Excuse the quality, and wish I had a longer clip of this scene, but love the music Erotic Drum Band’s Action ’78 ) and love how Emanuelle Bravos seduces Kip Noll – basically the ol’ crotch grab – and who can resist tight white levi’s?
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Kind of like the infamous scene from West Side Story, only sexier…and gayer :) Here’s a link to the full movie if you’re interested:
http://www.myvidster.com/video/13444105/The_Boys_Of_Venice_1979
oh no! I actually have it on, and am wondering where Munich Machine’s Lighter Shade of Pale comes in, thought it was at the beginning of the film. Now I wanna know what’s the music during the Derrick Stanton/Eric Ryan bathroom/rollerskate scene!
Based on the type of music you have mentioned liking, I assume you aren’t talking about the muzak playing during the blowjob scene, but rather the disco song once they start fucking. I don’t have a smartphone, but I have heard about a couple of apps that will try to identify songs based on a snippet of the recording or someone humming a part of it. Shazam is one of them (can’t recall the other one?), not sure if that is an option for trying to figure it out. I think it sounds familiar to me, but that may just be from watching that scene a number of times.
I think the version you linked to is 5 minutes shorter than the original – at least my notes show the original at 72 minutes, and over here, they say the same thing – http://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/V/4/1204.html – and now I can’t find my VHS copy! My guess is the cut the intro, which featured Whiter Shade of Pale, and if memory serve me, a lot of roller skating around Venice Beach. Anyone have the VHS who can check? (and possibly the earlier DVD’s might have the full intro)
The version at the link has both Channel 1 and Catalina ads at the very beginning of the film. At about 2:10 into it, it says that it is the 30th anniversary remastered edit of the film, so 2009 I guess, and something about the credits seem like they are different than what originally appeared on the VHS. They look more modern, kind of Catalina-like, you know? I used to have a version of that film that I tape-to-taped from another VCR but I don’t know if it’s accessible now, or how much I might have trimmed when I taped it. My guess is that the original intro did have different credits, so maybe that’s the song you remember.
I was re-reading our comments here from 7 years ago, my obsession with porn music hadn’t yet taken off like it has since. I know most of the songs in this film now, not sure if you do also but anyway there are still a few gaps I haven’t been able to solve. Maybe you could crowdsource again? Basically the unknown ones to me are: the short song on the radio that plays when Butch McAlister gets into the pickup truck, it’s a woman singing a bluegrass-like song about a “hard drivin’ cowboy man” and only plays for about 30-40 seconds; and then all of the instrumental music during the Kip/Emmanuelle scene, in between the Erotic Drum Band which is what plays when they are actually dancing. The disco Whiter Shade of Pale plays at the very beginning and end of the film, so you were right about that before. Below is based off of my VHS copy, I found a clip of the film on a tube site and all the music is a few seconds off from this:
* 00:00 – 04:50 — Whiter Shade Of Pale (Munich Machine)
* 05:51 – 16:55 — Keep On Rolling vocal/inst. (Jean Matthews)
* 19:30 – 25:00 — You Should Do It (Peter Brown)
* 26:35 – 32:32 — Lovemaker (Wham) (note-not Wham! w/ George Michael)
* 33:33 – 34:10 — unknown #1
* 34:58 – 40:22 — I Can’t Wait Any Longer (Bill Anderson)
* 41:24 – 44:10 — Action ’78 (Erotic Drum Band)
* 44:11 – 49:20 — unknown #2
* 49:22 – 51:11 — unknown #3
* 51:12 – 59:19 — unknown #4
* 59:19 – 59:40 — Action ’78 (Erotic Drum Band)
* 1:02:39 – 1:10:37 — Don’t Let Go (Tony Orlando) (minus Dawn?)
* 1:10:50 – 1:12:20 — Whiter Shade Of Pale (Munich Machine)
WOW! great suggestion to make a separate post, but looks like most of the work is done!
of course, White Shade of Pale – Munich Machine has been a topic here before, if 10+ years ago!
and of course – The Cowboy scene from The Boys of Venice with that cowboy song snippet
Yeah regarding the country song when Butch gets in the truck, if you were going to do a new post about this I think you could just make a short clip with what plays of that song (and if you can, one with better audio than the clip you linked above) or link to it somewhere else maybe. I don’t know about the link I left here years ago, I avoid myvidster anymore because of how spammy it has become but I found the film on xhamster last night and it’s the full 72 minute version that you were talking about in your earlier comments, with the disco Whiter Shade playing at the beginning and end and what look like the original credits too.
With the newer remastered for DVD versions of older films that Catalina puts out, they will either edit scenes down or out completely, rearrange the order and/or replace the original music with non-stolen muzak, so it’s better to find a VHS copy online even if the picture quality isn’t as good.
Those instrumental songs when Kip and Emanuelle are having sex at the disco, the first one starts out slower and has more of a Jarre / Ponty / Vangelis vibe to it, to my ears. While the later two are more disco sounding. Somebody who uses shazam might find all of these unknowns, which I told you I’ve never used so that was why I thought I’d ask if you ever figured out the rest of these songs or suggest a gangbang crowdsource type of thing.
Dolly Parton sang a song with “hard-drivin’ cowboy man” in the 70s. It was on an album and I couldn’t find it, nor am I sure of the title. The phrase is repeated a few times, and the end is “Oh there’s nothin’ like the muscles of a hard-drivin’ cowboy man”. I don’t know if the song was mid- or early-70s, but I heard it about 1975 of 1976. Don’t know of anybody else doing it.
My lyric searches weren’t finding a match for me last night, I thought the vocalist on this version sang “nothin’ like the lovin’ of a hard drivin’ cowboy man” but my hearing isn’t as sharp as it used to be and sometimes sounds get muffled. Didn’t sound like Dolly’s voice specifically but it could be a cover of one of her songs.
Yes, there’s also earlier in the song “there’s nothin like the lovin of a hard-driving cowboy man”. It’s “muscles” at the end, to give a sex-kick. You obviously wouldn’t hear all the versions of that line with 35-40 seconds, but I can’t imagine another song so brazenly plagiarising lyrics like that. I just can’t remember the exact title, and am surprised I couldn’t find it on youtube. I thought it had been very popular. Yes, there could have been covers, but that has to be the song, I think.
oh gosh – you guys are too fast – I found it, and the lyric is
“He was a cowboy and he knew I loved him well
A cowboy’s secrets you never tell
No, there’s nothin’ like the lovin’
Of a hard-drivin’ cowboy man
No, there’s nothin’ like the muscles
Of a hard-drivin’ cowboy man.”
Oh, fabulous! It all comes back now, the music for the rest of the song “He was a cowboy and he knew I loved him well..” I’m actually surprised that anyone would cover the song, because Dolly was perfect for this–when she was really doing the crossover, but this was still country. Covering it is a little bit like singers who covered People and The Way We Were, both of which (and more) that Barbra owned.
Oh, but this song is such a happy memory to re-hear in my head.
That same album was where I first heard I Will Always Love You as well, which is Dolly’s song, but the more famous is Whitney Houston’s cover, which is good, but I think Dolly’s is better.
That damn hyphen must have been why my searches were futile last night, hard-drivin’ lol. So it’s a song by Ronee Blakley called Tapedeck, from her 1975 album Welcome:
https://www.discogs.com/Ronee-Blakley-Welcome/release/2491670
You didn’t have to do this right now, sheesh of course you’re entitled to your ‘me’ time and all that, just a suggestion for a someday kind of thing. But thanks friend, as many times as you’ve mentioned the music from Venice before it would be nice to see this through to a final answer.
Not to mention being performed in the film Nashville also, how about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1MroZonbRU