With a few exceptions, there are no bad songs inThe Sound of Music.
We’ll get to that.)
How did your most beloved tunes yourfavorite things, if you will fare?
Credit: (L-R) Everett Collection (2); NBC
Finding out is much easier than making a romper out of a pair of curtains:
20.
“Something Good”
BOOORING.
This snoozefest is the musical representation of why some people say they can’t sit throughThe Sound of Music.
Sorry to be harsh, but “Something Good” is actually, well, bad.
A show tune needs to be either catchy or beautiful this is neither.
“Processional and Maria (The Wedding)”
A.K.A.
a reprise of “Maria.”
Who performs a song about how their friend is an unreliable messat that same friend’s wedding?
Party foul, nuns.
But the first one is delightful and catchy enough that we can overlook its more problematic aspects.
As for the reprise?
“No Way to Stop It”
“It,” here, refers to the Anschluss, a.k.a.
the Nazi occupation and annexation of Austria.
So yeah: jaunty tune about how you might as well just sit back and let Hitler do Hitler.
We can see why this one got cut from the movie.
), but their strong harmonies can’t save (ha) this one.
Just, like, do we need to hear this?
(If we wanted to hear crap about following our dreams, we’d watchMan of La Mancha.)
Also, the spelling is ann’ying.
Who are you trying to impress,the Nazis?
Also, guess what?
The kids do it better.
“Climb Ev’ry Mountain” (Reprise, a.k.a.
the show’s finale)
Can you say final money note?!
Maria sing-talks her inner monologue for nearly two minutes before we finally get to the good part.
Upshot: That final minute “IIIII have confidence in sunshine!
I have confidence in rain!”
Break out a hairbrush microphone and belt it out.
“Edelweiss”
Yes, it’s beautiful one of the show’s loveliest, purest melodies.
Yes, it’s iconic.
“How Can Love Survive?”
Free Max and the Baroness!
Give them their own musical!
If you isolate the ominous lyrics really, “How do you catch a cloud andpin it down?”
it becomes increasingly apparent that these sisters mean business.
“So Long, Farewell”
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
“The Lonely Goatherd”
Gwen Stefaniknows what’s up.
This song is simultaneously ridiculous (hello-e-o-e-o, yodeling!
“Sixteen Going on Seventeen”
A great love song from the charming Nazi of your dreams.
“Do-Re-Mi”
Simple as ABC and just as vital, as far as learning scales is concerned.
Seriously: Rodgers and Hammerstein did the world a great service when they wrote this song.
It’s also pretty much perfect, as production numbers go.
