WON TON TON: THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD / OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELIN' SO SAD (1000 EDITION) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT
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Name: KRITZERLAND
Number: KR200285

WON TON TON: THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD / OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELIN' SO SAD (1000 EDITION) (CD)
Composed by: Neal Hefti

Sample Tracks
Name Number
Paramount on Parade/Main Title 01
Won Ton Rescues Again/Consolation/Rhoda’s Play On 09
Sad Parting 15
What a Story/Finale/End Credits 19
Like Heaven (Prologue) 22
Home Movies 23
This Is Mother 26
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In 1976, Paramount had an interesting slate of releases featuring dramas, comedies, and even two musicals. Two of the comedies and both musicals were spoofs, but this was several years before Paramount would hit it big with the spoof to end all spoofs, Airplane (the big hit comedy from Paramount that year – The Bad News Bears – wasn’t a spoof). The musical spoofs that came and went were The First Nudie Musical and Bugsy Malone, both of which would go on to cult film status. The two comedy spoofs were The Big Bus, a send-up of disaster movies, and Won Ton Ton: The Dog That Saved Hollywood, a send-up of the silent film era and canine movie heroes like Rin Tin Tin and Lassie.

Won Ton Ton seems almost the end of an era. The cast included a huge number of cameos by an amazing array of Hollywood veterans, over fifty of them. The leading cast featured Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr and Art Carney, and a brilliant performance by Augustus von Schumacher as Won Ton Ton. To the filmmakers, it must have seemed like a film that could not lose.

The film came out, received middling reviews, and disappeared until the advent of home video and cable allowed people to find it and enjoy it for what it was – a fun, celebrity-filled lark with some truly amusing sequences. And the producers could not have made a better choice of film composer than the great Neal Hefti.

Hefti’s style was breezy and melodic, but he was also an expert dramatic composer – even in his comedy films – and such is the case with Won Ton Ton. The flavor of the main title music, which evokes the 1920s, continues throughout the score for the upbeat cues, but Hefti also has several beautiful themes running throughout the film to underscore the sweet affection the dog feels for the Madeline Kahn character. It’s a truly delightful score, both in and away from the film, and it’s classic Hefti all the way.

This is the world premiere release of Won Ton Ton, taken from the multi-track tapes stored in the Paramount vault and newly mixed especially for this release, in wonderful stereo sound.

Our second feature is Hefti’s infectious score to the 1967 comedy Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, an adaptation of Arthur L. Kopit’s 1962 play. For the film, Neal Hefti created another melodic and fun score, including a bouncy main title song and several classic Hefti tunes along the way. Our source for this CD was the original three-track album master. - KRITZERLAND

WON TON TON: THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD

1. Paramount on Parade / Main Title
2. Bad Day for Dogs / Pound Break
3. Gramophone #1
4.The Won Ton Ton Rag / Love at First Sight / Theme from Won Ton Ton
5. Won Ton Ton Loves Estie
6. Get Lost / Invitation to the Dance
7. Return Home / The Wild Bus / Death March* / Won’s Name
8. Success Montage
9. Won Ton Rescues Again / Consolation / Rhoda’s Play On
10. Won’s Won / Won Ton’s Fanfare / Won Ton Gives Estie Oscar / Morning Promises / Drive to Santa Barbara
11. Arabian Switch / Return of the Sheik / Rudy the Star / Estie’s Grand Entrance
12. The Ritz Ramble / Mafia Chord / Won’s Indian Rescue / Won’s Rescue Attempt** / The Custer Disaster
13. Sunset Beach / Gramophone #2
14. Cielito Lindo (Traditional, arr. Hefti)
15. Sad Parting
16. Star Rising / Chaotic Walk
17 Dog Act Part 1 / Dog Act Part 2 / The Stripper / Reward / Won Chases Estie
18. Rejected / Reunited
19. What a Story / Finale / End Credits

*Incorporates “Attack” by J. Trombey
**Incorporates “Comedy Cocktails No. 11” by Paul Gerard
“Paramount on Parade” by Jack King and Elsie Janis

OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA’S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I’M FEELIN’ SO SAD

20. Oh Dad, Poor Dad (Main Title)
21. Boy-Girl Calypso
22. Like Heaven (Prologue)
23. Home Movies
24. The Revolt of Jonathan Rosepettle III
25. Theme for a Boy and Girl
26. This Is Mother
27. Oh Dad Calypso
28. Spooky Coffins
29. Into the Sunset (Epilogue)
30. Oh Dad, Poor Dad (End Title)

  
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