I love the movie for the sound track, and there is a wordless ‘croon’ by a black woman to a man and woman performing. What is the name of that piece? I am pretty sure it is a Duke Ellington as his was the house band for many years. Anybody?
“Creole Love Call” maybe? The soundtrack list is here
I listened to the soundtrack list, and it really doesnt sound anything like the croon I remember.
Wee Bairn is right, it is “Creole Love Call”. The sample on Amazon doesn’t get to the crooning part.
OK, thanks=)
I may just break down and buy the movie soundtrack as well as the original Duke version, I understand Richard Gere actually is a musician and did his own horn work on the movie.
You should definitely get the soundtrack, for Lonette McKee’s astonishing version of “Ill Wind” if for nothing else, but everything else is fantastic too.
The Cotton Club is one of our favorite films. Like another of our favorite films, the original theatrical/VHS version of One From The Heart (not the shockingly, appallingly-butchered DVD release, which I would not recommend in a million years), it’s a wonderful film that mystifyingly got a bum rap from critics and therefore the public. Coppola may have been a hired gun and maybe there were budget problems (a piffling trifle compared to today’s movie budgets and budget overruns) but boy did he turn out a great film. The script, the acting (yes, even Gere), the music, the montages, even the credits, are top-quality and, to us at least, magical.