My Favorite Musical

[Roy Rolling]

So many good songs. Who remembers the hope we felt as kids? It was a special Sunday once a year it seemed “The Wizard of Oz” was scheduled for TV stations nationwide.

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[Walleye]

1. I agree best music written for a movie. I really like "if I only had a brain."

Harold Arlen “somewhere over the rainbow“ all-time classic.

[Roy Rolling]

2. Yes, "Rainbow" is divinely inspired

“I could while away the hours, conferring with the flowers.”

True genius. Also…

“..we get up at 12 and start to work at 1.
Take an hour lunch and then at 2 we’re done…JOLLY GOOD FUN!!!”

[Walleye]

3. Just looked him up. I wasn't aware he wrote "stormy weather" what a song.

[Jeebo]

4. My two favorite Hollywood musicals ...

... are My Fair Lady (which won Best Picture of 1964) and The Wizard of Oz. In fact, The Wizard of Oz is the first movie I ever remember watching. I watched it on CBS one Sunday afternoon in summer 1955 after church in Warner Robins, Georgia, and wow, did that movie ever have a profound effect on the five-year-old me. We had just gotten our first television set, a wooden console, a piece of furniture, with the picture made up of horizontal lines so fat you could see them halfway across the living room. Such was video technology 70 years ago. It's still one of my favorite movies ever, but of course as a senior citizen I appreciate it on a much different level now. It's still a classic.

— Ron