FRANKIE MACHINE

Created on 21/02/2006
Latest update on 03/11/2023

Artist: Elmer Bernstein
Author: Elmer Bernstein
Label: Decca
Year: 1956

Name of the leading part in film The Man With The Golden Arm.

Covers:

1956:

Richard Maltby [as The Man With The Golden Arm]

1956:

McGuire Sisters [vocal version with Steve Allen lyrics]

1956:

Billy May [hit UK]

1956:

Dick Jacobs [in medley with Molly-O]

1960:

Gem Tones [as rock instrumental]

1962:

Jet Harris [hit UK; with a premature The Beat Goes On halfway]

1974:

Sweet [as The Man With The Golden Arm; on Desolation Boulevard]

1988:

Barry Adamson

1990:

Flat Duo Jets [all as The Man With The Golden Arm]

Elmer Bernstein also wrote the scores for Gunsmoke (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Rat Race (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The Great Escape (1963).

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