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Welcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of Contemporary tunes. Join us here on CBC music for a round-up of the stories of the day, some videos of music (or maybe just videos interesting to music fans) and a place to speak your voice.
Today on Shift we take a trip to Hollywood with musical cameos in the movies. Six songs that made movie magic. From "The Godfather" to "The Jerk"
These musical interludes from celluloid cinematic history, made us shiver, sign, laugh and cry. These Terrific musical moments leap from the screen and transport us further into the story.
1. Here's "Llorando" a Spanish acapella twist by Rebekah Del Rio on the Roy Orbison classic "Crying" from the David Lynch's 2001 bit of pseudo-surrealism, Mullholland Drive.
2. Al Martino's cameo in Frances Ford Coppola's 1972 blockbuster The Godfather. "I didn't know your family knew Johnny Fontane!" "Sure.He's my father's godson."
3. Cleavon Little is the baddest sheriff in the old west in Mel Brook's 1974 Blazing Saddles. He even has the Count Basie band backing him up! A musical interlude in the desert "April In Paris."
4. Steve Martin is The Jerk (1979), but he still manages to get Bernadette Peters to join him for a song on the beach. She even brought her trumpet.
5. If your army outfit was stationed next to a watering hole presided over by the astonishing Patti Labelle, you'd be there every night, just like the guys in Norman Jewison's brilliant 1984 movie A Soldier's Story.
6. When Diane Wiest wanted Woody Allen to experience the cutting edge of punk at CBGB's in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) she was smart enough to go when Chris Barry's Montreal band 39 Steps were shaking the joint silly.
Let us know which great musical cameos we missed and we'll devote another Shift to the idea not too long from now.
You can contact us at Shift with your ideas, questions or anything else by sending us a message on our Facebook page. Through email, you can reach show producers Alison Howard alison.howard@cbc.ca, Alex Redekop alex.redekop@cbc.ca or Pete Moreypeter.morey@cbc.ca