stumbled upon this via the magazine, Oral Fun, noticed the poster, and tried the google – Gus And His Gashouse Gang got nothing really but that Gashouse Gang was a nickname for the St. Louis Cardinals?? The music overlay makes me think NOVA bought this up and sold it, perhaps?
Below is the first pic in the 12-page pictorial fromOral Fun – no clue how this relates to Gashouse Gang!
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Re the music, there are three different songs heard in that clip:
-Start to 00:36
-00:37 to 05:28
-05:29 to end
The second and third songs are both heard in Shore Leave, which is Nova. The third one plays earlier in Shore Leave than the second one does. There are also (at least) five Costello Presley songs that play during the film, all of which are posted to that soundcloud account. In this order:
-Make Love To Me (your favorite) (/s)
-Space Race
-Cruise On Lady
-Sunday Drive
-Don’t Stop
Different Nova films with known Costello music include How I Got The Story (with Make Love again), Dormitory Daze and others I’ve mentioned before. Plus Good Times Coming has a lot of it too. But the tunes are also heard in Higgins films like Members Only and These Bases Are Loaded which is how they were connected to Costello in the first place, since Higgins gave him credit for the music in his films.
Where they originated, or even if it all might be Costello’s music, remains unknown. Certainly could be as a number of studios either licensed it or just swiped it for their own collections. If anything that first song reminds me of something from a Falcon videopac, maybe?
I’m a little confused – THIS short film has 3 songs? but then you mention 5 – are those 5 in SHORE LEAVE, but there is some overlap, is that what you are saying?
I may have tried to cram more info than necessary into my last comment. Let me try again to explain what I meant…
The clip you posted above with the blonds and the Gus poster, just over 8 minutes runtime, has three different songs playing. They start and stop in that clip at the times I noted. You said “The music overlay makes me think NOVA bought this up and sold it, perhaps?” The second and third of these songs are heard in Shore Leave, you’d have to bring that up and skip ahead through the audio if you wanted to match them to when they play.
I didn’t rewatch Shore Leave but I kept all the component parts from those youtube videos I made a few years ago, and the Shore Leave one included one minute audio clips of ten different songs. So I listened to each of those to confirm the Nova angle you referred to, and found the second and third songs from your clip were heard in Shore Leave. And Shore Leave has at least five Costello songs that are heard there also, which are all part of the Costello playlist on soundcloud, with the titles I gave.
What this means is that despite the fact that the clip above seems more early to mid 70s to me, it was likely included in an early 80s collection (based on the Costello or Costello-adjacent music heard in your clip since that was when his music started appearing). And that would be the source of your clip, the one with the possible Costello music added. Some 80s collection of older scenes released during the videotape boom. Could be Nova but also Brentwood, Laguna Pacific, even Falcon or any number of studios might have bought the rights to this clip and packaged it with others, and added the music at that point.
So I was basically agreeing with you in terms of the possibility that Nova could have put this out later, based on the music angle. But as to the actual studio that made it (which I assume you don’t know or else you would have mentioned that in this post) that I’m not sure about either.
Do you have a date for the Oral Fun magazine where you found the pics? That might help to figure out when it was made originally.