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).