What sis this style of music? Where the lines don't rhyme. It's halfway to spoken word.

7:08 marshmallow? Haha so random but still my favorite part. Also just noticing that was the bag of “marbles” from the beginning of the song. That sly devil haha

👁⃤silas birchtree kind of guy 👁⃤

Ragtime: shameless music (that proceeds to play in the background)

Musical theater has an emotional immediacy that most Americans cannot handle - so they claim to "hate it".

Those kids will probably grow up to be parents in the 50s and be shocked about rock music

Shirley Jones said she was pregnant with her son Patrick during the production of this movie. It was secret kept away from many on the set. However, she said during their kissing scene her son Patrick gave a kick which startled Robert Preston, exclaiming "What the heck was that?"

I was a young girl when I first heard Shirley and loved her

I'm not sure, but I think the first guy that he talks to (the one at the grocery store) might've been Harvey Korman, back before he made his name!

Damn how the west has fallen! Went from this to twerking who*es with auto tunes

Let them play Snooker instead 🇬🇧

I never got into this movie but this song is sooo sweet

I’m a straight man who loves most of the old musical movies!

Songs like this make "My Fair Lady" so vastly superior to "Pygmalion" - and that was very good as it was

My folks used to say "Right here in River City" whenever anyone asked 'em where they were from. I've said it my entire life, and never knew where it was from. The fact that Lyle Lanley was based on this (as The Simpsons is my all-time favorite *THING*) makes this that much cooler. Thanks for posting this.

Songs used to be about love. No swearing, nor crude, rude or angry words.

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It’s refreshing to know there wasn’t any dubbing in this film. That makes this song even better

Trump😂

THE PERFECT show tune!!

The patter in this song is one of several types of precursors to rap music.

FOX TV

My dad used to sing the "we got trouble, right here in River City" line with no context. Maybe that's why i ended up liking musicals so much lol

Why did the subtitles say bigots instead of billiards? I really want to know

God bless Shirley Jones still alive 3:46

W0w great movie

"But the leads are weak! "WEAK LEADS WEAK LEADS YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S WEAK!" "Look what's yer name what's yer name what's yer name?" "You don't need to know my name! See this watch, see this watch?" "Yeah yeah nice watch!" "Well that watch costs more than the dadgum rattletrap dog-eater coupe that you drove here in!..."

Why do I suddenly want to invest in a monorail?

A tune so good it became a jazz standard.

I love this movie!

Beyond the stage lights that came first, this is the cinematic birth of a beautiful ballad from an incomparable score by Meredith Willson. A triumph of the American musical theatre.

MAGA, trying to go back to the days where they tell a lie and people who just watch “Fox News” believe everything they tell them instead of going to other sources to find the truth.😳

3:05

She just blows me away!

I’m just wondering now if it was common back then for there to be whole train cars just full of traveling salesmen

This is probably what Donald Trump thinks he’s doing when he spits out the incoherent rambling he calls ‘The Weave’

I love the detail that the people there have seen billiards, maybe even regularly partook in the game, and nobody ever had an issue with it. But pool is somehow so different and will somehow destroy society. Reminds me how people always claimed that TV and videogames fill children's minds with hate and violence, but also give them books that feature those vary things to read and write essays about, just because they're classics.

Shirley Jones is just delightful!

You know a town with a pool table is little like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he's got it and danged if he knows how to use it.

Mono--D'oh!

Wondering how the Beatles Could turn this rather slow boring pieace into successful pop rock music

Great music & great singers.. One of the best...

The birth of Rap.

3:51 It just occurred to me that Prof. Harold Hill (Robert Preston)'s partner-in-crime Marcellus Washburn (Buddy Hackett) "whipping out" from a boy's back pocket a copy of Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang was no coincidence.

@2:09 That's "necker" nothing. Really have to stick the landing on that one these days.

Vive la difference ! 😊 There is nothing like a Dame, nothing in the world 🎶

People do be sleeping on the US performance, perfect end to it.

Goes to show when you got a guy with a brain and a bunch of sheep you can spread anything you want virally get them all stirred up chronic common motivation put a little nationalism little in put a little reminder that they're bad parents can you and you can get people to do anything if you can convince people of absurdities you can get them to commit atrocities

Bumper pool is fun too, and they're supposed to be the show me state they're a bunch of pumpkins like everybody else in the world

Show tunes...I just love them...