With the month of June coming to a close and along with it Pride Month, today's Songs For Saturday will spotlight some of the music from my television obsession, the HBO series Gentleman Jack.
We kick off today's play list with an extended cut of the opening theme music.
The next track features haunting echoes of the opening theme but the tempo is decidedly not jaunty. This is from the sequence where Ann Walker is leaving to go live with her sister in Scotland and Anne Lister is facing the very harsh reality that she may never see her beloved again.
I'm not crying! You're crying!
Shut up!
If you're getting a feeling of when Rose Tyler and the Doctor were separated by that dimensional wall, Murray Gold, master musicsmith of Doctor Who, is composer for Gentleman Jack as well.
Great! Now I'm thinking about Rose and the Doctor.
I'm not crying! You're crying!
Shut up!
OK, let's move on to a more happy occasion.
Here's Murray Gold's score for the the sacrament scene where Anne and Ann go to holy communion together to symbolize that they are by their reckoning married.
Lesbians in the 1840's, y'all!
It is a sweet and beautiful sequence.
Damn it!
I'm not crying! You're crying!
Shut up!
Next up is the series' ending theme song "Gentleman Jack" which written and performed, by O'Hooley & Tidow. The song was released in 2012, 7 years before the debut of the TV show. O'Hooley & Tidow were inspired by the same historical record of Anne Lister, an early 19th-century Yorkshire lesbian gentlewoman, the same history that would inspire screenwriter Sally Wainwright in 2016 to develop and write the TV series Gentleman Jack that would debut in 2019.
And that is that for today's Song For Saturday.
The next Tuesday TV Touchbase will feature my thoughts on my completion of season 1 of Gentleman Jack.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and to always keep the music alive.
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