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Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)
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"Jack and Jill"
Nursery rhyme
Published
1777
"Jack and Jill" (sometimes "Jack and Gill", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies this tune and its variations as number 10266. The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century and exists with different numbers of verses each with a number of variations.
Contents
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1 Text
2 History
3 Meaning
4 Interpretation
5 Notes
6 External links
Text[edit]
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down
And broke his back,
And Jill came tumbling after
Only a few more verses have been added to the rhyme, including a version with a total of 15 stanzas in a chapbook of the 19th century. The dab verse, probably added as part of these extensions[1] has become a standard part of the nursery rhyme.[2] Early versions took the form:
Up Jack got,
And home did trot
As fast as he could caper;
To old Dame Dob,
Who patched his nob
With vinegar and brown paper.[1]
Jack and Jill from The Book of Knowledge, The Children's Encyclopedia (1912)
By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (London, 1919) to:
Up Jack got
And home did trot,
As fast as he could caper;
And went to bed
And bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper.[3]
A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took the form:
Then Jill came in,
And she did grin,
To see Jack's paper plaster;
Her mother whipt her,
Across her knee,
For laughing at Jack's disaster.[1]
Twentieth-century versions of this verse include:
When Jill came in
How she did grin
To see Jack's paper plaster;
Mother vexed
Did whip her next
For causing Jack's disaster.[3]
As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six-line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of aabccb and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes.[4] The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870).[5] The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266.[6]
History[edit]
Musical setting by Burney (1777)
The phrase "Jack and Jill" was in use in England as early as the 16th century to indicate a boy and a girl. A comedy with the title Jack and Jill was performed at the Elizabethan court in 1567-68, and the phrase was used twice by Shakespeare: in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which contains the line, "Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill" (III:ii:460-2), and in Love's Labour's Lost, which has the lines, "Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill" (V:ii:874–5). These lines suggest that it was a phrase which indicated a romantically attached couple, as in the proverb "a good Jack makes a good Jill".[1]
The earliest known printed version comes from a reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, thought to have been first published in London around 1765.[7] The rhyming of "water" with "after" was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the first verse may date from the first half of the 17th century.[1] A musical arrangement by Charles Burney was published in 1777.[8]
Meaning[edit]
Woodcut from the earliest surviving reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melodies (originally 1765, reprint 1791), showing Jack and Gill as boys
Several theories have been advanced to explain its origins and to suggest meanings for the lyrics.
The game has traditionally been seen as a nonsense verse, particularly as the couple go up a hill to find water, which is often thought to be found at the bottom of hills.[9] Vinegar and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body.[10]
Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century,[11] while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages.[12]
However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill.[1] This may be related to the fact that a Gill is an Imperial unit of fluid measure, defined in the Imperial system as a quarter-pint. In the same system of measure, a "jack" is defined as a half-gill. Regarding pronunciation, Gill is pronounced with a soft-g as "jill", unlike the hard-g used, for example, in the gill of a fish. So "Jack and Gill" ("Gill" pronounced soft-g) would be familiar to British people as two terms that both refer to small volumes of Imperial fluid measure: a eighth-pint and quarter-pint respectively.
Interpretation[edit]
A postcard illustration of the rhyme by Dorothy M. Wheeler, c. 1920 Play (help·info)
The plaque erected in 2000 at Kilmersdon in Somerset to commemorate the village's association with the rhyme
The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several theories. Complicated metaphors are often said to exist within the lyrics, as is common with nursery rhyme exegesis. Most explanations post-date the first publication of the rhyme and have no corroborating evidence.[1] These include the suggestion by S. Baring-Gould in the 19th century that the events were a version of the story told in the 13th-century Prose Edda Gylfaginning written by Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson. Baring-Gould stated that Hjúki and Bil, brother and sister respectively in Norse mythology, were taken up from the earth by the moon (personified as the god Máni) as they were fetching water from the well called Byrgir, bearing on their shoulders the cask called Saegr and the pole called Simul.[1] Around 1835, John Bellenden Ker suggested that Jack and Jill were two priests; this was enlarged by Katherine Elwes in 1930 to indicate that Jack represented Cardinal Wolsey (c.1471–1530) and Jill was Bishop Tarbes, who negotiated the marriage of Mary Tudor to the French king in 1514.[13]
It has also been suggested that the rhyme records the attempt by King Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid measures. He was blocked by Parliament, so subsequently ordered that the volume of a Jack (1/8 pint) be reduced, but the tax remained the same. This meant that he still received more tax, despite Parliament's veto. Hence "Jack fell down and broke his crown" (many pint glasses in the UK still have a line marking the 1/2 pint level with a crown above it) "and Jill came tumbling after". The reference to "Jill" (actually a "gill", or 1/4 pint) is said to reflect that the gill dropped in volume as a consequence.[9]
The suggestion has also been made that Jack and Jill represent Louis XVI of France, who was deposed and beheaded in 1793 (lost his crown), and his Queen Marie Antoinette (who came tumbling after), a theory made difficult by the fact that the earliest printing of the rhyme pre-dates those events.[9] However, as the previous paragrah refers to King Charles I being in conflict with Parliament, the phrase "broke his crown" could also refer to that King's beheading in 1649.
There is also a local belief that the rhyme records events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697 when a local spinster became pregnant; the putative father is said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after.[9]
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h P. Opie and I. Opie,The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), ISBN 0-19-869111-4, pp. 224–6.
Jump up ^ H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), ISBN 0-19-211582-0, p. 274.
^ Jump up to: a b L. E. Walter, Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (1919, 1923, Forgotten Books), ISBN 1-4400-7293-0, p. 8.
Jump up ^ L. Turco, The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 3rd edn., 2000), ISBN 1-58465-022-2, pp. 28–30.
Jump up ^ J. J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0-486-41475-2, p. 502.
Jump up ^ "Searchable database", English Folk Song and Dance Society, retrieved 18 March 2012.
Jump up ^ B. Cullinan and D. G. Person, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (London: Continuum, 2003), ISBN 0-8264-1778-7, p. 561.
Jump up ^ Arnold, John (ed.) (1777). The Essex Harmony. ii (second ed.). London: J. Buckland and S. Crowder. p. 130. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
^ Jump up to: a b c d A. Jack, Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes (London: Penguin, 2008), ISBN 0-14-190930-7.
Jump up ^ C. Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: the Reason Behind the Rhyme (Colchester: Granta, 2nd edn., 2004), ISBN 1-86207-765-7, pp. 137–40.
Jump up ^ W. B. McCarthy and C. Oxford, Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and their Tellers (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), ISBN 0-8078-4443-8, p. xvi.
Jump up ^ G. A. Kleparski, "CDs, petticoats, skirts, ankas, tamaras and shielas" in C. Kay and J. J. Smith, eds, Categorization in the History of English (Amsterdam, 2004), ISBN 90-272-4775-7, p. 80.
Jump up ^ W. S. Baring-Gould and C. Baring Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose (Bramhall House, 1962), ISBN 0-517-02959-6, pp. 60–62.
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Pink Floyd – The Wall
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For the Pink Floyd album, see The Wall. For other works related to the Pink Floyd album, see Wall (disambiguation).
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Alan Parker
Gerald Scarfe
(animation)
Produced by
Alan Marshall
Screenplay by
Roger Waters
Based on
The Wall
by Pink Floyd
Starring
Bob Geldof
Music by
Pink Floyd
Bob Ezrin
Michael Kamen
Cinematography
Peter Biziou
Edited by
Gerry Hambling
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
Release date
23 May 1982 (1982-05-23) (Cannes)
15 July 1982 (1982-07-15) (United Kingdom)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$12 million
Box office
$22.2 million[2]
Pink Floyd – The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker with animated segments by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and is based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name. The film centers around a confined rocker named Pink, who, after being driven into insanity by the death of his father and many depressive moments during his lifetime, constructs a metaphorical (and sometimes physical) wall to be protected from the world and emotional situations around him. When this coping mechanism backfires he puts himself on trial and sets himself free. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters.
Like its musical companion, the film is highly metaphorical and symbolic imagery and sound are present most commonly. However, the film is mostly driven by music, and does not feature much dialogue. Gerald Scarfe drew and animated 15 minutes of animated sequences, which appear at several points in the film. It was the seventh animated feature to be presented in Dolby Stereo. The film is best known for its disturbing surrealism, animated sequences, sexual situations, violence and gore. Despite its turbulent production and the creators voicing their discontent about the final product, the film has since fared well generally, and has established cult status.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Concept
3.2 Development
3.3 Filming
4 Release
4.1 Box office and critical reception
4.2 Themes and analysis
4.3 Home media
4.4 Awards
5 Documentary
6 Soundtrack
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
Pink is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive and detached emotional state. He is first seen in an unkempt hotel room, motionless and expressionless, watching television while the Vera Lynn recording of "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" plays. It is later revealed that Pink's father, a British soldier, was killed in action while defending the Anzio bridgehead during World War II, in Pink's infancy.
In a flashback, Pink is a young English boy growing up in the early 1950s. Throughout his childhood, Pink longs for a father figure. He discovers a scroll from "kind old King George" and other relics from his father's military service and death, placing a bullet on the track of an oncoming train. At school, he is caught writing poems in class and humiliated by the teacher. To the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", Pink imagines a surrealistically oppressive school system in which children fall into a meat grinder. The children then rise in rebellion and destroy the school, carrying the Teacher away to an unknown fate. Pink is also negatively affected by his overprotective mother. Such traumatic experiences are represented as "bricks" in the metaphorical wall he constructs around himself that divides him from society.
As an adult, Pink eventually marries, but he and his wife soon grow apart. While he is in the United States on tour, Pink learns that his wife is having an affair. He turns to a willing groupie, whom he brings back to his hotel room only to trash it in a fit of violence, terrifying the groupie out of the room.
Pink slowly begins to lose his mind to metaphorical "worms". He shaves all his body hair and, while watching The Dam Busters on television, morphs into a neo-Nazi alter-ego. Pink's manager, along with the hotel manager and some paramedics, discover Pink unresponsive and inject him with drugs to enable him to perform.
Pink fantasizes that he is a dictator and his concert is a neo-Nazi rally. His followers proceed to attack ethnic minorities, and Pink holds a rally in suburban London, singing "Waiting for the Worms". The scene is intercut with images of animated marching hammers that goose-step across ruins. Pink then stops hallucinating and screams "Stop!" He then takes refuge in the toilets at the concert venue, reciting poems.
In a climactic animated sequence, Pink, depicted as a small, almost inanimate rag doll, is on trial, and his sentence is "to be exposed before [his] peers." The judge gives the order to "tear down the wall". Following a prolonged silence, the wall is smashed.
Several children are seen cleaning up a pile of debris after an earlier riot, with a freeze-frame on one of the children emptying a Molotov cocktail.
Cast[edit]
Bob Geldof as Pink
Kevin McKeon as Young Pink
David Bingham as Little Pink
Christine Hargreaves as Pink's mother
Eleanor David as Pink's wife
Alex McAvoy as Teacher
Bob Hoskins as Rock-and-roll manager
Michael Ensign as Hotel manager
James Laurenson as Pink's father
Jenny Wright as American groupie
Margery Mason as Teacher's wife
Ellis Dale as English doctor
James Hazeldine as Lover
Ray Mort as Playground father
Robert Bridges as American doctor
Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, and Lorna Barton as Groupies
Philip Davis and Gary Olsen as Roadies
Production[edit]
See also: The Wall
Concept[edit]
In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from their audiences:
Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad.[3]
Waters was also dismayed by the "executive approach", which was only about success, not even attempting to get acquainted with the actual persons of whom the band was comprised (addressed in an earlier song from Wish You Were Here, "Have a Cigar"). The concept of the wall, along with the decision to name the lead character "Pink", partly grew out of that approach, combined with the issue of the growing alienation between the band and their fans.[4] This symbolised a new era for rock bands, as Pink Floyd "explored (... ) the hard realities of 'being where we are'", drawing upon existentialists, namely Jean-Paul Sartre.[5]
Development[edit]
The iconic "marching hammers"
Even before the original Pink Floyd album was recorded, a film was intended to be made from it.[6] However, the concept of the film was intended to be live footage from the album's tour, with Scarfe's animation and extra scenes.[7] The film was going to star Waters himself.[7] EMI did not intend to make the film, as they did not understand the concept.[8]
Director Alan Parker, a Pink Floyd fan, asked EMI whether The Wall could be adapted to film. EMI suggested that Parker talk to Waters, who had asked Parker to direct the film. Parker instead suggested that he produce it and give the directing task to Gerald Scarfe and Michael Seresin, a cinematographer.[9] Waters began work on the film's screenplay after studying scriptwriting books. He and Scarfe produced a special-edition book containing the screenplay and art to pitch the project to investors. While the book depicted Waters in the role of Pink, after screen tests, he was removed from the starring role[10] and replaced with punk musician and frontman of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof.[7] In Behind the Wall, both Waters and Geldof later admitted to a story during casting where Geldof and his manager took a taxi to an airport, and Geldof's manager pitched the role to the singer, who continued to reject the offer and express his contempt for the project throughout the fare, unaware that the taxi driver was Waters' brother, who promptly proceeded to tell Waters about Geldof's opinion.
Since Waters was no longer in the starring role, it no longer made sense for the feature to include Pink Floyd footage, so the live film aspect was dropped.[11] The footage culled from the five Wall concerts at Earl's Court from 13–17 June 1981 that were held specifically for filming was deemed unusable also for technical reasons as the fast Panavision lenses needed for the low light levels turned out to have insufficient resolution for the movie screen. Complex parts such as "Hey You" still had not been properly shot by the end of the live shows.[12] Parker also managed to convince Waters and Scarfe that the concert footage was too theatrical and that it would jar with the animation and stage live action. After the concert footage was dropped, Seresin left the project and Parker became the only director connected to The Wall.[13]
Filming[edit]
One of the masks worn by children in the classroom scenes; displayed at the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition
Parker, Waters and Scarfe frequently clashed with each other during production, to the point where the director described the filming as "one of the most miserable experiences of my creative life."[14] Scarfe declared that he would drive to Pinewood Studios carrying a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because "I had to have a slug before I went in the morning, because I knew what was coming up, and I knew I had to fortify myself in some way."[15]
During production, while filming the destruction of a hotel room, Geldof suffered a cut to his hand as he pulled away the Venetian blinds. The footage remains in the film. Also, it was discovered while filming the pool scenes that Geldof did not know how to swim. Interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios, and it was suggested that they suspend Geldof in Christopher Reeve's clear cast used for the Superman flying sequences, but his frame was too small by comparison; it was then decided to make a smaller rig that was a more acceptable fit, and he simply lay on his back.[16]
The war scenes were shot on Saunton Sands in North Devon, which was also featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason six years later.[17]
Release[edit]
The film was shown "out of competition" during the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[18]
The premiere at Cannes was amazing – the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow – it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the fuck was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully. 'What the fuck was that?,' indeed. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before – a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal.
Alan Parker[19]
The film's official premiere was at the Empire, Leicester Square[20] in London, on 14 July 1982. It was attended by Waters and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, but not Richard Wright,[20] who was no longer a member of the band. It was also attended by various celebrities including Geldof, Scarfe, Paula Yates, Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, James Hunt, Lulu and Andy Summers.[21]
Box office and critical reception[edit]
So it's difficult, painful and despairing, and its three most important artists came away from it with bad feelings. Why would anybody want to see it? Perhaps because filming this material could not possibly have been a happy experience for anyone—not if it's taken seriously.
Roger Ebert[22]
The film opened with a limited release on 6 August 1982 and entered at No. 28 of the US box office charts despite only playing in one theatre on its first weekend, grossing over $68,000, a rare feat even by today's standards. The film then spent just over a month below the top 20 while still in the top 30. The film later expanded to over 600 theatres on 10 September, achieving No. 3 at the box office charts, below E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and An Officer and a Gentleman. The film eventually earned $22 million before closing in early 1983.[2]
The film received generally positive reviews. Reviewing The Wall on their television programme At the Movies in 1982, film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert described The Wall as "a stunning vision of self-destruction" and "one of the most horrifying musicals of all time ... but the movie is effective. The music is strong and true, the images are like sledge hammers, and for once, the rock and roll hero isn't just a spoiled narcissist, but a real, suffering image of all the despair of this nuclear age. This is a real good movie." Siskel was more reserved in his judgement, stating that he felt that the film's imagery was too repetitive. However, he admitted that the "central image" of the fascist rally sequence "will stay with me for an awful long time." In February 2010, Roger Ebert added The Wall to his list of "Great Movies," describing the film as "without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock. Seeing it now in more timid times, it looks more daring than it did in 1982, when I saw it at Cannes ... It's disquieting and depressing and very good."[22]
It was chosen for the opening night of Ebertfest 2010. Rotten Tomatoes currently ranks the film with a critics' review rating of 70% (based on 20 reviews). Danny Peary wrote that the "picture is unrelentingly downbeat and at times repulsive ... but I don't find it unwatchable – which is more than I could say if Ken Russell had directed this. The cinematography by Peter Biziou is extremely impressive and a few of the individual scenes have undeniable power."[23] Waters has expressed deep reservations about the film, saying that the filming had been "a very unnerving and unpleasant experience ... we all fell out in a big way." As for the film itself, he said: "I found it was so unremitting in its onslaught upon the senses, that it didn't give me, anyway, as an audience, a chance to get involved with it," although he had nothing but praise for Geldof's performance.[24] David Gilmour stated (on the "In the Studio with Redbeard" episodes of The Wall, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and On an Island) that the conflict between him and Waters started with the making of the film. Gilmour also stated on the documentary Behind The Wall (which was aired on the BBC in the UK and VH1 in the US) that "the movie was the less successful telling of The Wall story as opposed to the album and concert versions." Although the symbol of the crossed hammers used in the film and not related to any real racist group, it was adopted by white supremacist group the Hammerskins in the late 1980s.[25] It earned its creators two British Academy Awards; 'Best Sound' for James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham Hartstone & Nicholas Le Messurier;[26] and 'Best Original Song' for Waters.[26]
Themes and analysis[edit]
It has been suggested that the protagonist stands in some way for Waters. Beyond the obvious parallel of them both being rock stars, Waters lost his father while he was an infant and had marital problems, divorcing several times.[27]
Romelo and Cabo place the Nazism and imperialism related symbols in the context of Margaret Thatcher's government and British foreign policy especially concerning the Falklands issue.[28]
Home media[edit]
Pink Floyd – The Wall was released on VHS in 1983 (MV400268), 1989 (M400268), 1994 (M204694) by MGM/UA Home Entertainment, and 1999 (CV50198) by Columbia Music Video.
The DVD was released in 1999 (UPC: 074645019895) and 2005 (UPC: 074645816395) by Columbia Music Video.
Awards[edit]
List of awards
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
BAFTA Film Award Best Original Song Roger Waters For the song "Another Brick in the Wall" Won
BAFTA Film Award Best Sound James Guthrie
Eddy Joseph
Clive Winter
Graham V. Hartstone
Nicolas Le Messurier Won
Saturn Award Best Poster Art Gerald Scarfe Nominated
Documentary[edit]
A documentary was produced about the making of Pink Floyd – The Wall entitled The Other Side of the Wall that includes interviews with Parker, Scarfe, and clips of Waters, originally aired on MTV in 1982. A second documentary about the film was produced in 1999 entitled Retrospective that includes interviews with Waters, Parker, Scarfe, and other members of the film's production team. Both are featured on The Wall DVD as extras.
Soundtrack[edit]
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Soundtrack album by Pink Floyd
Released
Unreleased
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1981–1982
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Progressive rock
Pink Floyd soundtracks chronology
Obscured by Clouds
(1972)Obscured by Clouds1972 Pink Floyd - The Wall
(1982) La Carrera Panamericana
(1992)La Carrera Panamericana1992
Singles from Pink Floyd - The Wall
"When the Tigers Broke Free"
Released: 26 July 1982
Song changes from album:
Track
Changes
"When the Tigers Broke Free" 1 New song, edited into two sections strictly for the film, but later released as one continuous song.[29] The song was released as a single in 1982 and was later included on the 2001 compilation Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut.
"In the Flesh?" Extended/re-mixed/lead vocal re-recorded by Geldof.[29]
"The Thin Ice" Extended/re-mixed[29] with additional piano overdub in second verse, baby sounds removed.
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" Extra bass parts, which were muted on the album mix, can be heard.
"When the Tigers Broke Free" 2 New song.[29]
"Goodbye Blue Sky" Re-mixed.[29]
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives" Re-mixed. Helicopter sounds dropped, teacher's lines re-recorded by Alex McAvoy.[29]
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" Re-mixed[29] with extra lead guitar, children's chorus part edited and shortened, teacher's lines re-recorded by McAvoy and interspersed within children's chorus portion.
"Mother" Re-recorded completely with exception of guitar solo and its backing track. The lyric "Is it just a waste of time?" is replaced with "Mother, am I really dying?", which is what appeared on the original LP lyric sheet.[29]
"What Shall We Do Now?" A full-length song which begins with the music of, and a similar lyric to "Empty Spaces". This was intended to be on the original album, and in fact appears on the original LP lyric sheet. At the last minute, it was dropped in favour of the shorter "Empty Spaces" (which was originally intended as a reprise of "What Shall We Do Now"). A live version is on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81.[29]
"Young Lust" Screams added and phone call part removed. The phone call part was moved to the beginning of "What Shall We Do Now?"
"One of My Turns" Re-mixed. Groupie's lines re-recorded by Jenny Wright.
"Don't Leave Me Now" Shortened and remixed.
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3" Re-recorded completely[29] with a slightly faster tempo.
"Goodbye Cruel World" Unchanged.
"Is There Anybody Out There?" Classical guitar re-recorded, this time played with a leather pick by guitarist Tim Renwick[30], as opposed to the album version, which was played finger-style by Joe DiBlasi.
"Nobody Home" Musically unchanged, but with different clips from the TV set.
"Vera" Unchanged.
"Bring the Boys Back Home" Re-recorded completely with brass band and Welsh male vocal choir extended and without Waters' lead vocals.[20]
"Comfortably Numb" Re-mixed with Geldof's scream added. Bass line partially different from album.
"In the Flesh" Re-recorded completely with brass band and Geldof on lead vocals.[29]
"Run Like Hell" Re-mixed and shortened.
"Waiting for the Worms" Shortened but with extended coda.
"5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)" Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals. The song is taken from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, a concept album Waters wrote simultaneously with The Wall, and later recorded solo. Geldof sings the lyrics to the melody of "Your Possible Pasts", a song intended for The Wall that later appeared on The Final Cut.
"Stop" Re-recorded completely[29] with Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals. (The audio in the background of this scene is from Gary Yudman's introduction from The Wall Live at Earl's Court.)
"The Trial" Re-mixed.
"Outside the Wall" Re-recorded completely[29] with brass band and Welsh male voice choir. Extended with a musical passage similar to "Southampton Dock" from The Final Cut.[31][32]
The only songs from the album not used in the film are "Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On". "Hey You" was deleted as Waters and Parker felt the footage was too repetitive (eighty percent of the footage appears in montage sequences elsewhere)[14] but available to view as a bonus feature on the DVD release under the name "Reel 13".[33]
A soundtrack album from Columbia Records was listed in the film's end credits, but only a single containing "When the Tigers Broke Free" and the rerecorded "Bring the Boys Back Home" was released. "When the Tigers Broke Free" later became a bonus track on the band's 1983 album The Final Cut, an album Waters intended as an extension to The Wall. Guitarist David Gilmour, however, dismissed the album as a collection of songs that had been rejected for The Wall project, but were being recycled. The song, in the edit used for the single, also appears on the 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
Chart positions
Year
Chart
Position
2005 Australian ARIA DVD Chart #10
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With Arms Wide Open
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This article is about Creed's song. For the compilation album, see With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective.
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"With Arms Wide Open"
Single by Creed
from the album Human Clay
B-side
"One"
"Wash Away Those Years"
Released
April 24, 2000
Format
CD
Recorded
1998
Genre
Post-grunge
Length
4:36 (album version)
3:53 (radio version)
Label
Wind-up
Songwriter(s)
Scott Stapp
Mark Tremonti
Producer(s)
Ron Saint Germain
John Kurzweg
Creed singles chronology
"What If"
(2000) "With Arms Wide Open"
(2000) "Are You Ready?"
(2000)
"What If"
(2000) "With Arms Wide Open"
(2000) "Are You Ready?"
(2000)
"With Arms Wide Open" is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released on April 24, 2000 as the third single from their second studio album, Human Clay. The song topped the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart (most airplay of a track from an album) for four weeks in July 2000; a month later it reached the U.S. top 40 (in sales). In October, the song hit the top ten and topped the Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart for eight weeks. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated of November 11, 2000 for one week, becoming their first and only number one. The music video topped VH1's top ten countdown in 2000. In February 2001, Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The song was also nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, but lost to U2 for "Beautiful Day". In September, it was announced that Creed would release a limited edition single of "With Arms Wide Open" with some profits benefiting Scott Stapp's With Arms Wide Open Foundation to "promote healthy, loving relationships between children and their families".
Three main versions of the song exist. One is the original album version. The second is the radio version, which adds additional hi-hat and drums, and also edits out the ending. The third is the video version (or "Strings Remix") which adds strings to the radio version.
Contents
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1 Background and writing
2 Track listing
3 Chart performance
3.1 Peak positions
3.2 Year-end charts
4 References
5 External links
Background and writing[edit]
Scott Stapp wrote the lyrics when he found out, with great surprise, that he was going to be a father.
Track listing[edit]
US single (18004-2)
"With Arms Wide Open (Strings Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Acoustic Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Rock Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Video – Viewable on PC)"
EU maxi-single (670695 2)
"With Arms Wide Open (New Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Strings Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Acoustic Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Album Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Video – Viewable on PC)"
Australia and New Zealand maxi-single (670739 2)
"With Arms Wide Open (New Version)"
"Wash Away Those Years"
"One"
"With Arms Wide Open (Strings Version)"
"With Arms Wide Open (Video – Viewable on PC)"
Chart performance[edit]
Peak positions[edit]
Chart (2000–01)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 4
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[2] 15
Brazilian Singles Chart (ABPD)[3] 12
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM) 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM) 2
Germany (Official German Charts)[4] 42
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[5] 75
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6] 10
Norway (VG-lista)[7] 6
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 70
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 13
US Billboard Hot 100 1
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[9] 29
US Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 1
US Billboard Mainstream Top 40 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2000)
Position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] 37
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] 36
Chart (2001)
Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] 39
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Australian-charts.com – Creed – With Arms Wide Open". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Austriancharts.at – Creed – With Arms Wide Open" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Brazil" (PDF). ABPD. October 6, 2001. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Musicline.de – Creed Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
Jump up ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Creed – With Arms Wide Open" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
Jump up ^ "Charts.org.nz – Creed – With Arms Wide Open". Top 40 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Creed – With Arms Wide Open". VG-lista.
Jump up ^ "Swisscharts.com – Creed – With Arms Wide Open". Swiss Singles Chart.
Jump up ^ http://www.billboard.com/artist/299751/creed/chart?f=341
Jump up ^ "End of Year Charts 2000". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 2000". Retrieved 2010-08-31.
Jump up ^ "Longbored Surfer 2001". Retrieved 28 August 2014.
External links[edit]
Music video
Song meaning
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Preceded by
"I Disappear by Metallica Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single
July 8, 2000 – July 29, 2000 Succeeded by
"I Disappear" by Metallica
Preceded by
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down Canadian RPM Rock/Alternative 30 number-one single
July 31, 2000 Succeeded by
"Wonderful" by Everclear
Preceded by
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down Billboard Top 40 Mainstream number-one single
October 28, 2000
November 11, 2000 – December 2, 2000 Succeeded by
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
"Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child
Preceded by
"Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" by Christina Aguilera Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
November 11, 2000 Succeeded by
"Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child
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Scott Stapp
Mark Tremonti
Brian Marshall
Scott Phillips
Studio albums
My Own Prison
Human Clay
Weathered
Full Circle
Compilations
Greatest Hits
With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective
Concert films
Creed Live
Singles
"My Own Prison"
"Torn"
"What's This Life For"
"One"
"Higher"
"With Arms Wide Open"
"What If"
"Are You Ready?"
"My Sacrifice"
"Bullets"
"One Last Breath"
"Hide"
"Don't Stop Dancing"
"Weathered"
"Overcome"
"Rain"
"A Thousand Faces"
Related articles
Discography
Brett Hestla
Eric Friedman
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=With_Arms_Wide_Open&oldid=822657617"
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