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When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the music to sound like: The theme from The Jetsons, some of Esquivel’s “space age bachelor-pad music,” a teach-your-parrot-to-talk record, selections from Nino Rota’s Juliet of the Spirits soundtrack and this unused Frank Zappa-produced radio commercial for Remington electric shavers that features the vocal stylings of none other than a young Linda Ronstadt.
The future queen of country rock is nearly unrecognizable here, speeded-up, multi-tracked and sounding like she’s just taken a hit off a helium balloon. At the end, Zappa tells listeners that the Remington electric razor “cleans you, thrills you… may even keep you from getting busted.”
It's that very same Danny Elfman that became the composer of soundtracks like "Batman" and "Alice".
Saturday, September 14, l'Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France, directed by John Mauceri, will perform the music Danny Elfman wrote for "Alice In Wonderland".
Also on the 14th, the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet will perform pieces by Danny Elfman.
And on September 15, it'll be "Batman" by the Brussels Philharmonic
All at the Philhamonie de Paris.
And just in case you want to hear Zappa's "Remington Electric Razor" ad again :
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