soundtrack of "local hero"

[manfred]

dear friends,

can you help me with the soundtrack of local hero, one of my favourite movies?

there is a song, victor`s song, called "lone star man", and i cannot find out, whether it`s a traditional

or not, who is the composer, on which cd it is published and so on...

it`s not on the soundtrack-album, and in other forums i could not get an answer,nor did i find

an answer by googling etc. etc. - so you are my last help!!!!

[Chicago Expat]

dear friends,

can you help me with the soundtrack of local hero, one of my favourite movies?

there is a song, victor`s song, called "lone star man", and i cannot find out, whether it`s a traditional

or not, who is the composer, on which cd it is published and so on...

it`s not on the soundtrack-album, and in other forums i could not get an answer,nor did i find

an answer by googling etc. etc. - so you are my last help!!!!

Tough one.

ASCAP's got nothing.

I checked the Library of Congress site and there's no mention. However, apparently there was a book...

Local hero : the making of the film / by Allan Hunter and Mark Astaire.

Perhaps you could contact the authors and see if they have any insight.

Great song from a great movie. One of my top three movies of all time (subjectively speaking).

Good luck. I'll be interested to hear what the answer is.

P.S. Mods, I accidentally hit the Report button instead of Reply. I backed out of the screen, but in case it pops up an alert anyways, well, now you know it was an accident.

Edited March 25, 2011 by Chicago Expat

[manfred]

dear friends,

can you help me with the soundtrack of local hero, one of my favourite movies?

there is a song, victor`s song, called "lone star man", and i cannot find out, whether it`s a traditional

or not, who is the composer, on which cd it is published and so on...

it`s not on the soundtrack-album, and in other forums i could not get an answer,nor did i find

an answer by googling etc. etc. - so you are my last help!!!!

Tough one.

ASCAP's got nothing.

I checked the Library of Congress site and there's no mention. However, apparently there was a book...

Local hero : the making of the film / by Allan Hunter and Mark Astaire.

Perhaps you could contact the authors and see if they have any insight.

Great song from a great movie. One of my top three movies of all time (subjectively speaking).

Good luck. I'll be interested to hear what the answer is.

P.S. Mods, I accidentally hit the Report button instead of Reply. I backed out of the screen, but in case it pops up an alert anyways, well, now you know it was an accident.

thank you, chicago expat, i love this movie since twenty years, watched it last night with a Talisker Whiskey, until my wife asked me get

this song, as "you always find every song for me, darling" ;-)) ......well, now i have to defend my credit, glory and fame.....

and lightheaded and reckles i promised, that someone on "my allmighty and omnipotent forum" will find the answer...

now "i have the salad", as we would call it in german....

[manfred]

...got an info from a movie-forum

someone says, the song is based on Hank Locklin`s country song "Send me the pillow that you dream on"

well, seems to be a bit similar,

what do you think?

[Chicago Expat]

...got an info from a movie-forum

someone says, the song is based on Hank Locklin`s country song "Send me the pillow that you dream on"

well, seems to be a bit similar,

what do you think?

I saw that discussion group earlier. There was some talk about the movie producers borrowing the melody so as to avoid copyright, etc. I couldn't get a read from those posts if it was idle speculation or the straight dope. My first inclination was to keep looking for a better lead.

[Chicago Expat]

I just joined a Mark Knopfler forum and posed the question to them. We'll see if they can come up with anything.

Here's a link to the discussion thread if you want to follow it yourself...

Knopfler forum Local Hero thread

[manfred]

I just joined a Mark Knopfler forum and posed the question to them. We'll see if they can come up with anything.

Here's a link to the discussion thread if you want to follow it yourself...

Knopfler forum Local Hero thread

thank you very much, very kind and a good idea..., i will follow the thread,

thanks again....