You Light Up My Life

Patti Smith & Joe Brooks on Kids Are People Too (1979).

Thanks to The Commonreader for the heads up on this one!

Easy Street

Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Tim Curry in Annie (1982).

I'll Be Hard To Handle

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Roberta (1935).

What Shall We Do Now?

From Pink Floyd The Wall, 1982

The Joke The Musical

Unfortunately no one has put the whole thing on Youtube, but here it is in two pieces:





David Cross, Jack Black, Meleva Barbula & Bob Odenkirk in Mr. Show with Bob and David (episode 102, 1995).

Lot of Livin' to Do

Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, and Jesse Pearson in Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

Sunday Jumps

Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951).

Hell Isn't Good

James Hetfield in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, 1999.

Broadway Melody Ballet

Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse (hotcha!) & cast in Singin' in the Rain (1952).

Ol' Man River

Paul Robeson and cast in Show Boat (1936).

Goldfinger

Shirley Bassey sings the title theme from Goldfinger (1964). Composed by John Barry and with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, produced by George Martin. Not quite a musical number, but one of my favorite songs from a movie.

Toxic Love

Tim Curry in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, 1992.

The single oasis of performing excellence in an otherwise melancholy tale of quixotic environmentalism, brought to you by Guilt Cinemas Inc. Okay, Tone Loc was alright too.

A Puzzlement

Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956).

Oo-De-Lally

Roger Miller in Disney's Robin Hood, 1973

Silly minstrel, you can't strum those country chords with only two strings on your lute. Well, at least I can't.

Danny Boy

Swedish Chef (Jim Henson and Frank Oz), Animal (Frank Oz) and Beaker (Richard Hunt) in The Muppet Show (1980).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Everyone's a Hero/Slipping

Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris is Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, 2008

Live Organ Transplants/The Galaxy Song

Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam & Graham Chapman in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983).

One of my favorite bits from one of my favorite movies.

That's How You Know

Amy Adams and cast in Enchanted (2007). I love that Alan Mencken and Stephen Schwartz (composer and lyricist, respectively) are making fun of themselves in this number. Props to Disney for having a sense of humor.

Where There's a Whip, There's a Way

Cast of The Return of The King (1980).

Water Walk

John Cage performing on the TV show I've Got a Secret, 1960.

This is about as far from the musical idiom as I can post and get away with. Entertaining nonetheless.

Zing a Little Zong

Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman & cast in Just For You (1952).

Magic Dance

David Bowie and cast in Labyrinth (1986).

Whale of a Tale

Kirk Douglas & cast in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954).

Puttin' on the Ritz

Fred Astaire in Blue Skies, 1946.

See Sean's entry on October 31st, 2008 for the Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle duet in Young Frankenstein.

The Never Ending Story

Limahl of Kajagoogoo doing the title Giorgio Moroder tune from the German "Never Ending Story", 1984. Known in Germany as "Die dampfende Haufen". This song is better than the entire movie! Also, fuck this movie for giving me existencialist crises at age 8, "The Nothing"... the entire dimension being destroyed, no thanks! Notice that most of the children's fantasy movies of this period involve giant cataclysms & prophecies... Dark Crystal, Time Bandits, Legend, the Last Unicorn & um... the Never Ending Story. Thus implanting the concept of imminent doom into my generation & selling them on the carbon tax, the Mayan calendar & a messianic president.

King of New York

Cast in Newsies (1992).

Girl Hunt Ballet

Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse & cast in The Band Wagon (1953).

You and Me

Tiffany in Jetsons: The Movie, 1990.

There is not a single song in this movie that hasn't at one time or another broken me out in a rash, lowered my t-cell count, impregnated my cat, and pissed in my Cheerios. So why post it? Because I hate you. So very much.

But seriously, I like Yellow Submarine in the 90's.

Potiphar

Maria Friedman, Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Ian McNeice & cast in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999).

If the whole movie was like this number, it would be amazing. Unfortunately, it is not. This is the highlight of the movie and the rest is awful.

Why Can't the English?

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964).

Ya Got Trouble

Robert Preston & cast in The Music Man (1962).