Illustration:
“Nightmare”.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
Available on YouTube
Humphrey Bogart and Loren Bacall.
“The Big Sleep”.
Illustration: PASTE MAGAZINE
Cover of a Paperback.
By: Dan Goozee.
“Jack Webb, for Dragnet”.
1953.
Illustration: FLICKR
1949 Packard Station Sedan.
Illustration; HEMMINGS DAILY
Illustration: BUZZQUOTES
“Nightmare”.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
Available on YouTube
As usual, a wonderful collection of film noir images, music, and classic film images by Zephyrinus: Writer Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, the legendary “existentially tired” Los Angeles detective; Dashiell Hammet’s “seen-it-all” Sam Spade of San Francisco (“The Maltese Falcon”, Music composed by Jewish emigre, Adolf Deutsch, who fled Germany before World War I and then came to the US to avoid WWI internment in Britain), San Fran, where the sidewalks are perpetually moist and mysterious and clad with bay fog; the trenchcoat-clad Rick played by Humphrey Bogart on the rain-soaked misty-lit tarmac of the airport in the final scene of “Casablanca” (Music composed for the film by another Austrian Jew emigre to the US, Max Steiner); performed with the hooting, mocking clarinet music of “Nightmare,” or similar background music, by Artie Shaw (It is said that Shaw composed “Nightmare” in one night immediately before the national debut of his Orchestra on a national public radio broadcast in 1938!): What an amazing mixture of music, art and images. Wonderful, Zephyrinus! -Note by Dante P
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Delighted you approve of the content. Artie Shaw's “Nightmare” is a favourite of Zephyrinus. It reminds him of the angst, headaches, insomnia, whenever Perkins and Jeeves demand a salary increase !!!