what movies are these songs from?

Subject: what movies are these songs from?
From: Marion
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:04 PM

Hi gang. Just found out that for a (nursing home) gig tomorrow, they're having a "movies" theme and want me to do all showtunes. Songs from musicals I'm on top of, songs from classic movies are a little harder.

Seems to me that I've heard that these songs come from movies: can anyone confirm, and tell me the movie names?

Que Sera Sera
My Blue Heaven
Don't Fence Me In
South of the Border
The Gambler
Irish Lullaby (Too Ra Loo Ra)
Anniversary Song
Swinging on a Star

Thanks a lot my dears, Marion

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Marion
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:06 PM

I'd also like to know other suggestions of songs from classic movies; I might happen to know them already. Do you know any of the songs that are popular with older people that are from movies - such as the repertoire suggested in this thread? Playing nursing home gigs

Thanks, Marion

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:09 PM

Que Sera, Sera Doris Day written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 re-make of his 1934 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

Don't Fence Me In Written by: Cole Porter From the Film: Hollywood Canteen 1944

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:11 PM

Zip-i-dee-do-dah (Song of the south)

Bella Notte (LAdy and the Tramp)

Moonlight Bay (I think the movie had the same name)

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:48 PM

These appear in the following musicals:

My Blue Heaven
Never A Dull Moment 1943
Moon Over Las Vegas 1944
My Blue Heaven 1950
Love Me Or Leave Me 1955

Don't Fence Me In
Hollywood Canteen 1944
Night And Day 1946 (Cole Porter biopic)

South of the Border
Pepe 1960

Irish Lullaby (Too Ra Loo Ra)
Going My Way 1944 (famously)
Nob Hill 1945    (not famously)

Anniversary Song
The Jolson Story 1946 (and, because you hadn't heard nothin' yet, in:)
Jolson Sings Again 1949

Swinging on a Star
Going My Way 1944


Mick

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 02:03 PM

I meant musical films in the last post.

If you're looking for songs from classic movies you might include As Time Goes By from Casablanca and Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany's and Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (and dozens of others I could think of).

Mick

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 02:10 PM

I have an unreliable memory at times, but I think Bing Crosby may have sung "Swinging on a Star" in "High Society", which I think was the Hollywood version of an F.Scott Fitzgerald novel. Over to the more erudite Catters...

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 07:45 PM

Bing Crosby was in "High Society"? Thought it was Fred Astaire.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 11:12 PM

How about Isle of Innisfree? That was from "The Quiet Man" and it has a great melody.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: LadyJean
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 12:10 AM

Some people are in nursing homes because they don't know a hawk from a handsaw. Others are there because it takes two people to get them in and out of bed. Those people deserve a good show. I heard two of the WORST rock and rollers in the south playing at a nursing home in Kentucky. Their audience looked like they were in pain. Those old people deserved better.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: alison
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 12:29 AM

"high society" was Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra...... and had those other great songs, "blue Skies" & "true love"

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 09:55 AM

It had Grace Kelly too, didn't it? She sang "True Love" with Crosby. That song was later covered by George Harrison of all people! Was I right about "Swinging on a Star" though Alison, or are you going to have to correct my dodgy memory?

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 10:06 AM

No, I think in High Society they sang "High Hopes", which for some reason always triggers "Swinging on a Star". It was also a remake of The Philadelphia Story, nothing to do with the Great Gatsby. And a pretty crummy movie it is too, except for the stars.


You could get away with songs from My Fair Lady and Sound of Music.


yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 12:33 PM

I didn't think it had anything to do with Gatsby, but I do seem to recall the credits saying it was based on a Fitzgerald novel. I think Louis Armstrong put in an appearance too, didn't he? Can't remember if the film was any good. It was a long time ago.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 12:46 PM

Louis was certainly in the film -- he plays the "storytelling host" of the thing. It is all very weird, because of course with Armstrong, Crosby, and Sinatra, you have the three great male American singers of the 20th century together -- not to mention the jaw dropping Grace Kelly -- but none of it works. The film is as dead as mutton. Crosby is too old for the part, for one thing. And there is the obvious fact that Crosby reveres Armstrong -- I assume he got him into the film -- and Armstrong is sort of an icon in the film, and yet Armstrong's role is very ambiguous, no one ever mentions race at all, in among the whitest people who ever drew celluloid breath. The jazz musicians are sort of like the black maid in earlier films, but more central -- as if the story were being told by the black maid. Very weird. But it was indeed a remake of the Philadelphia Story, written by Philip Barry, and had nothing to do with any Fitzgerald story I know, apart from the fact that we are dealing with the American rich. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:10 PM

Frank Sinatra certainly sang 'Who wants to be a millionnaire' in the film but I can't remember the female actress who sang it with him

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:14 PM

May have been Celeste Holme

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Alba
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:27 PM

Your right it was Celeste Holme that sang "Who wants to be Millionare" with Frank Sinatra, Mrs Duck.
The song "High Hopes" was in the film "A hole in the head". It too was sung by Frank Sinatra. It won an Oscar for best song that year.
A:>)

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:33 PM

Thanks Peter. As I said, my memory can be unreliable. It is a good thirty years since I saw the film on British TV. I don't recall getting excited about it then - in fact I may well have spontaneously upped and gone fishing after that desperately tacky "True Love" scene. I wonder what I'd make of it now, but I think there are other films which I would choose to watch first. Sorry for the thread drift Marion!

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:36 PM

However, I was wrong about "High Hopes" being in the film, for which correction much thanks. I misremembered "Did You Evah?" (what a swelligant, elegant party this is....) as being High Hopes (that will teach me). yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Alba
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 02:03 PM

High Hopes/High Society easy to do Peter.
My Dad was a Cinema projectionist and I got to see Hole in the head up in the projection box, that's the only reason why I remembered it. I thought that the music score (apart from true Love) in High Society was great. Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby's number was memorable from the film:>) Sorry too for the thread drift Marion!
A

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Bugsy
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 12:24 AM

"The Gambler" was from - "The Gambler"


CHeers



Bugsy

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 03:10 AM

How about "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from "Wizard of Oz?

Lin (in Kansas, of course)

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Marion
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:27 PM

Thanks for your responses everyone. Unfortunately, when I tried to come back and read them I found that my library was closed for renovations, so I've been incomputicado since then and wasn't able to see your suggestions before the gig. It went very well though.

Lin, I did sing Over the Rainbow. It occurred to me that maybe it wasn't a coincidence that I was booked to do a program of showtunes during Gay Pride week :).

Marion

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 07:10 PM

Wasn't "Don't Fence me in" also used in "Annie Get Your Gun".

High Society wasn't a patch on the Philadelphia Story - well, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra in place of Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart, for a start. It didn't have much of a chance. But I enjoyed it, and the fact I saw it before seeing The Philadelphia Story probably helped there. (Don't miss seeing Bing Crosby working the Concertina in True Love, hilarious.)

Mind you, we're all getting older - won't be long before the right stuff to sing at old people's homes and such will be The Beatles and The Stones. (In fact some of the time we've probably got there - I bet Yellow Submarine would go down well.)

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 07:16 AM

Wasn't "High Society" based on "Night and Day," the thinly disguised life story of Cole Porter?

The fun song from "High Society" wa "What a Swell Party This Is" by Crosby and Sinatra.

Subject: RE: what movies are these songs from?
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 10:06 AM

"Don't fence me in" is sung in a Karaoke bar sequence, and in the closing credits in the film, Rising Sun, adapted from the Michael Crichton novel of the same name.