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259:; once in the Gold Room (ballroom) scene, and also over the closing of the film as the camera closes in the protagonist in a photograph from the early 20th century, carrying over into the credits. The popularity of this film associated this version of the song to a sense of unease or impending menace in 424:
also features "Midnight, the Stars and You" twice. Abra faintly hears it while wandering the abandoned remains of the Overlook Hotel just moments before the building attempts to attack her; the song later appears in the closing moments of the film as Abra prepares to imprison an apparition of an
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is losing his sanity due to sleep deprivation on a night shift at the power station, and finds himself in the ballroom of the Overlook Hotel. Homer dances with a woman as the song begins, and sits at the bar as it continues. Lloyd the bartender tries to convince Homer to kill his family through
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It is also featured in the 2023 film "The Critic" starring Sir Ian Mckellen and Gemma Arterton. The action is supposed to take place in 1934, when the song was first recorded.
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radiation poisoning, but Homer does not comprehend what Lloyd is asking. When Homer awakes, Jack Torrance is seen running with an axe into the reactor room.
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2022 used in background of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, season 2, episode 4, ‘Many Happy Returns’.
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are searching for a missing girl named Sally in a bistro restaurant at Fontaine's Department Store,
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Catalog of Copyright Entries 1934 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 29 Pt 3 For the Year 1934
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in the film's opening, before continuing to play over the credits (as in
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Other recordings of this song contemporary to the Noble version are by
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It is notable for appearing in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film
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1934 song by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly
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Deep Focus Review. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
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The most famous recorded version was performed in 1934 by
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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers.
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Index

Single
Ray Noble's Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Al Bowlly
B-side
Studio
Abbey Road Studios
Genre
Popular Music
British dance band
Label
Victor 24700
Songwriter(s)
Harry M. Woods
Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly
popular
foxtrot
Harry M. Woods
Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly
Ray Noble and his Orchestra
Al Bowlly
foxtrot
Hal Kemp
Roy Fox
Fred Hartley
Maurice Elwin
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick
The Shining
cinema
Dead & Buried

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