A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total
Frederick Brady
- Ted Barry
- (as Fred Brady)
Fritz Feld
- Niccolò Paganini
- (uncredited)
Halliwell Hobbes
- Franz Liszt
- (uncredited)
Elmer Jerome
- Official Recorder
- (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
- Johannes Brahms
- (uncredited)
Lionel Royce
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- (uncredited)
Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
- Gabriel
- (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr.
- Richard Wagner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTchaikovsky scolds Ted for having used one of his melodies and then says to the Official Recorder to let him "know when that Freddy Martin checks in here (Heaven)". Freddy Martin's biggest hit was "Tonight We Love" in 1941, which heavily borrowed from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto Number 1 in B-flat Minor. It was such a big hit that Martin began to incorporate melodies from the classics in follow-up songs.
- ConnectionsVersion of It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
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Getting Into Heaven Through Artistic Infuence
No, it's not the cornpone country music sung and performed by Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers and a bunch of dogs in SUMMER STOCK. It's advertising crooner Fred Brady being met at the Pearly Gates by a disapproving Eric Blore. He's directed to the Hall of Music. There he must prove himself worthy on an odeon stage covered with cotton wool before a committee of 19th Century Romantic composers headed by Beethoven.
No Haydn, no Mozrt, no Scarlatti. It seems that great art is always the art of two generations ago, isn't it? Especially when you listen to Baroque works like the Surprise Symphony and hear "Pop Goes the Weasel." With only seven notes in the scale, as Mr. Brady points out -- and demonstrates -- everyone steals from everyone else. It ain't where you got it, it's what you do with it.
No Haydn, no Mozrt, no Scarlatti. It seems that great art is always the art of two generations ago, isn't it? Especially when you listen to Baroque works like the Surprise Symphony and hear "Pop Goes the Weasel." With only seven notes in the scale, as Mr. Brady points out -- and demonstrates -- everyone steals from everyone else. It ain't where you got it, it's what you do with it.
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- boblipton
- Jul 9, 2019
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- Runtime22 minutes
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