Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film

Subject: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:46 PM

The discussion about The Lorelei and Tomorrow Belongs to Me made me realize that movies often do a great job of giving depth and meaning to music. I would be curious about what music scenes left a lasting impression on you. A YouTube or other video link would be great.

I volunteer this scene as one of the most effective and emotional in any film.
From Casablanca.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Joe Nicholson
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:54 PM

Can't think of anything better than that.

Joe Nicholson

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:17 PM

The Legend of 1900-- whole film. Long parts of short. The Love theme that opens the pawn shop storyline and is played in different ways at different points, esp. The piano of it-- oh my.

Other short Morricone pieces are very evocative also and I will be using them (and other soundtrack stuff) from other films in a new social-change/multicutural competence curriculum. YoYo Ma doing an (added) cello part within Morricone music from movies-- oh my!

Gran Torino, por ejemplo.

~S~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:19 PM

From the sublime to the ridiculous and back again, Chico and Harpo show their chops
A Night at the Opera

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:16 AM

The entire soundtrack to the film "Fistful of Dollars" -- which, back in the late '60s I found on LP and made me wish (in those pre-videotape days) to have the film available to watch any time I wanted.

The procession (with concertina) in the beginning of Roman Polanski's "Tess".

The entire film "Diva".

Shantying ("Blood Red Roses" and others sung by Bert Lloyd) while leaving port in the 1956 "Moby-Dick".

Linn

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:21 AM

The final scene in ' Oh Brother Where Out thou ' with firstly the Peasall Sisters and then The Stanley Brothers singing ' Angel Band '
brilliant.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:36 AM

Princess and the Frog has a wonderful Cajun set.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:38 AM

The Blues Brothers repeatedly doing Rawhide and Stand by your man at the country and western club.

DeG

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:46 AM

re Casablanca clip above - did you notice it is followed on U-tube by the Nazi National Anthem, complete with swastika-flag logo? Bring up any military marches on U-tube, for that matter, & the right-hand Related·Videos column will be full of Swastikas and Waffen s.s. double lightnings. The vids will mostly show Der Führer & his acolytes - Himmler, Goebbels... - Sieg·Heiling their acknowledgments to the march-past. & that will lead to further neo-Nazi propaganda vids...

How many other people have noticed this?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: sciencegeek
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:51 AM

Films that gained much from great scoring for me includes the 1960's Tom Jones and more recently October Sky & The Englishman That went up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.

To be honest - the only parts of Titanic that I enjoyed were the scenes below deck with the music & dancing... the rest of the film really torked me off.

But don't forget the great music used in the old Looney Tunes cartoons.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:08 AM

There are so many great moments .I love the interaction between Collin Firth and Jennifer Ellie in the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice . The band is just amazing playing Mr Beverage's Maggot . I could listen to that band for a very very long time !! The whole sound track to the Long Riders changed my life . The woman on the porch in The Song Catcher with fiddle took my breath away . Jorde Savalle in the French movie about a Viola De Gamba player is incredible .Sonny Terry playing with Ry Cooder while the actors are walking down southern dirt roads on Crossroads was spectacular . The one where Harpo find a harp in the attic was unforgettable ..

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Micca
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:50 AM

almost all 0f "2001 a Space Odyssey"
The mothers house in Scicly "Cinema paradiso" (Morricone?)
The opening minutes of "Death in Venice" (Adagio Mahler 5th Symphony)
Several scenes but especially the last scene in "Excalibur" (Wagner The Ring, Orff Carmina Burana)
The jazz opening tune of "Mr Hulots Holiday"
The shakuhachi flute in "Kagemusha

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:32 PM

This one is not only one of the most fun musical scenes I've ever seen, but says everything about the ability of music to knock down walls between people. Anyone who saw the movie will never forget it.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: deepdoc1
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:32 PM

The Qatsi Trilogy (Philip Glass) is mesmerising to me, although I can't watch them back to back...too much minimalism can't be good for you.
Watching Shrek with my granddaughter, Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah jumped out and smacked me in the head.
The whole soundtrack for the A&E Nero Wolfe series was superb.
Ken Burns' National Parks series soundtrack was great!

Well, that takes care of the top of my ead for now.

JimB

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:54 PM

Can anyone explain why that scene from Deliverance is always called Duelling Banjos [incl in Utube clip here] when it actually features a banjo & a guitar?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:55 PM

There's a great bit in "American Graffiti" where, at sunrise, two of the characters are going to have a dangerous hot-rod race. As the procession cars goes slong the road to the rendezvous, the dawn comes up to the sound of "Green Onions" - great!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 01:08 PM

The scene in 'The Mission' where the children play violins for Ray Macnally.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 01:52 PM

Songs raised by British troopers and an attacking army of Zulus in the tense minutes before the final battle at Rorke's Drift.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: eddie1
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 01:53 PM

MtheGM

Re the title - see following from Wikipedia:-

"Dueling Banjos" was arranged and performed for the movie by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell and was included on the soundtrack album
The song had been composed in 1955 by Arthur Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos". Smith recorded it, playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno.
When he was not acknowledged as the composer by the filmmakers, Smith sued. He eventually won, receiving songwriting credit as well as royalties. Two young musicians, Ron Brentano and Mike Russo, had originally been signed to play their adaptation for the movie, but instead it was performed by the others.


Eddie

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM

Thank you ~ M ~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:42 PM

So many I don't know where to start. But a few quick mentions:

1. There's a little-known -- probably few watched it -- called "A Twist Of Fate". What it was was a retelling of Silas Marner with Steve Martin in the starring role. Anyway, there's a late night scene wherein Martin is sitting in his quiet house and he's quietly clawhammering out "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" on his banjo. It's a wonderful scene in a movie more people should have seen.

2. From the more recent "Once" -- the initial songwriter meets songwriter scene at the music store piano seen here. Movie meets music just doesn't get any better that this.

3. This scene was one of the most joyful bits of movie I've ever seen. It was corny, funny, and utterly winsome.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Rod...
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM

Monk
at Newport - from 'Jazz on a Summer's Day' - completely turned my teenage head around... rooted deep in the blues but offering sound worlds way beyond... which still resonate...

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:53 PM

John H, I had forgotten the scene from My Best Friend's Wedding. That was a terrific one, indeed.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:58 PM

I greatly recommend two different, and contrasting, creative versions of The Beggar's Opera — Peter Brook's 1953 film, much reworked from original by Christopher Fry & Dennis Cannan, with Laurence Olivier Dorothy Tutin et distinguished al; & Jonathan Miller's BBCtv version from 1983 with Roger Daltry + ditto; mainly faithful to Gay's original but with many creative touches: you could hardly have two more contrasted Macheaths could you?, but both work superbly. I have videos of both & find it peculiarly instructive and stimulating to play them back to back ~ esp with regard to the different approaches to the music {the Brook arranged by Bliss}, as well as the characterisations.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:08 PM

and for pushing the fun meter to the max, its hard to beat this one.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:19 PM

"and for pushing the fun meter to the max, its hard to beat this one."

...or this one.

Of course my very favorite choral numbers are "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" from Carousel, and "Tradition" from Fiddler On The Roof.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:21 PM

....and this

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mr Fox
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:35 PM

The last ten minutes of Quadrophenia (the film, not the album)

The use of the hymn 'The Son of Man Goes Forth to War' (to the tune of 'The Minstrel Boy') in 'The Man Who Would be King'.

The whole of 'This is Spinal Tap' (but especially 'Stonehenge').

And, of course, this (Pity I can't find the actual scene).

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:36 PM

"The Four Seasons" neatly incorporated the Vivaldi music throughout. It was nice. But it was SUPERATIVE the way that Breaking Away incorporated the Rossini overtures into the bicycling scenes.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:03 PM

As a kid I always used to ask my parents what the music was in the cartoons, because if you think about it, cartoons had a lot of great music. And when I was growing up I remember thinking I'd love to be the one to get to choose music for them. Lucky those who got to do it when cartoons like those were still being produced.

The Cat Concerto (1946 Oscar winning short subject- Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2).

Daffy and Porky trying to sleep with cats singing opera on the fence. Bugs Bunny on stage. The two crows, who hopped around to Fingal's Cave, and many more. I loved it!

SRS

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:06 PM

Thanks for mentioning choral scenes !! There are two scenes in The Fighting Temptaions and Leap of Faith that had me out of my seat .

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:09 PM

With you Stilly, particularly The Two Crows. All-time favourite has to be all the songs in Snow White, but also swayed by the artwork and the cuteness factor. Once sang the whole lot in a folk club with a band backing me and wasn't thrown out.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:12 PM

Talking of Macheath, Pabst's "Dreigrosschen Oper" (1931), especially the opening "Mackie Messer".

The piano shop scene in "Betty Blue"

Nick Cave in "Wings of Desire"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:13 PM

How could I forget the power of music at the end of "Zulu"?!? Wow!

And the end of "The Man Who Would Be King".

And the entire (musical) soundtrack to "A Man for All Seasons" -- I bought the double LP soundtrack and was disappointed (sort of) to find it was the entire DIALOG of the film, but none of the music.

Linn

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:19 PM

And then there's the power of music to drive a scene:

Psycho (I wish they'd put the non-music one first).

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:24 PM

Include cartoons and you gotta include this classic -- quite possibly the funniest cartoon ever produced.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:48 PM

From "Out of Africa" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7oS_bCjpg
I also remember the hair-washing scene: RR could wash my hair ANY time!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:52 PM

Oh my god, the Conejo de Sevilla. No other cartoon character looked as good in drag as Bugs.

Almost Famous told the story of a country rock band being torn apart by jealousies and drug and drinking problems. After a particularly nasty episode where the lead singer, on LSD, dives into a pool from the garage roof, the ability of music to heal is shown in this scene.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: sciencegeek
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:05 PM

I keep thinking of more films... Disney made great use of music and the original Fantasia is a classic.

Amadeus also bursts with grand music.

John Williams is a master of scoring films to great effect... who can listen to the shark's theme in Jaws without a shudder?

Jerry Silverberg did a great job scoring The Thirteenth Warrior, a great little film that did poorly at the box office.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:19 PM

I was watching Fantasia last night. My copy's Korean so the dialogue's not so irritating. I've got Silly Symphonies to watch as werll.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:55 PM

"Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning" from "Singin' in the Rain"

"Goodbye, Blue Skies" from "The Wall"

"Po Lazarus" from "O Brother Where Art Thou"

"Let the Sun Shine/The Flesh Failures" from "Hair" (the movie)

"William Tell Overture" from "A Clockwork Orange" (must be seen to be believed)

"The Basket Game" from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

"When I'm 64" from "Yellow Submarine"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:13 PM

Here's how to post a video from YouTube (in case anyone wants to and doesn't know how).
1)Find your video on www.youtube.com
2)Right click the web address in the narrow window at the top of the page. On this page it reads http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=127320&messages=40#2839362 . This will highlight the address and give you a drop down bar with options.
3) Select "Copy" as your option by left clicking it.
4)Navigate back to Mudcat and choose your thread and in the "reply to thread" box (the one you write your comments in), right click where you want to enter the copied address.
5)Select "paste" as your option

That's it. Should you want to go a step further and convert the address to a "blue clicky" link,just left click "Make a link ("blue clicky")" just below the Reply to thread box and on the right side.
A new window will pop up. In the "Link URL" slot, right click and paste your copied address. In the "Link Text" slot below it, you can name the link, like "Click" or "Click Here" or "Out of Africa" or whatever you want. Then left click on "Create Link".
The link code will appear, looking something like a web address. Left click just to the left of this link code, and holding the left button down, drag the highlight to the end of the link code. Now right click that and again select "copy" option. Now when you right click and paste into the Reply to Thread box, the code will appear. If you click "preview" you'll see your blue clicky the way it will look when you post. If it looks good, click "Submit Message".

Don't know if anyone doesn't know those procedures, but if you don't, maybe that helps.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:20 PM

Another favorite. I especially like the way she sticks her tongue out at the posers at the end of the song. Celie's Blues

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mark Ross
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:32 AM

Willie Nelson & Pop Staples sitting down in a Nashville recording studio to write the song OLD SHOE(actually written by Edgar Winter) in the movie WAG THE DOG.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: mattkeen
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:38 AM

The whole crew singing along with "You're Just to Good to be True" whilst playing pool in Deer Hunter

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: deepdoc1
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:50 AM

Good Morning Vietnam, Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Phil B
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:56 AM

Robert Shaw singing 'Spanish Ladies" in Jaws. Apparently it was his idea. Can't verify the truth of that. The square dance scene in 'Long Riders' with Cooder,Lindley, Brydon and the gang playing Seneca two step/waiting for the federals. (And of course the whole soundtrack anyway. Excellent)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: TopcatBanjo
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:57 AM

Just first thoughts off the top of my head....one of my early memories is the great music in The Jungle Book, especially this one which still stands up as a classic..
I Wanna Be Like You

..and in terms of directly influencing me personally, a more recent one is the scene in Cold Mountain (not the greatest film but with some great music) where they are singing Sacred Harp in the church, as this led me to this fantastic form of singing which is a big part of my life five years later.
Sacred Harp singing in Cold Mountain

And O Brother, of course, which fostered my interest in bluegrass and old-timey music in general and the banjo in particular - especially as I'd been an AKUS fan for a few years already, so enjoyed the fact that the marvellous Dan Tyminski provided the voice for George Clooney. But I think this bluesy song from Chris Thomas King was particularly affecting in the film.
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: deepdoc1
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:58 AM

I just realized I put a possible downer into an overwhelmingly positive thread...sorry if I transgressed. I just think it was a powerful connection between the film and the song, and one that has stuck with me for years.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:59 AM

The Trolley song from Meet me in St Louis
We're a Couple of Swells, from Easter Parade [?]
Springtime for Hitler, from The Producers
America, from West Side Story
If my Friends Could see me Now, from Sweet Charity [?]
I Wanna be Loved by You, from Some Like it Hot.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:01 AM

Talking of Macheath, Pabst's "Dreigrosschen Oper" (1931), especially the opening "Mackie Messer". ===

Yes - & Pirate·Jenny/Black·Freighter

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:02 AM

Any Mel Brooks film. Too often overlooked, but part of the comic genius in Mel is in his own compositions (too many to list, but "Springtime for Hitler" and "The Inquisition" come immediately to mind) along with the use of other music in odd situations (opening scene in Blazing Saddles).

And I too loved every Marx Brothers film, not just for the humor, but for Harpo and Chico.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:35 AM

deepdoc, I think that clip not only belongs in this thread, but shows pretty sharply the difference between what beauty we aspire to, and what damage we do to one another.
Topcat, I was going to mention I wanna be like You from Jungle Book as well, with the great singing of Louie Prima.

Another scene from Cold Mountain with a powerful music moment is the one in which Frederic Forrest and his henchmen have caught up to Renee Zellweger's Dad and his pal, and are preparing to shoot them for desertion. Forrest experiences a moment of..regret? Or just common humanity...as the song reaches the end.

.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

La Golondrina in The Wild bunch

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Fred Bailey
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 09:37 PM

The movie is "The Piano Lesson", I believe.
The scene is four black men around a kitchen table, drinking and singing a Parchman Farm version of "Alberta" (they call it "Berta").
It's just amazingly electric -- one of the best work songs ever.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 09:54 PM

Here you are, Fred. Great scene indeed. I lost a friend recently who used to sing this song, and it brought back some good memories.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: TopcatBanjo
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:49 AM

Thanks for posting that, LEJ. Just watched the clip and it was absolutely fantastic. Funnily enough, I saw Tony Furtado (banjo/slide guitar genius) do a version of that song in a pub in Hyde a few months ago!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM

in the movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" there's a scene where Slim Pickens has been gutshot and lies in his woman's arms, life slowly seeping out, as the sun sets over a lake. Dylan wrote the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" for that scene and it's quite moving.
I'd provide a link but this stupid work computer is struggling to load Youtube videos.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 12:47 PM

Absolutely got to be that scene in the pub in The Quiet Man, where an accordeon playing Tam O'Shanter wearing local bursts in singing and playing The Wild Colonial Boy, followed by the lads of the village, all joining in lustily.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 03:12 PM

More Blues Brothers: Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway moved pretty well at 73, but man, could he dance in his prime....

Minnie the Moocher from 1932

Pete.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: alanabit
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM

As my music is really blues, rock and folk, I am still rather baffled as to why I like this silly, corny scene, with quite atrocious acting, so much. Here it is from "Oklahoma" - People Will Say We're In Love.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Joseph de Culver City
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:35 PM

'O Lucky Man'-Alan Price

'Cat Ballou'- Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye provide running musical commentary.

'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'- openng sequence with Mott the Hoople's 'All the Way From Memphis'

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Bert
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:45 PM

Dance a little side step from "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:59 PM

Missa Luba from "If"

Any Woody Allen soundtrack

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 07:35 PM

For something that always puts me under the table, Lee Marvin as Kid Shaleen.
For a corny oldie, "Buttons and Bows",
And one that may get me branded as a dirty old man, but I think it is one of the loveliest sensual moments on film:
From "Manon of the Spring"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 09:47 AM

I tend to remember movies based on the impression that the music leaves me with. Sometimes it's a single song or scene background; sometimes it's the main theme.

Here are three that I find truly memorable and that added greatly to the video experience:

The climactic chase scene in Mad Max: The Road Warrior

The simple but dread-inducing theme to "Halloween"

"Ben's Theme", my favorite passage from the "National Treasure" soundtrack

And these are just a "tip of the iceberg" sampling of musical passages that are favorites.

SC

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: dwditty
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:32 AM

Steve Vai vs. "Ry Cooder" in Croassroads

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: C. Ham
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:54 AM

Tigger Outlaw singing Joni Mitchell's "Song For Aging Children" in the funeral scene from Alice's Restaurant (which had a whole lot of other good music in it).

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: PHJim
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:58 AM

I loved the Caeleigh (sp?) scene from Local Hero.

A great song from DUMBO is When I See An Elephant Fly.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: PHJim
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:59 AM

Was When I See An Elephant Fly sung by Ukulele Ike?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 04:34 PM

"Men of Harlech" in "Zulu": my father took me to see the movie when I was maybe nine years old and I found the singing tremendously stirring, without having a clue what it was about. The Zulus' "reply" was equally moving.

wr

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 09:33 PM

Iris DeMent singing Pretty Saro from Songcatcher



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ArylRGWME

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Riginslinger
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:35 PM

Any number of scenes from "The Sting", featuring the music of Scott Joplin.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Don Firth
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:49 PM

Hard to say, but one of my favorites is from 1951, the lavish, spectacular movie version of Jacques Offenbach's opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. Ballerina Moira Shearer and (I believe) Leonide Massine in the Dragonfly ballet sequence. I don't think the ballet sequence is in the opera, but since they had Moira Shearer in the cast, they undoubtedly wanted to make full use of her talents as a dancer.

The Dragonfly

When I was in my early teens and on into my early twenties, there were a lot of really good musically based movies coming out. The 1943 Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains as the phantom, and Nelson Eddy, proving that he had a rich baritone voice that was perfectly capable of opera as well as musical comedy; Song of Scheherazade, a somewhat apocryphal bio-pic about Rimsky-Korsakov when he was a cadet in the Russian navy making a stop in Morocco with all of the music derived from Rimsky-Korsakov's compositions; Tonight, We Sing, a bio-pic about impresario Sol Hurok, which had everybody in it, such as Ezio Pinza as Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin. And several others. A musical version of The Desert Song, A Song to Remember with Cornel Wilde as Chopin. . . .

Lots of musical movies, and I'm sure soaking this stuff up at the Saturday matinee while waiting for the thirteen chapter serial had a lot to do with my later appreciation of all kinds of music.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:06 PM

Zorba the Greek is one of the great characters in literature or film. At the end of the movie, Zorba's plan to make a fortune with Alan Bates by constructing a log ramp from the mountain to the ocean reaches a catastrophic end when the weight and speed of the logs rip the structure to pieces, terrifying a gathered crowd from the village. Zorba's grief is not so much for himself, nor for the failure, but because of his friend's anguish over the lost effort and money. Zorba's Dancewith Bates is a celebration of the joy of life, the comedy that can be found even in the darkest of situations. It is one of the most memorable endings found in any film.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 12:40 AM

and from a movie that symbolized a certain kind of freedom, a certain kind of paranoia, popularized the idea of the counter-culture, and sold a hell of a lot of motorcycles.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 12:42 AM

In addition to the great choices above; Any and all music from "Barry Lyndon" and "Local Hero"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 01:01 AM

Darned near anything done by Hans Zimmer.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 01:05 AM

I could not agree more about the Sarabande
used for Barry Lyndon. A great score, and cinematography that often seemed to create the effect of an 18th century landscape in oil brought to life.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 01:44 AM

Then there is the Hollywood version of quick thinking and impromptu song and dance. Not what I was looking for, but cute.

I've been trying keywords and can't land on what I know must be out there somewhere. Does anyone else remember the delightful surprise of James Mason playing the organ in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or the piano in Georgy Girl and probably other films he was in? He was quite good, but I don't know if he ever was in a musical in which he sang and danced or played.

SRS

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:18 AM

Any scene from The Graduate, Simon and Garfunkel really made that a great movie

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:24 AM

The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page in Blow Up.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: PHJim
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:27 AM

Stilly River Sage reminded me of Kirk Douglas sining Whale Of A Tale in 20,000 Leagues.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:41 AM

Mr. Lawrence .... Merry Christmas


biLL

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: bubblyrat
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 12:53 PM

In the film "Kidnapped",starring Michael Caine,there is a moving scene at the end,where Caine,as Alan Breck Stuart,having surrendered himself,looks out of his cell window to the hills and mountains that he loves,and there is a lovely song,sung by Mary Hopkins....very moving,as I recall (a similar scene in "Tom Horn" is redolent ).
    As to "Duelling Banjos" ; I don't know about Mr Smith and his "Feudin' Banjos", but.....Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys played something called,I believe , " Mocking Banjo", and it sounds REALLY like Duelling Banjos to my ear !!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 02:04 PM

Has anybody mentioned "The Last Waltz"?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 02:37 PM

Entire soundtracks of Pete Kelly's Blues. The Benny Goodman Story, I Want To Live, Man With the Golden Arm, Glen Miller Story, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 02:51 PM

I love that scene in Amadeus where Mozart (Tom Hulse) arrives at court and Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) presents him with a composition that he wrote in Mozart's honor. Mozart sits down at the keyboard to play it, gets a few measures into it, then repeats a short passage a couple of times and says, "Hmm! That doesn't quite work, does it? How about doing it this way?" Then he makes a few small changes and it sounds much better.

Salieri (who has to agree that Mozart is right) stands there with a look on his face that says, "I would very much like to strangle that wise-ass little bastard!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 04:27 PM

The Marseillaise from Casablanca, which someone mentioned, is among the very best. For Broadway musical adaptations, I don't think it can get much better than the opening scene from The Sound of Music. The showstopper treatment of "Do-Re-Mi" is also very memorable.

I've always liked this scene in Rio Grande (1950) where the Sons of the Pioneers serenade Maureen O'Hara with "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen."

And speaking of the Sons of the Pioneers...I'm a big fan of theirs and could name too many of their numbers, but one really striking one is in Texas Stagecoach (1940). The song ("Hill Country") is built off a road-building scene where the sounds of construction set the rythm for the first unaccompanied bars of the song, and the filming techniques are unusual for a B-Western.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: PHJim
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 12:05 PM

Many Quincy Jones scores, but That Cold Day In The Park has some great harmonica playing from Toots Theilman.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 12:45 PM

John Ford's last film was The Dead, which describes a dinner party in Ireland during a snow storm in the 19th century. The man in this scene is married to a woman whose remoteness is a mystery to him. In a previous scene, she has told of a a young man she loved in her youth who took ill and died. He realizes that this youth was the love of her life, and she has never recovered from his death. The scene with a famous tenor who is a guest, occurs as they prepare to leave the party. It's a very fine film, and anyone who has not seen it is missing a true classic.
The Lass of Aughrim

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 12:54 PM

Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat, Stubby Kaye. Guys and Dolls.

Nicely Nicely Johnson

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: mkebenn
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 01:18 PM

Loved both Cat Baloo and
blazing Saddles ("no, consarn it, I said the sherrif is a nig(BONG), and lets not forget the touch of Wagner with a sniff of napalm fron "Appocolypes Now" (sp) Mike

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 01:45 PM

and then there is this shocking ending from Dr. Strangelove

we'll meet again

biLL

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 02:39 PM

And of course there's "Benton Arizona" at the end of "Dark Star"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: DonMeixner
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 03:13 PM

Zulu, The Men of Harlech sequence is without question my favorite. Followed by the men from the mines in How Green Was My Valley, this has always been moving. And The Sons of the Pioneers doing Kathleen and The Bold Fenian Men from Rio Grande. Then Daniel Dravot, Esq. singing Heber's Hymn on the bridge in The Man Who Would Be King.

Great films. Two by John Ford, one each by Stanley Baker and John Huston.

Don

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 03:16 PM

I just remembered Elmer Bernstein's 'Walk on the Wild Side'. Great opening music, great Saul Bass opening sequence, great book. Bloody awful film IMO.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 03:46 PM

How about those indomitable British soldiers!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 07:28 PM

Don Firth, you are absolutely right. This is a wonderful scene. It captures the goofy genius of Hulce's Mozart, and creates an eerie parallel to Saliere's assistance to the dying Mozart as he writes the Requiem at the end of the movie.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 07:35 PM

100

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:28 AM

I haven't seen anyone call a hundred for a while.

The Third Man

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,greg o
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:01 PM

Brian Eno's "Needle in the Camel's Eye" from Velvet Goldmine.
Every single second of Ennio Morricone's music for the "Dollars Trilogy".

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,greg o
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:07 PM

Someone else mentioned "Dance A Little Sidestep" from Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. Charles Durning was brilliant! Possibly the best musical take on politics ever recorded on film.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:23 PM

Sonatine
Zorba's dance
And others.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

The Warriors

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:52 PM

Donnie Darko

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:58 PM

Apocalypse Now

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Anne Neilson
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:20 PM

The scene in "Hear My Song" (little British film with Ned Beattie and Adrian Dunbar) where the famous tenor Josef Locke (Beattie) - who has fled to Ireland to avoid UK taxes - goes out with a fisherman on an absolutely calm sea and sings 'Hear my song, Violetta' to an accordion accompaniment as they putter along.
This is a beautiful melody and a beautiful voice singing for the sheer joy of it. And the setting is a perfect match for it.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: mally
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 10:12 AM

The scene in "Play Misty For Me" when the Ewen MacColl song "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was sung.

The scene in "Waking Ned" when the "Maggie and Finn" theme was played when they were both down at the stream.
Also the fiddle in pub scene when the string breaks.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 09:00 PM

The scene in Elmer Gantry where he sings a hymn with the blacks.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 01:08 AM

From Beauty and the Beast, which probably had the best collection of songs in any cartoon, this great sendup of macho posing...Gaston's Song.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:28 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfcpJb_J38&feature=related

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:52 AM

Jeez, forgot this one!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: ichMael
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 09:14 PM

There's The Lass of Aughrim from John Huston's THE DEAD. That's a nice one. Clip's about 2 1/2 minutes.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,JimP
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:12 AM

Music isn't always delightful. Men marched off to war to joyfully kill, be killed and commit unspeakable atrocities, all with a song on their lips. I always found this scene disturbing and powerful:

Panzerlied

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 08:36 PM

Can't neglect my favorite musical number from my favorite trans-gender musical, Hewdig and the Angry Inch, Put on Some Makeup.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,alastair
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:46 AM

It has got to be the music from the mission, not sure which scene to choose there are so many great ones.

alastair

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lighter
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 12:10 PM

When Mick Jagger sang "The Wild Colonial Boy."

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: open mike
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 02:33 PM

the scene in Titanic
where there is a band playing for
dancing down below the deck


there was a cartoon (i think it was also hungarian rapsody)
where various characters and critters were constructing
a building....the octopus, for example, was a bricklayer
with a brick in each tenticle

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Robo
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:40 AM

Dang, so many good ones mentioned - O Lucky Man (reprise), in particular. And then there's Van the Man in Last Waltz (Tura Lura Lura), the Dueling Guitars piece in August Rush, and the very short scene around the campfire in the movie Matewan where the instruments of miners from different cultures blend into something magic.

Dueling Guitars/August Rush

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 01:32 PM

Someone mentioned this scene earlier. Yes, it is a great one.

Knockin on Heaven's Door

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: John Hardly
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 08:34 AM

Nearly forgot about
this one. From a quirky movie about karaoke. And in a counter-intuitive twist, Paul Giamatti is doing his own vocals, but Andre Braugher's voice is the voice of Arnold McCuller -- best known as back-up for James Taylor, Lyle Lovett, and dozens of others.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: buddhuu
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 10:08 AM

From 'O'Brother':

Dan Tyminski's "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Tim Blake Nelson's "In the Jailhouse Now"
Ralph Stanley's "O Death"

From 'Magnolia':

The cast singing "Wise Up" (I know the movie is nuts, but where the hell did that come from?)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 03:43 PM

Fantastic scene from Sun Valley Serenade - Glenn Miller and his orchestra performing 'Chattanooga Choo-Choo,' with vocals by Tex Beneke and the Modernaires, and then a reprise by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers.

Chattanooga Choo-Choo

I can't link to it because the video is unfortunately no longer on YouTube, but another all-time favorite of mine is the Vienna Boys' Choir performing 'Omnes de Saba Venient' in the Disney film Almost Angels, a little-known gem.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: GUEST,Gail
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 04:52 PM

For pure nostalgia, Fred Astaire singing to Ginger Rogers

The Way You Look Tonight

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 04:59 PM

What about - the theme that haunts A Matter of Life and Death, the 1946 Powell and Pressburger movie in which David Niven has cheated death and then met a girl - he feels burning love for the girl and also extreme survivor guilt (the film is set over the very last days of the European bit of WW2), manifesting in a hallucinogenic brain problem complete with virtual trial by an afterlife that's still after him. One example on YouTube here.

If you're interested in the accuracy of the neurology background to the film, check out Diane Friedman's A Matter of Life and Death: The Brain Revealed by the Mind of Michael Powell.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 10:16 AM

Almost bought a bike after seeing Butch Cassidy..'Raindrops keep falling on my head'

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
From: Marje
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 10:45 AM

One of my favourites is that bit in The Shawshank Redemption where Andy puts a Mozart duet from Marriage of Figaro on the record deck and broadcasts it to the whole yard of prisoners, who all stop and listen. Magic.

Marje

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.

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: Tug the Cox
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 11:50 AM

Guest Gail....wonderful link!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: John Hardly
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:29 PM

sublime

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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,Ah Diddums!
Date: 25 Sep 16 - 11:42 PM

BIBLO'S CROCKERY

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: 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: 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: 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
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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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.