Track 7: My Favorite Things:
After some deliberation, discussions with friends & family, meditation, singing, dancing, crying, drinking, tomfoolery, etc. … I think it is hard to argue with the evidence that "The Sound of Music" is the best musical of all time, and the 1965 movie in particular. Allow me to enumerate: the "boy" meets "girl" (and doesn't even know it) story is classic, it is set in historical pre-World War 2 Austria, the singing is top notch with Julie Andrews' voice, and the songs are all so good and solid that they stand on their own outside of the musical. Many of the songs I actually heard and knew before I watched it when I was young. "The Sound of Music" is also so pervasive and well known due to years of it being in the theaters and then shown on television during the holidays. G and I watched a brief segment of it on TV the other day too and we could've just sat and watched the whole thing.
Here are my 5 favorites from the soundtrack, with "My Favorite Things" being my favorite.
Track 6: Sixteen Going On Seventeen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0cqhFnz9IY
Track 7: My Favorite Things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HhoQLC9q8
Track 8: Do-Re-Mi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHu5UjTkBE
Track 10: The Lonely Goatherd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUaRwCygg0
Track 13: So Long, Farewell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCnkAMfl5c
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