My Favorite Musical Moments In Non Musicals

Submitted by Oedipus on Sun, 11/14/2004 - 10:01
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  1. Mia dancing to Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon in Pulp Fiction (1994)
  2. Marty McFly playing Johnny B Goode in Back to the Future (1985).
  3. Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
  4. The performance of Sugar High in Empire Records (1995).
  5. The Sirens singing Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby in O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000).
  6. Down To The River To Pray in O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
  7. In O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) when The Soggy Bottom Boys perform Man of Constant Sorrow.
  8. In Young Einstein (1988) when Yahoo Serious sings Rock-N-Roll Music.
  9. The guitar battle at the end of Crossroads (1986) with Ralph Machio and Steve Vai.
  10. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) when Ferris Bueller is singing Twist And Shout in the parade.
  11. The Bohemian Rhapsody sequence in Wayne's World (1992).
  12. Russ Tamblyn's dance sequence in The Fastest Gun Alive (1956).
  13. When The Mariachi sings Ganas de Vivir in El Mariachi (1992).
  14. The dance competition at the diner with Mia and Vincent in Pulp Fiction (1994).
  15. Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle's Puttin' On The Ritz song and dance in Young Frankenstein (1974)
  16. Day-O in Beetle Juice (1988)
  17. When Garfield sings his version of New York State of Mind in Garfield (2004)
  18. Sister Christian by Night Ranger, Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfeild and 99 Luftballoons by Nena in Boogie Nights (1997) when Dirk Diggler and Reed Rothchild go to the drug dealer's house.
  19. When Jane Russell sings You'll Know and Five Little Miles From San Berdoo in His Kind of Woman (1951)
  20. My Rifle, My Pony, and Me sung by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo (1959)
  21. Doris Day singing Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  22. The family singing Silent Night on Christmas Morning in Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
  23. Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko's Glee Club serenading Rita Robbins with Only You outside of her window in Sgt. Bilko (1996)
  24. In The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), when Richie Tenenbaum releases Mordecai and Hey Jude is playing in the background.
  25. Tom Hanks on the big floor piano at the toy store in Big (1988)
  26. Cryin' Performed by Aerosmith and Christina Milian in the movie Be Cool (2005)
  27. Believer Performed by Christina Milian in the movie Be Cool (2005)
  28. Lil' Red Riding Hood Performed by Bowling For Soup in the movie Cursed (2005)
  29. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Sung by Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and the other bus passengers in It Happened One Night (1934)
  30. Patron's at Rick's Café Americain sing La Marseillaise to drown out Nazis singing Deutschland über Alles in Casablanca (1942)
  31. Dueling Banjos by Hoyt T. Pollard and Ronny Cox in Deliverance (1972)
  32. I Get A Kick Out Of You by Cleavon Little and chain gang in Blazing Saddles (1974)
  33. Frank Ricard (Will Ferrell) singing Dust in the Wind by Kansas in Old School (2003)
  34. Joseph 'Blue' Palasky (Patrick Cranshaw) singing Dust in the Wind by Kansas as an angel over end credits in Old School (2003)
  35. Christy (Sarah Bolger) singing Desperado in In America (2002)
  36. I Should Have Known You Years Ago by Carole Landis (dubbed by Martha Mears) in Road Show (1941)
  37. Caliope Jane by The Charioteers in Road Show (1941)
  38. Mamie Van Doren performing The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll in Teacher's Pet (1958)
Cosgrove11/14/2004

I'd argue that "O Brother" actually is a musical, just not a traditional break-into-song one.

Oedipus11/14/2004

I considered that but it didn't seem like a musical to me. Although music and song are very prominent in the movie, it's more a movie about a fictional band then a musical. On IMDB they have a "musical" listing for musicals and a "music" listing for non-musical music movies and O Brother Where Art Thou is listed under "music." So I went with that. Other movies that are listed under "music" that I wouldn't consider to be musicals are The Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba.

Cosgrove11/16/2004

Fair enough.

grandpa_chum11/20/2004

have you ever seen blues brothers... and do you consider that to be a musical? or just a music movie...

Oedipus11/20/2004

I have seen The Blues Brothers but it has been a very long time since I've seen it and I consider it to be a musical.

Penny12/07/2004

I think Meryl Streep's songs in Postcards From the Edge work reallly well, and Shirley MacLaine's slyly upstaging rendition of I'm Still Here is also fun.

David Lynch is good at working songs into movies: there's Isabella Rossellini singing "Blue Velvet," and then that weirdly beautiful Spanish version of "Crying" in Mulholland Drive.

Oedipus12/07/2004

I'm sorry to say that I haven't seen any of those.

lbangs12/07/2004

I'll be interested to see your reactions to Closer's opening scene...

I'm betting beaucoup bucks that AAA loved it!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Oedipus12/07/2004

I haven't seen Closer yet, I need to check it out.

AAA12/07/2004

What? Just because of my love for the film and a certain Mr. Rice?

;)

You're absolutely right.

Rushmore12/12/2004

Tom hanks on the big Piano on the floor at the toy store!! Classic, the film is "Big"

Oedipus12/12/2004

I'm going to have to add that, I had forgotten all about it. That was great.

stumpy12/12/2004

A favorite of mine is "My Rifle, Pony and Me" sung by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo. It's been used on the Sopranos in one, possibly two episodes.

Oedipus12/17/2004

Thank you.

0dysseus12/26/2004

The classic Say Anything (1989) moment when John Cusak's Lloyd Dobler desperately plays "In Your Eyes" outside Ione Sky/Diane Court's window.

Tom Hulce's Mozart rearranging Salieri's march right before F. Murray Abraham's glowering eyes in Amadeus (1984).

The helicopter shot that soars up over the lip of the stadium and down towards the stage as the crowd roars and Bette Midler channels Janis Joplin in full cry as Mary Rose Foster from The Rose (1979).

Oedipus12/27/2004

I haven't seen any of those but the one from Say Anything (1989) reminded me of something similar from Sgt. Bilko (1996)

Conall05/10/2005

I guess it'd be cheating to include music played over the credits at the end of a film, but if so Faye Wong singing "Dream Person" in Chungking Express would be up there for me. Actually, there's also the use of "California Dreamin'" in that film, too.
And I guess 2001 & A Clockwork Orange stand out as well. And the song that Nick Apollo Forte sings in Broadway Danny Rose, as well as the instrumental music in that film that's an extension of that song.

Ubik02/08/2008

Have you seen the jazz scene in The Talented Mr. Ripley? How about the tap dance scene or the crooning scene in Buffalo '66?

Oedipus02/12/2008

I haven't seen either of those movies.