Speaker 1: This is remember when with Harvey Digan on Perth sixty R.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, Carole, and Peter Taylor joins us now
Speaker 2: and he, of course is our classic music man. And
Speaker 2: oh boy, as we say, very good evening to you. Peter,
Speaker 2: I reckon you've jumped to the top of the pile
Speaker 2: with this one that you've picked tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, good evening, have you look. It's been my pleasure.
Speaker 3: It's just really deciding on what was going to be
Speaker 3: a great film to be discussing tonight. And I thought, well,
Speaker 3: there is a film that's celebrating it sixty years now.
Speaker 3: And I know it's hard to believe it is sixty
Speaker 3: years but I thought, well, let's discuss the Sound of
Speaker 3: Music nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful. Well, I don't think there'd be one person
Speaker 2: out there that hasn't seen the Sound of Music of
Speaker 2: any age. And it's hard to believe it is, as
Speaker 2: you say, sixty years old, but that's that's when it appeared,
Speaker 2: and that was starring, of course, the wonderful Julianne and
Speaker 2: Christopher Plumber. Would you like to have a listen to
Speaker 2: it textually, really rather lengthy trailer as trailers go, but
Speaker 2: it really does sum up the whole movie, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: gives us a little inkling of the songs that are
Speaker 2: in the movie, and there are some absolutely memorable songs.
Speaker 2: So let's have a listen to that pig.
Speaker 4: Than live with the sound of Musy with songs they
Speaker 4: have sound for a thousand years.
Speaker 3: As I sound your signals, you will step one and
Speaker 3: give your names.
Speaker 2: You will listen carefully learn that signals so you can call.
Speaker 1: Them when you want them.
Speaker 5: The celebrated play that delights in the world, actually photographed
Speaker 5: amidst the wondrous beauties of Salzburg, Austria, with the performance
Speaker 5: of a lifetime by the screen's brightest star Julie Andrews,
Speaker 5: and the glorious role of Maria.
Speaker 4: How do you solve a problem night, Marie? How do
Speaker 4: you catch a cloud and pin it down?
Speaker 5: How do you find a word that means?
Speaker 4: Maria of limited in Tomia away a clown?
Speaker 3: Maria makes me laugh.
Speaker 5: Maria who wettered the strange new world of Captain Vontrap
Speaker 5: and captivated his seven children with a magical spell of song.
Speaker 5: The girls in white dresses with glue, satin sashes, snow breaks,
Speaker 5: but stay on my nose and eye lashes, sylver white
Speaker 5: winters that melt into springs.
Speaker 4: These are a few of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: The dopy.
Speaker 3: Priline.
Speaker 5: Did I not tell you that bedtime is strictly to
Speaker 5: be observed in this house?
Speaker 3: You did, sir?
Speaker 2: And do you or do you not have difficulty remembering
Speaker 2: such simple instructions only during sunderstorm?
Speaker 5: Sir? Here two new numbers especially written for the picture
Speaker 5: by Richard Rogers plus Rogers and Hammerstein's Immortal songe A.
Speaker 4: Deer, a female deer, ray, a drop of golden sun.
Speaker 4: Me a name I call myself.
Speaker 5: Far, long, long way to run by.
Speaker 3: Sixteen going on seventeen.
Speaker 2: I know that I'm nine.
Speaker 4: Oh please, Captain, love them.
Speaker 3: Love them all.
Speaker 5: I don't care to hear anything bout that from here
Speaker 5: on my shoulders.
Speaker 3: Oh yes you are.
Speaker 2: You will pack your things this minute and return to
Speaker 2: the abbey.
Speaker 1: Captainland Chap Are you in love with him?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the baroness said I was. She
Speaker 4: said that he was in love with me, but I
Speaker 4: didn't want to believe it.
Speaker 3: You're far away?
Speaker 2: Where are you in the world that's disappearing?
Speaker 5: Right, anyway I can bring you back to the world
Speaker 5: I'm in.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 5: So somewhere in my youth, sore child, I must have
Speaker 5: done so. See, here is the perfect motion picture that
Speaker 5: touches every note in the whole scale of human emotion.
Speaker 2: Well it says it all, doesn't informt Wow, I was right,
Speaker 2: amazing stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh look, it was such an incredible movie. And I think,
Speaker 3: as you said before, Harvey, I think probably everybody in
Speaker 3: the entire world has probably seen it now over the
Speaker 3: past sixty years. I think because of been played on
Speaker 3: you know, when it came out on video, when it
Speaker 3: came out on television. I think people have seening it
Speaker 3: over and over in the years, and so many songs
Speaker 3: that they played their do ray me, you know, Climb
Speaker 3: every Mountain, so many songs that people hear it straight
Speaker 3: away and they don't even need to guess. It's the
Speaker 3: sound of music. And I think that's been the wonderful
Speaker 3: thing about it. The whole film and the production of
Speaker 3: it incredible and yet so interesting that so many people
Speaker 3: didn't want to do the movie. You know, everyone looked
Speaker 3: at the script of these directors and actors and sure
Speaker 3: for me, thanks mate, I don't really care much for it,
Speaker 3: And even Christopher Plumber, who played the actual role, he
Speaker 3: always referred to it as the sound of Mucus because
Speaker 3: he thought it was just just so sugar And he
Speaker 3: didn't even want to work with Julie Andrews. She thought, no,
Speaker 3: she's just too Disney for me, because he was very
Speaker 3: much character actor back in the sixties. But ironically he
Speaker 3: and Julian Andrews became very very good friends as the
Speaker 3: years progressed, and up until his death they became very
Speaker 3: very close friends. But it was just fascinating the fact
Speaker 3: that you look upon this film now, which between nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty five and nineteen seventy was the highest grossing film
Speaker 3: in the world for five years. Nothing took over it.
Speaker 3: It was the biggest musical up until Green until nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy eight. But if you sort of compare the dollars
Speaker 3: that they paid back in sixty five to seventy eight,
Speaker 3: it would have earned more money than what Greece did.
Speaker 3: So a huge, huge musical and certainly one of the
Speaker 3: greatest ones, and so great to be celebrating sixty years
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Indeed, and to an extra layer of greatness for this
Speaker 2: movie is that. Of course, it was based on a
Speaker 2: very true story.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely yeah. The Maria ron Trapp was actually based
Speaker 3: on her shorts memoir that she did called the Story
Speaker 3: of the Von Trapp Family Singers. Now she did that
Speaker 3: about nineteen forty nine, I think when that actually originally
Speaker 3: came out. But there is the interesting thing too, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's the story about them, how they were singers, they
Speaker 3: were involved in Austria and right in the midst of
Speaker 3: the Antlaus which of course was the connecting of Germany
Speaker 3: and Austria back in the late nineteen thirties. We basically
Speaker 3: Hitler basically saying, look, it's my plan to take over Austria.
Speaker 3: So you guys are all going to be flying the
Speaker 3: flag for the Nazi flag. You can put all those
Speaker 3: Ostrian flags down. So with this, she obviously was a
Speaker 3: nun that a very disruptive nun too, by the way.
Speaker 3: She bit bossy in a bit disruptive, and she was
Speaker 3: then sent over to the von Trapps to actually look
Speaker 3: after the captain's oldest daughter, whose name actually was Maria
Speaker 3: as well, but obviously for the film they changed all
Speaker 3: the names to Lisel and everybody else in the particular film,
Speaker 3: but very interestingly because when you look at the study
Speaker 3: of the movie itself against the actual real events that
Speaker 3: took place, so you can say it's based on it.
Speaker 3: It was very interesting that the captain von Trapp was
Speaker 3: actually a very mild, very pleasant young man, but Maria
Speaker 3: was a very bossy sort of loud quite different to
Speaker 3: the actual movie. But no wonder she got kicked out
Speaker 3: of the comment. Very very interesting, but yeah, I look,
Speaker 3: what a sensational movie to have with her. But you know,
Speaker 3: there were some really interesting little notes in this particular film.
Speaker 3: A lot of people mightn't have known with it. But
Speaker 3: are you familiar with the name Marnie.
Speaker 2: Nixon, Marni Nixon, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Marnie Nixon did all the voiceovers for so many films.
Speaker 3: She did the voiceover for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady,
Speaker 3: for Deborah Krr in The King and I, and for
Speaker 3: Natalie Wood in West Side Story. So she did all
Speaker 3: the singing voices. And in this particular movie she had
Speaker 3: a role. She was actually played one of the nuns
Speaker 3: in this Now it's very interesting because if you look
Speaker 3: back on this particular movie, the fact that when she
Speaker 3: did the voice for My Fair Lady. That role was
Speaker 3: originally meant to be for Julie Andrews. But of course
Speaker 3: then when when it was done by Augiy Hip and
Speaker 3: then then sung by Marty Nixon, you can imagine the
Speaker 3: fact that then she's going to meet her on the
Speaker 3: set of Sound of Music and go, oh, this could
Speaker 3: be quite awkward, couldn't it. But no, they became very
Speaker 3: good friends as well. But she had a beautiful voice
Speaker 3: with it as well. It's yeah, nice tonight. Good to
Speaker 3: see Martey Nixon actually in real life rather than just
Speaker 3: hearing a voice as well. So it was good. But
Speaker 3: this this is a big film too, by the way, Harvey,
Speaker 3: this film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, so this
Speaker 3: is a massive and one five including Best Picture and
Speaker 3: Best Director.
Speaker 2: And she lost out, didn't she? Julie to another Julie
Speaker 2: for the Oscar for Best Actress?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she did in Darling. She won the Best Film
Speaker 3: for that. But I've been saying that though it was
Speaker 3: very interesting Julie Andrews got nominated for Best Actress, but
Speaker 3: she won it the year before for or Mary Poppins.
Speaker 3: Now interesting to note with this, when they were making
Speaker 3: the Sound of Music Mary Poppins hadn't come out yet,
Speaker 3: so of course nobody was really aware of the stage
Speaker 3: presence that Julie Andrews actually had. In fact, even Robert Wise,
Speaker 3: who actually directed the film, he had seen her on
Speaker 3: stage and thought she's really good on stage, but I
Speaker 3: don't really know about her work ethic in film. And
Speaker 3: it wasn't until Walt Disney showed him footage from her
Speaker 3: role in Mary Poppins he went, could be on a
Speaker 3: winner here. So yeah, So that's the reason why he
Speaker 3: really confirmed the decision to have Julie Andrews play in
Speaker 3: that particular role. And so funny too because during the
Speaker 3: rehearsals and when they were doing the Sound of Music,
Speaker 3: during the breaks and times, she would actually sing to
Speaker 3: the children super color fragulistics, expialidocios, and they thought there
Speaker 3: was just a made up song that she was doing
Speaker 3: for them, but of course she just finished doing Mary
Speaker 3: Poppin so sing it to the kids.
Speaker 2: What a great lady, Oh I've what a wonderful lady.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, and great actress and an amazing voice
Speaker 2: that she had until unfortunately that got the better off her,
Speaker 2: as we know in her later life. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: There's plenty more to talk about with the Sound of Music.
Speaker 1: Pete back on Perth six PR. This is remember when
Speaker 1: with Harvey Degan and.
Speaker 2: Peter Taylor, our movie guru is analyzing one of the
Speaker 2: great movies of all time without any question at all,
Speaker 2: Sound of Music. And I was just looking through the
Speaker 2: cast and all that sort of thing, Peter and I
Speaker 2: noticed that the music for Sound of Music credited with
Speaker 2: that is Richard Rodgers. And of course we all know
Speaker 2: about the Yeah, the combination of Rogers and Hammerstein. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but by the time the movie had come around, I
Speaker 2: think they collaborated in the stage production, did they not correct? Yes,
Speaker 2: And then by the time the movie had come around, sadly,
Speaker 2: Oscar Hammerstein had had passed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct. He was very very ill. But just
Speaker 3: before he did pass though, obviously during the stage production
Speaker 3: the film at Avice was one of the songs that
Speaker 3: he had actually written for the movie as well, which
Speaker 3: of course is such a beautiful again, one of the
Speaker 3: classic songs that people hear that song and they automatically
Speaker 3: referred to as sounded music. But they were a gifted
Speaker 3: lot on those two I mean Oklahoma and you feel, gosh,
Speaker 3: you think of the big films back in the forties
Speaker 3: and fifties, and both Rogers and Hammerstein they were just
Speaker 3: phenomenal writers of the music without as well. But I think,
Speaker 3: you know, it's again when we look at the film
Speaker 3: like this in sixty five, because obviously there was nothing
Speaker 3: further after this that they did. But that's the reason
Speaker 3: why now it seems hard that musicals can do this,
Speaker 3: because there was so much depth to the music that
Speaker 3: they brought into that as well. And you know, I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure twentieth century Fox were happy about it as well,
Speaker 3: because they just but went broke two years beforehand when
Speaker 3: they were made the film called Cleopatra with Taylor and
Speaker 3: Richard Burton. We thanked Rogers Damerstein for coming across sound
Speaker 3: of music. I'm sure that's save their budgets. So very interesting.
Speaker 3: It was very very interesting. One other important thing too
Speaker 3: with it, Harvey, a lot of people were the critics
Speaker 3: criticized the sound of music too because they kept making
Speaker 3: references saying, are you're just doing a remake of The
Speaker 3: King and I, which of course was with Jil Brenner
Speaker 3: and Jebra Khr with a like a person coming in
Speaker 3: to help as it was the King as I am
Speaker 3: at the time, and with his children. They said, there's
Speaker 3: such an incredible sort of resemblance to it. But as
Speaker 3: far as I'm concerned, there was no comparison or King
Speaker 3: and I didn't win Best Picture, but Sounded Music did
Speaker 3: so as percent. Sound of music was definitely the pick.
Speaker 2: The other thing too, when you do think about it
Speaker 2: and go through the nominations for Academy Awards, and as
Speaker 2: you say, there was a raft of them nominations for
Speaker 2: the movie, and quite a few that they actually won.
Speaker 2: A lot of the winning Oscars went for technical reasons.
Speaker 2: In other words, they won the Oscar for Best Sound,
Speaker 2: they won the Oscar for Best Scoring of music. And
Speaker 2: you know, as far as attension to detailers concerned, best
Speaker 2: Film editing, I mean talk about they must have got
Speaker 2: together the absolute cream of all the various experts in
Speaker 2: the various fields of movies, all under the one roof,
Speaker 2: as it were, for the one movie.
Speaker 3: Oh, without question, I think that was the thing with it.
Speaker 3: By the time they got the right people in to
Speaker 3: do the movie, I think they had chosen very well.
Speaker 3: I mean, originally they you know, Alana Parker played the
Speaker 3: role of the baroness. But they originally had they expected
Speaker 3: someone like Grace Kelly do the role. I mean, Grace
Speaker 3: Kelly would have been a beautiful baroness to but she'd
Speaker 3: sort of by sixty five she said, now I'm done
Speaker 3: with acting, thanks very much. It's not my cup of
Speaker 3: tea anymore. But even you know, some of the children
Speaker 3: involved with I mean people like Richard Drayfuss, Kurt Russell,
Speaker 3: the Osmond brothers, they were all picked as they auditioned
Speaker 3: for the role the boys in the movie as well.
Speaker 3: So look, there was a huge amount of people that
Speaker 3: were just getting involved with it. But then you look
Speaker 3: at who they've chosen and you think it was a beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful choice of actors actresses. The voices were fantastic throughout it.
Speaker 3: I know some of them were semi dubbed or whatever else,
Speaker 3: Christopher Plummers and whatever else. But still the whole way
Speaker 3: that the film was edited through, it was just a
Speaker 3: beautiful story of this family in the turmoil in Austria,
Speaker 3: but basically through singing, got their escape and basically left
Speaker 3: Nazi Germany, and so they didn't have to deal with
Speaker 3: that in the years to come. So von Trapp herself
Speaker 3: was very good in doing that, although it was so
Speaker 3: sad the fact that she wasn't actually invited to the
Speaker 3: premiere of the Sound of Music. I think because of
Speaker 3: her issues that she had with Robert wise, being a
Speaker 3: bit bullying on set with him. He sort of sort
Speaker 3: of banned it from a set after a while, saying okay,
Speaker 3: because they kept saying, but you know, because my dad's
Speaker 3: not like that, can you change his character? And they
Speaker 3: said no, no, we need to have that character in
Speaker 3: such a way that when Marina comes into his life,
Speaker 3: that's what changes his life. And that's what you do
Speaker 3: with movies. You know, you can base it on something,
Speaker 3: but it's not word for word exactly what happened with
Speaker 3: the Von Trapps, and certainly with Sound of Music it wasn't,
Speaker 3: but it's certainly it was a rendition of that, and
Speaker 3: I think because of that people loved it. I still
Speaker 3: think it's one of my most favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 3: I love the film. I don't know. I must have
Speaker 3: said it fifteen twenty times in our pasty iddyears, and
Speaker 3: I've seen it with my children and I've said it
Speaker 3: with my grandchildren. So yeah, I love the sound of music.
Speaker 2: Well, I think most other people do, most thinking people,
Speaker 2: that is for sure. It's interesting that we're just a
Speaker 2: bit out of time, mate, But you've gone through this
Speaker 2: movie beautifully for us. Coming up after the next break.
Speaker 2: Speaking of sixtieth anniversaries, Channel nine is celebrating it's sixty
Speaker 2: year anniversary this coming Thursday, and so that's coincidental. You
Speaker 2: know that the movie sixty years old. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you would have remembered back in those days, mate,
Speaker 2: when Channel nine Perth first went to air.
Speaker 3: Well, I do. I remember the Channel Niners Club that
Speaker 3: was sort of started in the sort of early seventies
Speaker 3: and late sixties, and I was actually a member of that.
Speaker 3: They used to invite children to the set and that
Speaker 3: have all different sort of magicians and its and peoples,
Speaker 3: and they had a little thing called the Happy Smilers Club.
Speaker 3: And I actually won the Happy Smilers. I was given
Speaker 3: a whole pile of toys like Test Cricket Tests. I
Speaker 3: don't remember that game Test Cricket.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love you Get.
Speaker 3: With the Wood. I loved it, so yes, congratulations Channel
Speaker 3: nine and sixty year out of firsty do you remember
Speaker 3: it very well?
Speaker 2: Oh? That's fantastic. Well, we'll be speaking to Steve Marshall,
Speaker 2: nine perths Broadcast Operations Manager, Peter. Your immediate tasks, should
Speaker 2: you choose to accept it, borrowing that from Mission Impossible
Speaker 2: is to find something equal or better than sound of music.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that mate, for next time, give.
Speaker 3: You my pleasure, Harvey, love you having a chat.
Speaker 2: Take care mate.
Speaker 3: Thank you,