In defense of the title song from Sunset Blvd - without the full orchestration, the song just cannot be done well. Without a string section, it sounds like dying cats - to quote bk. And he's right. It's in 5-flats to begin with (I believe) a horrible key for string players and when you don't have a full section, well, we all know what one violin sounds completely different than a section and when a violin has nothing to tune to, well - that's all on that.