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.