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Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: Stu Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:14 PM . . . and anything from My Fair Lady. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: Stu Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:12 PM Greased Lightnin! |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: GUEST,Gusty Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:10 PM Madeline Kahn's 'I'm Tired' in 'Blazing Saddles', closely followed by Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle's 'Putting on the Ritz' in 'Young Frankenstein'. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: Rasener Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:05 PM Well for me it has to be My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion in Titanic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU Also Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6827163268088648679# |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: GUEST, Sminky Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:01 PM Ah, yes now — I meant songs really In my defence - the song does last the whole scene (albeit with a ...errr.. fantasy sequence in the middle). |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:59 AM Songs only--any of Sylvia Fine's specialty songs for Danny Kaye for fun; The Third Man Theme for a more serious music...very haunting. For production numbers, I try to watch each of those '30s 'Gold Diggers' films whenever I can. "We're In the Money" is an especial favorite. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: GUEST,Torchy Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:56 AM The best song ever in a film was My rifle my pony and me in Rio Bravo, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: frogprince Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:51 AM Suibhne, I'll be showing that clip of Mary Eaton to my wife. Her sister Doris married the man whose poultry farm my father-in-law managed for many years. I just took Doris's autobiography, "The Days We Danced", off our shelf; Mary died tragically in 1948, after a long history of alcoholism. Doris is 104 years old, sharper than most people much younger, and still able to dance. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: Smedley Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:49 AM 'The Trolley Song' from Meet Me In St Louis always warms the cockles. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: GUEST,Elmore Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:41 AM "love theme from Barry Lyndon" by The Chieftains" |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: Jack Blandiver Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:31 AM The Monkey-Doodle-Do in the 4 Marx Brother's The Cocoanuts (1929). Here it is in situ sung and danced by the delicious Mary Eaton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P9rQs3F9vw And here it is used as the soundtrack for a film of a monkey in Edinburgh Zoo playing with a dead mouse I made back in 2004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atN8qQfcsGc |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: MGM·Lion Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:22 AM Ah, yes now — I meant songs really; but having chosen the title I did for the thread, I suppose that Busby Berkeley production numbers must be admitted as candidates — or need we start yet another thread for the likes of them? BTW — having mentioned one song from KissMeKate above, I must also recall 'True To You In My Fashion'. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: GUEST, Sminky Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:10 AM I positively hate musicals and I loathe tap-dancing with a passion but, for me, the most incredibly wonderful scene in the whole of movie history is the "Lullaby of Broadway" sequence in "Gold Diggers of 1935". It's something I just cannot explain. |
Subject: RE: Top musical number in film From: frogprince Date: 02 Dec 09 - 11:07 AM I think the absolute greatest musical moment in the history of American film has to be Lee Marvin's rendition of "Happy Birthday" in "Cat Ballou". |
Subject: Top musical number in film From: MGM·Lion Date: 02 Dec 09 - 10:58 AM 'Fred Astaire, whatever his virtues, was hardly a top singer [tho a most attractive one at that]; but 'A Couple Of Swells' from 'Easter Parade', his duet with Judy Garland, would probably be my choice of best-ever musical number in a film: even more than the two brilliant ones from 'Singing In The Rain', 'Make Em Laugh' & the title number.' I wrote this on another thread, but decided the topic needs a thread of its own — so this is it. Pausing simply to add 'Kiss Me Kate's' 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' as a further candidate, I hereby throw this debate open to the floor... |
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