I mentioned this about a week or so ago, but tonight there is another one of those AFI Top 100 shows, this year selecting the top 100 movie songs. I'm probably way off base here, but my picks for the top 10 are:
"Over the Rainbow" THE WIZARD OF OZ (surely the #1 song)
"Whistle While You Work" SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
"When You Wish Upon A Star" PINOCCHIO
"As Time Goes By" CASABLANCA
"White Christmas" HOLIDAY INN
"Moon River" BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" MARY POPPINS
"Do Re Mi" THE SOUND OF MUSIC
"Mrs. Robinson" THE GRADUATE
"The Way We Were" THE WAY WE WERE
The listing of the 400 songs that were on the ballot is at
www.afi.com . Some glaring omissions there. No "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White, "Colonel Bogie's March" from Bridge on the River Kwai or "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago (sounds like an anti-Lean conspiracy.)