Malo Mart

From The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
This incidental music in the Twilight Princess was one of my favorite songs of 2007. Otto used to dance to it.

No Use High

Cast members in Dasepo Naughty Girls (2006).

This number is the opening credits of a South Korean movie about a girl with poverty on her back who is forced into prostitution with a cross-dresser who wants to giggle and talk about the newest idols. She is in love with the son of a rich Swiss family who in turn is in love with the trans gender brother/sister of the sole virgin in the class, the cyclops. Plus a lot more mayhem. Find it if you can! Dasepo Sonyo is the Korean title.

Mickey Mouse Club March

? from the Mickey Mouse Club (1956). Kind of makes you wanna join & force the world to submit to the great power of Walt Disney yeah?

Be A Clown

Gene Kelly & The Nicholas Brothers in The Pirate (1948).

It's A Hard Knock Life

Aileen Quinn & cast in Annie (1982). When i was a little kid, old ladies would say i looked just like Annie with my big curly red hair. Oh brother.

The Lonely Goatherd

Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath in The Sound of Music (1965).

Puppets created and performed by Bil Baird.

12 Days of Christmas

Bob Denver & the Muppets from the A Christmas Together special (1979).

Holly Jolly Christmas

Burl Ives in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964).

Marshmallow World

Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin sing Marshmallow World (written in 1949 by Carl Sigman (lyrics) and Peter DeRose (music)) on some show!

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Judy Garland & Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).

The Christmas Song

Big Bird (Caroll Spinney) & The Swedish Chef (Jim Henson) in A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) performing the Christmas Song written by Mel Torme and Robert Walls

White Christmas

Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds (Martha Mears singing) in Holiday Inn (1942).

Written by Irving Berlin (Jewish!) - Happy Hannukah!

You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Sung by Thurl Ravenscroft (voice of Tony the Tiger) in How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Silver Bells

Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell & cast in The Lemon Drop Kid (1951).

Snow Miser - Heat Miser

Dick Shawn & George Irving in Rankin Bass' The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

We're Despicable

Paul Frees & Joan Gardner in Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962).

Edelweiss

Christopher Plummer & co. in The Sound of Music (1965).

BONUS!!!
Bring Me Edelweiss by Edelweiss

Just You Wait

Audrey Hepburn (Marni Nixon singing) in My Fair Lady (1964).

Fifteen Birds

Glenn Yarbrough & Cast in Rankin Bass' The Hobbit (1977).

There Ain't Nothing Like A Song

Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra in Speedway (1968).

What's Opera, Doc?!

Mel Blanc as Elmer Fudd & Bugs Bunny, What's Opera, Doc? directed by Chuck Jones (1957)
"Spear & Magic Helmet!" Like most American kids, this cartoon introduced me to Wagner.

I Like Myself

Gene Kelly in It's Always Fair Weather (1955).

Nowhere Man

The Beatles & a terrifying transvestite creature in Yellow Submarine (1968)

Dueling Banjos

Ronny Cox, Billy Redden & cast in Deliverance (1972).

The Time Warp

Richard O'Brien & Cast from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Almost ruined by the cult movie phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture show is a great capsulization of Rock & Roll with a Glam focus disguised as a shlocko horror movie. It's a fantastic piece of work, & it's a shame about its following. Richard O'Brien as the hunchback Riff Raff is also fantastic in the 80s BBC series Robin of Sherwood, which if you haven't seen, you HAVE to.

The Company Way

Robert Morse and Sammy Smith How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967).

Schicklgruber

Spike Jones (with the help of Mussolini) takes shots at Hitler in this comic operetta from Meet The People (1944). Thanks to Katie's dad for the heads up! Cross posted from one of our other blogs, "The Daily Hitler".

Spike Jones also wrote "Der Fuehrer's Face", previously featured on Daily Hitler.

By A Waterfall

Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell & dancers in Footlight Parade (1933).

Pinball Wizard

Elton John & the Who in Tommy (1975)
Not a big fan of Elton John, but gotta love him as this glam skinhead character with giant Doc Martens. I wish i had those.

Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson & cast in Mary Poppins (1964).

Happy Recession, everyone!

Sunshine

The Archies doing Sunshine on Archie's Funhouse, 1970. Band assembled by Don Kirshner.
The most whole conception of bubblegum music is to have a cartoon band with the largest circulation of records being cardboard singles issued on the backs of cereal boxes.

The Best Things In Life Are Dirty

Lee Marvin & Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon (1969).

My Way

Sid Vicious in the Great Rock & Roll Swindle (1980)
"My Way" was found to be the song the most frequently played at British funeral services.

Every Sperm is Sacred

Michael Palin & Terry Jones in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983).

What Made the Red Man Red?

Candy Candido and The Mellomen in Peter Pan (1953).

We can't have Thanksgiving without some Indians!

The Rat Scat

Rizzo (Steve Whitmire) & the Rats in the Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wherever there are people & food, there are rats!

Food, Glorious Food

Mark Lester & boys' chorus in Oliver! (1968).

Happy Thanksgiving week! Let's be thankful that we don't have to eat this slop.

Rock & Roll Highschool musical bits

PJ Soles & The Ramones in Rock & Roll Highschool (1979)

Shall We Dance?

Deborah Kerr (Marni Nixon singing) & Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956).

This movie won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Yul Brynner), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design (Color) and Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture), all of which can be seen here.

Can You Picture That?

The Electric Mayhem with Kermit & Fozzie from the Muppet Movie (1979). Jim Henson as Dr. Teeth & Kermit. Frank Oz as Fozzie. Jerry Nelson as Floyd. Music & Lyrics by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher.

There are great songs throughout the majority of the early Jim Henson output. At some point in the 80s all of these people seem to have lost their footing & the product becomes boring & irrelevant.

Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

Fred Astaire & dancers in Top Hat (1935).

Summertime Girl

The Bedrock Rockers from the Pebbles & Bam-Bam Show performed by Love Generation (1973).

Bubblegum cartoons beget bubblegum music! This is one of the best bubblegum tunes around, it gets stuck in my head once a month or so.

Ain't There Anyone Here For Love

Jane Russell & a bunch of nearly naked guys in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

I can't find the number by itself, but just watch the first 4.5 minutes of this clip.

Tradition!

Topol & cast in Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
All the clips of this scene have subtitles because he is speaking in Hebrew.
TRIVIA BONUS! This movie is directed by Norman Jewison, who is not Jewish, he is Canadian.

New York, New York

Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munchin in On The Town (1949).

The Lumberjack Song

I love when TV shows feature musical numbers as long as they're done right. Monty Python here, segues from the Homicidal Barber sketch to the Lumberjack Song. Palin's knee-slapping, gum chewing delivery is perfect.

Michael Palin, Terry Jones & the cast of Monty Python from Monty Python (1969)

Sobbin' Women

Howard Keel with Jeff Richards, Matt Mattox, Marc Platt, Jacques d'Amboise, Tommy Rall, and Russ Tamblyn in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).

Suddenly, Seymour

Rick Moranis & Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Chu-Chi Face

Gert Fröbe & Anna Quayle in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

I Only Have Eyes For You

Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell & cast in Busby Berkeley's Dames (1934).

Singin' in the Rain

Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain (1952).

I felt like I needed a nice rainy song for the weather here in Eugene.

The Old Landmark

James Brown, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd & cast in the Blues Brothers (1980).

When You're Good to Mama

Queen Latifah in Chicago (2002).

Speak Easy

Jodie Foster, Scott Baio & a bunch of other kids in Bugsy Malone (1976). Music by Paul Williams. Man, a whole week of musicals in Chicago? I don't even know if this one takes place in Chicago, it could be New York, it could be an imaginary city. Either way, the obvious choice is that musical Chicago, but, i haven't seen it! Ha ha. Bugsy Malone is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time, so it doesn't matter.

Shake a Tailfeather

Continuing our Chicago musicals week in honor of Obama's win, here's a number from the best Chicago musical ever. It was very hard to pick one song since they're all great, but I had to go with the spontaneous street party!



Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers Band in The Blues Brothers (1980).

Bad Guys

For Barack Obama, i'm glad we've got a Chicago politician for president.

Sheridan Russell & a bunch of other kids in Bugsy Malone (1976). Music by Paul Williams.

Money

Liza Minnelli & Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972).

The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat

Carmen Miranda & cast in The Gang's All Here (1943) by Busby Berkeley. This is the Nuremberg Rally of bananas.

Shipoopi

Buddy Hackett & the cast in The Music Man (1962).

Bim Bam Boom

The Kipper Kids & cast in Forbidden Zone (1980).

Puttin' on the Ritz

Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974).

Happy Halloween!

The Enchilada Man

Dean Martin, Carmen Miranda & Jerry Lewis in Scared Stiff (1953).