Which Song Won The Oscar-1954

 

Honestly, I thought I did this year already but I couldn’t find it but I do believe I mentioned it in who should have won version for my Thursday Movie Picks. Over at Monday Music Moves Me, it’s all about winter themed songs and there are quite a few from my visits to other bloggers in this fun endeavour. So, let’s see if you can pick which won the Oscar, which was nominated, and which got nadda!

1. SNOW, SNOW, SNOW SUNG BY BING, ROSEMARY, DANNY AND TRUDY! POOR VERA-ELLEN

This is a really nice song by Irving Berlin from the film, “White Christmas”. You have Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen thinking about beautiful, snowy Vermont and they start singing about snow. I love how they create a snowy scene using a white napkin. Vera-Ellen was an amazing dancer but she could not sing worth beans, so Trudy Stevens was the singer. This is a Christmas Standard film although this song is about…snow.

2.  COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS SUNG BY BING CROSBY AND ROSEMARY CLOONEY

In White Christmas, when the foursome finally arrive in Vermont, they are having a heatwave! The place where the gals are to perform is owned by the boys’ former army commander who sank all his savings into the Inn. The boys, now famous entertainers, decide to put on a show( without Mickey Rooney) to help their former commander. While doing so, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen play matchmakers to Der Bingle and Rosemary Clooney( yup, George Clooney’s aunt). When Bing can’t sleep and neither can Rosemary, they end up in the main area of the Inn and Bing sings this sweet song which is all about trying to fall asleep. It’s really a nice song but I would never hear this song while drinking …buttermilk. Yuck

3. THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN SUNG BY FRANK SINATRA

This song comes from the hit movie of the same name that had an all star cast..well, semi all star cast because it has the wretched Maggie McNamara  who just rubs me the wrong way..I just watch to slap her. 3 women live in Rome and all 3 fall in love with  different men…one is wealthy and acerbic played so well by Clifton Webb, another falls for a poor man and the irritating Maggie falls for a Prince. My favourite story is the Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire romance with Dorothy playing a drunken scene with great finesse. This song, written by Jules Styne with Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, became a big hit back in the day but it is not my favourite. I actually dislike the way the music drops down when singing the first few bars. I just…don’t like it. 

Ok, there you have it…can you guess which one won, which was nominated and which was forgotten?