I missed the first 45 minutes or so, so I checked the list to see if a couple I thought were good songs were on there.
I’ll give you Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but where is the haunting They Call the Wind Mariah from Paint Your Wagon? The whistling tune from Bridge Over the River Kwai? Some of those songs weren’t even written for the movie…Unchained Melody from Ghost, for instance.
I’m waiting for Eve to wander through and give us her take too. 
The thing that bugs me, and I know it is petty and silly, is that some movies had 3 songs win. The Sound of Music, Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story. (others presumably had two songs sin, but that is not explicitly listed in the description I have at hand from my paper) I would have preferred it if they had chosen only one song per movie, especially from movies which I am familar with. This is partially because I wanted to use the list as a guideline for picking out movies to look for at the library and doing so would give me a greater variety.
It also bugged me that they kept showing a woman talk about her mother (who was in Singin’ in the Rain and probably others) but I could see the woman’s name and they didn’t specify the name of the mother( at least while I was paying attention. Fairness would compel me to acknowledge the influence that having both a book and a cross-stitch project in my lap might have on my concentration.
I have no real opinion about songs that should have been on the list or placed in different order.
I believe it was Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft. At least, she was the one who talked about her mother a lot. Debbie Reynolds was in “Singin’ in the Rain”.
I’m pretty sure I watched the whole thing, but did they include the “Day-O” scene in Beetlejuice? Because they showed a quick shot of it in the opening credits.
I can’t believe Celine Dion’s “Titanic” song was so high on the list (14)!
I’m sure everyone will think this is a stupid thing to bring up, But everytime I’ve seen or heard refernce to this new list the title of the list just bugs me. AFI started the **100 Years 100 . . . ** thing a few years back to commemorate 100 years of filmmaking. O.K., it works with all of the other lists they’ve put together but now, finally, it doesn’t work.
100 Years 100 Songs???
Shouldn’t it be more like 75 Years 100 Songs?
Hey this will be fun: Let’s all list our favorite songs from the era of Silent Cinema!
My Favorite was the one that went:
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P.S. I’m not truly upset about this, I simply find it impossible to ignore. 
And if it was Debbie Reynold’s daughter speaking, then you were seeing Carrie Fisher (of Princess Leia fame).
I was on the phone for most of it, so had it on mute – an interesting way to watch the show!
There were some nice juxtapositions – I esp. liked “Theme from Shaft” to “Swinging on a Star,” and “Born to Be Wild” to “Some Enchanted Evening.”
Some of the “experts” were way too bogus – I don’t really need to know what Clay Aiken thinks of any of these songs (and, thankfully, since I had it muted, I don’t).
The other thing that bugged me was the head of the AFI, solemnly saying that if your favorite song wasn’t listed, to send e-mails, start a dialogue at the water cooler, etc. It was the goal of the AFI to spark debate about such matters.
Now, while I enjoy discussing their choices, I’m certainly not going to start a campaign to modify the list to get “my” choices included. There are more important things going on. She seemed very self-important to me.
I prefer to think of it as James Horner’s “Titanic” song. He wrote it based on the theme head already written for the score of the movie. It just lent itself nicely to a ballad. (And you know what, I actually like that song)
They didn’t even have anything from “The Jazz Singer” on the list, did they?
And where was “Hi Ho”
And why were scores/themes rejected in favor of singable tunes?
Hey! We’re doing just what that old lady on the special asked us to! If you don’t agree, write, argue, debate! Spread the word about music and film! I’m doing my part!
Lorna Luft rings a bell to me as the name of the woman who kept talking about her mother. Judy Garland makes sense as the mother, I just never heard it made explicit.
I’ve never watched one of these AFI shows before, and probably won’t again, but I was enjoying listening to the music, especially when it was a singable tune.
I’m happy to wander through, whistling softly to myself, but I learned long ago that clicking onto one of those moronic, culturally dumbed-down AFI lists is a ticket to high blood pressure and a migraine headache.
(not gonna look not gonna look not gonna look )
Which song do we remember from that movie?
I love these AFI lists. This one, as usual, is good.
Major props for having a couple of hip-hop songs on there (Public Enemy Fight the Power #40 :eek: , and Eminem Lose Yourself #93).
The Rainbow Connection is on the list! Yah!
Where the hell is Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid? 
No “Uncle Fucker”? No “Blame Canada”? If those aren’t two of the most memorable songs in movie history, I’ll eat my hat.
They should do “100 Years…100 Musical Scores”. Unless they already have and I missed it.
I did like their Heroes and Villains list they did last year.
I love these shows…even though they are dumbed down, make stupid choices yada yada yada. I just love any collection of film clips.
That said: the problems with this collection: “Evergreen” (gag). The 3 Disney songs – “Hakuna Matata” isn’t even the best song from Lion King, much less worthy of the Top 100. “Do Re Mi” and “Favorite Things”.
My son kept waiting for “Damn It’s Good to be a Gangsta” from Office Space, and was sorely disappointed.
“100 Years 100 Scores” would be a great show. And the clips from Casablanca prompted my group to suggest “100 Years 100 Speeches & Rants” (“Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble…”).
“Mammy” “Blue Skies”.
I think all silent films were meant to be played against an orchestra or some other source of music (and sound effects?). I don’t know if songs were ever associated with films in that way, but it seems possible.
In Hell where it belongs.
I personally think Disney cartoons got dissed more than a little. When I first heard of the special I was afraid that Disney would be all over it, but only 5? and most of those toward the bottom of the list? And then they picked some weird ones, like “Hakuna Matata” over “Circle Of Life”, (props to jsc1953), and ignored some of the better musical choices - Mulan, Aladdin, and esp. Little Mermaid’s “Kiss the Girl”.
I aslso think the list skewed kind of old. Not that I think most of the sojngs on the list are unworthy.
Another peeve: they would pick the right film, but the wrong songs. Lion King: “Hakuna Matata” instead of “Circle of Life”. Funny Girl: “People” instead of “My Man”. Cabaret: “Cabaret” instead of “Mein Herr” or “Wilkommen”.
Disney was given pretty short shrift on the whole.
Kind of odd to have Bob Hope singing 3 songs in the first 20. And “Road to Morocco” was a pretty lame choice.
Well, the name of the show was “100 Years…100 Songs”, not “100 Years…100 Scores/Themes”. Song = singable tune.