From time to time I’ll post a playlist of song clips that I really like from the films I’ve been watching. Just the songs — no theory, no history, no criticism, no commentary.
“Easy to Dance With” (Irving Berlin) – Fred Astaire sings in Holiday Inn (1943)
“Lulu’s Back in Town” (Harry Warren-Al Dubin) -The Mills Brothers and Dick Powell in Broadway Gondolier (1935)
“I Wanna Man” (Charles Rossoff-Frank Hearn) — Linda Farrell sings in Lady for a Day (1933)
“Hot and Happy” (Samuel Pokrass-Jack Yellen) – Ethel Merman sings in Happy Landing (1938)
“You Appeal to Me” (Walter Bullock-Howard Spina) – Ethel Merman and The Raymond Scott Quintette in Happy Landing (1938)
“I’m in Love All Over Again” (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) — Ann Sothern sings in Hooray for Love (1935)
“Livin’ in a Great Big Way” (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) – Bill Robinson, Jeni LeGon, and Fats Waller in Hooray for Love (1935)
“Serenade in Blue” (Mack Gordon-Harry Warren) — Lynn Barry sings with the Glenn Miller Band in Orchestra Wives (1942)
“Under a Falling Star” (Leith Stevens-Rich Hall) — Connee Boswell sings in Syncopation (1942)
“There’s Something in the Air” (Jimmy McHugh-Harold Adamson) — Carol Landis sings in Dance Hall (1941)
“There’s a Lull in My Life” (Harry Revel-Harry Warren) –Carol Landis sings in Dance Hall (1941)
“This is Where I Came In” (Walter Bullock-Howard Spina) — Alice Faye sings in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
“I’ve Got a Pocketful of Sunshine” (Arthur Johnston-Gus Kahn) — Dick Powell sings in Thanks a Million (1935)
“You’re so Indifferent” (Sammy Fain-Mitchell Parris) — Lena Horne with the Kay Kyser Band in Swing Fever (1943)
“One Girl and Two Boys” (Sammy Fain-Mitchell Parris) — Marilyn Maxwell with the Kay Kyser Band in Swing Fever (1943)
“Eeny Meeny Miney Mo” (Johnny Mercer) – Evelyn Poe and Johnny Mercer sing in To Beat the Band (1935)
“Is My Baby Out for No Good” (Harry Warren-Al Rubin) — Ginger Rogers sings in Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
“What Kind of Love Is This?” (Don Raye-Gene De Paul) — Martha Raye sings in Helzapoppin (1941)
“Love Isn’t Born, It’s Made” (Arthur Schwartz-Frank Loesser) — Ann Sheridan sings in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
“Ice Cold Katy” ((Arthur Schwartz-Frank Loesser) — Hattie McDaniel and Willie Best sing in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
