Top musical number in film

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...