Ace Cannon

John "Ace" Cannon (born 5 May 1934 in Grenada, Mississippi) is an American tenor and alto saxophonist. He played and toured with Hi Records stablemate Bill Black's Combo, and started a solo career with his record "Tuff" in 1961, using the Black combo as his backing group. "Tuff" hit #17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1962, and the follow-up single "Blues (Stay Away from Me)" hit #36 that same year. In April 1965, he released Ace Cannon Live (HL 12025); according to the liner notes by Nick Pesce the album was recorded in front of a live audience inside Hi's recording studio, and Pesce claims this was the first time such an album had ever been recorded (as opposed to previous live albums recorded in concert venues).

Cannon was inducted into both the Rock and Soul Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2000. In May 2007, his hometown of Calhoun City, Mississippi, hosted its first annual Ace Cannon Festival, and on December 9, 2008, he was honored with induction into the Mississippi Musicians' Hall Of Fame.

Somewhere, My Love

Somewhere, my love is a 10" studio album recorded by American popular music singer Connie Francis.

Background

Produced as a special release for the German Bertelsmann Record Club, Somewhere, my love is a compilation of English language and German language tracks recorded by Francis in May and June 1966:

The English recordings Somewhere, my love (Lara's Theme), Dance my trouble away, and The shadow of your smile were taken from Francis' 1966 US album Movie Greats Of The 60s while Spanish Nights and you" was included because it had been one of Francis' most successful international single releases of 1966.

The German recordings Malagueña, Deine Liebe (True love), Heißer Sand, and Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist (Love is a many splendored thing) had been included previously on the German album Melodien, die die Welt erobern, Francis' first German language concept album which had been released as tie in with her first German TV special of the same name.

The song Es ist so schön, dass es dich gibt was included because it was Francis' current single in Germany in June 1967 when the album was released.

Lara's Theme

"Lara's Theme" is the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, it became the basis of the song "Somewhere, My Love".

Original composition

While working on the soundtrack for Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre was asked by director David Lean to come up with a theme for the character of Lara, played by Julie Christie. Initially Lean had desired to use a well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated responsibility to Jarre. After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it, Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and write a piece of music for her. Jarre says that the resultant piece was "Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous tracks for the film. In editing Zhivago, Lean and producer Carlo Ponti reduced or outright deleted many of the themes composed by Jarre; Jarre was angry because he felt that an over-reliance on "Lara's Theme" would ruin the soundtrack.