Orange sky

[randy_byers]

So last week I got a music comp from rockin' Robyn out of the blue. There's one song on it that has become an instant earworm. The song and the guy's voice sounded vaguely familiar, too, and I decided that it must be from the movie, Once -- a bittersweet musical love story that I saw with Sharee last year. It was driving me crazy, so I typed "in your love my salvation lies" (the words of the chorus) into Google this morning and discovered that the song, "Orange Sky", is actually by a Scottish musician named Alexi Murdoch and has nothing to do with Once. Wikipedia tells me that this song has been used in a bunch of TV shows that I've never seen, as well as in Garden State, which is a movie I've never seen. Still possible that I heard it on the radio or something.

It's a song about romantic melancholy -- hooray! -- but it's also grounded in family, opening with a dream of meeting his brother and sister under an orange sky. In fact, the way the lyrics are structured implies that it's in the love of his brother and sister that his salvation lies. Then again, like many lyrics, it's pretty open to interpretation. I like some of the imagery:

But when I am alone, when I’ve thrown off the weight of this crazy stone,
when I’ve lost all care for the things I own,
that’s when I miss you, that’s when I miss you, that’s when I miss you —
you, who are my home.
You are my home now.

Weirdly enough, Murdoch -- who apparently rarely tours -- just played in Bellingham and Seattle earlier this month.

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[crowleycrow.livejournal.com]

So off topic it'snot a topic -- but you are one on this list that might know the answer.

A long time ago I saw on television part of a film made probably in 1945 or 1946. The part I saw was all set on a train. Soldiers demobbed after the war are going home. On the train they meet a young woman who is heading up or working for some government agency or board (I think) and she and the soldiers have a remarkable running conversation about the world that is going to be built now that the war's over. The GIs are skeptical and joky, and the woman is cool and quick-witted, and the world she envisions is sort of corporate/socialist/empathic, not like anything I'd heard described in a film. The conversation was real conversation. The GIs are headed to get jobs and join the new world but they see it as mostly freedom and fun: she sees it as hard work toward good goals.


I am convinced that Clark Gable was one of the soldiers, but no Gable film matches the story. Maybe it was Dan O'Herlihy or somebody. It WASN"T "Best Years of our Lives."

ANy thoughts?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I assume you looked at Gable's filmography on IMDb or something similar. It does look like Gable made a couple of WWII movies in 1948.

This doesn't sound like anything I've seen, although it sounds like something I'd find interesting! I'm reminded that one movie I'd dearly love to see on DVD is Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express, which was filmed at least partly on location right after the war, while the city was still in ruins. It also opens up on a train, although the scene is nothing like the one you describe. As I recall, a diplomat of some kind is assassinated.

Anyway, I regret that I can't help you ID the film you're wondering about. If you track it down some other way, I'd be curious to know what the title is.