Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (live, 1966) (written by Sonny Bono)

“What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you’re gone, you’re history. And then you try to get back, you peek your head up and say ‘hello, I’m here, I’m trying to fill this little place again, will you let me do it?’ But people don’t care, which is OK because it’s their turn to have their music, but it makes it very hard. Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films (Kill Bill) and they’ve suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.”

Bernard Herrmann - Twisted Nerve Theme (originally composed for the 1968 psychological thriller Twisted Nerve, reused in Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1)