Jazz In Film

Raintree County: This 1957 Edward Dmytryk directed film starred Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint.

The story: A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems.

The John Green music score includes a vocal “The Song of Raintree County” with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. On the soundtrack Nat King Cole sang the song, and George Fields performed the soundtrack harmonica solos.

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