So, I have noticed a trend in movies of members of the US Navy (usually pilots) breaking out in song, most often enthusiastically off-key.
Examples:
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[li]Top Gun (“Lost That Loving Feeling”)[/li][li]Flight of the Intruder (“Downtown”)[/li][li]Down Periscope (“Louie Louie”)[/li][/ul]
Any other examples of this happening, or at least notable examples of non-US Navy personel breaking out into song? I think we can exclude musicals from this list.
Well, then, damn, there goes Follow the Fleet and On the Town.
If you want to include other service branches, there’s Cadence, Apocalypse Now! and Stripes.
In Full Metal Jacket the drill sergeant makes the recruits sing Happy Birthday Dear Jesus.
Yeah. As well as Popeye.
It isn’t the US Navy but The Hunt for Red October has the Russian submarine crew breaking into song.
I’m trying to remember if there is singing in Crimson Tide…
Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, the singing harpooner in Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!
They also sing the theme from “The Mickey Mouse Club” while marching away from a battle during Modine’s Mary Jane Rottencrotch voiceover at the end.
What shall we do with a singing sailor?
What shall we do with a singing sailor?
What shall we do with a singing sailor?
Ear-lie in the morning!
Aparently being in outer space brings out the musical talent one might have. Look at all the Star Trek singing that goes on.
Put him in a longboat 'til he’s sober
Put him in a longboat 'til he’s sober
Put him in a longboat 'til he’s sober
Earl-eye in the morning
I remember some maritime war flick where the U-Boat commander, knowing the American ship is listening to them, has his crew break out in song to hide their deteriorating morale.
Non-military sailors–Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous, with his little organ grinder thingy: “Yay-ho, leetle feesh, don’ cry, don’ cry…”
Did Robert Shaw sing in Jaws, or just tell filthy limericks?
The sailors sang a song or two in Master and Commander; so did one of the midshipmen, though they didn’t appreciate it.
That’s right,all three of them did. And Quint was ex-Navy, at least.
Not just ex-Navy, but ex-U.S.S. Indianapolis.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Paths of Glory, but IIRC, in the final scene the French soldiers start singing along with the German girl who has to sing for them, after initially jeering.
Aside from Show Me The Way To Go Home, which he sang with the others, Robert Shaw sang snippets of Spanish Ladies (with ‘Boston’ substituted for ‘England’).
If anybody cares, the song’s title is “The Faithful Hussar.” I prefer this version to Lois Armstrong’s.
Really obscure: Peter Ustinov opens Billy Bud with the sailors singing “Hanging Jack,” the eponymous Jack having hanged his entire family for reasons perfectly understandable to sailors of the era.
Pull out the plug and wet 'im all over
Pull out the plug and wet 'im all over
Pull out the plug and wet 'im all over
Earl-eye in the morning
One of the many things I love about **Moby Dick ** is the authentic-sounding chanteys, sung while the crew of the Pequod is setting sail. Plus, a song in the tavern in an earlier scene (something about “going no more a-roving”).
Christiane Kubrick, the director’s fiancee (later wife). She’s also a painter, with a kind of happy, upbeat Van Gogh style.