Elizabeth A. Carbonara - So Long For Now! (The Titicut follies finale)

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  Katynett

  Elizabeth A. Carbonara

  "So Long For Now! (The Titicut follies finale)" 64 days ago

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  neaegeressem

  "I want to go to Chinatown" was sung in the documentary film by "Eddie", who was a guard at Bridgewater State Hospital. He sang it with an inmate.
  (Only at the beginning of the movie a Gershwin song was sung - "Strike up the Band".)
  For your song in the sample a "barbershop harmony" has been suggested. (But it's not a Mills Brothers song. Only one other song by them — "Chinatown, my Chinatown," first released on records in 1932 — was sung in the film by a different inmate.)
  In the libraries of the Barbershop Harmony Society you will find an old sheet music (with notes and lyrics) for the song "I want to go to Chicago Town", arranged by the Advanced A...g... Class 1988 - Origin: unknown. 

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  neaegeressem

  Sorry, "I want to go to Chicago Town" is correct (what Eddie sung.)

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  klang2023

  got the perfect answer from Dorinda Hartmann
  Moving Image Research Center
  Library of Congress ! Thanks 
  
  
  The song being performed at the very end of "Titicut Follies" is titled "So Long For Now!", words and music by Elizabeth A. Carbonara, registered for copyright in 1967. I have attached a screenshot of its entry in the "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series. Volume 21, Part 5, Number 2, Section 1: Music, Current & Renewal Registrations, July-December 1967". (This volume can be found online in places like the Internet Archive .)
  
  The entry reads:
  
  SO LONG FOR NOW! (The Titicut follies finale), w & m Elizabeth A. Carbonara. 1 p. (c) Elizabeth A. Carbonara; 28Nov67; EU26373
  
  There is a complete transcript of "Titicut Follies" available online, in a chapter of the book "Five Films By Frederick Wiseman". The publisher's webpage for the book has a link to a "preview" of the book, which is the chapter about Titicut Follies, comprised of a complete transcript and description of the film.
  
  In the chapter (direct link here), it transcribes some lyrics from the song on the second to last page, which you can hear in both of the links you provided. I have also attached a screenshot of this portion of the transcript.
  
  I hope this information is useful to you.
  
  Best regards,
  
  Dorinda Hartmann
  Moving Image Research Center
  Library of Congress
  
  For More Info / Source(s)
  
  "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series. Volume 21, Part 5, Number 2, Section 1: Music, Current & Renewal Registrations, July-December 1967"
  "Five Films By Frederick Wiseman" - publisher's webpage for the book
  Direct link to "Titicut Follies" transcript, in "Five Films By Frederick Wiseman"
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  So_long_for_now_copyright.jpg
  Titicut_follies_transcript_lyrics.jpg

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  neaegeressem

  Sorry, for some reason I was directed to another YT video (not the one from your sample -). So I mainly commented on the "Chikago Town" song.
  The first goal is not to prove someone right or wrong, but to find together what someone is looking for.
  I've downloaded and looked through the documents (catalogues of copyright records) but haven't been able to find anything.
  Strangely not one entry e.g. about Bridgewater Film, or about (The) Titicut Follies. 
  If that was a joke, it was a good one. At least for me it would have been easier if the nice lady had given the exact page number of the document. Instead of being overwhelmed with tons of data and numbers.
  A person named Elizabeth A. Carbonara only exists in mysterious records. Unless I'm convinced otherwise. (If you search for that name, you'll only get recipes for spaghetti.)

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