces; it's entirely possible that Mancini mixed classical waltz pieces with his own, based upon the scene. I'm hoping that someone might know, otherwise.
Amazon.com has the CD, but the only waltz on the song list is called "The Royal Waltz".
2007-06-30
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