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).

Kill the Beast

Richard White and cast in Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Let's K-nock K-nees

Betty Grable, Edward Everett Horton & cast in The Gay Divorcee (1934).

Minnie The Moocher

Stephanie posted Cab Calloway yesterday, so here's more. Unfortunately this is another "embedding disabled by request" video, but here's my favorite version of Cab Calloway's famous song:

Minnie The Moocher

Cab Calloway & the Blues Brothers Band in The Blues Brothers (1980).

Jumpin' Jive

Cab Calloway, his band, and the Nicholas Brothers in Stormy Weather (1943).

Now, I adore Cab Calloway, but it's the Nicholas Brothers who blow my mind in this clip (particularly at 4:00).

It's Getting Harder All The Time

The Mindbenders, Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson and cast in To Sir, With Love (1967).