In his retro car, he drove with zest,
A detective in uniform, looking his best.
With a mustache so fine,
He'd solve every crime,
Yet beneath it all, hid his sorrows suppressed...
If you want to track down the orchestra members and have a word, it's probably more up your street than Jim's or mine. Most likely just putting a name to him. Be alright with that? I should think I'll manage.
When your friend brought you home the other night, I didn’t see a coward. Just a man beat up too often and for too long, maybe. You’re not yellow. You’re just blue.
Happy Sunday to everyone. Let's hope the upcoming week doesn't completely suck hahaha
Smiling/laughing Shaun to keep cleansing the brain from UIKY (will I ever watch it? Who knows!)
Also, tonight will air season eight's first episode of endeavour (of course hahaha) here in Italy. I've already watched it (cannot say how, though 🤫👀) but who am I to not watch it for the umpteenth time??
Endeavour Morse and the case of the disappearing Dean Martin song
Sway has always had one of my favourite openings of any Endeavour episode, mostly for the use of Sway by Dean Martin while the opening titles run. something about this romantic pop song being overlaid on top of the unfolding darkness and drama - and repeated multiple times throughout the episode to punctuate further tragedy - is so striking and really, really does it for me. by the time Huggins puts on that record for his final dance with Gloria, and Sway (the song) starts up, the opening chords are less of a fun bolero flourish and more a banshee shriek of horror to come.
so I was amazed to learn recently that the version of Sway (the episode) I've loved for ten years now... basically doesn't exist outside of the UK and Ireland? the Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour blog theorises that due to copyright restrictions, all overseas releases of the episode - including DVDs and the PBS Masterpiece version, which was later released on Amazon - replace Sway (the song) with a jazz instrumental piece composed by Barrington Pheloung. nothing but respect for Mr Pheloung's decades of work in defining Morse's sound as we know it today, but this replacement doesn't hold a candle to the original episode's vision.
(also, Sway (the song) is kind of hilariously load-bearing in that the episode title doesn't make a lot of sense without the song's appearance at key thematic moments, imo.)
anyway - after I made my initial post about this last week, a couple of people expressed interest in hearing the original episode's music, and after some digging I was able to find a copy ripped directly from ITV! enjoy the opening 3 minutes of Sway (the episode) as Russell Lewis intended:
the first episode of Until I Kill You has a scene where john and delia go to john's parents house for christmas and there's a quick shot of a childhood picture of john
do we think this is actually a picture of baby shaun????