1972 Best Original Song - Not Even Gene Hackman Can Save This

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WON: "The Morning After," The Poseidon Adventure

SHOULD'VE WON: "Ben," Ben

1972 marked a perfectly respectable year at the Oscars, for the most part. Five fantastic films, in fact, filled up Best Picture - Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, The Godfather and Sounder. Add to that nominations for terrific pictures like Sleuth, Lady Sings the Blues and Travels with My Aunt, and there was no shortage of great cinema on display.

This good fortune, however, did not extend to Best Original Song. In fact, '72 marks what might well be the all-time worst line-up in the category, a shortlist chock-full of lackluster material that's awfully difficult to embrace in nearly any way.

The category's victor, "The Morning After," for sure is among the worst Best Original Song winners, if not ultimately the most abysmal, and this is coming from a fan of Ronald Neame's star-studded disaster flick The Poseidon Adventure. The thing is, I love just about everything in Poseidon, except for the scene in which Carol Lynley sings this insipid, turgid ballad. The Maureen McGovern version proved a big Billboard hit, which really only serves to call into question listeners' tastes at the time. It's a song so insipid even Celine Dion would experience nausea.

My pick this year I suppose would have to be "Ben," from the eponymous rat horror flick, which is gorgeously performed by a young Michael Jackson, though tough to take very seriously given...well, it's featured in a movie about a rat. But that's still a step-up from "The Morning After" and the comparably dreadful "Come Follow, Follow Me" and "Strange Are the Ways of Love."

The fifth nominee, "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," has to be the worst thing Maurice Jarre, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman ever received Oscar recognition for. Performed by Andy Williams, it is, however, a little more listenable than the three non-"Ben" nominees.

The real insanity of this year is the Academy had an obvious opportunity to reward terrific material in Best Original Song by nominating John Kander and Fred Ebb for their three original tunes in Cabaret - "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Maybe This Time." It is completely inexplicable to me how these well-regarded tunes were ignored, and yet dreck like "The Morning After" and "Strange Are the Ways of Love" showed up, particularly considering how much the Academy adored Cabaret, even giving Bob Fosse the upset over Francis Ford Coppola in Best Director. Bizarre.

The Oscar-winners ranked (thus far)...

  1. "Over the Rainbow," The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time (1936)
  3. "High Hopes," A Hole in the Head (1959)
  4. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  5. "Mona Lisa," Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
  6. "You'll Never Know," Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
  7. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
  8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Neptune's Daughter (1949)
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  10. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  11. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, On My Darlin')," High Noon (1952)
  12. "Theme from Shaft," Shaft (1971)
  13. "Secret Love," Calamity Jane (1953)
  14. "White Christmas," Holiday Inn (1942)
  15. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  16. "When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio (1940)
  17. "Thanks for the Memory," The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  18. "Lullaby of Broadway," Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  19. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Song of the South (1947)
  20. "Days of Wine and Roses," Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  21. "For All We Know," Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
  22. "All the Way," The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  23. "It Might As Well Be Spring," State Fair (1945)
  24. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good (1941)
  25. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," Here Comes the Groom (1951)
  26. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  27. "Born Free," Born Free (1966)
  28. "Never on Sunday," Never on Sunday (1960)
  29. "Three Coins in the Fountain," Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
  30. "Chim Chim Cher-ee," Mary Poppins (1964)
  31. "Call Me Irresponsible," Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
  32. "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way (1944)
  33. "Gigi," Gigi (1958)
  34. "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  35. "Sweet Leilani," Waikiki Wedding (1937)
  36. "Buttons and Bows," The Paleface (1948)
  37. "Talk to the Animals," Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  38. "The Shadow of Your Smile," The Sandpiper (1965)
  39. "The Morning After," The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

1971 Best Original Song - The Willy Wonka Robbery

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WON AND SHOULD'VE WON: "Theme from Shaft," Shaft

I have long been an immense fan of Mel Stuart's 1971 Gene Wilder musical classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -  it has that same ultra-rare movie magic of pictures like The Wizard of Oz and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. It really does sweep me off my feet time after time, no doubt largely in part to sheer nostalgic, but it's still a damn great film. The art direction, Wilder's marvelously mad performance, the perfection of the ensemble all-around, the spectacularly quotable dialogue...I adore it all. Heck, I totally would've nominated this for Best Picture in '71.

Of course, one of the best parts of Willy Wonka is its score, a bravura collaboration between Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley that features greats like "The Candy Man" and "I've Got a Golden Ticket." I most admire, however, the dazzling "Pure Imagination," a tremendously moving and timeless piece, delivered to perfection by Wilder. The instrumentals on it are so wonderful, too. Much as I respect this year's winner, "Pure Imagination" would've been my top pick for Best Original Song in '71.

(While we're still on the topic of the snubbed of '71, Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds Are Forever" probably should've been here as well, even if it's no "Goldfinger.")

As for this year's actual honorees, Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft" is a richly deserved winner, an unimpeachable badass of a record that's instantly recognizable from the opening few seconds. Its inspiration on the soul and funk to emerge over the coming decade cannot be understated...indeed, it's perhaps one of the all-time most influential pieces to win this trophy. No bones about it, Hayes deserved to triumph in a cakewalk, especially against this competition.

As for that competition, it's more simply unremarkable than it is terribly weak.

I actually like The Carpenters' "Bless the Beasts and Children," warmly performed by Karen Carpenter, and "All His Children," a very listenable country tune, composed by Henry Mancini, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and performed by the great Charley Pride. But neither quite pops in the same way "Theme from Shaft" so intensely does. Likewise, I love Angela Lansbury but her "The Age of Not Believing" just isn't a very memorable showcase.

The final nominee, "Life Is What You Make It," from the Walter Matthau vehicle Kotch, is a syrupy-sweet collaboration between Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mercer. Hamlisch would find greater luck two years later with a certain Streisand song...

The Oscar-winners ranked (thus far)...

  1. "Over the Rainbow," The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time (1936)
  3. "High Hopes," A Hole in the Head (1959)
  4. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  5. "Mona Lisa," Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
  6. "You'll Never Know," Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
  7. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
  8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Neptune's Daughter (1949)
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  10. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  11. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, On My Darlin')," High Noon (1952)
  12. "Theme from Shaft," Shaft (1971)
  13. "Secret Love," Calamity Jane (1953)
  14. "White Christmas," Holiday Inn (1942)
  15. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  16. "When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio (1940)
  17. "Thanks for the Memory," The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  18. "Lullaby of Broadway," Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  19. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Song of the South (1947)
  20. "Days of Wine and Roses," Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  21. "For All We Know," Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
  22. "All the Way," The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  23. "It Might As Well Be Spring," State Fair (1945)
  24. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good (1941)
  25. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," Here Comes the Groom (1951)
  26. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  27. "Born Free," Born Free (1966)
  28. "Never on Sunday," Never on Sunday (1960)
  29. "Three Coins in the Fountain," Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
  30. "Chim Chim Cher-ee," Mary Poppins (1964)
  31. "Call Me Irresponsible," Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
  32. "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way (1944)
  33. "Gigi," Gigi (1958)
  34. "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  35. "Sweet Leilani," Waikiki Wedding (1937)
  36. "Buttons and Bows," The Paleface (1948)
  37. "Talk to the Animals," Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  38. "The Shadow of Your Smile," The Sandpiper (1965)

1970 Best Original Song - Julie Andrews Stops the Show

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WON: "For All We Know," Lovers and Other Strangers

SHOULD'VE WON: "Whistling Away the Dark," Darling Lili

1970, the year the Academy embraced monumental pictures including Patton and MASH, yet also nausea-inducing dreck like Airport and Love Story, marked a comparably mixed bag in the category of Best Original Song, sporting a truly grand Julie Andrews tune and respectable winner in "For All We Know," but also a couple of real snoozes.

"For All We Know," which later proved a big, fat Billboard hit for The Carpenters, was originally performed by Larry Meredith in the dated, though occasionally well-acted comedy Lovers and Other Strangers. A collaboration between composer Fred Karlin and Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin, the latter two members of the soft rock band Bread, it is, much like most of The Carpenters' output, a pleasant, warm song, albeit a bit fleeting at under two minutes in length. Given the weakness of the year, I can't knock its victory too much, though it doesn't stand out in any real significant way.

My favorite of the line-up is Henry Mancini's "Whistling Away the Dark," from the notorious Blake Edwards musical flop Darling Lili, the picture which served as an inspiration to Edwards' hilarious and underrated S.O.B. The film may have proven a catastrophe at the box office but it does feature a remarkable performance from its leading lady and Andrews just about blows the roof off the joint in this number. She commands the screen here in a way that recalls Barbra Streisand's solo numbers in Funny Girl.

From there, the category gets a whole lot less remarkable, although "'Til Love Touches Your Life," from the obscure Leslie Caron picture Madron, does feature some pretty nifty instrumental work - it is, however, also a bit overlong and not very notable lyrically or vocally.

"Pieces of Dreams," another Legrand-Bergman-Bergman collaboration, is powerfully performed by Shirley Bassey for the dreadful Lauren Hutton drama of the same name, but certainly not among the composers' finest hours. The final nominee, Leslie Bricusse's "Thank You Very Much," from the Albert Finney-headlined Scrooge, is enthusiastically performed in the picture but I don't think works at all on its own terms, without the imagery of the choreography. It's also, much like the film itself, just kind of drab.

Robbed in a big way of a nomination this year (and more memorable than even the Andrews track) - Johnny Mandel's unforgettable theme to MASH, "Suicide Is Painless."

The Oscar-winners ranked (thus far)...

  1. "Over the Rainbow," The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time (1936)
  3. "High Hopes," A Hole in the Head (1959)
  4. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  5. "Mona Lisa," Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
  6. "You'll Never Know," Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
  7. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
  8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Neptune's Daughter (1949)
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  10. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  11. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, On My Darlin')," High Noon (1952)
  12. "Secret Love," Calamity Jane (1953)
  13. "White Christmas," Holiday Inn (1942)
  14. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  15. "When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio (1940)
  16. "Thanks for the Memory," The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  17. "Lullaby of Broadway," Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  18. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Song of the South (1947)
  19. "Days of Wine and Roses," Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  20. "For All We Know," Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
  21. "All the Way," The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  22. "It Might As Well Be Spring," State Fair (1945)
  23. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good (1941)
  24. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," Here Comes the Groom (1951)
  25. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  26. "Born Free," Born Free (1966)
  27. "Never on Sunday," Never on Sunday (1960)
  28. "Three Coins in the Fountain," Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
  29. "Chim Chim Cher-ee," Mary Poppins (1964)
  30. "Call Me Irresponsible," Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
  31. "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way (1944)
  32. "Gigi," Gigi (1958)
  33. "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  34. "Sweet Leilani," Waikiki Wedding (1937)
  35. "Buttons and Bows," The Paleface (1948)
  36. "Talk to the Animals," Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  37. "The Shadow of Your Smile," The Sandpiper (1965)

1969 Best Original Song - Here Comes Liza!

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WON: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

SHOULD'VE WON: "Come Saturday Morning," The Sterile Cuckoo

1969, the year of unlikely Best Picture Oscar-winner Midnight Cowboy (and no, Harry Nilsson's terrific "Everybody's Talkin'" was not eligible for consideration in Best Original Song), marks quite a strong year in the Original Song category - it's a line-up so solid that the winner, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which I love, doesn't even come out on top for me.

I'll start with the winning track, the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid tune that finally gave Burt Bacharach and Hal David their Oscars after having deserved it at least once or (I would argue) twice in recent years. Performed by B.J. Thomas, the song was a smash Billboard hit, later clocking in at number 23 on AFI's "100 Years...100 Songs" list, and for good reason - it's immensely catchy, with typically brilliant Bacharach-David music and lyrics, and Thomas' vocal is wonderful too. It's a tough song to knock in any way, even if it isn't quite my favorite of the bunch.

That honor goes to "Come Saturday Morning," the truly remarkable collaboration between composers Dory Previn and Fred Karlin and the supremely underrated folk rock group The Sandpipers, for the film The Sterlile Cuckoo, an idiosyncratic coming-of-age story that marked Liza Minnelli's first leading lady vehicle. The tune is drenched in late-'60s nostalgia - it might well be the most '60s-sounding song that's ever been nominated in this category - and has a warm, dreamy quality that puts it right up there with the best of acts like The Beatles and The Byrds.

I am also quite fond of Glen Campbell's "True Grit," from the eponymous John Wayne film, for which the latter scored his Oscar. As western themes go, it's not quite in the same league as say, the title song from High Noon, but it is enjoyable and I would argue one of the more memorable parts of a rather overrated film. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," from the Jean Simmons starrer The Happy Ending, is a very nice piece too, from the team of Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. I'm not terribly fond of the Michael Dees version of the song, however, which appears in the film. A few years later, Barbra Streisand did a cover, as the B-side to "The Way We Were," that was pitch-perfect.

The final nominee, "Jean," from Maggie Smith's Oscar-winning vehicle The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, is the pretty clear weak link here, a rather dreary theme to an otherwise wonderful film. Replace this song with "We Have All the Time in the World," the underrated Louis Armstrong-performed theme to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and you'd have a marvelous line-up here from top to bottom.

The Oscar-winners ranked (thus far)...

  1. "Over the Rainbow," The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time (1936)
  3. "High Hopes," A Hole in the Head (1959)
  4. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  5. "Mona Lisa," Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
  6. "You'll Never Know," Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
  7. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
  8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Neptune's Daughter (1949)
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  10. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  11. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, On My Darlin')," High Noon (1952)
  12. "Secret Love," Calamity Jane (1953)
  13. "White Christmas," Holiday Inn (1942)
  14. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  15. "When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio (1940)
  16. "Thanks for the Memory," The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  17. "Lullaby of Broadway," Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  18. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Song of the South (1947)
  19. "Days of Wine and Roses," Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  20. "All the Way," The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  21. "It Might As Well Be Spring," State Fair (1945)
  22. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good (1941)
  23. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," Here Comes the Groom (1951)
  24. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  25. "Born Free," Born Free (1966)
  26. "Never on Sunday," Never on Sunday (1960)
  27. "Three Coins in the Fountain," Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
  28. "Chim Chim Cher-ee," Mary Poppins (1964)
  29. "Call Me Irresponsible," Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
  30. "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way (1944)
  31. "Gigi," Gigi (1958)
  32. "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  33. "Sweet Leilani," Waikiki Wedding (1937)
  34. "Buttons and Bows," The Paleface (1948)
  35. "Talk to the Animals," Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  36. "The Shadow of Your Smile," The Sandpiper (1965)

1968 Best Original Song - Hitler Was Robbed!

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WON AND SHOULD'VE WON: "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair

I have to give the Academy serious kudos for awarding Mel Brooks the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1968 for his brilliant The Producers - I'm awfully skeptical such would happen today, though he might well at least muster the nomination. I also love that Gene Wilder garnered a nomination, even if the nod in Best Supporting Actor makes close to no sense.

What would've made '68 all the more fantastic, however, was if Brooks' spectacularly funny "Springtime for Hitler" managed to pop up in Best Original Song. If "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut could garner Oscar love, I certainly don't see why "Hitler" couldn't have done the same. Oh well. What we're ultimately left with in '68 Best Original Song is a bit of a mixed bag, with a terrific winner and some rather unremarkable competition.

The Academy's selection, "The Windmills of Your Mind," from the marvelous Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway starrer The Thomas Crown Affair, is a top-notch pick, beautifully composed by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and delivered in an idiosyncratic vocal performance by Noel Harrison. The tune has a bit more edge to it than the average Bond theme, for instance, and it's lyrically far more interesting. Notable covers included Dusty Springfield and, of course, Babs.

Speaking of Streisand, '68 of course marked the year she took the big screen by storm with her Oscar-winning turn as Fanny Brice in William Wyler's Funny Girl. The picture is full of terrific showtunes, including "People," "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "My Man." As has been the case with so many stage-to-screen adaptations, an original song was composed specifically for the picture and, as is usually (if not always) the case, it doesn't quite stack up to the rest of the catalogue. "Funny Girl," while performed splendidly by Streisand, just isn't terribly memorable.

Likewise, "For Love of Ivy," composed by Quincy Jones for the middling Sidney Poitier vehicle of the same name, is nicely performed by the great Jazz pianist and vocalist Shirley Horn but too fleeting to leave a real impact. Julie Andrews is in the mix too, for "Star!" (from the eponymous picture), and her nominated track is just as grating and overblown as the film itself. Dick Van Dyke rounds out the line-up with the title track from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and it's at least more fun than his former Mary Poppins co-star's selection but still, it's no "Windmills of Your Mind." Or "Springtime for Hitler," of course.

The Oscar-winners ranked (thus far)...

  1. "Over the Rainbow," The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time (1936)
  3. "High Hopes," A Hole in the Head (1959)
  4. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  5. "Mona Lisa," Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
  6. "You'll Never Know," Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
  7. "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
  8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Neptune's Daughter (1949)
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind," The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  10. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, On My Darlin')," High Noon (1952)
  11. "Secret Love," Calamity Jane (1953)
  12. "White Christmas," Holiday Inn (1942)
  13. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  14. "When You Wish Upon a Star," Pinocchio (1940)
  15. "Thanks for the Memory," The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  16. "Lullaby of Broadway," Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  17. "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Song of the South (1947)
  18. "Days of Wine and Roses," Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  19. "All the Way," The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  20. "It Might As Well Be Spring," State Fair (1945)
  21. "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Lady Be Good (1941)
  22. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," Here Comes the Groom (1951)
  23. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
  24. "Born Free," Born Free (1966)
  25. "Never on Sunday," Never on Sunday (1960)
  26. "Three Coins in the Fountain," Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
  27. "Chim Chim Cher-ee," Mary Poppins (1964)
  28. "Call Me Irresponsible," Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
  29. "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way (1944)
  30. "Gigi," Gigi (1958)
  31. "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  32. "Sweet Leilani," Waikiki Wedding (1937)
  33. "Buttons and Bows," The Paleface (1948)
  34. "Talk to the Animals," Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  35. "The Shadow of Your Smile," The Sandpiper (1965)