As Time Goes By

Dooley Wilson, Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942).

Rawhide

Frankie Laine sings the opening and closing theme to Rawhide (1959).

Red Garters

Rosemary Clooney & cast in Red Garters (1954).

Wooden Heart

Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues (1960).

What's This?

Danny Elfman in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Alone in the World

Jim Backus and Marie Matthews in Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962).

There Once Was Man

John Raitt & Doris Day in The Pajama Game (1957).

There's No Business Like Show Business

Ethel Merman & cast in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954).

A Needle In A Haystack

Fred Astaire in The Gay Divorcee (1934).

Mr. Booze

Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. & cast in Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964).

Happy Talk

Juanita Hall, France Nuyen & John Kerr in South Pacific (1958).

BONUS! Captain Sensible (of The Damned) on Top of the Pops:

Bella Notte

George Givot & chorus in Lady and the Tramp (1955).

elevator scene

Mary Tyler Moore & Julie Andrews in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).

It's My Life/Confessions

Cory Monteith, Kevin McHale, and cast of Glee (ep. 6, October 7, 2009).

As a bit of background, in this episode, the characters were given pseudoephedrine to give them more energy. They're not always quite so peppy. They do, however, thoroughly abuse Auto-Tune in the show.

Movin' On Up

Ja'net Dubois sings the theme from The Jeffersons (1975).

Dedicated to Stephanie, who is movin' on up to a new house today, and should resume posting once she's settled in!

Get Thee Behind Me, Satan

Harriet Hilliard in Follow The Fleet (1936).

Chantilly Lace

The Big Bopper on The Dick Clark Show (1958).

Crawfish

Elvis Presley & Kitty White in King Creole (1958).

Talk To The Animals

Roger Moore & cast on The Muppet Show (1980).

This is the last number on the last episode of The Muppet Show.

Plenty to be Thankful For

Bing Crosby & Louise Beavers in Holiday Inn (1942).

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Tapioca

Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore & cast in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).

Dove of Peace

Sacha Baron Cohen, Bono, Sting, Slash, Chris Martin, Elton John & Snoop Dogg in Brüno (2009).

Keep Young and Beautiful

Eddie Cantor & cast in Roman Scandals (1933).

The Penis Song

Eric Idle in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983.

Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul

Meat Loaf & cast in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

Swinging the Alphabet

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard & cast in Violent Is The Word For Curly (1938).

Men in Tights

Cast of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

Calcutta

Bobby Burgess & Barbara Boylan on The Lawrence Welk Show (1961).

All in a Golden Afternoon

Kathryn Beaumont and cast in Alice in Wonderland (1951).

Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News

Mabel King and cast in The Wiz (1978).

We Don't Want to Lose You (Your King and Country Want You)

The Ladies in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).

Happy Veteran's Day!

Everybody Wash

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Sesame Street. To celebrate, here is the first musical number from that very first episode:



Jim Henson & cast on Sesame Street (1969).

Never

Moving Pictures in Footloose (1984).

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence

Ruby Keeler, Billy Taft & cast in Footlight Parade (1933).

Be Prepared

Jeremy Irons, Jim Cummings, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cheech Marin in The Lion King (1994).

Be Optimistic

Shirley Temple, The Brian Sisters & cast in Little Miss Broadway (1938).

Light My Fire

Light My Fire

The Doors on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 17, 1967.

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in The Flying Deuces (1939).

Sister Suffragette

Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley and Reta Shaw in Mary Poppins (1964).

Happy Election Day!

Walking The Dog/Beginner's Luck

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance (1937).

Fever

Rita Moreno and Frank Oz on The Muppet Show, episode 5, (1976).

This Is Halloween

Cast in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Happy Halloween!

Thriller

Michael Jackson in Thriller (1983).

This was linked to on the day MJ died, but I thought it deserved its own post. I recommend watching it in full-screen mode.

One Year!

Happy Birthday to the Musical Madness blog! Here's to many more!

The Skeleton Dance

Disney studio musicians in The Skeleton Dance (1929).

Welcome to My Nightmare

Alice Cooper and the Muppets on The Muppet Show (1978).

Ghostbusters

Ray Parker, Jr. and a whole pile of 80s celebrities in the music video for the theme song to Ghostbusters (1984).

Dry Bones

Fred Gwynne on The Munsters, Season 2 Ep. 12 (1965).

1,2,3

The Groovie Goolies in The Groovie Goolies (1971)

Day-O

Harry Belafonte performing via the cast of Beetlejuice (1988).

Mean Green Mother From Outer Space

Levi Stubbs & Rick Moranis in Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Jack's Lament

Danny Elfman in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

The Addams Family Theme

Vic Mizzy (composed and performing) on The Addams Family (1964).

Composer of "Addams Family" theme song dies at 93

Grim Grinning Ghosts

Thurl Ravenscroft, Chuck Schroeder, Bob Ebright, Jay Meyer, and Verne Rowe perform this song (and appear as the busts) in The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, recorded in the late 1960's.

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

No embeddable video, so please click this link to view The Devil Went Down To Georgia music video from Festus Clamrod and the El Sobrante Twangers (aka Primus) (1996). Great song and a really nice stop-motion animated video.

Remains of the Day

Danny Elfman and cast in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005).

The Batty Bat

Jerry Nelson on Sesame Street (1985).

Trick or Treat

The Mellomen in Trick or Treat (1952).

(The link says 1954; it's lying.)

The Headless Horseman

Bing Crosby in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally released as The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).

The Rowing Song

Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

Frankenstein

The Edgar Winter Group on The Midnight Special (1973).

Goodbye Blue Sky

Pink Floyd in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982).

Surfin' USA

Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf (1985).

(Don't know why this is only available on You Tube in Spanish, but couldn't pass up this Halloween classic!)

I Put a Spell on You

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus (1993).

Night On Bald Mountain

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Fantasia (1940).

Hellfire

Tony Jay and cast in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

Forest of No Return

Cast of Babes in Toyland (1961).

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway and his orchestra in Minnie the Moocher, a Betty Boop Talkartoon (1932).

It's the Mummy

Phyllis Diller & cast in Mad Monster Party (1968).

Rent

Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Jesse L. Martin, and cast in Rent (2005).

My son will start singing this without warning, and as today is his birthday, I thought it appropriate to post one of his favorite songs.

Witch's Egg

Susan Tyrrell, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Hervé Villechaize & cast in Forbidden Zone (1980).

Oogie Boogie's Song

Ken Page and Ed Ivory in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Here I Am

Happy October! It's not too early to post Halloween-themed numbers on the first, is it?



Cassandra Peterson & cast in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988).

Possibly NSFW, if your workplace objects to pastie-twirling.

A Cowboy Needs A Horse

Paul Mason Howard and Billy Mills in the Disney short A Cowboy Needs A Horse (1956).

Congaroo

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, aka the Harlem Congaroo Dancers (in order of appearance: William Downes and Micky Jones, Billy Ricker and Norma Miller, Al Minns and Willa Mae Ricker, Frankie Manning and Ann Johnson) in Hellzapoppin' (1941).

You'll Never Walk Alone

Shirley Jones and Claramae Turner in Carousel (1956).

Pinball Number Count: 12

The Pointer Sisters on Sesame Street (1976).

Scales and Arpeggios

Liz English, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, and Robie Lester in The Aristocats (1970).

Nagasaki

Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry in Jeeves & Wooster (1992).

Now You Has Jazz

Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong and his band in High Society (1956).

Who's Yehoodi?

Lane Truesdale & band in Who's Yehoodi? (short soundie from 1942).

Fugue for Tinhorns

Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, and Danny Dayton in Guys and Dolls (1955).

Toot Sweets

Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes & cast in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

Put the Blame on Mame

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946).

Waltz In Swing Time

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936).

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Shirley Temple in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938).

Happy Birthday to U!

Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Sesame Street (1979).

Because it is my birthday!

Bonus: if it isn't your birthday, you can have this one...

Tiny Dancer

Elton John and cast in Almost Famous (2000).

Makin' Whoopee

Eddie Cantor and cast in Whoopee! (1930).

Ain't Misbehavin'

Fats Waller in Stormy Weather (1943).

An Earful of Music

Ethel Merman and cast in Kid Millions (1934).

Skid Row (Downtown)

Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, and cast in Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

The Signifying Monkey

Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite (1975).

NSFW

It's a Bore

Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier in Gigi (1958).

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and cast in Mary Poppins (1964).

Mack the Black

Judy Garland and cast in The Pirate (1948).

Whistle While You Work

Adriana Caselotti in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Happy Labor Day to all you working stiffs!

If You Want To Sing Out

Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort in Harold and Maude (1971).

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid

Zero Mostel, Michael Hordern, Phil Silvers, and Jack Gilford in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

Ol' Man River

Frank Sinatra in Till The Clouds Roll By (1946).

The Ocarina

Vera-Ellen (Carole Richards singing) and cast in Call Me Madam (1953).

Prehistoric Man

Ann Miller in On the Town, (1949).

Oh Boy / It's So Easy / Rave On

Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith & cast in The Buddy Holly Story (1978).

Belleville Rendez-Vous

Beatrice Bonifassi in The Triplets of Belleville (2003).

Leave It To Jane / Cleopatterer

June Allyson, Ray McDonald & cast in Till The Clouds Roll By (1946).

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel, Irene Dunn, and Paul Robeson in Show Boat (1936).

My Name is Tallulah

Jodie Foster & cast in Bugsy Malone (1976).

A Man's Gotta Do

Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008).

The Wells Fargo Wagon

Cast in The Music Man (1962).

Always loved the "raisins from Fresno" guy.

Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

Marni Nixon dubbed over Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964). Forgive the embedding-disabled link.

Isn't It Kinda Fun

Ann-Margret & cast in State Fair (1962).

The Phony King of England

Phil Harris in Robin Hood (1973).

All I Do Is Dream Of You

Debbie Reynolds & cast in Singing' In The Rain (1952).

On the Good Ship Lollipop

Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes (1934).

Till The Clouds Roll By

Ray McDonald, June Allyson and cast in Till The Clouds Roll By (1946).

crickets chirping

Sorry about the lack of posts for the last few days, your hostesses have been off cavorting around on family vacations without internet access! We will resume our regular Musical Madnessing tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience!

O Mio Babbino Caro

Renata Scotto in Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera, 1981).

This is my mom's favorite aria, so I'm posting it by her request!

An Innocent Affair

Jerry Colonna and Jean Porter in Kentucky Jubilee (1951).

The Tango Maureen

Anthony Rapp and Tracie Thoms in Rent (2005).

The Breaks

Kurtis Blow performs on Soul Train (1980).

Happy belated birthday to Kurtis Blow, who turned 50 yesterday.

That's Entertainment!

Jack Buchanan, Fred Astaire, Oscar Levant, and Nanette Fabray in The Band Wagon (1953).

I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

Burl Ives sings the classic song for the National Film Board of Canada (1964).

You Gotta Have A Gimmick

Roxanne Arlen, Betty Bruce, and Faith Dane in Gypsy (1962).

Song starts at about 1:20.

Typically English

Millicent Martin & Tony Tanner in Stop The World: I Want To Get Off (1966).

If I Were a Bell

Jean Simmons in Guys and Dolls (1955).

Charlie Kane

Charles Bennett with RKO Chorus, Orson Welles & cast in Citizen Kane (1941).

Sorry it's cut off at the end! It's only missing a few seconds.

Ladybugs' Picnic

Bud Luckey on Sesame Street.

The Lady Is A Tramp

Frank Sinatra & cast in Pal Joey (1957).

To Life

Chaim Topol, Paul Mann, and cast in Fiddler on the Roof (1971).

Pettin' In The Park

Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler & cast (Billy Barty as the baby) in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).

Chilly Down

The Fieries in Labyrinth (1986).

What A Lot Of Flowers

Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).

The Walrus and the Oyster

J. Pat O'Malley in Alice in Wonderland (1951).

Tammy

Debbie Reynolds in Tammy and the Bachelor (1957).

You Excite Me

Rita Hayworth (Martha Meers signing) & cast in Tonight and Every Night (1945).

I've Got No Strings

I've Got No Strings

Dickie Jones and cast in Pinocchio (1940).

Sorry for the embedding-disabled link.

Nasty Dan

Johnny Cash & Oscar the Grouch (Caroll Spinney) on Sesame Street (1973).

Beauty School Dropout

Frankie Avalon and the Angels in Grease, (1978).

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

Marilyn Monroe & cast in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

How about that chandelier made of women?!?

The Candy Man Can

Aubrey Woods in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971).

Who Killed Bambi?

This song must be played at my funeral as loud as possible.
Murder murder murder
Someone should be angry
The crime of the century
Who shot little Bambi
Never trust a hippie
'Cause I love punky Bambi
I'll kill to find the killer
In that rotten roll army
All the spikey punkers
Believers in the ruins
With one big shout
They all cry out
Who killed Bambi?


Tenpole Tudor, The Sex Pistols & cast in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (1980).

Summertime

Loulie Jean Norman singing in Porgy and Bess (1959).

I Got Rhythm

Gene Kelly and a bunch of kids in An American In Paris (1951).

America

Rita Moreno, Suzie Kaye, and cast in West Side Story (1961).

Dance to Hecate

Skip to 5:55 for the dance in the temple of Hecate.

Nancy Kovack (Medea) & cast in Jason and the Argonauts (1963).

This movie makes me a little sad, since the ending is Jason and Medea escaping Colchis together, with a very happily-ever-after feeling. Poor Jason, he has no idea what is in store for him.

Bonus! How can I post anything about this movie without posting the famous fight scene from the end, featuring an army of skeletons grown from the teeth of the hydra? I can't! This scene is amazing, and holds up against any CGI effects even 46 years later. Harryhausen is the master of stop motion.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Verna Felton in Cinderella (1950).

Stormy Weather

Lena Horne & cast in Stormy Weather (1943).

The full song is here, but the dance number is cut off at the end, sorry.

Dentist!

Steve Martin, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, and Tisha Campbell in Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Posh

Lionel Jeffries & cast in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

I think I will eventually post every number from this movie, they're all great.

Let's Kiss and Make Up

Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957).

Solid Potato Salad

The Ross sisters (Aggie, Maggie and Elmira) in Broadway Rhythm (1944).

Contortionists freak me out a little bit, but these gals are amazing. (Thanks to Andy for the link!)

Hair

John Savage, Treat Williams, Dorsey Wright, and cast in Hair (1979).

Let Yourself Go

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers & cast in Follow The Fleet (1936).

I Can Do Without You

Doris Day and Howard Keel in Calamity Jane (1953).

Banana Boat Song

Harry Belafonte, Frank Oz (Fozzie Bear) and cast in The Muppet Show (1978).

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Judy Garland in The Judy Garland Show, episode 16.

Happy Independence Day!

America The Beautiful

Elvis Presley live at the Las Vegas Hilton December 13, 1975.

Not a proper musical number, not even a live video, and I'm a day early, but here you go. Have a happy Independence Day!

You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

Peter Marshall and cast in Annie (1982).

Lonesome Polecat

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

Learn Italian while you watch!

Busy Doing Nothing

Bing Crosby, William Bendix, and Cedric Hardwicke in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949).

In Our Little Wooden Shoes

Shirley Temple & cast in Heidi (1937).

Pick a Little, Talk a Little/Goodnight Ladies

Hermione Gingold, the Chorus Girls, and the Buffalo Bills in The Music Man (1962).

Mein Herr

Liza Minelli & cast in Cabaret (1972).

Sweet Transvestite

Sweet Transvestite from memo alo on Vimeo.

Tim Curry and cast in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

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RIP Michael Jackson

We don't normally post straight music videos around here, but today is an obvious exception.



Blame It On The Boogie by The Jacksons (miscredited on You Tube) off the 1978 Destiny album. This was my first favorite song, when I was four years old (and still one of my all time favorites).

And in my opinion, this is still the greatest music video ever made: Thriller

More favorites:
Beat It
PYT
Smooth Criminal

I Can't Say No

Gloria Grahame in Oklahoma! (1955)

Where or When

Lena Horne in Words and Music (1948).

My Freeze Ray

Neil Patrick Harris in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008).

Ted Ain't Ded

Tenpole Tudor & cast in Absolute Beginners (1986).

Playing Sean's request for Father's Day!

The Polka Dot Polka

Alice Faye and cast in The Gang's All Here (1943).

Ride of the Valkyries

Cast of Apocalypse Now (1979).

This is a bit of a stretch, as no cast member is performing, but the music itself is an important piece of the story, a part of the internal reality of the movie, and not just score superimposed on top of it.

It's also an epic piece of film-making, and you really can't go wrong with Wagner, can you?

Skumps

Taylor Holmes and Bill Thompson in Sleeping Beauty (1959).

This was always my second favorite part of the movie, only to be beaten by the magical house cleaning earlier in the film. I have a thing for animated baked goods.

I'm An Occidental Woman In An Oriental Mood

Mae West & cast in Klondike Annie (1936).

Chim Chim Cher-ee

Dick Van Dyke, Karen Dotrice, and Matthew Garber in Mary Poppins (1964).

House of Fun

Madness & cast in The Young Ones episode Boring (1982).

I Look, and What Do I See?

Didi Conn and cast in Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977).

Get Me To The Church On Time

Stanley Holloway & cast in My Fair Lady (1964).

Quiet Life

Ray Davies in Absolute Beginners (1986).

Brotherly Love

Mae Questel (Olive Oyl) and Jack Mercer (Popeye) in Brotherly Love (1936).

A little bit of a stretch, but a lot of the old Fleischer Popeye cartoons feature musical numbers. I particularly like this one.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Eddie Izzard in Across the Universe (2007).

Drink Gypsy

Danny Kaye & cast in The Inspector General (1949).

Note: Danny Kaye's wine is poisoned, that's why the group of men is on edge every time he almost drinks it.

The last 30 seconds of the song are cut off in the video, so click the 13/14 link at the end if you want to see it.

Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby and a boys' choir in Going My Way (1944).

You, Wonderful You (Newspaper Reprise)

Gene Kelly in Summer Stock (1950).