*The Music Man on TCM now!

[elleng]

[longship]

1. Yee gods! A wonderful flick. Yee gods!

There's always a band, son!

[elleng]

2. HUG!

[longship]

3. And back to ya!

Plus, it has Buddy Hackett. And Hermoine Gingold, too! Yee gods!

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Oh.....THANK-YOU!!

One of my favorite life memories...

My five year old son gut laughing when Mayor Shinn says to his wife:

"Not one poop out of you, Madame!"

Mrs. Shinn: " I think he means "peep"!

We laughed a long, long time.

I needed that today!

[subterranean]

5. The Flim-Flam Man is on C-SPAN.

[pressbox69]

10. Oh.

[BarbaRosa]

6. Brings to mind the Happy Days episode

where they are watching The Music Man and Marion says "that little boy looks just like Richie". Or something to that effect.

[elleng]

7. 76 Trombones!

[longship]

8. Robert Fucking Preston!!! Ya got trouble!!!!

Part of what makes this an absolutely marvelous film!

[redwitch]

9. One of my favorites! nt

[pressbox69]

11. Saw Preston on Broadway.

In Sly Fox.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. The Music Man is my all-time favorite! I've loved Robert Preston and Shirley Jones since I was a kid

When we were kids, my cousin and I were huge fans of Shirley Jones - pre "Partridge Family" days! When I was quite little - too young to remember where it might have been - my parents took my brother and me to see a live performance of "The Music Man." The star was Van Johnson, can still remember him in his drum major uniform with his baton marching up and down the aisles at the end! I've seen the movie countless times since, still remember the words to all the songs!