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Willow’s Song – Britt Ekland – Chosen by Dara Higgins
It’s May on Summer Isle, and nobody is getting any sleep. Sultry, languid air outside the innhouse, and inside Willow, a local nymph has poor old goody-two-shoes Sergeant Edward Woodward is in a right old lather, a-tapping on wall and beguiling him with song (and he can’t even see her accompanying dance, the traditional “naked-wall-slap” beloved of nubile islanders). Willow’s voice couldn’t really do opera, but whoever is singing (it’s not Britt, who’s dubbed throughout the film) she keeps the lines vague and ephemeral, almost somnambulant, carrying the lilting, haunting melody in a way Enya, lets say, just couldn’t.
Ekland was horrified to find out that the director had used a body double for some of the shots in this scene, no doubt feeling that as she couldn’t really act, and wasn’t a real natural when it came to singing, and doesn’t even really speak in the entire movie, he could have at least relied on some of her natural abilities. Despite the retro, innocent charm the video isn’t really safe for work, , if you work in one of those place where they find the human form abhorrent, so save it for later.
And if you’ve never seen the Wicker Man, do so immediately, just be careful you don’t accidentally get the remake. Shudder.
