Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film

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

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