Constantin Bakaleinikoff

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Constantin Bakaleinikoff (

: Константин Романович Бакалейников; 26 April 1896 – 3 September 1966) was a Russian-American composer.

Life and career

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Bakaleinikoff was from a large musical family. His brothers were

Bakaleinikoff, who was always billed as "C. Bakaleinikoff", appeared on camera as himself in RKO's backstage musical Ding Dong Williams (filmed 1945, released in April 1946). He remained at RKO until the studio folded in 1956. He was married to silent film actress Fritzi Ridgeway. He donated his time and talent in the late 1950s in mentoring and conducting the Burbank Youth Symphony.

He died in 1966, aged 70, and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).^[1]

Soundtracks

• Spring Night (1935) David Lichine, Nana Gollner
• Grand National Pictures
  • James Cagney
• RKO Radio Pictures
  • Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
• The Big Street (1942) RKO
  • Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball
• Stage Door Canteen (1943) RKO
  • All-star cast
• Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) RKO
  • Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
• Higher and Higher (1943) RKO
  • "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" - Frank Sinatra, Stanley Wrightsman (Piano), The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "The Music Stopped" - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "I Saw You First" - Frank Sinatra, Marcy McGuire, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (With Orchestra) - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (Piano & Vocal) - Frank Sinatra, Stanley Wrightsman (Piano)
  • "You're on Your Own" - Frank Sinatra, Dooley Wilson, Mel Tormé, Marcy McGuire, Michèle Morgan, Victor Borge, Cast, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "You're on Your Own" (Reprise) - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Finale: I Saw You First/A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening/The Music Stopped" - Frank Sinatra, Marcy McGuire, Barbara Hale, Chorus, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
• Step Lively (1944) RKO
  • "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" - Frank Sinatra, Gloria DeHaven, Chorus, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "As Long as There's Music" - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Where Does Love Begin?" - Frank Sinatra, Anne Jeffreys, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Some Other Time" - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Some Other Time" (Duet Version) - Frank Sinatra, Gloria DeHaven, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "And Then You Kissed Me" (Outtake) - Frank Sinatra, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Finale: As Long as There's Music/Some Other Time/As Long As There's Music/Where Does Love Begin?" - Frank Sinatra, Gloria DeHaven, George Murphy, Chorus, RKO Radio Studio Orchestrra, C. Bakaleinikoff
• Tall in the Saddle (1944) RKO
  • John Wayne
• Show Business (1944) RKO
  • Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore, George Murphy
• Murder, My Sweet (1944) RKO
  • Dick Powell, Claire Trevor
• Back to Bataan (1945) RKO
  • John Wayne, Anthony Quinn
• Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) RKO
  • Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys
• The Spiral Staircase (1946) RKO
  • Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, Rhonda Fleming
• Notorious (1946) RKO
  • Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
• Ding Dong Williams (1946) RKO
  • "Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16" - Played by the RKO studio orchestra conducted by C. Bakaleinikoff with prodigy Richard Korbel at the piano
• Born to Kill (1947) RKO
  • Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor
• Out of the Past (1947) RKO
  • Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) RKO
  • Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) RKO
  • Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
• Tycoon (1947) RKO
  • John Wayne, Laraine Day
• Crossfire (1947) RKO
  • Robert Young, Robert Mitchum
• I Remember Mama (1948) RKO
  • Irene Dunne
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) RKO
  • Cary Grant, Myrna Loy
• The Boy with Green Hair (1948) RKO
  • Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
• The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)RKO
  • Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith
• The Set Up (1949) RKO
  • Robert Ryan
• Mighty Joe Young (1949) RKO
  • Terry Moore, Ben Johnson
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) RKO
  • John Wayne
• Flying Leathernecks (1951) RKO
  • John Wayne
• Double Dynamite (1951) RKO
  • "It's Only Money" - Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Kisses And Tears" - Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
  • "Finale: It's Only Money" - Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, Jane Russell, The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra, Constantin Bakaleinikoff
• Macao (1952) RKO
  • Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell
• Clash by Night (1952) RKO
  • Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe
• The Hitch-Hiker (1953) RKO
  • Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy
• Susan Slept Here (1954) RKO
  • Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds
• The Conqueror (1956) RKO
  • John Wayne, Susan Hayward
• The Bachelor Party (1957) United Artists
  • Carolyn Jones, Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden
• St. Louis Blues (1958) Paramount
  • "Saint Louis Blues" - Performed by Nat 'King' Cole and Pearl Bailey