photograph which hangs on the wall in one of the film's central sequences when the mother and her three children, Tony, Eileen and Maisie, each walk out of the frame to reveal a tired and bleached photograph of their father. Songs Music is central to Distant Voices, Still Lives and is a device which binds the characters and helps to give them a voice beyond their otherwise repressed lives. In Paul Farley's BFI book, Terence Davies describes the process in which music came alive in the shooting of the film. Many of the songs were sung by the cast, including Debi Jones's light rendition of "Buttons and Bows" and Angela Walsh's emotional rendition of Johnny Mercer's "I Wanna Be Around". The film also features a juxtaposition of Ella Fitzgerald singing "Taking a Chance on Love" and a scene of brutal domestic violence. Musical arrangements were by Robert Lockhart "There's a Man Goin' Round Takin' Names" - Jessye Norman "I Get the Blues When it Rains" - Marcy Klauber "Oh, Mein Papa" - Eddie Calvert "Roll out the Barrel" (Beer Barrel Polka) - Jaromír Vejvoda "A Hymn to the Virgin" - Benjamin Britten Pastoral Symphony No.3 - Vaughan Williams "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" - Mantovani arr. Robert Lockhart "Up the Lazy River" - Hoagy Carmichael "Galway Bay" - Tommy Riley "Taking a Chance on Love" - Ella Fitzgerald "Finger of Suspicion" - Dickie Valentine "My Yiddishe Momma" - popularised by Anne Shelton "Brown Skin Girl" - King Radio "Back in the Old Routine" - Wilson Stone "I Love the Ladies" (Traditional) "Buttons and Bows" - Jay Livingston, Ray Evans "If You Knew Suzie" - Joseph Meyer & Stephen W. Ballantine, George Buddy De Sylva "I Wanna Be Around" - Johnny Mercer – sung in the 1950s by Julie London "O Waly, Waly" - Peter Pears The melody "Limelight" is also used in the film's soundtrack, played on the harmonica; this is the main theme from the Charlie Chaplin film of the same name. Also heard in instrumental form is "The Isle of Innisfree" by Dick Farrelly. Alcohol Many of the film's most illuminating sequences were filmed in public houses. In one scene Tony orders a round of drinks from the bar and lists a number of drinks that would have been staple drinks in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, but are barely heard of now. These include 'Mackies', 'Black and