Great musical scenes - [Archive] - Mandolin Cafe Forum

mandocrucian

Oct-16-2006, 10:40am

1) "Putting On The Ritz" - Young Frankenstein
2) "Tequila" - Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
3) "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" - Beetlejuice
4) "Singing In The Rain" - A Clockwork Orange
5) "Camelot" - Monty Python And The Holy Grail
6) "Me And My Shadow" - Time Bandits
7) "Springtime For Hitler" - The Producers
'Ride of the Valkyries", "The End" - Apocalypse Now
"In Dreams" (Dean Stockwell) - Blue Velvet
"Shout" - Ferris Beuller's Day Off
"Babysitting Blues" (w/Albert Collins) - Adventures In Babysitting
crows gathering outside on the schoolyard monkeybars - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

Jonathan Peck

Oct-16-2006, 12:22pm

Shout - Animal House

"The version in Animal House was performed by a fictional band called Otis Day And The Knights. The movie became a huge hit, and many people thought Otis Day And The Knights were a real group, so they went on tour. They did very well, selling out many of the places they played, and released an album in 1989 called Shout. Otis Day's real name is DeWayne Jessie."

Bob Simmers

Oct-16-2006, 1:51pm

1) "Plastic Jesus song" Cool Hand Luke (tenor banjo)
2) "some kind of whistle" in Spaghetti westerns just before, and after Clint kills someone
3) "Shark Attack Music" Jaws
4) "Chop Sticks" Big (Tom Hanks with his feet)

jefflester

Oct-16-2006, 1:54pm

"Stroll On" - Blow Up

The Yardbirds tweak the lyrics to Train Kept a Rollin' and Jeff Beck smashes a guitar.

Jim Garber

Oct-16-2006, 2:41pm

I am surprised that no one mentioned Dueling Banjos in Deliverance.

Jim

Jim MacDaniel

Oct-16-2006, 3:56pm

"Shout" - Ferris Beuller's Day Off
I really enjoyed the Danke Shen lip-synching scene as well.

Another scene that comes to mind is Rosa y Clavel, from Pane e Tulipani. (BTW, this movie features quite a bit of mandolin in the rest of the OST)

Also, I forget the name of the song, but I love the Steve Vai vs. Ralph Machio/Ry Cooder* scene from Crossroads.
(* RM on camera, w/ RC actually playing guitar)

Brad Weiss

Oct-16-2006, 4:04pm

A bit of a cliche for this board, but when I first heard the Soggy Bottom Boys sing Man of Constant Sorrow in OBWAT I was pretty impressed. Is that a non-musical film? Dunno.

Lee Callicutt

Oct-16-2006, 4:07pm

Shout - Animal House
I can't think of animal house without a mental image of John Belushi on the stairway, getting those crazy eyes before snatching the guitar from that guys hands and smashing it to smithereens.

Can't remember what the poor minstrel was playing, though.

Jonathan Peck

Oct-16-2006, 4:09pm

Jim Rowland

Oct-16-2006, 4:11pm

Theme from old TV show "Stony Burke". Smatches and variations on the theme served to punctuate the whole show. I loved that thang. I am old.
Jim

Brad Weiss

Oct-16-2006, 4:26pm

Wadefox

Oct-16-2006, 4:28pm

MandoSquirrel

Oct-16-2006, 4:28pm

How about "Brazil" in "Brazil"? Sung by Geoff Muldaur(Maria's ex).
"Sway" in "Dark City", though it ends early, in the closing credits there's more. I think Maria McKee sang it, though Jennifer Connelly lip-synced.
Niles hit a bunch of goodies there.

MandoSquirrel

Oct-16-2006, 4:30pm

1) "Putting On The Ritz" - Young Frankenstein
This has got to be one of the funniest movies ever. I can remember catching it one night on TV. My wife had never seen it before so I got her to watch it with me. I was crying from laughing so hard for so long.....and she sat quietly wondering had she married an insane person

I still think this has got to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen

regards from the asylum
-jonathan
She must be missing a funny gene.
Great film, great song

Jonathan Peck

Oct-16-2006, 4:36pm

She must be missing a funny gene.
Great film, great song
Well she must have a good sense of humor...she married me didn' she? ba dum bump....I think they lose their funny gene during child bearth http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

MandoSquirrel

Oct-16-2006, 5:18pm

dough-re-mi

Oct-16-2006, 6:20pm

Kill Bill has great music, thanks to Quentin Tarentino. I can't even list it all; the nurse whistling as she goes to the Bride's (Uma T.'s) room with the hypodermic; the 6-7-8's go-go band in the nightclub before the big fight, the music that played every time the Bride made eye contact with one of the people she was after, etc.

big h

Oct-16-2006, 7:03pm

Camelot is a good hard drive gluegrass song http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Jonathan Peck

Oct-16-2006, 7:17pm

That could be it. Or maybe tending the rugrats while Daddy tends his Mandos
Now that's funny http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif I get a good 40 min. to an hour practice in every night while my littlest one is in the bath. When he wants attention, he just splashes water all over me and my mandolin. He likes to stay in till he's good and pruned up and it keeps him out of his sisters hair while she does her homework.

I even have a pretty comfortable small wooden chair in the bathroom just for sittin' and pickin http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif But belive me, I find plenty other ways to get into trouble without even looking to hard

rhetoric

Oct-16-2006, 8:40pm

-All the music in "Never Cry Wolf" but particularly the part where he's playing his bassoon while the wolves howl. Amazing movie.
-The soundtrack from "Last Temptation of Christ" (though I've never seen the movie -- I didn't inhale, either).

JeffD

Oct-16-2006, 8:53pm

The music from the HBO series Deadwood.

Most of the music is great, but got to love the opening theme.

http://www.deadwoodsoundtrack.com/

jmkatcher

Oct-16-2006, 9:00pm

Everything in Goodfellas, especially the use of the Layla coda.

ledmandlin

Oct-16-2006, 9:06pm

Because my son-in-law just shared it with me this morning and this thread came up synchronistically, today, I will mention that the last episode of "Deadwood", second season, finds none other than John Moore picking mandolin in the final wedding reception and closing scene. #That big ol' 'stache of his really fits the period.

As for whole soundtracks, the Leonard Cohen-dense "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" is a wonderful tone-poem married to that great period piece. #"Cold Mountain"'s got more good stuff in it, too.

Brad Weiss

Oct-16-2006, 9:10pm

The music from the HBO series Deadwood.

Most of the music is great, but got to love the opening theme.

http://www.deadwoodsoundtrack.com/
Oooh, I like this one - anyone ever heard the theme (http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Ballad_of_Serenity.mp3) to the underwatched series, Firefly? Best TV song ever, case closed- good show, too.

kww

Oct-16-2006, 9:22pm

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "'Til We Meet Again" from "Dr. Strangelove -or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

"Bye Bye Love" from "All That Jazz", but I guess it was a half-way musical.

fishdawg40

Oct-16-2006, 9:27pm

Kill Bill has great music, thanks to Quentin Tarentino.
Speaking of Tarantino, how about "Stuck in the Middle With You" in Reservoir Dogs. #Very chilling scene...

Another vote for Goodfellas. #"Monkey Man" does the film well. #But the ultimate scene, one that made me love DeNiro when I was a kid, is when "Sunshine of Your Love" is playing while Deniro is looking sinister at the bar. #Oh, it gives me chills thinking about it. #Scorcese uses music as a major conveyance of his story.

I swear a Grisman tune is used in the movie Homegrown with Billy Bob Thorton. #I saw it a long time ago but thought it was him. #Can anybody verify this?

JeffD

Oct-16-2006, 9:34pm

Yes, I was going to say Firefly as well. Good stuff.

David M.

Oct-16-2006, 10:42pm

Not positive, but seem to remember that it was Stephen Bishop on the steps in Animal House whose guitar was smashed.

I still have to think about Education of Little Tree and the fiddle tunes in it.

Michael has some great songs and a great tune by this thread's author's brother...

B. T. Walker

Oct-16-2006, 11:17pm

How about "I'm So Tired" sung by Madeleine Kahn as Lilli von Schtupp in "Blazing Saddles". She does a good job of singing about an eighth of a step flat a la Marlena Dietrich, and that is really hard to do on purpose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Gotterdamerung

Oct-16-2006, 11:21pm

As long as we're mentioning Monty Python films, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from The Life of Brian is a great song (with an interesting live cover by one of my favorite guitarists, Bruce Cockburn.

Also, I can't forget "Every ##### is Sacred," which is a lavish musical number from The Meaning of Life.

Gail Hester

Oct-17-2006, 12:30am

Since there’s a shift to comedy, the funniest musical presentation I can think of was on an episode of “King of the Hill.”

Bobby had just broken up with his first girlfriend and he’s laying face down in his underwear in the middle of the living room with Hank Williams’ “I’m so lonesome” blaring in the background. Hank comes in and says, “well at least the boys taste in music is improving.”

Wilson

Oct-17-2006, 7:04am

"The Universe Song" from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life," one of my favorite movies. The song is astronomically fairly accurate and the last line is a classic: "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth."

AlanN

Oct-17-2006, 7:19am

The scene in Forest Gump where he shows in Vietnam, Hendrix on All Along The Watchtower...it startled me right there.

Bob Simmers

Oct-17-2006, 7:58am

"I am surprised that no one mentioned Dueling Banjos in Deliverance."
Jim,
I've always considered Deliverance a musical, and one of the best.

Lets not forget the music played while Norman Bates stabbed Janet Leigh in the shower in Psycho. Alfy Hitchcock understood "dynamics" didn't he?

mandopete

Oct-17-2006, 10:06am

The music from the HBO series Deadwood.
Yeah I'll second that....

So the very first thing that popped into my mind was 2001, A Space Odyssey and the opening track, Thus Spoke Zarathrustra (or Also Sprach Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss.

garyblanchard

Oct-17-2006, 10:14am

Lets not forget the music played while Norman Bates stabbed Janet Leigh in the shower in Psycho. #Alfy Hitchcock understood "dynamics" didn't he?
Once you start talking about the use of background music in a film you have things wide open. I once had the dream of scoring for film, though I did have the chance to write for some theater productions. Anyway, this made me aware of just how much a part music can play in a film. Two examples come to mind. "Swimming To Cambodia" by Spaulding Gray was basically a one-man monologue. Laurie Anderson's music added a sense of movement and action. Of course, Johnathan Demme's direction did a lot as well. On the negative side, there was the movie "Grand Canyon." There was a lot of ominous music that indicated something awful was about to happen. It never did, but I was an emotional wreck when I left the theater. In my mind, music can make or break a film.

mandocrucian

Oct-17-2006, 11:01am

Film scoring is a completely different realm - you've got all the Hermann scores for the 50's Hitchcock movies, Elmer Bernstein, Morricone, Nino Rota etc.

With the "Valkyries" scene in Apocalypse Now, the music was blaring out of the helicopter loudspeakers, so it was a part of the movie action and plot, instead of underscoring for mood and emotional impact. 2001 and Koyanaquatsi are at the complete opposite end.

Wilson

Oct-17-2006, 11:25am

The Marriage of Figaro/"Duettino - Sull'Aria" from "Shawshank Redemption." In fact, the entire score by Thomas Newman is just outstanding.

Keith Erickson

Oct-17-2006, 11:36am

The best musical scene from the Good, the Bad & the Ugly...

...when Blondie, Tuco & Angel Eyes were at the grave marked "Unknown" next to Arch Stanton's stone trying to decide who was going to shoot who first for the money. #The song is called "The Trio" and I'm listening to it at this very moment.

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tstackho

Oct-17-2006, 11:54am

The opening theme to Fargo, entitled "Fargo, North Dakota."
I just saw the movie again on TV. Liked the music so much a I bought the soundtrack.

TGS

Landgrass

Oct-17-2006, 4:27pm

[QUOTE]Not positive, but seem to remember that it was Stephen Bishop on the steps in Animal House whose guitar was smashed.

You are correct sir!

Lee Callicutt

Oct-17-2006, 4:47pm

You are correct sir!
But what was the song? I can hear the melody in my head, but can't remember the words, something like "I gave my love a ."

mandocrucian

Oct-17-2006, 4:58pm

...cherry.

Bobbie Dier

Oct-17-2006, 5:46pm

Duc Vu

Oct-17-2006, 5:51pm

Quote (dough-re-mi @ Oct. 16 2006, 19:20)
Kill Bill has great music, thanks to Quentin Tarentino

Kill Bill was scored by Robert Rodriguez, the director of the Spy Kids movies. His "Desperado" features El Mariachi, with the deadliest guitar in moviedom, music by Los Lobos, and pulchritude by Salma Hayek.

Some of my favorite musical scenes:

-Opening sequence of Richard III with Ian McKellen, Stacey Kent singing Come Live with Me.
-Jean Rochefort dancing in The Hairdresser's Husband.
-The Crying Game in The Crying Game.
-La Boheme in Moonstruck.
-Farewell my Concubine chinese opera in Farewell my Concubine. The music grows on you.
-Music by "Van den Budenmeyer" recurring from stereos, record store, etc. from Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red.)

Jim MacDaniel

Oct-17-2006, 5:56pm

Speaking of Tarantino, how about "Stuck in the Middle With You" in Reservoir Dogs. #Very chilling scene...
I'll never be able to listen to Steeler's Wheel again without replaying that scene in my head.

Duc Vu

Oct-17-2006, 6:03pm

How could I forget Michelle Pfeiffer singing Making Whoopee on a piano in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Karen

Oct-17-2006, 6:10pm

At the end of Napoleon Dynamite is "Music for a Found Harmonium", a standard in the Carp Camp at Winfield. Way left field: there is a killer version of Harmonium with a double killer mandolin break by Dave Peters on a CD called Before My Time by fingerstyle champion Todd Hallawell.

Gotterdamerung

Oct-17-2006, 6:20pm

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame, has been the musical advisor for the always amusing Wes Anderson films (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore).

In Zissou, the Brazilian actor Jorge Seu sings a number of David Bowie songs in Portuguese with his nylon string guitar.

At the end of Tenenbaums, Van Morrison's "Everyone" is aptly chosen.

Michael H Geimer

Oct-17-2006, 6:27pm

Show Me the Way to Go Home
- Jaws.

FWIW: He also gave his love a boneless chicken.

Lee Callicutt

Oct-17-2006, 6:37pm

...cherry.
That had no stone.

Yeah, that's the one.

fishdawg40

Oct-19-2006, 12:01pm

In Zissou, the Brazilian actor Jorge Seu sings a number of David Bowie songs in Portuguese with his nylon string guitar.
Great stuff! #His name is actually Seu Jorge. "The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions" has all those Bowie tunes on it. #Seven of the songs were not in the film.

I love Bowie. #Seu Jorge's interpretation is inspiring. #All acoustic, all good...

Jim MacDaniel

Oct-19-2006, 2:35pm

Fishdawg: have you ever heard the Gourds' cover of Ziggy Startdust?

jefflester

Oct-19-2006, 3:25pm

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame, has been the musical advisor .....
Animated Devo, playing "We're Through Being Cool" in "Heavy Metal." :-)

Lee Callicutt

Oct-19-2006, 8:48pm

At the end of Napoleon Dynamite is "Music for a Found Harmonium", a standard in the Carp Camp at Winfield.
I just had the pleasure of seeing the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble do that piece a couple of weeks ago!

Lee Callicutt

Oct-19-2006, 8:50pm

FWIW: He also gave his love a boneless chicken.
Yeah, methinks I would have had to smash that guitar myself if I'd been there.

Lee Callicutt

Oct-19-2006, 8:58pm

"Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World.

fishdawg40

Oct-19-2006, 9:15pm

Fishdawg: have you ever heard the Gourds' cover of Ziggy Startdust?
No... I've heard of The Gourds but unfortunatley haven't listened to them. I'm guessing they're pretty good?

Jim MacDaniel

Oct-20-2006, 9:04am

They're a blast, and it's a great cover -- plus, there is a mandolin involved, so its a win-win!

JEStanek

Oct-20-2006, 9:29am

The movie Rushmore has some nice mando bits in it (perhaps not great musical moment...

I love the movie M*A*S*H esp. the My Blue Heaven section.

Jamie

twaaang

Oct-20-2006, 11:17am

Very jumping Celtic dance music below-decks in "Titanic". And one of my oldest memories of another Celtic dance was from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", all those leprechauns doing a jig inside the mountain!

Like somebody else who has commented above, I always associated the Madeleine Kahn/ "Blazing Saddles" thing with Marlene Dietrich -- that is until I saw Greta Garbo the other night in "Grand Hotel", with her opening line "I'm tired". -- Paul

Paul Kotapish

Oct-20-2006, 12:21pm

At the end of Napoleon Dynamite is "Music for a Found Harmonium"
The version they used in Napolean Dynamite was a recording by the traditional Irish group Patrick Street, with Arty McGlynn, Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly, and Andy Irivne.

They did not credit Patrick Street's performance--kind of a disappointment to the lads and their families--and in the film credits they misattributed the performance to the orginal release of the song by composer Simon Jeffes and his Penguin Cafe Orchestra, whose version sounds quite different.

That song (MFAFH) has been on the soundtracks--but not necessarily on the soundtrack albums--for at least four other movies, including the wonderfully quirky Australian sleeper Malcolm, which featured great music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra throughout. It was also featured in a scene in the great little film, Hear My song, which featured a soundtrack and some on-camera playing by Arty McGlynn. And it was heard in It's All Complete Pete Tong, Spirit of Avalon, and several television programs. Popular!

Did anyone mention the scene in King of the Gypsies with David Grisman, John Carlini, and Stephane Grappelli playing away in a backyard party scene? It was a pretty bad movie, but it had some cool music.

http://www.fgmrecords.com/graphics/Carlini_King_of_Gypsies.gif

Grisman's "EMD" was also the title track for a really, really low-budget stockcar racing movie called Eat My Dust. No wonder Grisman stuck with the initials for the title of his tune.

mandocrucian

Oct-20-2006, 3:22pm

Beethoven in the mall music store in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Lot of good bits in John Waters' Cry Baby (his best movie), but that is on the line as whether it is a music movie or not. Ditto for Hair Spray

tattiemando

Oct-20-2006, 3:30pm

How about The Godfather Waltz. The scene near the start when Vito Corleone waltzes with Connie his daughter on her wedding day, lovely music lovely mandolin playing too. Also when Michael is in Sicily the love theme from the Godfather is played on mandolin.

glauber

Oct-20-2006, 3:43pm

There is a lot of good music in "Waking Ned Devine" if you like celtic music. The movie is pretty good too http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif . It's a comedy. Can't say if there is any particular scene and tune. The music throughout the movie is awesome.
I can think of two: the funeral, with the pennywhistle, and the climax at the end, when the fiddler plays harder and harder and faster and faster, until the string breaks just at the exact moment when the witch dies.

I need to see that movie again.

glauber

Oct-20-2006, 3:53pm

I also like the "Johny B. Goode" at the end of the first Back to the Future movie, with the sly reference to Chuck Berry.

Wow, i just found out that Chuck is still alive and celebrated his 80th birthday a couple of days ago.

Lee Callicutt

Oct-20-2006, 4:11pm

I also like the "Johny B. Goode" at the end of the first Back to the Future movie, with the sly reference to Chuck Berry.
Yeah, but there's a glaring anachronism contained in that scene (and it's not Michael J. Fox).

Can anyone tell me what it is?

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Mandodoc

Oct-20-2006, 5:13pm

The Gibson ES 345 was introduced in 1959, this movie is set in 1955.

Mandodoc

Oct-20-2006, 5:25pm

How about Oingo Boingo (one of my favorite bands) playing "Dead Man's Party" in "Back to School"....."Call me when you don't have any class" - Rodney Dangerfield.

Pete Braccio

Oct-20-2006, 5:44pm

I really like the Mark Knopfler score to "Local Hero'. Great movie and great music.

Another vote for the Firefly theme song too.

Pete

Lee Callicutt

Oct-20-2006, 6:18pm

The Gibson ES 345 was introduced in 1959, this movie is set in 1955.
Correctamundo!

JEStanek

Oct-20-2006, 6:40pm

Mandodoc,

Re: Oingo Boing doing Dead Man's Party (a great album btw). Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo is one of my favorite movie score writers. All the Tim Burton collaborations, the theme to the Simpsons, men in black etc.... The guy is good!

Jamie

MandoSquirrel

Oct-21-2006, 1:57pm

At the end of Napoleon Dynamite is "Music for a Found Harmonium"
The version they used in Napolean Dynamite was a recording by the traditional Irish group Patrick Street, with Arty McGlynn, Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly, and Andy

Did anyone mention the scene in King of the Gypsies with David Grisman, John Carlini, and Stephane Grappelli playing away in a backyard party scene? It was a pretty bad movie, but it had some cool music.

http://www.fgmrecords.com/graphics/Carlini_King_of_Gypsies.gif

Grisman's "EMD" was also the title track for a really, really low-budget stockcar racing movie called Eat My Dust. No wonder Grisman stuck with the initials for the title of his tune.
Patrick Street is indeed awesome, another great supergroup of similar ilk was "Whippersnapper"

Also a second for "KOG" & other Grisman soundtracks. It was neat watching the guys jamming in their suits.

Dan Cohen

Oct-21-2006, 2:26pm

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Reenlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity.

Slim Pickins

Oct-21-2006, 3:23pm

1) "Putting On The Ritz" - Young Frankenstein
This has got to be one of the funniest movies ever. I can remember catching it one night on TV. My wife had never seen it before so I got her to watch it with me. I was crying from laughing so hard for so long.....and she sat quietly wondering had she married an insane person

I still think this has got to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen

regards from the asylum
-jonathan
And Marty Feldman. Wow that man had some eyes. One looking in left field the other looking in right field. Funny funny man. Igor. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Brad Weiss

Oct-21-2006, 3:46pm

And Marty Feldman. Wow that man had some eyes. #One looking in left field the other looking in right field. #Funny funny man. Igor. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
It's pronounced Eye-gor, not I-gor #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif