Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Music movie soundtrack to Dillinger is Dead (Dillinger è Morto)?

There isn't much dialog in Marco Ferreri 's 1968 film Dillinger Is Dead (Italian: Dillinger è Morto) but there is a lot of good music played quitely in the background by the actors turning on TVs, radios or record players. Neither the orginal film or the Criterion DVD credits anyone other than Teo Usuelli.

I've figured out some song but, the good ones remain a mystery. Does anyone know who the artists were?:

01 - Teo Usuelli(?) - credits [wordless a capella like Burt Bacharach]
02 - Jimmy Fontana - Cielo Rosso (Red Sky)
03 - Patty Pravo - Qui e La (Here And There)
04 - ? - In Italian translated as "I recorded your voice on two tape recorders that play continuously so that your voice is always here"
05 - ? - "Lone gun where do you wander tonight?" [spoken and sung in English [Western style]. Similar to "Ballad of the Green Berets"]
06 - The Four Kents - Trav'lin' Man [Stevie Wonder cover]
07 - The Four Kents - The Moving Finger Writes [Len Barry cover]
08 - The Four Kents - Searchin' For My Baby [not the Leiber/Stoller song]
09 - Dino(?) - Italian pop song
10 - Teo Usuelli(?) - march. bike race on TV
11 - Teo Usuelli(?) - sitar instrumental on TV
12 - ? - vocal samba 1 & 2 sung in Spanish or Portuguese
13 - ? - another samba 3
14 - ? - classical flute & piano pieces
15 - Teo Usuelli(?) - spooky instrumental
16 - The Rokes - Hold My Hand
17 - The Rokes - Ripe Apples
18 - ? - guitar instrumental with funny organ [similar to Shadows] on radio
19 - Teo Usuelli(?) - spooky instrumental reprise
20 - ? - samba reprise then whirly stick noises

17 comments:

  1. 16 is Hold My Hand by The Rokes! Have a listen:

    http://youtu.be/q9rW-FRTG1M

    And "Tall trees make the small man smaller, how can a small man face a world as big as this?" is by The Rokes too... greetings from Italy :-D

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    1. What is the title of the Rokes song with the lyrics "Tall Trees Make the Small Man Smaller"? Dying to find it.

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  2. Thank you. I also found that a few more were by the super-obscure group The Four Kents. I can't find anything by The Four Kents on CD.

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  3. both sambas are sung in brazilian portuguese :)

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  4. Dude thank you so much for this. I have been looking everywhere for that "spooky instrumental" and finally found it thanks to seeing the name Teo Usuelli. Seriously great job and thanks a bunch.

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    1. Hey Will! Where have you found the "Spooky Instrumental"? I'm searching for it from years and years!!!

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  5. 1 - "La Luce Accesa", instrumental by Teo Usuelli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxAY2PmPOWU
    2 - "La Luce Accesa", sung by Lucio Dalla - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmY5j6kfss

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  6. 9 - "Io mi sveglio a mezzogiorno", sung by Dino - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh09h1yLsCk

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  7. the sambas are sung in portuguese, not spanish.

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  8. Number 20 is surprisingly "Ai, Morena" by Morricone:

    https://youtu.be/OFJ2yTta-8w

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  9. I really wish i could find song #4

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    1. NUMBER 4 IS LUCIO DALLA:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqCdMekypEM

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  10. NUMBER 12 AND 13 IS ALSO MORRICONE:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnaGXmdqFg&list=LLiTXqF7M7tYx94yZcjdEf5A&index=1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBjmwBe6y4&list=LLiTXqF7M7tYx94yZcjdEf5A&index=2

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  11. I can't seem to find song #5, does anyone potentially have a link to it?

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  12. This is super helpful, everyone, thank you! Anyone know of the song in the trailer?!

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  13. Isn't the Patty Provo tune a take-off on Holy Cow by Allen Toussaint/ Lee Dorsey...different words but melody and arrangement are the same...any thoughts?

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  14. The charasmatic Dillinger only takes a second of film to see why he is remembered and his killers and vultures are not. A timely and insightful film in this year of alienation and masks..

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