OSCARS '62: The Music Man

“I always think there’s a band, kid.”

We keep our Oscars series rolling and well, things have been rough to start. You’d think with a musical as culturally significant and iconic as this one that the movies would have done it up for fun. Sadly, this is an incredibly BORING movie. Sure, Robert Preston is incredible, and sure, the songs are fun, but after the 3rd of 17 dance breaks, you start to realize that our director just barely made a movie. They might as well have filmed the stage production and screened that instead for as much money as they sunk into this. Oscars ‘62 trudges, not marches along, as we talk The Music Man on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken from “Main Title” from the original soundtrack to the film The Music Man, written and composed by Meredith Willson. Copyright 1962 Warner Bros Records Inc; Warner Bros Pictures Inc.

Excerpt taken from “Main Title” from the original soundtrack to the film Birdman of Alcatraz, written and composed by Elmer Bernstein. Copyright 1962 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.