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Life and Music Lesson in Groundhog Day:
Aside from it being the perfect quarantine film, I've always wanted to talk about the music in Groundhog Day, because I think it's brilliant and moving and incredibly smart. I hope you'll join me as I peek under the surface and talk about theme and variations, Sonny and Cher, Rachmaninoff, Nat King Cole, Paganini, Weezer and Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon!

0:00 Life in Groundhog Day
1:40 Sonny and Cher's I Got You Babe
3:36 Weezer's Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
5:38 Paganini's Theme
7:43 Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (18th Variation)
8:20 Mirror Melodies (George Fenton's Love Theme in Groundhog Day)
12:48 Almost Like Being in Love from Brigadoon (Lerner & Loewe)

Discussed in the video include:
Groundhog Day (by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis)
Brigadoon (by Lerner and Loewe)
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Paganini's Caprice no. 24
Sonny and Cher's I Got You Babe
George Fenton's score for Groundhog Day
Nat King Cole's Almost Like Being in Love
Weezer's The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)

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Images by Pixabay

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Fresh Fallen Snow by Chris Haugen
Goat by Wayne Jones


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