Posted on 06/23/2004 7:33:12 AM PDT by yankeedame
Marti Dibergi: "This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, `What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'"
In the top 100 Julie Andrews sang four, Judy Garland sang four, and Barbra S sang three. Judy actually sang 3.5 since one of "her" songs is "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" in which the Munchkins do most of the singing...
"Sh*t Sandwich"
I dunno--Even if "Nobody does it better", that song never really did it for me. I think part of my objection is that SWLM was the first Bond movie with a sung opening title song that didn't synchronize the appearance of the title with its mention in the song (of the first fourteen pictures, eleven had opening-title songs, all but one of which included the movie title (Octopussy was the exception); of those ten films whose opening title songs included the movie title, SWLM was the only one which did not synchronize the title's appearance with its mention.
Fair question. I would posit that a well-designed list should require that a song either be (1) sung or lip-synched by a person or character on-screen [nb: some James Bond title songs like 'For Your Eyes Only' would qualify; some not], or (2) be audible to a character on-screen. The inclusion of a sound in a movie's soundtrack is very different from its material inclusion in a picture.
"Under the Sea" was a great song, but I'd give a slight edge to "Kiss the Girl" for its greater degree of dramatic integration. The KtG scene is simply 100% pure brilliance.
True. Due to a variety show in college, I just know "Under the Sea" much better. But I'll give you that Kiss the Girl was a better part of the movie.
Local ads (for a Hawaiian record company) have been billing it as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow from the movie '50 First Dates' named as best movie song" (The Israel Kamakawiwoole version also played on the episode of ER where Mark Greene kicked the bucket).
Interesting
If you really wanna hear “Laura” find a CD with the great jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown , who died at 26 in 1956, playing it. One of the albums where you can hear it is called “With Strings”.
If I’m not mistaken that’s the movie a friend of mine from Joey Dee and the Starliters was in, PLUS, the great Zohra Lampert at the age of 23 or 24, my favorite actress.
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It’s my favorite all time song.
John
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