Talk:Flight of the Bumblebee

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"where it can be heard in the scene detailing the Bride's arrival in Tokyo. In most of this scene, the Bride wears a yellow track suit like the one that Bruce Lee was wearing in his swan song movie, Game of Death

Is detail concerning the filmography of Bruce Lee really necessary to the concise article regarding one of Rimsky-Korsakov's greatest works? I accept its position as a homage to the genre of martial arts movies, but this is a minor point compared to the music itself.

--Lejend 22:42, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I am not so sure FOTB was used as the theme for the Green Hornet TV show (which also featured Bruce Lee, by the way;)) As I recall, and I have a tablature file to back me up, it was a different song very obviously inspired by FOTB but not the same song. The trumpet line was still extremely fast to the tongue but each note in the main melody was played twice. Still pretty hard for mere mortals to play, and any trumpeter who could articulate it should have an amazing love life (big wink!)

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I vaguely remember The Green Hornet from TV. If current MIDI versions are reliable, there are a couple of melodic fragments from the original "Flight" that are incorporated into the theme music for Hornet, but it's hardly an arrangement of Rimsky's piece at all.

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Talk:Flight of the Bumblebee

The Green Hornet theme was played by legendary New Orleans Jazz trumpeter, Al Hirt. The most recognizable version of this tune is played by trumpet great Harry James. James was Benny Goodman's lead trumpet and was married to Betty Grable. It was a big hit for him and his band and plays over the opening titles in Woody Allen's Radio Days

Probably the most famous versions were those for the Green Hornet on radio and television (Al Hirt's). Was Harry James' the radio 1? If somebody knows, include it! Trekphiler 01:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

extreme/nuno

i'm pretty sure I remember the sleeve notes to pornograffiti crediting the "bumblebee" solo to somebody other than Nuno (I remember this because I remember thinking, "why did they get someone else in, surely Nuno could play it, couldnt he?"

Unfortunately I've now lost the CD so I cant confirm. Can anyone else?

Stevekeiretsu 18:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember that the sleeve notes says it was played by Dweezil Zappa, but i´ve also lost the CD. So if someone could find the CD (shouldn't be too hard, i think) we could verify this. Woden 12:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found my old tape version of the album, and the sleeve notes credit Nuno Bettencourt with the "Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee". Dweezil Zappa is credited with the Intro/Outro solos to the song "He-man Woman Hater".

On a different subject entirely, the popular culture section of the article is a list and should be cut right down with anything noteworthy being folded into the rest of the article. I'll put up a tag for that into the article. Major Bloodnok (talk) 21:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John Petrucci

missing reference to John Petrucci's uber-famous electric guitar adaptation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.37.245.6 (talk) 02:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Kill Bill

in the film kill bill vol 1 the music appears when the girl takes the airplane to tokyo, can someone put it there? 189.28.199.207 (talk)

In the Presence of Enemies

In the Presence of Enemies by Dream Theater does not quote Flight Of The Bumblebee. It has a similar chromatic section, but it is not a direct lift from Rimsky-Korsakov's composition. 88.107.20.150 (talk) 16:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jennifer Batten

I'm surprised that there is no mention of Jennifer Batten's arrangement of the piece for guitar, played entirely with tapping. For reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kng1oTF9img Winterdenni (talk) 14:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]