In the mid-1960s, Shoji was a sophomore in college and had heard that Roy Acuff, of the Grand Ole Opry, was coming to Osaka, Japan.
The theme of hidden desires is echoed in the soundtrack, which juxtaposes country music by Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Rodney Crowell—as well as by Camp—with visuals of the Manhattan skyline (the credits sequence follows a trek into Manhattan, notably focusing on the twin towers of the World Trade Center as Dorothy Stratten's credit appears) and songs by Frank Sinatra, including the eponymous hit "They all laughed when Christopher Columbus..."
Roy Rogers | Roy Orbison | Roy Lichtenstein | Roy Thomas | Roy Haynes | Roy Clark | Arundhati Roy | Roy Jenkins | Roy Carr | Roy Dupuis | Rob Roy | Roy E. Disney | Roy Castle | Roy Barnes | Roy Jones, Jr. | Roy Harper | Roy Blunt | Siegfried & Roy | Roy Scheider | Roy Lassiter | Roy Hargrove | Roy Chapman Andrews | Roy Williams | Roy Thomas Baker | Roy of the Rovers | Roy Hattersley | Roy Emerson | Roy Acuff | Reena Roy | Roy Romer |
You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven is a song written by Gene Autry and recorded by the Delmore Brothers and Roy Acuff.
He returned to Australia in 1959 with a Grand Ole Opry show, featuring Roy Acuff, the Wilburn Brothers and June Webb, but the show was not popular with Australian audiences and the tour had to be called off.