CITIZEN KANE
Orson Welles
Director
Bernard Herrmann
Composer
Bernard Herrmann
Music Director and/or Conductor
Dave Dreyer
Music Supervisor
Bernard Herrmann
Orchestrator
Bernard Herrmann
Arranger
1941
USA
Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission.
motion picture
Feature film (over 60 minutes).
"It can't be love" by Charlie Barnet, performed by beach party group; also cues by Max Steiner from "King Kong" and cues by Nathaniel Shilkret, Roy Webb and Alfred Newman from previous RKO movies.
In the beach party sequence members of Cee Pee Johnson's Band, including Raymond Tate, trumpet; unidentified trombone; Buddy Collette, alto sax; Buddy Banks, tenor sax; Cee Pee Johnson, drums; Alton Redd, vocal.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Orson Welles used a piano track by Nat King Cole during the club sequence in which the second Mrs. Kane is interviewed. Bernard Herrmann denied any knowledge of it to this writer: he also denied any involvement with the musicians in the beach party scene who were hired by Welles himself.
Welles' liking for jazz is a matter of record and shortly after KANE was completed he commissioned Duke Ellington to compose a score for a future project, "The story of jazz". A few pages of this unused music still exist.
jots
IHAS
190429
loc.natlib.jots.200014490