Episode 30: You Better Walk Humble
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Film composers were starting to take over the duties of writing the music for movie songs in the 1960s, and that was evident in the list of Oscar-nominated songs from that year. Four of the five songs contain music by score composers instead of trained songwriters, which signaled the likely end of an era for the Hollywood songwriter. Sammy Fain was the only traditional song composer of the bunch, writing a song that competed with those written by Henry Mancini, Elmer Berstein, Bronislau Kaper, and Andre Previn. Who took home the Original Song Oscar statuette that year? Host Jeff Commings will tell you on this episode!
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