Posted on 06/23/2004 7:33:12 AM PDT by yankeedame
I watched the show and not a single song was chosen from the Music Man -- - 76 Trombones should've been in the top 100.
You can see the entire list at:
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/songs.aspx
"Puttin' on the Ritz" from Young Frankenstein :-)
Oh yeah, and theme from "Shaft"
Where was "Seventy Six Trombones" -- or anything else from "The Music Man"?
Over the rainbow is a great song. I especially like the version combined with "what a wonderful world" by IZ from Hawaii accompanied only by a ukelele :o) This version was also in the movie "Finding Forester".
Hehe, 89 and 38 respectively..just looked at the list ;-)
Hey! I forgot about that one. That IS a classic!
WHAT????
No mention of "Rock and Roll High School" by the Ramones?
(As enjoyed in the movie of the same name)
These people have NO credibility!
OK, here's an odd one, but is both surprisingly good and historically significant, and everyone knows it and if they see it will say, "Oh, yeah":
"A Tisket, A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald in an old Abbot & Costello movie.
It seems they were only including songs with lyrics. I didn't hear any instrumentals. So they didn't include instrumental movie scores. If they had, there's no way they could leave out something like the Theme from the Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther, etc...
I realize all of the songs on the list have lyrics. My question is why are some of the songs performed by characters and some just part of the soundtrack? If they include both, then they should include instrumentals from sountracks. And then you'd have to wonder why there are no John Williams songs on the list as well.
It's not like the songs were rated based on their importance or poignance to the story being told either. In such event how could they omit the closing scenes from Dr. Strangelove, or the opening to 2001 Space Odyssey? Plus I view the absence of any Beetles songs from Help or A Hard Day's Night a travesty when songs like Moon River, Windmills Of My Mind and Born To Be Wild are included.
And let's face it what about films like Woodstock, Tommy, The Wall, Purple Rain or The Song Remain The Same? Surely some of the classic songs performed in these movies merit mention.
I agree with your criticizing the lack of classic rock, but as for scores, the topic is best songs, not best scores. Mancini's score is ALMOST singable, but if you can't sing it, it ain't a song.
And, no, Mr. Murray, this is not a song.
STAR wars, nothing but STAR wars!
I agree with you. These "Top 100" lists are usually not very comprehensive. They're designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They included a lot of popular songs that would appeal to a wide audience in a 3 hour TV special. I wouldn't view it as anything close to definitive.
I could never sit all the way through "Annie Hall." Each sound bite was amusing, but it was just 500 mildly amusing jokes, one after the other. No builup, no rhythm, no direction, no point: The comedic equivalent to a Wilson Phillips album. Did it somehow turn gay at the end, or are you just associating it with Lower-east-side, granola-munching, evian-drinking "villagers"? It seemed more metrosexual than homosexual. Even metrosexuals don't like Garland and Streissand; they jus don't hate people who love them.
Close enough.
Every song from "Rock'n'Roll High School" or "The Harder They Come" beats the pants off Stayin Alive.
Feelings
Morris Albert
Music & Lyrics : Morris Albert
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
How could they have left off "In The City" from the Warriors?
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