HAPPY HAPPY JOY! JOI LANSING DAY IS HERE!! Last year Blog About Town celebrated with the unforgettable Scopitone "The Web of Love."

This year it's another Scopitone: Lansing's cover of "The Silencer."



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And now it's time to compare and contrast: Here Cyd Charisse--with Vicki Carr's voice--performs the same song (music by Elmer Bernstein and Mack David) in the opening credits to The Silencers, the Matt Helm film that will be on a Film Forum double bill with Our Man Flint on Thursday, May 3, 2007.



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For a more complete version of the opening credits, click here.