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TOP 10 OSCAR WINNING SONGS OF ALL TIME!!!

March 10, 2006

With the outrage over It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp winning the Best Song Oscar®, I thought it would be a grand idea to pick out the Top 10 Oscar® Winning Songs of All Time!!  And did you know how the non-Oscar® winning (but nominated) song "Unchained Melody", immortalized by The Righteous Brothers,got its name?  It was featured in a less-than-mediocre 1955 prison movie called "Unchained", starring the immortal thespian and football player Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch.  It apparently had no name at the time, so it took the name from the movie!  Well, I though it was interesting.  But I digress...

10. Fame (1980):  Can you guess the name of the song?
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969):  Who can forget the music that backed up Paul Newman's adventures in bicycling?
8  Shaft (1971):  In order to win Best Song, you have to have words.  There aren't many words in "Theme from Shaft", but there are enough to qualify.
7 Dirty Dancing (1987):  Speaking of The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley's duet with Jennifer Warnes on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" richly deserved all the awards it could get.
6  Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961):  If I didn't put a Henry Mancini number in here, Mr. Hewitt would fire me -- if he'd ever hired me.  And "Moon River" is about the best he ever did.
5 The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938; surprised??):  Not particularly good for a W.C. Fields movie, but it did feature a relatively new comedian from England named Bob Hope, singing what was to become his signature song, "Thanks for the Memories".  And there has never been, and never will be, a better Oscar® host than Bob Hope.
4 Holiday Inn (1942):  Now let me explain this one last time.  Holiday Inn starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and featured the Oscar®-winning song "White Christmas".  White Christmas, on the other hand, came out in 1954, starred Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and featured -- well, "White Christmas".  And "The Old Man".  So there.
3 Pinocchio (1940):  When songs were songs.  Who could possibly dislike a cricket singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"?
2 The Wizard of Oz (1939):  "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" can still get to you, no matter how jaded you are.  Made Judy Garland; made the movie.

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High Noon (1952):  May not be the best Western ever made, but if it isn't, it's sure close.  And this is one of the few movies where the Oscar®-winning song, "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" is an integral part of the entire movie.  Wonderful song (in context), wonderful movie.