The Officers Who Hid from Major Hasan
“sagman,” a commenter and frequent parodist at Lucianne.com, has done a number on the Army officers who gave the jihad-spouting Nidal Hasan a pass. It’s a take-off on the theme song of the John Ford movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:
Reply 3—Posted by: sagman, 11/12/2009 7:20:57 AMHowever, we can better appreciate sagman’s parody by first listening to the original song and reading the lyrics of the first two verses:
When Liberty Valance rode to townHere now is sagman’s version. I’ve changed the punctuation slightly. Also, he doesn’t give his version a title. I would call it: “The Officers Who Hid from Major Hasan.”
When Major Hasan came into a room November 13 Spencer Warren writees: A bit of trivia: The song is not heard in the movie. This has happened with other films of the period, e.g. Man of the West, whose song sung by co-star Julie London is never heard.LA replies:
Are you saying the song was produced after the movie and separately from it?Spencer warren replies:
Not saying that. The song would have been commissioned with the intention to use it in the film. I suppose it might have been composed and recorded after the film was completed. Songs were obligatory for most major Westerns of that period following the success of High Noon. But for whatever reason the producer or director sometimes decided not to use the song. Maybe they decided they didn’t like the song or it would not go well with the finished film. (I cannot see the Liberty Valance song being appropriate for the film and would not be surprised if Ford rejected it.) As I mentioned, Julie London, a big singer in 1958, recorded a song for Man of the West, in which she plays the female lead, and it is not heard in the film either—although it is listed in the opening credits! A profit could still be made on a song through record sales—evidently the Valance song was sold as a recording. Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 12, 2009 05:28 PM | Send Email entry |