Groundhog Day: How Theme and Variations Work Musically

How DIE HARD uses music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7SKt6cfH44
How HAMILTON works: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkkocI7Ffe0a4bS57kt4KFBaHsCPyS7Xy

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!

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)

Coronavirus Quarantine Feels a Lot Like Groundhog Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAMlyyCc18w

Jeep Commercial 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHQQHpasLk

Rivers Cuomo - Greatest Man (interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4mX-rDPIQ

Spike Videg Game Awards - Greatest Man That Ever Lived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDFjhmPlayg

I Got You Babe - Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkmBjHwzyMw

How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?
https://www.wolfgnards.com/wolf-gnards-574/

Danny Rubin Reddit AMA
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qhkyh/i_am_danny_rubin_and_i_wrote_the_movie_groundhog/

Groundhog Day Screenplay
https://www.raindance.org/scripts/Groundhog_Day.pdf

BBC - The Joy of Rachmaninoff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039q3qd

The Precise Number of Groundhog Days in "Groundhog Day"
https://www.ifc.com/2011/02/the-precise-number-of-groundho

Images by Pixabay

Music:
Lullaby by Yung Logos
Fresh Fallen Snow by Chris Haugen
Goat by Wayne Jones
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