h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...but 'Whistle a happy tune' is from 'The King and I'. The one in 'The Sound of Music' is 'My Favourite Things'.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed that...

David

Abi's fault. Abi. Abi Abi Abi.

Not me.

Abi.


Grrr. The shame of it!

Yes its all my fault!

I once lost a grudge match of trivial pursuit due my obsession with this song being from the Sound of Music.

I can't help it, whenever I hear this song I see Julie Andrews and a load of ankle biters on a duvet.

I am really sorry...

Well seeing Maria is also in the sound of Music and Eidelweiss was in West Side Story Abi I'm never playing Trivial Pursuit on your team ever again.

Ah, 'The Sound of Music', the cause of one of my more surreal cinema moments!

I went and saw a 70mm version of the film in Bradford some years ago. Now this being way bigger than the standard 35mm print, it comes with all manner of stereo sound channels so you really can track the location of the sound across the image. Well sadly that night there was something a little awry with the sound heads, so the sound went all wrong. The upshot of it was that we had Julie Andrews sitting on a bed opening and closing her mouth, whilst a lampshade beside her was singing 'My Favourite Things'

To be fair to Abi, there is a song called 'Maria' in the Sound of Music - the nuns sing it!

"How do you solve a problem like Maria? ..."

Oh dear, far too much musicals trivia floating around in my head.

yeah but it is how do you solve a problem like maria is the title and doesn't contain the line i've jsut meet a girl called maria.

Pedant alert...

The official title of the song is 'Maria', although I agree it should be called 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?' and it definitely doesn't contain said line.

And as for thinking Edelweiss is from West Side Story Unforgivable!

...end pedant alert

... I have a major fear of film scores ...

I'm not surprised after your singing lampshade experience.

Actually, most of the score of The Sound of Music makes me want to throw up, even though I normally love Rodgers and Hammerstein. Just far too twee.

And as for Cats...

Not sure how to deal with that fear, though...

I think you should listen to the scores of Hanz Zimmer,
He wrote scores such as shrek, Mi2, Broken Arrow. You'll soon change your mind.
It sounds to me that you have more a fear of Musical film scores rather than scores in general. The best thing to do is to find every copy of all musicals and destroy them, and each time you hear of a plan to produce a new musical, 'deal' with all those involved to ensure this never happens.

P.S. I always lose at trivial Pursuit too! (although it's always due to the answer on the cards being wrong, Honest!!!)