Let Me Hear the Music (5.18)

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SelleckLover · #16 Post by **SelleckLover** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:40 am

Thanks rc....It looks like I was leaving out steps 3. 4 and 5! I'm so NOT computer savvy...don't know how I even make to the magnum-mania website half the time! LOL

#17 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:52 am

Looking for another location ID (paging rubber chicken).

It looks similiar to the setting used in "The Treasure of Kalanoipu'u", as seen here.

rubber chicken · #18 Post by **rubber chicken** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:42 pm

I've been meaning to look for this location. You're right that they're both the same place. The location (seen here) is called McCoy Pavilion, 1201 Ala Moana Blvd., and it's part of Ala Moana Park (or Ala Moana Beach Park / Ala Moana Regional Park). (2).

Here's a few articles with a picture each:
Honolulu Magizine
Honolulu Star Bulletin

It seems to often be used as a music venue. Here's a few more links concerning different uses:
book awards ceremony
Puerto Rican Cultural & Salsa Festival
Greek Festival photo (with the same large building in background as seen in Magnum P.I., as well as one built since the show) (2, 3, 4)

The large building seen in the background is here. It's a condo building, address of 1350 Ala Moana Blvd.

p.s. - I couldn't help but laugh at your second screenshot. Why they didn't have more story-lines concerning Magnum's narcolepsy, I'll never know.

#19 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:03 pm

And there it is! Thanks RC!

What a beautiful setting that is for concerts & festivals, especially with the pond right in front of the stage.

Ala Moana Beach Park is already on my list of places to go whenever I get back to Oahu. I'll be sure to pop in to McCoy Pavilion while I'm there. I can just see it now, "And honey look, over there is where Magnum was beat up in "Let Me Hear the Music"!"

Sam · #20 Post by **Sam** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:53 pm

As usual RC,good job on finding the location.

p.s. - I couldn't help but laugh at your second screenshot. Why they didn't have more story-lines concerning Magnum's narcolepsy, I'll never know.

I too am surprised but to their credit they didn't try and hide it.

http://magnum-mania.com/images/2_7_a_full.jpg

http://magnum-mania.com/images/7_4_c_full.jpg

rubber chicken · #21 Post by **rubber chicken** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:02 pm

lol Sam, too funny!

Even after 20+ years, we're still discovering new aspects of the show. That's what I call depth!

#22 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:01 pm

Sam wrote:p.s. - I couldn't help but laugh at your second screenshot. Why they didn't have more story-lines concerning Magnum's narcolepsy, I'll never know.

I too am surprised but to their credit they didn't try and hide it.

http://magnum-mania.com/images/2_7_a_full.jpg

http://magnum-mania.com/images/7_4_c_full.jpg

LOL Sam!

dick butkus · #23 Post by **dick butkus** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:30 pm

A fine episode. Touching in many ways. Excellent play by that cowboy, whatever his name is. I enjoyed it a lot. A somewhat unusual episode on Magnum, p.i. Surprises like this is what makes the series so extraordinary.

lutherhgillis · #24 Post by **lutherhgillis** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:41 am

I hope I'm not repeating anyone but here goes... Dennis Weaver is an accomplished musician in real life. He did a great job in this part.

This story line is alot like the Hank Williams story...

I was a huge McCloud fan as a kid. It was good to see Dennis teach Magnum the old school way!

Red West aka Elvis' old body guard. What an imposing dude!

SelleckLover · #25 Post by **SelleckLover** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:57 am

I liked Dennis Weaver in McCloud also. I liked the way he kind of always played a kind of intelligent country hick-type character. (My husband jokes that he always played a "Hillbilly-Physicist" or "Hillbilly-Rocket Scientist" character.)LOL

Jay-Firestorm · #26 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:51 pm

I'm a long way off from re-watching / reviewing this ep, but just thought I'd note that, after the original working title of 'Secret Rainbows', the story became 'I Just Want To Hold You' for a while.

lutherhgillis · #27 Post by **lutherhgillis** » Tue May 19, 2009 11:04 pm

SL,

You got something against hillbillies, you left coast neocommie...?

Why do you think hillbilly physicist is a dichotomy? Hillbillies can cypher with the best of 'em... And, by the way, there are nearly as many places of higher learnin' in the hills as there are on the extreme-leftist coast... higher by way of elevation that is...

Go ahead, make fun of the hill folk who cling to their guns and Bibles... They'll laugh in the end...

Having fun at your expense.

Drop a flower on the corner of Haight-Ashbury for me...

I'll stop now.

This is a J-O-K-E . Please do not be offended.

Jay-Firestorm · #28 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:03 pm

I *want* to like this episode, and Dennis Weaver is a terrific guest star, but I find the plot just so darn boring.

[rating=6.0]

Thomas is hired by a talented musician to track down five unpublished songs penned by legendary country star George Lee Jessop shortly before he was killed. But the woman that the songs were written for denies ever knowing him. Great guest star, dull plot

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‘Let Me Hear the Music’ (original working title: ‘Secret Rainbows’, later ‘I Want To Hold You’) is an episode that part of me really wants to like, but I just can’t warm to it due to such a dull and unengaging plot.

Dennis Weaver, playing musician Lacy Fletcher, is a great guest star, and for this alone I want to like the episode. Weaver is immensely likable, and it is such a shame that he didn’t get a stronger story to appear in. He also plays the guitar and fiddle in this episode, as well as writing two of the three songs featured.

The story begins with a flashback to the 1950s, with George Lee Jessop and Lacy Fletcher performing on the evening shortly before George was killed in an aeroplane crash. In this sequence, Lacy (Weaver) is played by Weaver’s son Rusty Weaver, and the young George by another son, Robby (the same device of using actors’ offspring to play younger versions of themselves was previously used in the enjoyable first season episode ‘Lest We Forget’). Also to note for trivia fans, is that yet another of Weaver’s sons, Rick Weaver, was a producer for the series through most of its run.

Anyway, as I say, I find the plot itself to be extremely weak. I just couldn’t warm to what was going on, and my attention wandered from the plot at some points.
The fight at the peak of episode, between Weaver and Desmond Crane, is very unconvincing, and doesn’t work at all.

The only thing I do like about this episode is Lacy’s unending loyalty to his old deceased friend George, which is handled in the final scene very well. If only the rest of the story had more of this warmth, maybe I would have liked it a bit more.

For me, this episode sums up how many feel the series changed its tone somewhat in the fifth season, lacking its well-written and well-balanced qualities of earlier seasons, instead going for more out-and-out, take-it-or-leave it dramas such as this.

All-in-all… this one of my least favourite episodes, I’m afraid. There are others that are more ridiculous, but this one loses a lot of marks for just being so darn boring. Dennis Weaver is the best thing about him and, as I say above, its such a shame that he didn’t get a stronger story to showcase his talents in.

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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:

* Nothing more to add on this one, other than, once again, on the DVD version, the act breaks are abridged (i.e. there is no gap in-between scenes)

Coops · #29 Post by **Coops** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:46 pm

Wow...is it me or did Rusty Weaver (Lacy, '54) look just like a young Steve Carell? I was absolutely convinced of it unitl I say the listing for Rusty Weaver in IMDB. That really freaked me out!

#30 Post by **Styles Bitchley** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:01 am

Coops wrote:Wow...is it me or did Rusty Weaver (Lacy, '54) look just like a young Steve Carell? I was absolutely convinced of it unitl I say the listing for Rusty Weaver in IMDB. That really freaked me out!

Didn't notice it while watching recently. Maybe I'll have to take another look.

Let Me Hear the Music (5.18)

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