Sound of Music

While I was going thru my movie collections yesterday wondering what movie to watch with my 2 little princesses, I finally decided to watch the evergreen classical movie of all time - The Sound Of Music. I watched this movie when I was little, can't remember how old but I think i'm about 10 or younger. There are few songs that I like but 2 songs that runs in my mind those days were Do-Re-Mi and Sixteen going on Seventeen. I'd sing the chorus and hum (can't sing the whole song ma!) the rest of the song happily but softly while playing with my friends.

I thought that since I, the rascal, likes the movie, my 2 little princesses would like them too. However, I was expecting them to watch the movie while playing with their "cooking" toys but it turned out that they watch the movie straight on and enjoyed them very much ... well technically, we stop twice ... VCD ma.... it took 3 VCDs to store the whole movie. So, we stop and do our stuffs before we continue to watch the next disk. Hmm... that reminds me that I should look for a DVD version.

When Julie Andrews and the kids sang Do-Re-Mi, my younger daughter were amazed, looked at me and say (with her twinkling smile) that her Kindergarten school also plays that song. I can see that she was humming along silently.

Here's my favourite chorus ...
Doe (Do) a deer, a female deer
Ray (Re)a drop of golden sun
Me (Mi) a name I call myself
Far (Fa) a long long way to run
Sew (So) a needle pulling thread
La (La) a note to follow So
Tea (Ti) a drink with bread and jam ...
that will bring us back to Doe, oh oh oh

Now, let's sing along




After the movie, my elder daughter, just like me when I was younger, also likes the Sixteen Going on Seventeen song, especially the chorus part - "I'm sixteen going on seventeen ... ". The word "sixteen going on seventeen" and the dance in the glass house was a very lovely encounter of 2 opposing sex. I guess all children like to be in that scene and can't wait to grow up. Either you want to meet the pretty girl or the handsome guy .... and of course the ever "curious" first kiss! Agree?



Sweet huh! I'll try to find a proper snippets of this part from YouTube. I actually found one but the owner dubbed it with his lousy singing voice. I'll replace this once I found it.

Anyway, this movie is definitely one of my favourite "collectible" musical movies.

On another note, I would love to hear "arrggh, S#@t, da#@, OMG, or some swear words" on the golf course. It's probably the better "Sound of Music". Why? That's the sound when someone hit a really bad shot! That's when I'll say ... music to my ears! :-) Khakakaka.

Here are the rest of the songs that I like from the Sound of Music.

So Long, Farewell

Edelweiss

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I'm going to look for Julie Andrew's Marry Poppins. I don't really have a good and lasting impression about this movie but I remembered that my Sis love them.