Friday night music - songs made for cinema.

[Alex321]

Xanadu - Olivia Newton John

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLi8fTlDEag

 

[DRM]

Than Heaven for Little Girls - from Gigi

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TqSyvdqn9c

blimey, that hasn't aged well!

 

[briantrumpet]

I know this isn't normal fare here, but two reasons it's worth a watch: the song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" was written by the Gershwins for the 1937 film 'Shall We Dance', and it's a classic. Maybe even more remarkable is that the song itself was done live in one take, and the roller-skate tap dance just has one splice, despite extraordinarily complicated chorography and steps (and camera-work)

Go on, give yourself a treat, and go back 88 years...

 

[Alex321]

Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison written and first performed in The Thomas Crown Affair

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNx5ydr8VI

 

[Alex321]

Born Free - Matt Monroe

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfNDcvtALQg

 

[briantrumpet]

blimey, that hasn't aged well!

It's an example of a 'classic' song that I use to remind people to check lyrics carefully from songs of the past... the line "Thank heavens for little girls... for they grow up in the most delightful ways" is as creepily pervy as it's possible to get... there's only one interpretation of that sentiment.

 

[briantrumpet]

Is it cheating to use musicals?

Doris Day - The Windy City (Calamity Jane)

View: https://youtu.be/5MnUrhptPSo?si=g4VRh1ctIWwdXmSz

For the sake of civic virtue they've got fountains there that squirt you.

It was originally a film, and only later became a stage musical, so you're fine. OTOH, all the Rogers & Hart & Rogers and Hammerstein musicals were originally on the stage. But you've given me a couple of idea for other film musical classic songs...

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/MfmYCM4CS8o

Jon Bon Jovi Blaze Of Glory from Young Guns 2, with Jeff Beck doing the guitar solo in the middle, they wanted to use Wanted, Dead Or Alive but Jon said no & wrote this for the film instead, along with the full soundtrack as he loved the first Young Guns film so much

 

[Alex321]

Superheroes - Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think this is the only one written specifically for the film, rather than the preceding stage musical

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGX4gaOQYaw

 

[DRM]

It's an example of a 'classic' song that I use to remind people to check lyrics carefully from songs of the past... the line "Thank heavens for little girls... for they grow up in the most delightful ways" is as creepily pervy as it's possible to get... there's only one interpretation of that sentiment.

it's on a par with the old blues song "Good morning Little Schoolgirl"

 

[Alex321]

Spies Like Us - Paul McCartney - Written for the Chevy Chase & Dan Ackroyd film of the same name

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht0XM4Z9CXs

 

[Alex321]

It's an example of a 'classic' song that I use to remind people to check lyrics carefully from songs of the past... the line "Thank heavens for little girls... for they grow up in the most delightful ways" is as creepily pervy as it's possible to get... there's only one interpretation of that sentiment.

Obviously not, as you are clearly giving it a different interpretation to the literal meaning.

 

[briantrumpet]

I was surprised that Paint Your Wagon was actually a stage musical version. So no songs from that.

But here's one I saw when it first came out (I was *very* young!!), and it's a lovely ditty. Hushabye Mountain, from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

[Alex321]

Alice - Avril Lavigne

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg_QIlkBfF4

 

[Alex321]

Coming Arund Again - Carly Simon (Film Heartburn)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEAtAmbti80