The Trolley Song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane said the song was inspired by a picture of a trolleycar in a turn-of-the-century newspaper. In 1974, Blane said that the picture was in a book he found at the Beverly Hills Public Library captioned Clang, Clang, Clang, Went the Trolley. The Trolley Song was nominated for the Best Original Song Academy Award in 1945, but lost to Swinging on a Star from Going My Way. The Trolley Song was ranked #26 by the American Film Institute in 2004 on the 100 Years... 100 Songs list. Conducted by Georgie Stoll for Meet Me in St. Louis, it has a very complex, evocative arrangement by Conrad Salinger featuring harmonized choruses, wordless vocals, and short highlights or flourishes from a wide range of orchestral instruments. When recorded on the set of Meet Me in St Louis, all was done in a single shot.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:33:08 +0000
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