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Incredibly vague "name that song" question. Fans of old musicals please help me!

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 17/05/2019 12:18

It's really annoying me that I can't remember it! It'll be incredibly vague though, sorry... I've seen a clip from a musical on YouTube, and would like to watch it again. The song might be a standard as well, but I'm not sure!

It's two people singing on a bridge, at night. I think it could be an MGM film, just because I know it's a soundstage (the stars twinkle in a pattern!). The film is in colour. It's shot from on the bridge with them.

It's a love song, but a gentle rather than triumphant one, if that makes sense. I'm almost certain it isn't Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Unhelpfully I can't properly 'see' the actor or the actress!

Much Wine and Flowers if anybody can get it! I'll keep trying to think as well.

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 17/05/2019 12:19

I have traveled through my YouTube history, but no luck. Sad

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RatherBeRiding · 17/05/2019 12:21

Are they in costume? Or can you date it from, say, 1950s/60s/earlier?

RatherBeRiding · 17/05/2019 12:26

I'm going to take a wild guess on An American in Paris.

dragongirlx · 17/05/2019 12:27

might it be if this isn't love from Finians Rainbow

RatherBeRiding · 17/05/2019 12:28

Having looked on YouTube I think it could be "Love is here to Stay" from an American in Paris.

wichitalinemanswoman · 17/05/2019 12:31

On Moonlight Bay?

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 17/05/2019 13:27

I would guess late forties/fifties. It 'felt' (from what I got from the one song!) a bit like Tammy and the Bachelor, or the first State Fair. I think she was wearing a party dress, not full length. Perhaps they'd stopped on their way back from something?

Not the others I'm afraid — it isn't that sort of bridge, more one in the countryside or a garden. I think they just lean over it, I'm pretty sure they don't dance.

Sorry, I'm not giving much to go on! (Although I do now want to watch Finian's Rainbow, I haven't seen it for years!).

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ChicCroissant · 17/05/2019 13:36

Meet me in St Louis? That's set a bit further back than that time period though (don't know the film that well actually!)

chocolategivesmehives · 17/05/2019 14:00

Brigadoon?

ImaginaryFriends · 17/05/2019 16:10

This is from Oklahoma

ImaginaryFriends · 17/05/2019 18:00

This clip is from The Music Man.

MitziK · 17/05/2019 18:31

By the Light of the Silvery Moon? That has a bridge. And a very obvious soundstage.

MsCupcake · 17/05/2019 18:50

Carousel, If i loved you?...

iklboo · 17/05/2019 19:04

Half A Sixpence?

EleanorLavish · 17/05/2019 22:05

Danny Kaye and Vera Allen one white Christmas? Before the Christmas stuffGrin

EleanorLavish · 17/05/2019 22:08

In white christmas

EleanorLavish · 17/05/2019 22:09

The song to that is “The best things, happen while your dancing”

EleanorLavish · 17/05/2019 22:10

Just seen they don’t dance....hmmmmm

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 18/05/2019 14:02

Sorry for disappearing! You've got it ImaginaryFriends, it was "Till there was you" from The Music Man. I feel so much better now I've seen it again, it was like scratching an itch!

But I'd mixed it up with a nighttime scene from State Fair. I watched that while I was ironing last night and realised that that was where I'd spotted the stars twinkling in patterns.

I'm going to re-watch a few of these now, and watch The Music Man for the first time. Smile

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ImaginaryFriends · 20/05/2019 18:23

Happy I could help you find the right song PolkadotsAndMoonbeams.

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