About a half hour into From Here To Eternity Frank Sinatra is trying to get Ernest Borgnine to stop playing piano and they have an altercation. When the impending fight is stopped Borgnine returns to the piano and plays a tune and Sinatra leaves with a woman. What is the tune?
I’m watching this too. The tune wasn’t recognizable to me. I wondered if Borgnine was just plunkin’.
I’ve heard it in other films. And with words of a sort. The only thing is that I only remember nonsense. Sort of ‘roo-roo-ree ree ree rilly-op doo-doo dow-dup, dow-dup, dow-dup…’ I think they were actual words, only I didn’t make them out in the other films so I can’t search for them.
Bump?
Not knowing what this tune is frustrates me every time I hear it.
The Internet Movie Database lists the songs in the movie. Was it the The Hut Sut Song that was driving you crazy? That seems to be a common reaction, judging by the music video.
I just happen to have From Here to Eternity on tape, and watched the scene (about 32 minutes into the movie). Yes, it is definitely The Hut Sut Song.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit…
And here, I thought I was hearing nonsense!
Thanks for the links.
The Hut Sut Song is also heard in the movie A Christmas Story.
Horton the Elephant also sings a misheard version in the Warner Bros. short based on the Dr. Seuss book Horton Hatches the Egg.
Another song that’s a bit catchy is one that I heard twice in the last couple of days. Both times were in John Wayne films: Donovan’s Reef, and Flying Leathernecks.
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga
Oh, the monkeys have no tails
They were bitten off by whales
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga
I wonder if there’s a recording of it online?