Music in
Keno Don Rosa's Pages
Treasury of Croesus
(WDC&S 601-3, February-April, 1996)
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The running gag throughout the story, as the ducks search for the
treasure of King Croesus of Lydia, is a song that Donald keeps singing:
"Lydia, The Tattooed Lady". The song was written by H. Arlen, E.Y. Harbourg, and was featured in the Marx Brothers' At the Circus (1939), where it was performed by Groucho . |
The Marx Brothers |
http://www.marxbrothers.nu/ |
Harold Arlen | http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/TRA/Did_he_write_that.html |
Lydia, The Tattooed Lady | http://www.geocities.com/flatbush_skp/lydia.html |
(Click on one of the image below to download & play the song--
1.09Mb wav file ; sorry, I have lost the address where I found it)
(part 1, p 2, panels 8-9) (part 1, p 3, panels 1-5)
(part 2, p 2, panels 4-5)
The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck
Part 9 : The Billionaire of Dismal Downs (1902)
(U$ 293, August 1995)
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"Well, you must have known that Scrooge's parents would have
to leave sometime during the course of this series. I don't know if
a character has ever died in a Disney comic book, so I had no precedent
to refer to. I think I handled it fairly tastefully by allowing the
final scene in The Ghost and Mrs Muir to be my inspiration:
I could hear that glorious Bernard Herrmann score in my head as I
drew those last panels." . Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 - December 24 1975)
ranks among the foremost film music composers, and his collaboration
with Alfred Hitchock as one of the finest. |
(Hear the glorious finale of Bernard Herrmann's score by click on the image
below-- 1.14Mb mp3 file;
Citizen Kane: The Essential Bernard Herrmann Film Music Collection,
performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Silva
Screen)
(start reading about 1:50 into the cue)