# Has anyone seen A Mighty Wind? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438 "2003-04-18T00:24:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/41 "2004-05-22T05:20:16Z")
Just popping in to say to myself from a year ago. Hi, me! Oh, hey - get your car battery checked. It’ll save you a lot of headaches! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/42 "2004-05-22T05:34:07Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I just saw this on DVD and loved it. Does anybody else find themselves really _enjoying_ the songs in the piece (especially “Wanderin’” and “Kiss at the End of the Rainbow”)? Yes! I downloaded some of the songs from iTunes (those free iTunes from the Pepsi caps really helped out . . . ) and I keep on humming them! > [@](#): > > **Ea\_ a\_ \_oe’s.** 😃 I showed this movie to my mom and she _loved_ the music and loved the sense of humor. She’s a singer and does some composing for herself and I consider her to have a very good ear. She’s going to be getting the Mighty Wind songbook (which has all the sheet music). I tell her, “You know, the lyrics on some of these songs (like _When You’re Next to Me_) are really _weird!_” and she said, “I don’t care. I just love these songs.” She’s especially fond of Mitch and Mickey. Also, did anyone else see the extras (like deleted scenes) on the DVD? I loved the one where Eugene Levy (Mitch) is talking about how he loves rap music, and he used to listen to Canadian rap music, where they rapped about politeness, etc. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/43 "2004-05-22T10:05:43Z")
I’m thinking of getting the frikkin’s soundtrack…I’m not a folk song fan, but I keep having these songs go through my head all the time! I like the song played at the end credits–Do What the Good Book Says (?), where the guy sings that we would be sleeping in the cracks between the giants’ toes. And the music pauses and they say “well that’s not very nice!” Cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/44 "2004-05-22T10:17:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Does anybody else find themselves really enjoying the songs in the piece (especially “Wanderin’” and “Kiss at the End of the Rainbow”)? They’re not all songs I’d choose to listen to - some are - but almost all of them are quite catchy. I think Wanderin’ is #1 for that. In fact, I can tell it’ll be in my head for hours. Thanks a frickin’ lot. 😉 > [@](#): > > I wondered if when the film was still in the early days of shooting if the character of Mitch Cohen was supposed to be as surprisingly touching and tragic as it turned out. That movie was Eugene Levy’s finest moment, proving that he’s great both in comedy and drama (and he and Catherine O’Hara [had they been 10 years older] COULD have made it as 60s folksingers). I agree completely (except maybe for the part about them making it as folk singers, I don’t think they played their own instruments). That’s what I liked about this movie: it wasn’t as funny overall as Best in Show, but there was some real emotion there and that made it very memorable. As I’ve said in other threads about this movie, I don’t like Eugene Levy at all, and I really thought he was terrific. > [@](#): > > He should have received an Oscar nomination. If that had happened, there might have been three actors nominated for comic roles- which we all know would be a sign of the Apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/45 "2004-05-22T10:20:38Z")
Oh, one other thing: I was glad that the film picked up on Oscar nomination for it’s music, but I really thought the title song would’ve been a better choice. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/46 "2004-05-22T16:09:12Z")
Weird. I just finished watching this again on cable five minutes ago! “Aaaah-vay Mah-reeeeeee-ahhh…” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/47 "2004-05-22T17:12:07Z")
Confession time: Listening to the New Main Street Singers has become my new guilty pleasure. :o ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/48 "2004-05-22T22:49:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I agree completely (except maybe for the part about them making it as folk singers, I don’t think they played their own instruments). Actually, the entire cast did play their own instruments. That’s listed on the [trivia page](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0310281/trivia) of the IMDB (item #5) and [the official soundtrack site](http://www.columbiarecords.com/amightywind/). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/49 "2004-05-23T13:07:59Z")
**A Mighty Wind** was O.K., but nothing to sing about. [d&r] ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/50 "2004-05-24T02:46:54Z")
If you grew up in the 50’s, the music was a) very good and b) smack-dab on. The rest of the show was not nearly as funny as Spinal Tap, but the music was worth the time spend–for me. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/51 "2004-05-24T02:50:38Z")
\ (Don’t post while drinking beer) the music **in A Might Wind** was… worth the time spend = worth the time **spent** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/52 "2004-05-24T03:19:44Z")
I _loved_ this movie. The music was really good, just like Tap’s, and the characterizations were hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/53 "2004-05-24T08:07:19Z")
Did they do their own singing. I know the Folksmen did, but did the others? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/54 "2004-05-24T11:26:45Z")
> [@LorieSmurf](#): > > Did they do their own singing. I know the Folksmen did, but did the others? Yup. Mr. singular and I had the enormous pleasure of seeing the whole cast performing live on the last night of their tour. These are tremendously talented people, and the concert was an absolute blast! How nice that we have the DVD as a concert souvener, too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/55 "2004-06-24T01:57:10Z")
I just watched the DVD again last night, and finally got a joke that I’d missed before: _A mighty wind’s a-blowin’ It’s blowin’ you and me!_ ---
**Author:** ![sofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@sofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/56 "2004-06-24T03:26:36Z")
We get out the DVD occasionally just so I can listen to “When I’m Next to You.” Partly because I think it’s one of the sweetest songs I’ve heard in a long time…and partly because it drives my son crazy. I have all the Guest movies, and their intentions seem so different to me that I find it hard to compare them. I will say that I watched a real documentary on cover bands…and my kids thought it was the new Guest mockumentary. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438/57 "2004-06-24T14:07:45Z")
OK, I’ll confess . . . I took my old decrepit autoharp into the shop to be repaired because of _A Mighty Wind._ Mr. S and I go to hear folk musicians quite often, and have two annual folk festivals that we always attend. The musicianship in _Wind_ was surprisingly good. Take “Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon”: goofy song, but GREAT harmony! Gives me the chills. John Michael Higgins (who played Terry Bohner, the lead guy in the New Main Street Singers) arranged all their music. I loved his voice in “The Good Book Song,” another hilarious song. Can’t wait for the next Christopher Guest installment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-a-mighty-wind/169438.md?page=2)