The 100 Best Movie Songs • • • By John Esterbrook Updated on: June 23, 2004 / 5:59 PM / AP There's no song like 'Over the Rainbow.' Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale's wistful ditty in 'The Wizard of Oz' led the American Film Institute's list of 100 best movie songs Tuesday, followed by 'As Time Goes By' from 'Casablanca' at No. 2 and the title tune from 'Singin' in the Rain' at No. 'Over the Rainbow,' sung by Judy Garland in the 1939 musical fantasy, was picked as the top song in U.S.
Cinema in voting by about 1,500 actors, filmmakers, writers, critics and others in Hollywood. 'That deserves it. It's one of the great, great songs.
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Judy Garland, the emotion in that song. It gives me chills whenever I hear it,' said Burt Bacharach, who was represented on the list for co-writing 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' (No. 23) from 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)' (No. 79) from 'Arthur.'
In 2001, Garland's 'Over the Rainbow' (and Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas') also topped the 365 'Songs of the Century' selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America. The rest of the AFI top 10: 4. 'Moon River' from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'; 5. 'White Christmas' from 'Holiday Inn'; 6.
Robinson' from 'The Graduate'; 7. 'When You Wish Upon a Star' from 'Pinocchio'; 8. 'The Way We Were' from 'The Way We Were'; 9.
'Stayin' Alive' from 'Saturday Night Fever'; 10. 'The Sound of Music' from 'The Sound of Music.' Two other songs made the list from both 'The Sound of Music' ('My Favorite Things' at No. 64 and 'Do Re Mi' at No. 88) and 'Singin' in the Rain' ('Make 'Em Laugh' at No.
49 and 'Good Morning' at No. 'West Side Story' also landed three songs: 'Somewhere' (No.
20), 'America' (No. 35) and 'Tonight' (No. Chosen from 400 nominees, the list was announced in the CBS special 'AFI's 100 Years.
100 Songs,' the institute's latest countdown to promote U.S. Film history.
The show's host was John Travolta, star of 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease,' whose 'Summer Nights' came in at No. 'A list like this really drives people back to rediscover or discover these movies,' said Jean Picker Firstenburg, the institute's director. 'It's about older generations revisiting them and younger generations finding them for the first time.' Past specials presented such lists as the best 100 American movies, comedies, screen legends and love stories. AFI leaders had been mulling a list of best movie songs for years.