Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Thompson
Date: 27 Sep 16 - 04:17 PM

The end of Tout Pour Être Heureux, which has a French song to the tune of City of New Orleans; the song is a replay of what happens in the film, and it's sung, movingly, over footage of the father and his children walking along talking happily.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: David C. Carter
Date: 27 Sep 16 - 09:10 AM

The final song from:In the Electric Mist.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: meself
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 08:53 PM

This goes into the 'lesser-known' category - from a Canadian (I believe) production of A Child's Christmas in Wales - a family scene with beautiful singing, of 1) a Christmas carol I don't know, 2) Drake's Drum, and, 3) All Through the Night. Beginning at 45.14.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 04:46 PM

Hong Kong Blues by Hoagy Carmichael in To Have and Have Not (Bogey and Bacall's first film together). More recently Junior Brown did a great version on his CD Semi Crazy.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 04:33 PM

BIG - Robert Loggia & Tom Hanks "Chopsticks" for all those who suffered through piano lessons when they were little peoples.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 02:31 PM

From Rob Roy....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LV_3gKUMg

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 02:26 PM

Nobody mentioned Animal house yet??? For shame!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG7KCOO76Wc

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 09:56 AM

The scene in The Blues Brothers when Aretha Franklin sings "Think"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXU7268Z50
Also, the James Brown church scene in the same movie..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKKVVnKjr2g

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 09:49 AM

All the youtube links are expired... I always weep at Casablanca's Marseillaise, because my Mom, a Holocaust survivor, always wept at that scene.

Dancer beat me to Harold and Maude.

And there is another John Wayne movie where the Irish troops sing Down By The Glenside to their commander. It *might* be the same one where they sing to Maureen O'Hara... but that scene was actually in a Lucky Luke (French comic strip set in the Ancient West), where they sing to the commander.

And every single intro song to the bad guys in the new Suicide Squad was marvelous and wonderfully cast, if you will.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Stu
Date: 26 Sep 16 - 05:22 AM

Greased Lightnin' - Grease. Love it. Always do the moves.

Pulp Fiction - You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry. Travolta again! Great scene in a great film.

The genius of Laurel and Hardy in Way out West

The entire soundtrack of Interstellar by Hans Zimmerman.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Ah Diddums!
Date: 25 Sep 16 - 11:42 PM

BIBLO'S CROCKERY

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 11:19 PM

A couple of classics made fresh. Finding Forrester montage. Both are whistleable and approved by my 8 year old grandson, Jamir, (my basic guidelines for music.)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 08:24 PM

Double bassist Abe Luboff's two note opening to the Jaws theme scares grown adults out of chlorined swimming pools.

Too many bits of Easy Rider & Lawrence of Arabia to list.

2001 and the The Blue Danube docking sequences.

Honorable mention We Were Soldiers Once & the boots on the ground Sgt. MacKenzie cuts and the aforementioned Last of the Mohicans climatic.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 06:41 PM

I think it was " the colour purple" at the end , where the jazz musicians follow the singer to join in with the black church service.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 06:29 PM

Yes I see, The Trap Theme, goes well with the rushing water. Nice

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Joe_F
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 05:55 PM

The scene in Yidl Mitn Fidl where the two bands compete cacophonously in the courtyard of an apartment house, and the residents all curse & close their windows, but then the bands unite and the residents open their windows and throw coins.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: toadfrog
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 05:52 PM

My candidate would be Iris Di Ment in True Grit [The Coen Bothers remake] All the scenes except "the Snake Pit."

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 05:34 PM

Ah, British Columbia I see. (Thank you Wikipedia)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Senoufou
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 04:53 PM

It was made in 1966 and starred Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham.

It's set in North America (Alaska or Canada, I'm not sure) and is about a young woman with no speech sold to a brutal trapper. He buys her from her aunt and takes her away into the forest to live in a log cabin. They develop a love for each other, but he gets caught in an animal trap and she has to chop his leg off with an axe as he develops gangrene. Later she escapes, but on the point of marriage to a respectable man, she suddenly realises she loves her trapper, and goes back in a canoe to rejoin him.

The setting, wildlife and savagery of those times blends beautifully with the music. It's on Youtube, and you can just listen to the music at the very end if you don't want to view the whole film. It's extremely powerful stuff!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 04:17 PM

I'll have to check out the movie, Senoufou, never heard of it.

Homer Smith leaving singing Amen usually mists me up.

I notice a similarity to the Rosary in this song.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 02:34 PM

Haven't read the whole thread, so forgive me if others have already mentioned it.
I adore the Ron Goodwin music to 'The Trap'. The entire film gives me the shivers, and the music just turns me to jelly. It's always played for the London Marathon too, as everyone knows.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 12:49 PM

Sheesh, rhyming Blarney with Darby. Bet if we all sang the same songs the same way we'd all speak the same language. 'The Wishing Song'. Catchy, ew eww hullabaloo!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 06:28 AM

From ''The Last of the Mohicans'' the end scene music and drama gets me every time. Last of the Mohicans End Scene.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Sep 16 - 05:31 AM

Can't remember the name of the film, but it was about a 1930s English wedding, and I watched it on a long haul flight.
After the wedding ceremony, there was a barn dance and they played "The Seven Stars" jig for it: I rewound that bit numerous times!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 08:14 PM

So Dear To My Heart Billy Boy

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 23 Sep 16 - 07:38 PM

Then Came Bronson W a f a r I n g S t r a n g e r

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 07:17 AM

Not exactly a favourite, but certainly memorable [scary!!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 03:30 AM

Interests of accuracy ~~ the song in Cabaret is called TOMORROW Belongs To Me. Its tune, BTW, always reminds me of The Rout Of The Blues: has anyone else noticed this? (See thread The Lorelei vs. Tomorrow Belongs to Me), which I refresh longside this one.

~M~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 02:31 AM

Worth an visit for sheer musical pleasure; the soundtracks of Pasolini's 'Canterbury Tales' and 'The Arabian Nights' and Bill Bryden's St Kilda film 'Ill Fares The Land' (selected by John Tams).
Again, the whole soundtrack of 'Songcatcher', even the Janet McTeer 'singing' of Barbara Allen; not the style in which I would normally want to listen to it, but works beautifully in context.
For the opposite effect, the beer garden scene in Cabaret, where a group of Hitler Youth sings 'The Future Belongs To Me' with increasing intensity still makes my skin crawl; hardly enjoyable, but certainly memorable.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:59 AM

I agree, this is a charming thread. Quite an array of videos to watch and distract one from other things that need to get done. . . :)

For pure schmaltz and emotional impact, I like this medley from With A Song In My Heart.

SRS

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Max Johnson
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:48 AM

Here's the link - only just seen how to do this - thanks Lonesome EJ

Anne Miller Shakin' The Blues Away Stay with it till the end - it warms up.

And Missa Luba from IF
And the From Dusk Till Dawn soundtrack
And, I really like Fiona Apple's version of Across The Universe at the end of the film Pleasantville.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Max Johnson
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:20 AM

No contest. Ann Miller singing Shakin' The Blues Away in Easter Parade.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: saulgoldie
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 10:03 AM

Wow! This is a great thread! It is obvious to see that many of us like a variety of music, and that music--not just folk music--is very important to us. I am gratified to see some of my own favorites here. Thanks for reviving it!

Let me add two.

From "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcIehms6u5M

And, of course, "Sound of Music"--Edelweiss
http://vimeo.com/4143597


Saul

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 08:44 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Phil B
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 05:10 PM

A man for all seasons.

There's no music until King Henry (Robert Shaw) sails up the river to Thomas Moores house. Thats a good way into the film. When its kicks in, its one of the best moments of the film.

Also, in Jaws. Robert Shaw starts singing Spanish Ladies before heading off to find the great white mackerell. (Vicious beast) Apparently it was his idea. Brilliant!!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 04:06 PM

There's a scene in "Smokey and the Bandit" in which Jerry Reed does some front porch jamming with Furry Lewis.

Patrick Street's version of "Music for a Found Harmonium" is the soundtrack for a scene in "Napoleon Dynamite".

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:51 PM

Just read back thru thread. Someone above uses adjective 'goofy' in some context: which reminds me to observe that the musical tracks to any Disney, WB, Fleischer [e.g. Betty Boop], MGM, &c, cartoons are always so perfectly geared to the content as to form a perfect gestalt.

I remember long years ago [must be 65 years] reading the observation in a book called "This Thing Called Ballet" by George Borodin [ballet was an early-teen thing of mine], something to the effect that choreographers and composers could learn from the perfect match of Disney's musical scores to his content: "When you see a fish open its mouth you simultaneously hear a bit of music so perfectly judged that, if you stop to think about it, you wonder if, seeing the fish you would have heard the music in your head, or hearing the music you would have visualised the fish." [From memory; but, as I say, to that effect.]

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:29 PM

sublime

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 11:23 AM

There is a scene in The Bofors Gun where Nicol Williamson begins to sing "Mrs. Magrath". A favorite of mine and a tense little film.

Don

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 11:16 AM

this one from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a great number, and I wonder if anyone else thinks this would be a perfect Amos Jessup tune.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 10:43 AM

Interesting that only three or four of these favorite scenes involve trad music.

Of course, not much trad appears in movies. But consider similar results in the old thread about songs that make 'Catters drop everything:

thread.cfm?threadid=15339#2767699

Theory: 'Catters like trad but overall they like contemporary sounds better.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crowhugger
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 10:14 AM

For music that fits the scene that fits the movie, I loved Hoagy Carmichael as the character Happy in The Las Vegas Story (RKO, 1952), particularly when he performs The Monkey Song. I couldn't find a video link but here's audio about 45 seconds into this podcast.

~CH.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 04:12 PM

Near the end of _Paths of Glory_, where the frightened German girl in a cabaret full of rude German soldiers sings "Der Treue Husar", and the soldiers hum along.

In _It Happened One Night_, where the driver & passengers on a bus sing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze".

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 12:31 PM

Aaah, a couple of favourites here! The beleaguered garrison in "Zulu" responding to the Zulu chant is a really brilliant way both of including something distinctive of each group (even if "Men of Harlech" is in translation) and of racking up the tension/power in the final confrontation. "The Lass of Aughrim" also features in a recent film, "Nora", that is Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife ("she'll stick to him...").

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 12:28 PM

The Warriors has shed loads of good stuff as their misadventures are followed by the faceless black DJ, but my favourite is the end scene where the Warriors have finally been vindicated and are safe back to Coney Island.. It just really works. Joe Walsh - In the City

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 12:18 PM

Chase theme from Midnight Express by one of the pioneers of electronic music, Giorgio Moroder

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 12:04 PM

The Blue Angel
"Fallink in luv again... "

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 11:50 AM

Guest Gail....wonderful link!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 01:14 PM

The Cat Stevens soundtrack for Harold and Maude: here's The End

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 12:27 PM

In Nashville--after the assassination of the female country star (played by Ronee Blakley--all of whose songs were terrific--, the wanna be singer launches into "It Don't Worry Me"--complete with sing-a-long.